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CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS
COUNCIL MINUTES
October 22, 2003
Mayor Gehrz convened the regular City Council meeting at 7:00 PM.
PRESENT: Mayor Sue Gehrz, Council members Laura Kuettel, Robert Lamb,
Peter Lindstrom and Richard Talbot
Also present: Deputy Clerk Mary Shea Kodluboy
Absent with prior notice: City Administrator Heather Worthington
COMMUNITY FORUM: There was no commentary from the audience.
PRESENTATIONS: None Scheduled
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The Council minutes dated October 8, 2003 were unanimously approved as submitted.
PUBLIC HEARINGS: None Scheduled
CONSENT AGENDA:
Kuettel moved approval of the Consent Agenda, as outlined below. The motion was unanimously approved.
General Disbursements through October 15, 2003
in the Amount of: $ 104,036.27
2. Payroll (10/01/03-10/15/03) in the Amount of: $ 9,922.09
POLICY AGENDA: None
REPORTS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Council member Kuettel said the Association of Metropolitan Municipalities has prepared a draft of a Regional Development Guide, and will be holding a series
of meetings at various locations around the metro area to gather feedback from the public.
Mayor Gehrz said the City has been notified by the St. Paul Water Utility Board that there will be a slight increase in water rates for the coming year. She reminded the cable audience
that Falcon Heights residents pay wholesale rather than retail rates.
FALCON HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL MINUTES -2-
October 28, 2003
INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS (continued)
Mayor Gehrz said that residents will be receiving an invitation to the long awaited groundbreaking ceremony for the SE Corner, which will be held on Wednesday,
October 29, 3 PM, at the SE Corner site. Cider and cookies will be served. There is tremendous excitement in the community about this development, which has been a true community project.
A second series of CERT trainings began on Monday evening, October 20 and will continue until December 8. There are 20 new trainees, with seven
of them coming from area businesses.
She gave a brief description of a letter she prepared that is being placed on vehicles that park bumper to bumper in the Falcon Woods neighborhood, near the path access to/from Prior
Avenue. They are being asked to be courteous and avoid parking close to other cars so that the residents who live there have parking space in front of their homes for service vehicles
and guests. Also, Twin Cities Co-ops Federal Credit Union is making available about 30 parking spaces for students for $25.00/month. This is the neighborhood that applied for permit
parking designation earlier this year. The Planning Commission recommended denial of their request and that recommendation was affirmed by the City Council. However, it was recommended
that this matter be reviewed again in November, and the Planning Commission will be doing so. The Falcon Woods neighborhood has also been experiencing frequent power outages and the
City Administrator has contacted Xcel Energy. They sent an engineer to the neighborhood and it was determined that two transformers need to be replaced. Xcel Energy has put the job
on their work order list, but it will take about two weeks before the work is completed.
The regular City Council meeting was adjourned at 7:15 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Mary Shea Kodluboy
Deputy Clerk