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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — MAY 26, 2026 2 City Administrator Jagoe said this was a carry over from the May 11 work session discussion. At the end of that meeting Staff was asking Council during staff comments if there was interest in doing the temporary work session start times begin at 5:00 pm. Those would be special agendas. The agendas cannot be amended. Staff will try to put as many items on the agenda as we can to ensure we are utilizing that time. She asked Council to discuss and provide next steps. Councilmember Holden said whatever we vote on will be set in stone. We can't change it later so we can amend the agenda. City Administrator Jagoe said if Council were to do a temporary special work session start time of 5:00, the agenda is set and can't be amended. Councilmember Holden said she understands that. If she comes in and says she wants all of her meetings on Monday and something happens and now she wants Tuesday meetings. We can't change that halfway through the year? City Administrator Jagoe said we can. We can either do it temporarily and do special meetings or we can change the ordinance. Councilmember Holden said we can change the ordinance at any time. City Administrator Jagoe said correct. If you change the ordinance those become the regular meeting dates and times. Councilmember Weber said when we had this discussion it was an oversight on his part. He had the assumption that we were shifting the whole schedule ahead a half an hour rather than just the work session. Coming into budget season we can take up the time. As a standing time frame, he would rather see both shift a half an hour. Including moving the Council meetings up. He would prefer a more permanent basis but he doesn't know if just moving the work session up a half an hour does that much for us. It's good for Staff, if we get out of here at a decent time. If the Council meeting is still starting at 7:00 it doesn't really save us anything. It might allow us to get a little more discussion in, if there is a lot of stuff. We have recently worked through a lot of items in our backlog. He would prefer we shift the whole schedule a half an hour. He understands we probably can't do that in this discussion. Councilmember Monson said we did this last summer and the extra half an hour does help, particularly when we get into budget season and get into the depth of things. She would hesitate to move the Council meeting up. One because it eats away at the advantage of giving us that thirty minutes but also because the public has always known the City Council time is 7:00 pm. She is less inclined to change that time. Councilmember Weber gets that. Mayor Grant agrees with the comment that people in town are used to a 7:00 City Council meeting. It is probably best to keep that. That takes us to work session start time which is the item we have in front of us. Councilmember Rousseau would be interested in doing the 5:00 now and just keep that going forward. She thinks those nights when we're here until 10:00 or 11:00 are not ideal. She thinks we