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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — SEPTEMBER 22, 2025 15 Council reconvened the Work Session at 8:52 pm. Councilmember Rousseau and Councilmember Holden were not in attendance for the reconvened Work Session. Both were excused. Mayor Grant said we don't know a lot about our Capital needs because if we are delaying projects until 2027, we don't know what the cost share agreement will be with the county. That will affect our PIR. He doesn't think we should bond when we may not need that. We can reassess all of that a year from now. He thinks it makes sense to shift the projects. He doesn't think they should have been combined in the first place. That shift will even out what we spend. We need to choose an amount to increase the PIR by in 2026. We may end up increasing or decreasing it in 2026 when we go through this process next year. By then we will know what the County cost participation policy is. He said we're in a year that may have a school board levy. There may be a reasonable increase in County taxes. The operating costs as a City are going up. We need to increase the amount of money going into the PIR. Councilmember Monson said we need to figure out our preliminary number that we want to set next week. Then we may have some more information to be able to come down from that number. Councilmember Weber said the other information we need to decide is whether or not we are pushing those projects. We can decide to do that in December. He asked Staff at what point it becomes detrimental to the programming of projects. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said the most basic way to break it down is that the City has 30 miles of street. He has the system set up on a 20-year rehab cycle. Councilmember Weber said he understands the program. He is asking how late, in this process, will be too late to do it in 2026. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen will begin doing site inspection for the next PMP next year. It would be good to know which streets we're doing so he knows how to set up the workload for next year. That information that we gather will set up how we scope the project and design would be the following year. Councilmember Weber asked when that process starts. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said site inspections will start next year. It would be in 2027 when we would do design. Mayor Grant said the portion being pushed out is mostly commercial. They pay at a 70% rate. We can handle the capital needs in 2026 and 2027. If we push the projects, we have a longer runway to have meaningful contributions to the PIR fund, over time. Councilmember Monson said when we look at all of these scenarios, we have a range of 15.9%- 20%. Discussion ensued regarding how much a median value household would pay and how much impact the different scenarios have on the PIR Fund. Finance Director Yang pointed to the information in the packet. She said it is taking a look at the 15.0 plus any incremental. She said it is the third column is what we are looking to increase it by.