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<br />City Administrator Ulrich suggested that if Council would like to see elected officials in <br />this position, you can do that and request other cities to do that as well. Mayor Ramsey <br />stated we need a willing Councilmember to do that to which Councilmember Dehen <br />stated he would be willing to be an alternate. <br /> <br />Councilmember Look stated this would work if every City has an engineer or someone <br />like a Steve Jankowski to be on and do the work and the elected officials would be the <br />voting members. <br /> <br />Mayor Ramsey reiterated his feeling that it needs to be an elected official to make a final <br />decision. He suggested City Administrator Ulrich contact the Cities of Andover and <br />Coon Rapids and see if they would be interested in doing that and bring the responses <br />back to the ne?'t Council meeting. <br /> <br />Councilmember Dehen wondered if the position is more of an advisory, are we better <br />served by having an engineer as part of it. <br /> <br />Mayor Ramsey stated that it's not a good position to have a City employee in. It should <br />be an elected official but added he didn't know if we would want to do that if other Cities <br />did not agree with it. <br /> <br />Finance Officer Lund talked about rates and investments and named the banks she is <br />recommending. <br /> <br />Mayor Ramsey inquired if anyone wanted to do any switching around. Consensus was to <br />leave the financial institutions and the City's official newspaper as is. <br /> <br />City Administrator Ulrich stated that a few weeks ago the City Council mentioned having <br />our State Senator come in and talk about legislative updates. There are a couple of items <br />we are having Senator Jungbauer working on such as appropriations for water recharge <br />and funding for a rail station. He noted that Senator Jungbauer was present this evening. <br /> <br />Senator Jungbauer talked about the bonding bill and what might be included as well as <br />the transportation improvement district bill. He reported there will be a special session <br />before the regular session starts. It's early so we will know what will happen with some <br />of the budget issues. He talked extensively about transportation issues and felt that they <br />would be able to move some things forward that would benefit the City of Ramsey. <br /> <br />Councilmember Elvig talked about the Hanson Boulevard overpass and how it got moved <br />to the front. He inquired if Senator Jungbauer thought that the Armstrong Boulevard <br />overpass is something that could get rocketed up front. <br /> <br />Senator Jungbauer stated that the governor has talked about leapfrogging solid projects. <br />If we can put the right pieces together in the Town Center, maybe developers will kick in <br />some money and we could move in front of the pack. There is a lot of movement to the <br />North Metro and we feel we can leapfrog a lot of money to the north. He added that we <br /> <br />City Council Work Session - January 5, 2010 <br />Page 4 of9 <br />