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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — MAY 26, 2026 5 help with the agenda because any issues that she's not available to talk about at -the Planning Commission, she can pull off consent and ask all her questions at that time. Mayor Grant said it's more than asking your questions. You don't have an opportunity for input. Councilmember Holden said right. That can be her input. She was told she was gonna get even with. People were going to get even with her so this is it and that's fine. She doesn't have an issue. Let them start at 5:00, she'll just deal with it on the back end with all the issues she has. Mayor Grant said to provide a little bit of clarity that Councilmember Holden made. We did have, it wasn't a written rule, in past years. Yes, he's been on Council for a while. We hit 10:00 and we would either vote to continue or vote to adjourn. That's what she's referring to. Councilmember Monson would like to start 5:00. She agrees with the comments that Councilmember Weber stated this evening. Her hope is that we give enough time that there is possibility for adjustment of people's schedules, as needed. Maybe that doesn't work, maybe it does. But it is months into the fall so hoping that is helpful. She is fine if we want to vote at 10:00 pm. She hesitates a little. That's fine if we want to vote at 10:00 that's fine, she also would like to have some sort of built in recess time so that we aren't sitting there for five hours and having to self -excuse to take the break that we need. She doesn't know what that looks like and she's not sure if that is a topic for tonight. If there is a built in recess time for everyone to take a break, she would appreciate that. Maybe 9:00 maybe 10:00, maybe it's on the hour. She doesn't know. We can decide in that moment, depending on how close we are. City Administrator Jagoe said in regards to the 10:00 pm end time, for work sessions we used to have the regular meeting on the second and fourth Mondays of the month. The work sessions were on the third Monday of the month. Those were typically limited to three hours. When the ordinance change the work sessions to be prior to the regular meeting on the second and fourth Monday, we established the 5:30-7:00. We took that one three hour work session and broke into two hour and a half sessions. That's how the 5:30 timing was arrived at. Councilmember Holden said it worked good because we weren't exhausted by 9:00 when you're working on big issues and trying to decide things at the Council. You had a work session. You were able to think about it. You gather more information by the time the work session is done and by the time that it comes in front of the Council. It isn't all slammed together. Three meetings a month really worked well. Councilmember Monson has a different opinion. She didn't like three meetings, she likes two. The one and a half hour split is fine, in theory, but we come back regularly. The three hours was not sufficient in terms of having an hour and a half in front for two meetings because we regularly come back. Mayor Grant said we don't make decisions here. Formal decisions. But he thinks he heard three councilmembers say 5:00. He heard two councilmembers say stay at the regular time of 5:30. City Administrator Jagoe heard that as well. She would ask Council are we establishing this as a temporary work session start time to see what items we can get through, through the August period. We can see what we can check off through the agenda planning, what additional items we still have. We talked this evening about a potential hold for a special meeting. We can come back to the topics