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Council Update New Business in Town. Lisa's Catering has moved to Ramsey - 6415 Highway #10 NW, #112. Owner, Lisa Olson, began her career in the food service industry when she was 16 years old. After 20 years in the restaurant business, she decided to open her own bar/restaurant in Anoka. While running the restaurant, she began catering daycare centers and dinners for a local senior citizen community. Eventually, she decided to focus exclusively on catering and founded her catering business in 1991,.catering to senior citizens, weddings, corporate clients, and daycare centers. Lisa's daughter joined the Lisa's team in 2006 as sales and marketing manager. We are excited to welcome Lisa and company to our City. Attached to the Weekly Update are a couple of pages from Lisa's catering menu. Snow removal continues to be the theme for the winter. Since the last weekly update we have added four more snow removal events to our list, two full scale plowings and two minor events. The minor events were due to drifting caused by the high winds over the weekend. We have also been working on getting the sidewalk and trail system back open. In some of the more "open" areas we have resorted to using our front end loader to remove large snow banks, so our smaller equipment can get through. We also closed down Sunwood Drive near the Municipal Center for a time to allow crews to remove high snow banks that were creeping out in to the drive lanes. Only 8-10 more weeks of snow removal season to go Continued Coordination To Bring More Federal Monies `Home'. In approximately 2008, the City of Ramsey intensified its request of Anoka County to bring Mississippi West Regional Park into the first phases of development. This was done primarily through a formal request to develop a boat landing at the park, with a city contribution of $20,000 in Park Trust Funds. This endeavor was successful in two ways; foremost was the county receiving Metropolitan Council's approval for a 5 -phase development plan for the park, the second of which was the $500,000 boat landing that was completed in 2012. On either side of this timeframe, City Council authorized Staff to seek Transportation Enhancement funding (a Federal program renamed and highlighted below), for two different halves of the Mississippi River Trail, on either side of the Regional Park. The first grant award was for $440,000 and connects Mississippi West to the City of Anoka, and will be completed in 2014. The next grant award to Ramsey is in the amount of $1,120,000 and will take the trail all the way to the Sherburne County line west of the MnDOT Wayside Rest Area. Phase II of the plan for the Regional Park, is paved internal trails and overlooks which will enhance access within the park and connect the existing neighborhoods to the east and west. Attached to the Weekly Update is the Mississippi West Regional Park Trail Layout Exhibit Show a Generalized Alignment. (It should be noted that the west connection is possible due to an easement granted at no cost to the City of Ramsey by PSD LLC.) To fund the trails, Anoka County Parks is applying for a Transportation Alternatives grant, with a support letter from the City of Ramsey. Attached to the Weekly Update is a Support letter from the City of Ramsey regarding a Transportation Alternative Grant for the Mississippi West Regional Park.