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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — AUGUST 11, 2025 20 Mayor Grant asked if Councilmember Weber would prefer to have City Finance. Councilmember Weber is fine presenting Public Safety. He would prefer to move on from this topic. Mayor Grant summarized Councilmember Monson will do TCAAP, Councilmember Holden will do Public Works and Parks and Rec, Councilmember Rousseau will do Community Development, Councilmember Weber will do Public Safety and Mayor Grant will do City Finance. He said the Admin can go to whoever has the fewest slides. City Administrator Jagoe said the final item Staff is seeking feedback on is if Council would like to do a mailing to the local businesses. Councilmember Monson said yes. Mayor Grant said yes. He asked if we will put the date and time on the postcard. City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. Councilmember Holden said we had a lot better success when Council went out and handed them out. That wasn't on a Saturday, it was a weekday. Mayor Grant said to mail the post card. He asked if there was anything else. City Administrator Jagoe said no. E. Ducks Discussion City Administrator Jagoe said this topic is being brought back after the May 12th work session. Staff is seeking Council direction on what ordinance language Council is looking for or if it should be put back on as a future agenda item or remove it from the list entirely. Mayor Grant said he wouldn't want it to go back on the list. He wants to figure it out. Councilmember Weber is disappointed to not have information on how they differ from chickens. Council asked for that. He searched for information regarding viruses that ducks carry and he couldn't really find much. The only thing he found regarding illness was that ducks tend not to display symptoms as aggressively as other fowl. The only thing ducks require, that chickens don't, is a water source. That can just be a kiddie pool. The Planning Commission met and discussed the chicken ordinance. They tabled it and were interested in learning about other fowl. If we are going to include ducks maybe we can add a section to open the possibility of other fowl. Councilmember Monson would like to do that. Ducks is a low priority for her. We've got the chickens. If ducks come back, that's fine, but she doesn't want to spend any more time on it tonight. Councilmember Holden thinks we should just leave it as chickens.