About City Council

City Council Meetings
The City Council holds regular meetings on the first and third Mondays of each month at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall, 5005 Minnetonka Boulevard. When the first or third Monday falls on a holiday, the meeting is rescheduled to the same hour on the next Tuesday. If the next Tuesday is also a holiday, the meeting is moved to the same hour on the next Monday that is not a holiday.

The City Council's policy is not to meet on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Christmas Day, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Passover.

St. Louis Park Council Members

Minnesota Open Meeting Law
The Minnesota Open Meeting Law prohibits lawmaking at secret meetings. This law ensures that citizens have an opportunity to hear elected officials' views during the lawmaking process.
Here's how the Minnesota Open Meeting Law typically affects the St. Louis Park City Council

• All City Council meetings are open to the public.
• A "public meeting" occurs whenever four City Council members (a quorum) are present to conduct business.
• The public can be excluded from a meeting in limited circumstances. Executive sessions can be held when the council is discussing labor negotiations, litigation, an employment or medical issue regarding an individual, or homeland security.

Order of Business at Council Meetings
A City Council meeting may have some or all of these -

• Call to Order: Pledge of Allegiance followed by roll call
• Presentations: Proclamations, award presentations, etc.
• Minutes: Council members vote to approve or correct the minutes from a previous meeting. Agenda and Consent Item Approval: Council members vote on whether to keep, add or remove topics that will be considered at this meeting. Council members may also vote to remove an agenda from consent so it can be discussed. (Consent items are routine and need no discussion. All consent items are acted upon by one motion.) A member of the audience may also ask the Council to remove an item from the consent agenda.
• Petitions and Communications from the Public: Members of the public may contact the City Clerk's office prior to the council meeting to ask that an issue be placed on the agenda.
• Public Hearings: A public discussion of an issue where audience members are invited to speak about the topic.
• Ordinances, Resolutions and Motions: Council action on a proposal. For details, see "City Council Agenda Terms" in the Agendas & Minutes section.)
• Boards and Committees: Council may receive a report from a board or commission, create a committee or appoint individual(s) to an advisory group.
• Communications: Council members or City staff may raise an issue to be considered at a future meeting or simply share information of interest.
• Adjournment: If there is no additional business, the meeting is closed.

Watching Council Meetings
You are welcome to attend any City Council meeting. St. Louis Park cable subscribers also have the option of watching meetings at home. All regular meetings of the City Council are cablecast live on Civic Cable TV Channel 17.

Council meetings are also replayed on

If you have a digital cable TV converter box you can watch Council meetings through "Local On Demand" channel 1000. This "On Demand" channel allows cable TV subscribers to watch the Council meeting or other City produced programming at no charge, whenever they want to watch it.

Civic Cable TV Channel 17 is also web streamed live 24 x 7, so you can watch the meetings live or replayed by selecting the "Launch Civic Channel 17 Live" button on the home page of the web site. To view the live stream click here.

Finally, City Council meetings are now archived for 1 year on this web site with these extra features:

• A table of contents, which allows the viewer to click on an agenda item and watch the video immediately for that item.
• Links to related public documents and reports.
• A slide viewer, which shows PowerPoint slides and tips on how to use the software.
• To view the list of archives click here.

For more information: (952) 924-2660 or email rdunlap@stlouispark.org