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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION MINUTES MARCH 18, 2002 DRAFT $10,000 can be thrown out with a community challenge to match it; and we could over see money for next year. Mayor said we should go for another great event and believes we can raise a lot of the money. Aplikowski noted the staff time is an issue, Olson said she believes if staff does not get paid for the time the involvement will be limited and staff needs incentive to be involved. Aplikowski said she believes we should rename the day to include Arden Hills in the name, Olson noted the committee suggested maybe having a name the day contest. Terry noted all the past contributors will be in attendance at the upcoming business luncheon. Community Development Planning/Zoning - TCAAP Developer Discussion - Mayor recapped which developers have met with City Council to date. He also indicated he received a call from Weis Builders and based on discussions they have decided they were not interested in becoming a development partner. Ryan Companies have indicated their desire to give a presentation but have since deiced against it. Mayor indicated he is unclear if Brakey's Buidling and Development Corporation is interested. Opus may still be interested as well. 3 options to go forward: select one team and go through the appropriate resolution; 2nd option: build our own team; 3Td option would be to make a decision to develop an RFP and go through the formal process of selecting a team through that process. Mayor would prefer not to go down path #3 because of the financial cost and time frame cost. Joe 1. indicated an RFQ would be a shorter route to go down. Joe indicated this would at least establish some kind of criteria for chosing a team if anyone would question the choice. Mayor indicated he feels time is not our alley and he hopes Council will move forward with this energeticly. Larson agreed moving forward quickly. Larson indicated he feels comfortable with not have criteria set as Joe suggested with his RFQ and feels they would have greater flexibility in dealing with the team if no firm criteria is set. Parrish indicated there is some opportunity for the public's input on the process speaking from the community "buy-in" prospective. Mayor noted he believes that the immediate focus is the land transfer issue and the challenge is to find a team to help with the transfer. Gregg indicated he believes there is a need for public polling, but he said it believes will be a lot harder to do something similar to Apache because the TCAAP redevelopment is not as tangible. Mayor said in theory we wouldn't probably use the same team to develop all 500+ acres, Larson said maybe after the team has been chosen then we go to the public to provide feedback on the proposed development plan. Mayor said we may want to consider having some the teams entities contracted directly with the city rather than the team, Aplikowski said she had some reservations ifthe Army will truly let go ofthe land. Mayor said he believes a precidant being set with release ofland, City Hall land is a good example, Mayor noted Alliant Tech has contacted him to meet for discussion. Rem wondered what trade offs we are going to have to give to acquire land. She noted we are going to have to have more fire power than what the city currently has. She ~ 2 r . . e