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Regular City Council Meeting <br />Monday, April 26, 2021 <br />Page6 <br />Councilmember Etten appreciated staffs and Mr. Ristow's work on this and <br />thought this was a logical step. He appreciated working with Hennepin County with <br />a system in place so the City is not reinventing the wheel. <br />Councilmember Willmus thanked staff and Mr. Ristow for all the work that was <br />done on this. He thought as this moves forward in subsequent years, it will be <br />something the City will need to start planning for. <br />Roll Call <br />Ayes: Willmus, Strahan, Etten, Groff and Roe. <br />Nays: None <br />c.Discuss 2021-2022 Policy Priority Plan <br />City Manager Patrick Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Re­ <br />quest for Council Action and related attachments dated April 26, 2021. <br />Mayor Roe indicated he has actually kind of worked back towards these things that <br />they have identified in broad category form and still seem to be, while ongoing, not <br />quite to the point of being automatic and embedded in what the City does. He <br />thought the City is still transitioning from not having anything in some of these <br />areas to having something and not quite completely done. His overall thought is <br />that a lot of these areas still remain and maybe some adjustments are done as to <br />what the next several months or even a year focus might be. He noted that under <br />Economic Development, certainly there are properties yet to be developed in Twin <br />Lakes along with some other properties in the City. Maybe they need to focus over <br />the next few years to make sure they are doing everything they can as a City organ­ <br />ization to assure those properties basically wrap up work in Twin Lakes. With City­ <br />wide economic development, he thought a big thing that could be focused on over <br />the next several months is how to deal with the local businesses recovering from <br />the impacts of COVID-19 and are there programs through the Recovery Act Fund­ <br />ing which the City needs to be looking at to make sure the City is helping the busi­ <br />nesses get off on the right foot as they recover from COVID. <br />Mayor Roe thought a lot of great things were progressing on the Rice and Larpen­ <br />teur Alliance and maybe there are some things in that area where the City can focus. <br />Under Inclusive Community Governance, certainly the Strategic Racial Equity Plan <br />(SREAP) and that work is the key thing for the next year or so. He thought the City <br />needed to look at figuring out a process to get to a visioning effort in 2022. Under <br />Public Improvements, he thought the City wanted to highlight and focus on pedes­ <br />trian crossing and safety. There may be particular projects or undertakings in the <br />next year that the City does, which may not be on the list yet but should focus on. <br />Likewise, with stormwater, he thought the City continued to have issues, especially <br />around Fairview and Hwy 36, where there needed to be continued work on the <br />stormwater and some other hot spots in the community. He indicated there is still