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AGENDA SECTION:
Department Head.Reports
PREPARED BY: William H. Droste, Mayor
AGENDA NO. 4.1
ATTACHMENTS:
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RECOMMENDED ACTION: Presentation of flag and letter of greeting
ROSEMOUNT
CITY COUNCIL
City Council Regular Meeting: May 20, 2008
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In recent years Rosemount has been host to groups of students from Rottweil, Germany, who stayed with
local families and attended classes at Rosemount High School. Next month a group of Rosemount
students will make their own trip to Rottweil. Representing that group at tonight's meeting are teacher
Susan Sullivan and students Luke Schofield and John Hannasch.
As a token of goodwill, Mayor Droste has obtained a U.S. flag that has flown over the Capitol in
Washington. The Mayor tonight will present the flag to the Rosemount group and ask them to present it
to his counterpart in Rottweil, Lord Mayor Thomas Engeser. It is accompanied by a letter that Ms.
Sullivan has translated into German-
Dear Lord Mayor Engeser:
On behalf of our community, I would like to send you greetings from the City of Rosemount,
Minnesota, USA. We have been pleased to meet many young people from your city as part of the
schools' exchange programs. We are deeply grateful that you will serve as hosts this summer for
our own children and some of their teachers and parents.
Rosemount is a growing city that has just celebrated the 150th anniversary of its founding. Our
name and many of our traditions come from the earliest settlers from Ireland. But almost half of
our residents identify themselves as having a German ancestry. We are pleased that the next
generation of our citizens is establishing ties with your nation, and we hope those ties will endure.
Please accept from our young ambassadors a flag, provided by the local post of the American
Legion and our representative in Congress. This flag was flown briefly over the United States
Capitol building in Washington. My colleagues on the Rosemount City Council and I hope you
will find that it expresses the growing friendship between our communities.
Sincerely,
William H. Droste
Mayor