CCP 12-01-2006 Administrator's Update

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Council rejects scaled-back festival plan BY AL BUCZKOWSKI . $m~ FOCllS close out the evening at 10 p,m. Music would be pro- vided by the Shoreview Northern Lights Variety Band. Council wants to widen intersection It's back to the drawing board for the 2007 Celebrating Arden Hills event. Council voted against staff recommendations for this event, citing the absence of a community element. The Celebrating Arden Hills recommendation was Following suggestions made by the Arden Hills City not the only agenda item sent back to staff for modifi- Council during a September work session, City staff "I look at this as 8:30 p,m, to 10 p.m" I'll just come cation Nov. 13. presented an outline during the Nov. 13 City Council and set my blanket down on the grass and watch the meeting for a condensed version of the annual June fireworks without any real interaction between any- Council agreed to have staff draw up a proposal to event. body," said Councilmember Brenda Holden. widen the intersection of Lake Johanna Boulevard and i Siems Court. The intersection is part of the oft- Parks and Recreation Director Michelle Olson intro- Mayor Beverly Aplikowski echoed Holden's state- maligned 2006 Ridgewood Neighborhood Pavement duced a plan to council for an event with a bUdget of ments on a truncated celebration, stating that the plan Management Project (PMP). roughly $10,000. which would be down from approxi. "defeats the purpose of what our whole 'Celebrating mately $40,000 in the previous couple of years. The pro- Arden Hills' was about." As part of the project, the entry to Siems Court was posed event for 2007 was explained as a "music in the reduced from 70 feet to 22 feet. park" program that would start at 8:30 p.m. at Tony Council suggested that staff draw up a modified Schmidt Regional Park, with a fireworks display.to plan to present at a future date, ARDEN HILLS: TO PAGE 15 In the Community, With the Community, For the COff, Arden:...",Hills FROM PAGE 1 After listening to residents voice their displeasure on the . difficulty ~f navigating the intersection,. counCIl moved to have staff come up WIth a solu- tion to widen the road in a "reasonable manner" with "safety as the number one priority." . . .