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that originate from? That was put in place by Putnam Planning and Design in a project.for the :City of Gem Lake'.s business district in 2007. The personal.attacks on the Mayor were. uncalled for. Mayor Bob since: taking office has done an amazing job with the city financials, spearheading the water project.for.the business district which in turn helps the business district with growth. and development, saving the: city over.$85,000 in the first. year he was elected by replacement of the City Clerk. In 2018 the. city will save over $30,000 by negotiating new law enforcement protection with the. City of White Bear Lake:. Councilmember Kuny, .Lindner and Artig-5womley thanked the Mayor for his dedication and service. Ms..Artig-Swomley went on to.say that. of the 47 Balls she received in regards to the property purchase, 25% of citizens were in favor of the proposal. She wondered.:if those.citizens were at the meeting but were.too intimidated. to speak as such. Citizens. needs.to keep in mind. that 42 cities in Minnesota. have no mayor and 100.cities have a. compromised city council. No.one .wants to be onthe council or be the Mayor: And in Gern Lake, Who would want to step up in alead.ersh1p role after what happened at the Planning Commissiowmeeting and the City Council meeting? CounciImernber Kuny state d.that .she was afraid for her family"a.nd her family's.safety. Councilmember Af ig-Sworn€ey then spoke:further on the leadership crisis and about. the toll this has taken on the current city leaders. What to do? keep recruiting volunteers todo things that.need to be done, make citizens -aware of what current.leaders'have done, just -on the new land use ordinance alone, Councilmember Linder, Paul Emeott, Commissioner3ohnson and a host of others have spent over 5.00 hours. of their own. tirne working on the new ]and use ordinance. Although it seems counterproductive; current leadersh.1p.needs. to stop volunteering so much of their own time, councilmembers currently have saved the city over.$40,000 by volunteering to write much of the comprehensive plan and many other projects too numerous to mention. We need mare volunteers to step up to take on these tasks. We need to do some soul searching on how do we bring back our city together? She looked a number of cities web.sites. in addition to the League of Minnesota Cities.and camia up with a simple set,of guide€fines to address future meetings. The proposed guideline wording Was token from the League. of Minnesota Cities, the cities of Watertown and Shoreview. These guidelines have been reviewed and approved by.the City Attorney. Future meetings will adhere .to these. guidelines, The .guidelin..ea will be posted online; posted on the. city bulletin boa rd. in.the vestibule and at city`rn eet i ngs until the end.of 201.7. Following 2017 they will be posted on. line:on the city's weld .site. and posted in the:city bulletin. board. One change:to:the. guide lines was made, changing the guidelines.to read "council meetings, planning commission and public hearings!' Guideline for Gem Lake Meetings Effective July 18, 2017, the Qty.of Gem Lake proposed the adoption of guidelines for all city .meetings. Guidelines will be .posted on the web site, in the lobby of city hall and at the sign. in sheet for all city meetings. The guidelines wemriiodeled from the cities of Shoreview and Watertown and were reviewed andapproved by the City -attorney. Councilmember Lindner made a motion to accept the guidelines with onechange, changing the title of the document to read all city meetings, seconded by Councilmember Artig-Swomle.y, motion.. passed, The City of Gem Lake guidelines were.adopted. Resolution 2017-08 - Replot of 19 Daniels Farm Road City of Gem Lake City Council Meeting minutes, July 18,: 2.017 Page.2