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e e . ARDEN HILLS REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 29,2004 11 Councilmember Larson stated he was neither in support nor against this because he did not have all of the information. He noted the development team should have stopped when they drafted the letter and he believed they got ahead of the City by having further conversations and making comments. He stated he did not know what he was being asked to support because he had not seen it yet. He suggested waiting until they see what they were proposing. Councilmember Grant suggested the following language: "Given the presentation we have been given and our understanding of what the Guard is doing, we are in support of this". Councilmember Holden stated the development team should not have done what they did and right now the City was looking bad nationally. She noled the City did not own this land and the National Guard was going to do what it wanted with the land. She indicated the City had to work with the National Guard. Councilmember Rem expressed concern about the development team's activities. She noted the National Guard had conducted training exercises on this property for years and the City knew what occurred during their training exercises. She agreed that the National Guard was the owner of the property and the City did not own it. She asked how they could ask the National Guard about their future training when the City could not tell the Guard what the City's future plans werc for that area. Mayor ApIikowski stated it was within the realm of acceptability to say they were in support of the National Guard, but the City was concerned about the activity and these were some of the questions they wanted answered. She noted the development team got ahead of the City and the City needed to apologize for that, but the City did still have some questions that they wanted answered. She asked the Council to look at this letter as a business letter. She acknowledged the development team had made a mistake and did this without the City's knowledge. She noted she had spoken with the National Guard about the questions in the letter and they were expecting the questions. However, she indicated she did not have any objections to taking out the questions and keeping the discussions open with the Guard. Ms. Wolfe stated this letter was drafted as a starting point and was not intended as a final draft. As far as the wording to what the development team did, the information staff had was not first hand information and therefore, the letter was guarded regarding this. Mayor ApIikowski asked ifthe Council wanted to send the letter. Thc Council made changes and revisions to the letter for staff to redraft. J. APPROVE THE REVISED SCOPE OF SERVICES FOR TCAAP PHASE III PLANNING Mr. Parrish stated at the March Work Session, the Council was presented with a proposed rcvision to the scope of services with DSU. He indicted in July 2002, the City Council approved a Scope of Services Agreement with DSU and a team of sub consultants in order to create a