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Council Update Notice of Candidate Filings for Office—Councilmember At-Large Seat. The Candidate filing period for the City Councilmember At-Large seat will be open between Tuesday,January 15,2019, and Tuesday, January 29, 2019, during office hours. All candidate filings must be received by Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 5:00 PM. Term for this seat ends January 2021. City offices will not be open on Monday, January 21, 2019, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Filings will be done in the Administration Department,Ramsey City Hall, 7550 Sunwood Drive NW,Ramsey, MN 55303. Water Meter Reading Upgrade. In October of 2018, the Ramsey Utility Department upgraded their water metering reading equipment to add more efficiency to the operation. We currently read approximately 4800 water accounts every quarter. Our water meters produce a radio frequency signal that is transmitted to software installed on a laptop in the operator's truck. As the utility operator drives pre-determined routes in their truck,the data is collected from the individual water meters. Once all the data is collected, it's downloaded to a flash drive and then emailed to our third party billing agency for processing. With our old meter reading equipment, it only had the capability to process one reading at a time, which would take staff approximately 3 days to read our entire system. The new reading equipment, can process 50 readings at a time, reducing the overall time for reading meters from three days to one. The initial cost to upgrade equipment was $1,500.00, which included training for our utility department staff. This upgrade has resulted in an annually savings of$1,700.00 in labor costs. Thank You-Ramsey Police Reserves. In 2018 Ramsey Police Reserves volunteered 2,100 hours of service to the community. Ramsey is very fortunate to have over fifteen well-trained citizen volunteers serving their community as Police Reserve Officers. You may see Reserve Officers assisting our Police Officers in calls for service, working at special events in and around the City, and training to serve Ramsey. The hours volunteered is similar to the hours of one full-time Community Service Officer and estimated cost savings to the City of$50,000 per year. Annual Boards, Commissions and Employee Appreciation Holiday Party. The City of Ramsey's Annual Boards, Commissions and Employee Event is scheduled for Friday, January 11, from 4:31 to 10:00 pm at McDuff's Bar & Grill, 16659 St. Francis Blvd.Attached to the Weekly Update is the 2018 Holiday Party Invitation. Information and Updates on Current City Improvement Projects are available at www.cityoframsey.com/198/City-Improvement-Proj ects. Save the Date: • Opportunity to Recycle Your Extra Cardboard. The City of Ramsey is working with ACE Solid Waste to provide an opportunity to recycle your extra cardboard that always seems to pile up this time of year. There will be a dumpster at the Public Works Campus, 14100 Jaspar St NW, through January 18, 2019, for residents to recycle cardboard. Cardboard should still be broken down and flattened to save space in the dumpster, but there is no need to bundle them with twine. There is no cost to take advantage of this