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Councilmember Musgrove aye Councilmember Specht aye Councilmember Riley aye Councilmember Howell aye Councilmember Woestehoff aye Councilmember Heineman aye Mayor Kuzma aye Motion carried. 8. MAYOR, COUNCIL AND STAFF INPUT Councilmember Musgrove announced the Anoka County fair is this week. She encouraged residents to check out the events at the Anoka County Fair. Councilmember Specht highlighted the Inglesia Christ church sale, noting the church is fundraising for a possible expansion there. He stated they are a Spanish speaking church off Highway 10. He also announced Stories Manor Market. He stated right where the Stories Foundation is going to be officially built on Yolite and Sunwood Road, they are having a market highlighting some great organizations this Friday. Councilmember Riley announced his granddaughter was born last Wednesday. City Administrator Hagen announced the Planning Commission meeting this Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. He noted the Night to Unite is next Tuesday. He stated there was an opportunity to sign up and attend those events. He stated Police and Fire will be going out to the events. He stated there are just over 50 which is a good turn out for parties. He gave an update about doing a mailing for new polling places. He stated numbers were run on what that would take. He noted that the State sent out to all registered voters with the polling place so each registered voter will get something soon with an address on where to vote. He stated they had discussed sending out something very specific to those that changed polling places. He stated to do that they would need to overlay the old precinct maps with the new and then go and find them. He stated it would be pretty time consuming. He stated Staff discussed if it could get done before the Primary and thought it was unlikely. He stated they could send a bright postcard encouraging voters to go to the poll finder that is updated. If they did that it would go to every property that get the Ramsey Resident whereas the State’s mailer only went to registered voters so some unregistered voters could be captured in time for the primaries. He stated that would cost $3,664.40 to that. He stated what could be done is to work more diligently to send something to each address before the general election with their polling location. He stated with that the postage alone would be $4,000 plus paper and printing fees. He asked for Council direction on doing that for the general election or if they thought the State’s mailing and the City’s more generic poll finder mailer would be enough. Mayor Kuzma recommended doing the first one directing people to the poll finder and stated he thought that would be adequate. City Council / July 26, 2022 Page 8 of 9