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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — MAY 26, 2026 4 Councilmember Weber said it's not planning to exclude someone. It's changing the start time. Mayor Grant just said what we are talking about is start time and he would disagree. He thinks what we are talking about is consideration of a particular councilmember and their wishes. It has to do with the start time. But your issue with it is that you believe it's inconsiderate to a certain councilmember. Mayor Grant said wait a minute. Councilmember Weber said he has the floor. If he can continue. He didn't ask a question. There have been times when we have run until 11:00 or midnight and councilmembers have expressed they have kids at home. I want to get home. This is the same thing. We have dependents. We all have dependents. His wife works third shift. A lot of times he has someone at his house waiting for him to get home because his kids are home. He would like to get home to them. So what it comes down to is we all have things in our lives. When we signed up to run, there was an understanding that it's the Council that decides, not one person's needs or wishes. To that end, he is perfectly fine with starting at 5:00 pm permanently. Mayor Grant said to do so would be to not include the full council. Councilmember Weber responded with time... Mayor Grant said he has the floor. He thinks Councilmember Weber mischaracterized a few of his comments. We did have one council meeting that went really late because it was a really big topic. If you set something at 5:00 such that someone you know can't be here, and your work sessions have previously been slated for 5:00. He asked if that is right. This is our regular time. City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. Mayor Grant said it's in City Code. City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. Mayor Grant said that was the City Code when people were elected. That was the expected start time. He does believe, regardless of what someone's views are, that the public would not want us to exclude a member of the Council. And if he understood Councilmember Holden's comments, 5:00 is simply not doable. Why would we consider that? That is his take. Councilmember Weber doesn't know about the specifics of availability for whatever service or care that needs to be provided. That's also not his problem. As someone who has their own things in their life, are we going to set a hard stop for 8:30 when he has to go pick his daughter up from dance? Are we going to do that? We're not. It goes both ways. Councilmember Holden said we used to have a drop dead time at night that we would end by. Mayor Grant said 10:00. Councilmember Holden said people respected that and didn't repeat themselves over and over again and try to do weird stuff. That's fine. We can start at 5:00. She doesn't see how it's going to