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<br />City ofCenterville <br />Council Meet:ing Minutes <br />June 12, 2002 <br /> <br />Council Member Nelson indicated that the EDC had come up with five items that it <br />would work to support and those were the Minnesota Design Team Plans, supporting <br />County Road 14 widening, downtown mixed use and revitalization. and soliciting <br />business members for EDC members. <br /> <br />Council Member Nelson indicated there had been discussion of asking the City <br />Administrator to have face to face contact with businesses and communicating with the <br />EDC because they feel they have no connection with the businesses. <br /> <br />Council Member Nelson indicated that the Committee had discussed that the meetings <br />are held at night and business owners are not available and committee members are not <br />available to the business owners during the day. <br /> <br />Mayor Swedberg asked if there was a need for a Chamber of Commerce meeting. <br /> <br />Council Member Broussard Vickers indicated she was not in favor of encouraging more <br />Staff contact with the businesses because Staff is needed elsewhere. She then said that <br />any time a business wishes to contact the City that is fine but she does not feel that Staff <br />has the time to solicit contacts. <br /> <br />Council Member Broussard Vickers indicated she is concerned with an advisory <br />Committee voicing its support of the widening of 14 when Council will be opposing it. <br /> <br />Council Member Nelson indicated she gave the EDC information indicating Council <br />intended to oppose the widening. <br /> <br />Council Member Broussard Vickers indicated she would like to caution EDC members <br />from having any conversations with the County that would lead the County to believe <br />that the City will be supporting the widening. <br /> <br />Council Member Capra asked that the comments of Council be emailed to the <br />Committee. Council Member Nelson indicated she would provide the information to the <br />EDC. <br /> <br />Council Member Broussard Vickers indicated she feh that Council Members do a good <br />job of attending various functions and noted that there are a variety of functions within <br />the City that need attending and not every Council Member can be at every function. She <br />also noted that if three or more Council Members are at an event the event would need to <br />be posted. <br /> <br />Council Member Broussard Vickers indicated that the Parks and Recreation Committee <br />had made some recommendations to Council concerning the use of the ball fields for two <br />weekends and she did not see that on Council's agenda for approval. <br /> <br />Council agreed that there was no authorization necessary since no costs were involved. <br /> <br />Page 21 of23 <br />