The Maple Grove City Council approved routine consent items and confirmed three volunteer appointments to the Lake Quality Commission during its Jan. 6, 2025 meeting; the council also completed Economic Development Authority appointments and administered oaths of office for new officials.

Council Member Christy Janigo pulled item 3j from the consent agenda for public explanation; she said she had served as the council liaison to the Lake Quality Commission (LQC) and described the three applicants' qualifications before moving their appointments. Janigo said applicant Mister Heeran is an Edward Lake resident who has served on a lake association board and helped organize a National Night Out; Mister Paavola is a 12-year Maple Grove resident with background in outdoor recreation; and Mister Cangelosi has environmental engineering experience and joined a site tour of the Rush Creek North Fork stream restoration project earlier in the year. Janigo moved to approve the three appointments; the motion was seconded and passed with the council voting "aye" and no opposed votes recorded.

The council also approved the consent agenda as a whole after the pull of item 3j; a motion to approve carried when members voted "aye" with no opposition recorded. The council congratulated the three new LQC members after the vote.

At the start of the meeting the council administered the oath of office to newly elected Council Member John McCullough. The Economic Development Authority (EDA) portion of the meeting included administering oaths to Mark Stephenson as EDA president/treasurer and to commissioners Christy Janigo and John McCullough; the council then approved the EDA appointments and the minutes of the Dec. 16, 2024 EDA meeting by motion, each carried by voice vote with no opposition recorded.

Other procedural notes: the council reported no blue cards for the open forum and announced upcoming civic opportunities, including a planning commission application deadline (Jan. 10) and a neighborhood meeting on the 2025 street reconstruction project (Jan. 14).