Minutes - Council Work Session - 06/07/2011

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Councilmember Elvig inquired what we are trying to do. Is it all information that is available — are we trying to market something — trying to direct — trying to coordinate? Management/Planning Intern Brama responded this will be limited to one -way communication. We ask them to contact the City. Councilmember McGlone added it would be sending out messages and controlling that message. Councilmember Backous inquired if the ability to comment has been shut off to which Mr. Brama replied not on the existing Facebook page. Councilmember Backous stated he would be weary of them visiting this versus our website. This could be used for eye level points but always direct them to the website. Councilmember Tossey stated he set one up like this for his place of employment. Deputy City Administrator Nelson stated that we would use it like "In the News" on the City's website — for public hearing notices and more like what's happening. It's another tool to interact with the residents. Councilmember Backous stated he is leery of getting too many events that we are inviting people to — they will get tired of this too. Council expressed a consensus to go ahead with this Director of Public Works Olson asked if we will have to redirect people to the new page to which Mr. Brama replied yes. Mr. Lazan stated he would work with Mr. Brama on The COR page Mayor Ramsey stated we will let staff take care of this. 2.6 Update on Legacy Christian Academy Project Deputy City Administrator Nelson noted there were several members of the Legacy Christian Academy present to talk about the Academy project. She noted that a summary was sent out to Council from a meeting regarding the Legacy construction project and the issues they are facing. She stated that the City is proceeding with grading and public improvements, infrastructure, etc. She introduced Michael Altamari, Casey Breen and Mike Hageman. Mr. Breen walked through some slides, talking about the timing of the project. He talked about the vision, promise, etc. plus the number of students and the small space they currently have in Andover. He presented the timing when they started with the plan and met with the Council — looking at an April 1 groundbreaking date. They ran into environmental issues on the land as well as financial issues and added that they have not yet secured the financing. They were told they could not operate the way they intended to finance. He stated we do plan to go at full grading and have a pad City Council Work Session — June 7, 2011 Page 2 of 14