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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL—August 10, 2009 11 House for Highway 10 and County Road 96 was scheduled for August 18, 2009 from 4:30 p.m-6:30 p.m. Councilmember Holmes stated that in the meeting with Commissioner Tony Bennett he had mentioned that the mayors were talking about a Joint Powers Agreement in regards to TCAAP and that it has been said that since Arden Hills does not have resources to develop the TCAAP property alone a Joint Powers Agreement may be in order. She asked Mayor Harpstead for an update on this. Mayor Harpstead stated that this was a surprise to him and he does not know of anything like this. As regional mayors they do meet on a bi-monthly basis. It happens that the meeting today was how they could explore ways of working together to reduce budgeting costs. It is possible that in that process the confusion was attributed to TCAAP. There is no effort or initiative on his part to go after a Joint Powers Agreement as it pertains to the TCAAP property. Councilmember Holmes stated that these comments would not have been the result of the meetings today because Commissioner Bennett had mentioned it last week. Mayor Harpstead stated that he may have known that the mayors were meeting but there was no discussion on a Joint Powers Agreement that he had been privy to. Councilmember Holden asked if there was a better way to communicate what was going on with all the committees and on commissions. - Mayor Harpstead stated that he would get the updates from the Mayors Meetings back into the process. The other materials are updated to Staff as they become available. In terms of the Cable Commission there is not an effective communications process in place. He asked Community Development Director Lehnhoff to look into getting these updates for the Council. Councilmember Grant stated that the City had increased the amount of time that one of the employees was working in the Parks and Recreation Department from part-time to full-time. One of the justifications for this upgrade was so that this person could work on identifying and applying for additional grants He asked that Staff bring forward an update on what they are looking at and working on in this area. Public Works Director Hoag stated that he would bring this back to Council at a future meeting.