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2002-09-13 Friday News*Td The Friday News September 13, 2002 Candidates for City Council and Mayor Tuesday was the final day to file for local office in Mendota Heights. The following individuals filed for City office for the 2002 election: Charles Mertensotto, 2371 Rogers Avenue--- Mayor John Huber, 1359 Cherry Hill Road — Mayor Mary Jeanne Schneeman, 792 Upper Colonial Drive — City Council Jill Smith, 625 Hampshire Drive — City Council Mike Povolny, 1901 South Lexington — City Council Ultan Duggan, 2331 Copperfield Drive — City Council Information about each of the candidates will be presented in the October Heights Highlites. The General Election is November 5th. 2002 Primary Election Following are the voter turnout results from the 2002 Primary Election Precinct Registered Voters Number Voting % 1 1927 343 17.80% 2 1470 259 17.62% 3 1009 172 17.05% 4 1435 241 16.79% 5 1616 208 12.87% Totals: 7457 1223 16.40% Mendakota Park Safety Netting On Wednesday morning the contractor began a trial installation of the containment netting in the southwest quadrant of the Hub area. After three of the sixteen panels (nets) were installed Guy, Tom Olund, Public Works Superintendent, along with Terry Blum, Parks Leadsperson, observed the operation to become familiar with the techniques that our Public Works personnel will use when they install the netting next spring and take it down for storage next fall. The contractor was then directed to take down the netting and temporarily store the nets in the concession building. Staff still has to attach identification markers to each side of every net panel so that they can be matched. Staff will now purchase net storage boxes and a storage cart for transporting the nets (shipping weight was 330 lbs.) At present the nets will be stored inside the concession building during the winter months September 11`h Ceremony at the Fire Department On Tuesday morning, the Fire Department held a remembrance ceremony at the Fire Station. The flag was lowered to half-mast at the exact time when the towers fell and was raised again as a symbol of our strength as a nation. Mayor Mertensotto addressed the crowd. Council members Schneeman, Dwyer and Krebsbach were all in attendance. Thank you to the Fire Department for organizing this special event and to everyone that participated. Rogers Lake East Neighborhood Committee to Make Presentation to City Council Rogers Lake East residents Guy Heide and Mike Kosel have been corresponding with representatives from the MAC over the last year. They are of the opinion that the 1996 DNL Contour map is based on faulty information. Furthermore, they believe that the MAC knew it was faulty and submitted it to the FAA anyway. Recently, Mr. Heide made a presentation to the FAA on his beliefs and fmdings. Mr. Heide and Mr. Kosel made the same presentation to the Airport Relations Commission on Wednesday night. They have now requested the opportunity to make a brief presentation to the City Council on Tuesday night regarding their findings and to provide them with an update of their progress. Mendota Heights Athletic Association Request for Funding I was recently contacted by Charlie Noel, the new President of the Mendota Heights Athletic Association. He requested the opportunity to appear before the City Council on Tuesday night. MHAA has undergone some big changes in leadership over the past few months and Mr. Noel would like to update the Council on the structure of the organization. In addition, Mr. Noel will be requesting $15,000 from the City for the 2003 budget. If you recall, last year former President Tim Milner requested $20,000 to be put towards the hiring of a recreation program manager (65% of the total cost of the position). During the budget process, the City Council allocated $10,000 to MHAA and requested that MHAA come back before the City Council prior to the funds being allocated. The $10,000 in the 2002 budget has not been distributed to MHAA yet this year. Mr. Noel will also be requesting that funding for 2002. Pioneer Press Reporter Judy Arginteanu No Longer to Cover Mendota Heights I am sorry to report that we are losing —yet another—Pioneer Press reporter. Judy Arginteanu, who has covered Mendota Heights for the past year is being transferred to the western suburbs. We should have a new reporter assigned to Mendota Heights in the next few weeks. Final Thought New York Governor George Pataki read the Gettysburg address on September I Ith I found it to be particularly powerful at this time. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow-- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have, thus far, so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Respectfully Submitted, Cari Lindberg Administrator Attachments: Pipeline, Just the Facts, City Council agenda, Pre -application meeting synopsis, Sun Current articles "Contract indemnifies Eagan on airport zoning issues," "Mendota Heights council considers concept plan for Town Center senior housing, informally approves it," Star Tribune article Bloomington firm wants MAC to buy tow buildings near runway," "Firefighter Surprises His Significant Other".