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13v ~let~y~ y Pay hike AH cauncii gets a raise ~ The Arden Hills City Council quietly approved its first raise in six years last week. Near the end of a three-hour meeting April 27, ' the council voted 4-0 (Council Member JoAnn CyroNye was absent) to raise the mayor's annual salary from $2,900 a year to $3,600, and each couricil member's from $2,300 to $3,180. The councii did not discuss the proposal prior to vbting, although Council Member Paul Malone said later rhat it was talked about at a previous council workshop meeting: "We were pretty tired," he explained about ; the lack of discdssion, while no[ing that the action was an attempt to keep pace with council ' salaries in other, similar-sized cities. "We're I still as cheap as ever," he said. The mayor and. council members are paid ; monthly.,The raises will take;effect.Jan. l,_ i 1993: , A-rchitect hired, AH City Hail updat 1fie Aiden Hills City Council u nimously chose. BRW Azchitects over 59 o er firms ro proCeed with_plans for a new en-:Hills City ' Hall" I,ast year a city-spon red ta,sk force ~ 'reported that a new city hal as;overdue and it ~ recommended the city s d up to $2.6 million I to`build a new ciry hal ubticworks building. On April 27 the firs step was taken in that I direction with the h.' ' g of BRW. ` The city plans inking the contract_at its_ j , May 18 worksho maeting, and at that time will also discuss pre minary plans: BRW is charged ' wiih assis,'tin in the_buildirig's site selecfion; firnning up e,size of ih:e building and in ~ - m ~akinipc , iminary drawings. _ `The ur sites being considered are the cun~„F~? ite;at 145Q 14 jghwaY 9E,she ~.exington„ Y~ Fo d l~ed Fox, rpads, tTie nori.fi~svd-orner o£ , ;-H line-Avenue and :Highway 96 on` property ned by the Twin Cities Army Ammunition ; lant; or:at the.Gateway Business District on I Round Lake Road. ' A, ~1 g~~