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CONSENT ITEM - 8D It -fi II��EN_ HILLS MEMORANDUM DATE: September 8, 2025 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers Jessica Jagoe, City Administrator FROM: Julie Hanson, Assistant to the City Administrator/City Clerk SUBJECT: Appointment of Economic Development Commission (EDC) Members Budgeted Amount: Actual Amount: Funding Source: N/A N/A N/A Council Should Consider Motions to approve, table, or deny the following: • Resolution 2025-057 Appointing Kayleigh Shrom as the Youth Commissioner to the EDC and Resolution 2025-058 Appointing Ihsan Isak as a regular Commission member to the EDC. Background/Discussion Per Ordinance, the EDC is to be comprised of nine (9) regular members, four (4) of which must be residents. At its July 10, 2023, meeting, the City Council adopted Ordinance 2023-007, providing for a member to serve to the EDC in the capacity as Youth Commissioner. A Youth Commissioner is defined as being a sophomore, junior or senior enrolled in a high school or PSEO program and enrolled in a school district serving Arden Hills (or a resident of Arden Hills attending school outside of the City's typical districts). Then, at its meeting on June 10, 2024, the City Council adopted Ordinance 2024-004 which added clarifying language that at no time shall there be more than two (2) members who meet the criteria of a Youth Commissioner. Interviews were recently conducted that included EDC Councilmember liaison Emily Rousseau, Staff liaison Senior Planner Elena Fransen, and EDC Chair Jud Murchie. It is the recommendation that Council consider making the following Youth appointments (one as a regular member having a three-year term and one as the Youth Commissioner that has a one-year term) as follows: • Kayleigh Shrom as Youth Commissioner for a term ending August 31, 2026 • Ihsan Isak for a term ending December 31, 2027 Budget Impact N/A Page l of 2