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City of Arden Hills ▪1245 West Highway 96 ▪ Arden Hills Minnesota 55112
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Request for Special City Council
A special meeting may be called by the Mayor or by any two Councilmembers.
Reason for meeting: 1. Approval of Agenda
2. Consent Items
• Motion to Approve 2024 Collective Bargaining Agreement – IUOE 49
3. Pulled Consent Items
4. Council/Staff Comments
Adjourn
Requested Date: 12/18/2023
Requested time: Immediately following City Council Work Session
Open meeting X Closed meeting
Signature of person(s) making request:
Signature of person(s) making request:
12/15/2023
Mayor or Council Member Date
/ /
Council Member Date
-This section to be completed by City staff-
Date received: 12/15/2023
Date meeting to be held: 12/18/2023
Time of meeting: Immediately following City Council Work Session
Location: City Hall
All necessary posting and notices have been completed.
12/15/2023
Signature of City Clerk Date
Approved: February 12, 2024
CITY OF ARDEN HILLS, MINNESOTA
SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
DECEMBER 18, 2023
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING
CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION
ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL
Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, Mayor David Grant called to order the Special
City Council meeting at 8:04 p.m.
Present:
Absent:
Mayor David Grant, Councilmembers Brenda Holden, Emily Rousseau,
Tena Monson and Tom Fabel
None
Also present: City Administrator Dave Perrault; Assistant Public Works Director Lucas
Miller; and Assistant to the City Administrator/City Clerk Julie Hanson
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
1.APPROVAL OF AGENDA
MOTION: Councilmember Fabel moved and Councilmember Monson seconded a
motion to approve the meeting agenda as presented. The motion carried (5-
2.CONSENT ITEMS
A.Motion to Approve 2024 Collective Bargaining Agreement -IUOE 49
MOTION: Councilmember Monson moved and Councilmember Fabel seconded a
motion to approve the 2024 Collective Bargaining Agreement -IUOE 49. The
motion carried 5-0.
3.PULLED CONSENT ITEMS
None.
4.COUNCIL/STAFF COMMENTS
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Councilmember Rousseau mentioned a code of conduct and noted the upcoming meeting with
Aimee from the League of Minnesota Cities on January 3. She asked if there was interest in trying
to see if a code of conduct for committees and commissions could also be added to that
discussion. She asked if there would be interest in having two Councilmembers work together on
drafting a document with redlines, and offered to work with the Mayor on this. She thought North
Oaks may have something, or other businesses as well.
Mayor Grant noted the League may have something.
Councilmember Monson stated she would be okay with that (two Councilmembers working on a
draft).
Councilmember Holden stated she was not in favor of this.
Mayor Grant asked if Councilmember Holden was okay with the code of conduct, just not
combining it with the January 3 meeting with Aimee.
Councilmember Holden said she was not okay with adding this to the agenda to talk about on
the 3,d. She said she has a time issue.
Mayor Grant suggested this not be added to the meeting on the 3rd but rather they would come
up with a code of conduct and bring it back to the Council.
Councilmember Holden agreed.
Councilmember Rousseau said that sounded good.
Councilmember Rousseau stated the next PTRC meeting would be on January 23 and she would
like to have the PTRC item on the next meeting.
Councilmember Monson asked if a resignation had been received.
Administrator Perrault said the answer to that question was no and indicated the next Council
meeting is January 8.
Councilmember Monson asked if Councilmember Rousseau was asking Council to make a
motion on removing the member if a resignation was not received by then.
Councilmember Rousseau stated yes, at the January 8 meeting.
Councilmember Monson indicated that that was in line with what was discussed in earlier
conversations.
Mayor Grant noted that he has always said if a Councilmember brings forward an agenda item,
he would not turn away the agenda item nor filter those as long as it's clearly understood. He said
he's received requests that weren't clear in the past. He stated if Councilmember Rousseau
wanted that on the agenda, it was up to her and requested she provide the request in writing. He
noted he would work with the Administrator to put this on the agenda. He asked the request be
provided in a sentence or two.
ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL—DECEMBER 18, 2023 3
Councilmember Monson said she thought the Council had talked about this in that if there was
no resignation before the December 18 meeting, there would be a special meeting to take action.
She stated she was pretty sure this was where they landed.
Councilmember Holden said it is going to be on the January meeting.
Councilmember Monson stated it seemed like there was hesitation to do what they had agreed to
do and she didn't understand that. She asked for clarity on why they wouldn't do that or if there
was a reason they didn't believe that that wasn't what they should do today.
Mayor Grant stated he just wanted a request, that's all,just a couple of sentences.
Mayor Grant asked for additional Council comments, of which there were none.
ADJOURN
MOTION: Mayor Grant moved and Councilmember Rosseau seconded a motion to
adiourn. The motion carried (5-0).
Mayor Grant adjourned the Special City Council Meeting at 8:10 p.m.
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Jul' Hanson David Grant
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