UPDATED: Inver Grove Heights City Council, School Board Preview

The Inver Grove Heights City Council and the District 199 School Board are holding public meetings on Monday night. Here's a preview of some of the agenda items for both groups:

City Council

• Council members are expected to approve the purchase of a home at 6556 Doffing Avenue for $175,000. Over several decades, the city has purchased nearly two dozen private properties in the flood plain along Doffing Avenue  as part of a flood mitigation project. One half of the funding will come from a grant from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, while the remainder will be paid through a community development block grant and the city's own general fund.
• The City Council may approve a rate change at Veterans Memorial Community Center to give active military personnel a larger discount. Under the current rates, active military members must pay $49 for a single monthly pass. If the new rates are approved, they would pay just $43 for the same pass.
• The council is expected to approve the description of a new assistant fire chief position. The assistant chief would be responsible for managing the technical operations of the fire department, assisting the chief with long-range planning and supervising emergency operations, among other duties. No one has yet been hired for the position, the creation which was approved as part of the 2011 budget adoption.
• The council may also approve conditional use permits for an 860-square-foot expansion to Inver Grove Hyundai's facilities and the expansion and remodeling of a vacant gas station at the corner of 57th Street and Carmen Avenue.

School Board

• School Board members are expected to begin a preliminary conversation about renewing one of the district's two levies, which generates roughly  $480 in per-pupil funding annually — or $2 million each year for Inver Grove Heights schools. The levy is set to expire at the end of the 2012-2013 school year. A levy referendum could be put to voters as early as November.