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MINUTES OCTOBER 24,1990 PAGE 3 CITY TREE PLANTING GUIDELINES DISCUSSED Council reviewed the present guidelines for planting boulevard trees and some additions proposed by the City Forester. Gerhz expressed concern over the section requiring avoidance of underground wires and requested more information be obtained on this subject to determine if it is totally impractical or if there is some manner in which planting over wiring is possible. CREATION OF A CITY FLAG PROPOSED Wiessner explained that the City has been requested to provide a City Flag for the opening ceremony of the 1991 LMC Conference in Rochester and asked Council if there was an interest in creation of such a flag at an estimated cost of 5600.00 for design and production of the first flag. A brief discussion ensued after which Jacobs moved that a city flag be created and that staff be directed to come back with the cost of reproduction of additional flags and the cost of flag standards. SANITARY SEWER BILLING POLICY FOR APARTMENT BUILDINGS TO REMAIN AS IS Council considered a request from Bruce and Maureen Misgen, owners of the apartment building at 1701 Tatum, that the City change the sanitary sewer billing for apartments to some method other than the flat rate per unit now being used. Council concurred that the billing should remain as is based on information provided by staff regarding the complexity and cost of reading water meters in each apartment building and the possibility that the rate might even increase if based on water consumption. 1991 FIRE PROTECTION CONTRACT WITH CITY OF LAUDERDALE APPROVED Wallin moved approval of the 1991 fire protection services contract with the City of Lauderdale which carried unanimously. CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY REQUIREMENT FOR MECHANICAL CONTRACTOR LICENSE TO REMAIN IN PLACE Council reviewed a request from Mel Collova, Collova HVAC, that he be issued a Mechanical Contractor's license even though. he does not have a Certificate of Competency as required by City Code. After a brief discussion Council unanimously agreed that the code requirement remain as is making Mr. Collova inelligible for a license. HAMLINE AVENUE PROJECT UPDATE Maurer reported on Ramsey County's proposed time line for the project, the right-of-way acquisition progress, and the City. of Roseville's request that if MN/DOT reduces the street width requirement, Hamline be restriped to allow parking on one side. The consensus of opinion was that the restriping would also be desired on the Falcon Heights portion of Hamline providing the designated parking lane is on the west side of the street. V~