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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 7, 2019 Page 2 crossing an intersection. The City Attorney will say that he does not have reasonable cause or that he can prove a case beyond reasonable doubt with this case because there were four witnesses who said his son did not look when he approached the intersection. He noted those people were not in a position to see his son. He showed photos of the in- tersection with visibility sites. He read MN Statute 169.21 to the Council. He explained it was not impossible for the motorist to yield to his son, which is what the City Attorney would indicate was the case. Mr. Sley explained it wasn't that he did not have sympathy for the driver, an 86-year-old woman, but he wondered where the sympathy was for his son who was nearly killed in this case. He was asking the Council and City Attorney to reconsider the case, open it up, look into the facts, and go further with it. He thought there was a public duty to investi- gate this further. Ms. Kathy Sley,2731 Mackubin Street, Roseville Ms. Sley read a letter she wrote to the city explaining the accident. She explained the woman who hit her son said she did not see her son and according to the data on her son's phone, he was hit in the intersection by the woman going 40 MPH. She wondered why the woman did not see her son when other people saw him and why she not ticketed when she broke the law by hitting her son in a crosswalk at 40 MPH. She noted her son and all pedestrians need to be protected in crosswalks across Minnesota. She would like her son to be treated justly. 5. Recognitions, Donations, and Communications 6. Items Removed from Consent Agenda Recess Mayor Roe recessed the meeting at approximately 6:14 p.m., and reconvened at approximately 6:16 p.m. 7. Business Items a. Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting with the city Council Chair Darrell Baggenstoss, Vice-Chair Gregory Hoag, Commissioners Joseph Arneson, David-Todd Dahlstrom, Luke Heikkila, Nancy O'Brien, and Jerry Ston- er were at the meeting. Emerald Ash Borer Program Chair Baggenstoss explained the Parks and Recreation Commission would like to give a different viewpoint on the Emerald Ash Borer Program from the Finance Commission. The Parks and Recreation Commission felt this program was very important and not unlike the natural resources for buckthorn or the for the entire park's renewal. A perspective that instead of a year by year reaction to the pre- dictable catastrophic effects of EAB, it is going to assure confidence to the citi-