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HRA Special Meeting (Tuesday — immediately following CCWS — LIR) • Consider Fifth Amendment to Purchase Agreement — Suite Living • Consider 2012 ICSC ReCON Attendance and Budget Council Update Request for a New Business. Staff has received a request from a commercial property owner in Ramsey, as to what types of licenses would be required to locate a Hookah Lounge within the City. A Hookah Lounge, also called a Shisha Bar, is an establishment where patrons share flavored "tobacco" from a communal hookah (water pipe) which is placed at each table. In talking more with the applicant, it appears his establishment will be more of a coffee shop that will also sell this flavored herbal tobacco and allow the communal smoking inside the shop. Due to several state anti -tobacco laws, many Hookah Bars have made the transition from smoking traditional shisha to smoking herbal shisha because it contains no tobacco or nicotine, and is legal indoors in areas specific to the prohibition of tobacco smoking. Herbs do produce tar when they burn. In a quick preview of the Minnesota Legislature Web Site, it states that smoking shisha tobacco products are permitted in limited places. Staff has contacted the property owner to let him know there is nothing in the City's Code that prevents this establishment and since this is not tobacco, there is no license required. Staff would like to have a discussion with the Council about whether or not there is an interest in adding a section to our tobacco license section dealing with this type of business and whether or not there might be interest in restricting the number of lounges. This item will be placed on a future agenda. Charter Commission. Staff received notification from the Honorable John C. Hoffman, Chief Judge of the Tenth Judicial District, appointing John Niederhaus and Chad Sivertson to the City's Charter Commission. Both would be filling a vacancy of terms that expire December 31, 2013. The Charter Commission is once again a "full" Commission and will be meeting on Monday, March 26, beginning at 6:00 p.m. Department Activities: CD/Admin • Finalize TOD grant applications for submittal • Prep for State of City presentations at Chamber and Council Meeting • QCTV Organizational analysis meetings • Meeting re Sunwood Realignment financing plan • PMT Meeting re Ramsey Station and groundbreaking event • Various personnel issues • . Meeting with Met Council Representative Ed Reynoso • Discuss signage opportunity on parking ramp HRA — Executive Director: • Conference calls re finalization of Flaherty and Collins documents • TOTI/Suite Living amendment documents • Prep for February HRA agendas