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EN HILLS MEMORANDUM DATE: October 18, 2010 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members FROM: Patrick Klaers, City Administrator SUBJECT: Staff Updates As time allows, I would like to verbally update the City Council on a number of current activities. The list of update items includes the following: 1. The Arden Hills Library 2. Hazelnut Park and Trinity Lutheran Church negotiations 3. Six month performance review for the City Administrator 4. Staff Photos Item #1.) By way of background on the Library topic, now that the County Commissioners have approved the County Library Board's recommendation to relocate the Arden Hills Library to New Brighton, we may want to again voice our support for keeping the Library open until the New Brighton facility is ready. At the County Commissioner's discussion on October 12 there appeared to be support for finding funds to keep the Library open until approximately June, 2011. Also, since Arden Hills gave the land to the County for the Library and there will no longer be a Library on this site, it seems appropriate to request that this land be given back to the City. This would be after the County demolished the existing structure. In this manner, the City could decide the best future use of the site. Staff is researching if deed restrictions were placed on the land as part of the gift to the County for a Library. If this is something we want to pursue, then we may want to discuss possible uses for the site and to review the idea with Commissioner Bennett. I don't know about the history of the Library in Arden Hills so this idea may be an unreasonable request, but I would like to have a conversation with the Council on this topic. Item #2.) Regarding the Hazelnut Park issue, a staff meeting has been set up with Church representatives for October 28 We are looking for examples of how park land is generally valued and they have asked their appraiser for an opinion on the value of park