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members to 7 on the Parks, Recreation and Environmental Commission. Another - 2— commission was at 7, so the Council thought they would make them all 7. There is one commission that has to have a certain number; it is mandated by the State. She suggested term limits for commission members. Harreld commented that it was mentioned that there are many applicants when there are commission openings. If you lower the number on the commission, there are not as many opportunities. Bauman stated if there are terms for members, new applicants would be on instead of current members staying more than one term. This gives more people an opportunity. Frischman stated there has been a new role given to the Chairpersons of the commissions in giving updates to the Council. This could be a great communication tool between the commissions and City Council. Frischman asked Bauman if she would reflect on this a little more. Bauman felt this would be a way for the commission's to communicate with the Council. It is once a year. Bauman felt it could be more often. The intent is to gather the information of the commission and communicate to Council if there are functions you want to do, a direction you want to head in, or a project you would like to take on. . V. Public Hearing A. City Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan Update — Kerry Thorne Jason West introduced Kerry Thorne, Civil Engineer 1. Kerry said this is the 6`n Annual meeting for the Storm Water Prevention Plan. Kerry stated this is a program that the City is following because of the Clean Water Act established in 1969. In the mid 80's it was discovered that much of the water pollution was coming from non -point sources (the stuff that is lying on the ground) and running into the rivers. In response to this, the EPA created some new laws stating Cities will now be mandated to prevent pollution on the land from going into the waters. New Brighton was brought into this in 2003. MPCA notified New Brighton in February of this year that they want to put New Brighton's permit on public hearing. This is a 30 day process. They want us to make improvements to our SWPPP to make sure we are addressing the Health Department's Drinking Water vulnerability areas, as well as be able to make changes to the impaired waters. MPCA Public Hearing process: New Brighton is one of the last cities of about 200 to have their hearing. Sometimes they group several cities together and do the hearings all at once. New Brighton's hearing is on April 7, 2008 and lasts for 30 days. MPCA will inform us of comments/responses and we have 30 days to respond to those. Kerry also talked about drinking water vulnerability areas and impaired waters. Forty to fifty percent of all bodies or water in the U.S. are impaired for one reason or another. New Brighton has 3 water bodies listed on the impaired waters list;