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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCCMin_02Nov13City of Falcon Heights Council Minutes November 13, 2002 Mayor Gehrz called the meeting to order at 7 p.m. PRESENT: Gehrz, Kuettel, Lamb, Lindstrom, Talbot. Also present: City Administrator, Heather Worthington, and Deputy Clerk, Pat Phillips COMMUNITY FORUM: There was no one wishing to speak before council. MINUTES: The minutes of October 23rd were approved as written. CONSENT Councilmember Lindstrom made a motion to approve the following consent agenda with a minor correction in the disbursement list. General disbursements and payroll Licenses POLICY Mayor Gehrz announced an addendum to the agenda and with council’s consent, revised the order of the agenda. Authorize the expenditure of $3,400 for survey work to be done at Curtiss Field Administrator Worthington said in order to complete the new design of Curtiss Field, it must be surveyed to give accurate elevations of all existing storm sewers, structures and ground elevations. Two proposals were received and staff is recommending to contract with H. R. Green Company at an amount not to exceed $3,400. Worthington said results of this survey will be of use regardless of the final design of the SE corner redevelopment project. After brief questions, councilmember Kuettel made a motion to approve the contract with H. R. Green Company. The motion passed unanimously. Request for approval of contract with SEH for SE Corner PUD Review Administrator Worthington said the SE Corner Planned Unit Development (PUD) review will occur in November and December of this year to ensure that the project timeline and goals are maintained. Dan Cornejo of Short Elliott Hendrickson worked with the city during the project development phase and his creation of the design guidelines makes him familiar with the overall project. Staff received a proposal from SEH not to exceed $5,494.00 for review of the PUD on the SE Corner. Worthington said the city will recoup costs associated with the PUD review in the final development agreement. After brief discussion, councilmember Lamb approved to Page 2 Council Minutes November 13, 2002 contract with SEH for planning services related to the PUD review. The motion passed unanimously. Contract for building and fire inspection services with Little Canada Administrator Worthington said the city has an opportunity to coordinate services with the City of Little Canada and decrease expenses related to our building and plumbing inspection service. Presently the city contracts with a private Certified Building Official for its building and plumbing inspections. The city also has a part time temporary fire inspector. Worthington said the city and Little Canada have been negotiating an agreement for about two months and said it is to the city’s benefit to integrate building/plumbing/fire inspections; coordinate services with Little Canada; and have a more reliable source of fire inspections for the city. The person hired will be a regular employee of Little Canada but will work jointly for Falcon Heights under a contractual arrangement. Falcon Heights will pay the person monthly for services rendered on an hourly basis. After further discussion, councilmember Talbot made a motion to approve the agreement with Little Canada for provision of building/plumbing and fire inspection services. The motion passed unanimously. Resolution supporting Metropolitan Council’s Mayors’ Regional Housing Task Force Plan and Report Mayor Gehrz, as a member of the Met Council’s Second Mayors’ Regional Housing Task Force, presented a report from that group released in late October. Gehrz said the attention of the second task force was to identify how the metro region can meet its affordable housing needs. Gehrz said the mayors recognized that the enormous housing need would not be met unless certain objectives were fulfilled and the avenues to satisfy these objectives were identified. Gehrz next went through a series of sixteen recommendations (via overheads) and said she is seeking support for the recommendations found in this plan. Gehrz asked that council review and discuss the information presented and consider approving Resolution 02-20. Councilmember Lamb said the city should go on record as supporting this and encourages various levels of government to step up their part. Councilmember Lindstrom said the Planning Commission should be made aware of this report and educated in its efforts as well. After lengthy discussion, Councilmember Lindstrom made the motion to approve Resolution 02-20. The motion passed unanimously. INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Councilmember Kuettel presented Mayor Gehrz and Administrator Worthington each a booklet of thank you notes from the third graders at Falcon Heights School. This was in appreciation of their appearing before the class to talk to the class on city government. Councilmember Talbot updated those present and viewing on the latest cable commission news. Page 3 Council Minutes November 13, 2002 Mayor Gehrz was very pleased to say the city was awarded a grant of $1,000,000 from the Metropolitan Council’s Livable Communities Demonstration Account for the re-development of the SE corner. Gehrz said the Neighborhood Commission is sponsoring two first aid training sessions. The first one is set for November 18th at city hall from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The second is set for December 3rd at the same place and time. Residents are encouraged to call city hall to sign up. Gehrz said the first class has over 50 participants and is free of charge. Gehrz said the Neighborhood Commission is also sponsoring another training session dealing with traffic management. Residents will be trained on the basic concepts of traffic control at the first session which will be held January 30 at city hall from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. The second session will be on February 8th from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and will be a more hands on session with actual practice with cars in the rear parking lot of Twin City Co-ops Federal Credit Union, 2025 W. Larpenteur. Residents are also encouraged to call city hall to pre-register for this class. Gehrz thanked everyone that worked to make the election run as smoothly as possible, particularly Kathy Ciernia, election coordinator, and also the judges, and city staff. Gehrz also thanked Worthington for her organization of Kid’s Voting which had a 73% voter turnout in the District 623 area. Administrator Worthington said the election in Precinct 1 had a 73% voter turnout and in Precinct 2, an 85% voter turnout. Worthington also said fall leaf streetsweeping has been completed. There was brief discussion about December’s schedule. The planning commission is hopefully going to reschedule their meeting date to December 17th in which case the council will meet December 18th rather than December 11th. A council workshop will be held on December 4th at 6 p.m. A Truth in Taxation hearing will be held on December 9th at 7 p.m. ADJOURN The meeting adjourned at 8:50 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Pat Phillips, Deputy Clerk