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COUNCIL CONSIDERATION AND ACTION On August 10, 1982, the New Brighton City Council was formally presented the results of the Citizen Survey. Council also adopted a resolution thanking the New Brighton Jaycees, the Eagles Club Womens Auxiliary, the League of Women Voters and others for their cooperation in serving as volunteer interviewers. On August 24, 1982, the New Brighton City Council, after reviewing the results of the Citizen Survey directed staff to proceed with the following action steps: 1) Road Maintenance. To direct staff to explain the Comprehensive Street Plan to residents in an article in the City Hall newsletter. 2) water Service.. To direct staff to update residents by way of the newsletter and the New Brighton Bulletin on the water contamination problem, well construction and water taste. 3) Diseased Tree Program. To direct staff to convey to residents in a newsletter article the cost and benefits of the Diseased Tree Program. 4) Recreation Program. To direct staff and the Park Board. to review the feasibility of a survey to determine the need for additional recreation programs or services. 5) Noise Levels. To reject consideration of a noise ordinance, unless additional justification is provided by the EQC. 6) Planning and Development. To direct the Community Development Department to maintain current City policy in encouraging quality commercial development in the community and communicate public support for such development in the newsletter. 7) Animal Control. To direct staff to communicate to the residents by way of the newsletter that the City provides this service. 8) Fiscal Policy. To direct staff to inform residents in a newsletter article of the percentage of their property tax dollar that goes toward City government and other details of City finance and the 1983 budget (the Finance Policy Advisory Board could also help communicate this issue eventually). 9) Senior Citizens. To direct the Police Department, with the assistance of the Citizen Study Committee, to look at the basis of senior citizen fears and concerns of nighttime safety outdoors and to develop recommendations for remedial action. 10) Sup rvey. To communicate the survey process and other such information as the staff or Council deems appropriate in the next issue of City Hall.