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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCCMin_78Oct11MINUTES ii i~~ REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING OCTO 3ER 11, 1978 A regular meeting of the Falcon Heights City Council was called to order by Mayor Warkentien at 7:30 P.M. T~layor Warkentien, Councilrnembers 31acr:, T~cGough, Steele and Brown. PRESENT Also present were C1er~~ Adnu.n:strator Barnes, Attorney Kenefi ck and Engineer Lemberg. None. ABSENT Councilmember 3rown moved, seconded by Councilmember Steele to approve APPROVAL OF the Consent Age:da as follows, subject to clarification of Fire Report CONSENT AGENDA #94-78 (Gas washdown - Hoyt and Snelling}: 1. Ramsey County August 1978 Sheriff's report. 2. Fire Reports and Rescue 91-95. 3. Falcon Heights Human Rights Commission Minutes of Sept. 20, 1978. 4. Recreation Advisory Committee T~Ieeting NTinutes of Oct. 3, 1978. 5. General Payroll - 9/16/78 $4,104.49. 6. Liquor Payrcll - 9/16/78 $1,913.09. 7. General Disbursements $27,527.82. 8. Liquor Disbursements 9/26 - 30/78 $4,206.79. 10/1 - 30/78 $16,109.26. 9. License - Tree Removal & Trimming a. Kermit Tree Service P.O. 2239 #519 North St. Paul, NTn. 55109 Upon a vote being taken the following voted "aye": Mayor Warkentien, Councilrriernbers 31ack, McGough, Steele and ~3rown, and the following voted "nay": None. Motion carried. Barbara Hughes, representing the Metro Clean Air Committee, appeared N;ETRO CLEAN before the Council to discuss any concerns the Council might have in AIR CONIT"fITTEE respect to the proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act, which the REPRESENTATIVE President of the United States requested be rewritten and enacted. BARB HUGHES Barbara Hughes requested Council appoint some member of the Council who would be the contact person for meetings and data made available to the community by the Clean Air Committee. Mayor Warkentien appointed Councilmember ~3rown to be the City Representative to receive data and represent the City at scheduled meetings. Douglas G. Wood, Representative for the Ramsey County Community Health RANISEY COUNTY Service, appeared before the Council to discuss the purpose of the COMMUNITY HEALTH Environmental Health Prcgram. Mr. Wood suggested the Council permit PROGRAM REPRESENTATIVE DOUGLAS G. WOOD T•IINUTES RF~GULAR CITY COUNCIL T~IEETING OCTOBER 11, 1978 Page 2 ~~~ Ramsey County to handle the inspection of food establishments for the RAM~EY COUNTY City of Falcon Heights at nc cost to the city. It would require a COTwI[TPIITY HEALTH letter of intent from the Council to initiate the program. PROGRAM (cont.) Mayor Warkentien moved, seconded by Councilmember McGough to direct the C1erI~ Administrator to write a letter to Ramsey County Board of Health to provide the necessary services to implement an Environmental Health Program to include the city of Falcon Heights at no cost to the city. Unanimously carried. Councilmember Steele moved, seconded by Councilmembea~ _3rown to approve APPROVAL OF the list of Election Judges as submitted by the Clerk Administrator for ELECTION JUDGES the General Election of November 7th. Unanimously carried. Councilmember Steele moved, seconded by Councilmember ~3rown, to approve APPROVAL OF the scheduled Dump Dates of November 3rd through November 12th inclusive, DUMP DATES as recommended by the Clerk Administrator. The Clerk Administrator was directed to obtain a site at the State Fair Grounds and to prepare a flyer to be distributed to the home owners. Motion unanimously carried. Councilrnember Black reviewed with the Council the Conditional Use CONDITIO:TAL USE request of N1rs. Evelyn Dilger, 1811 N. Hamline, to construct a utility DILGER shed in the bacl>yard of her property. The shed is to be 11 feet by 1811 HAMLITdE 12 feet ar:d to be located five feet from the rear lot line and eleven. feet from the sirE~rard. Adjoining property owners have submitted in writing their approval of Mrs. Dilger's request. The Planning Commission has recommended the approval of this request. Councilmember Black moved, seconded by Councilmember McGough to approve the Conditional Use request of T~Irs. Dilger, 1811 Hamline, to construct a utility shed. This request was approved by the Planning Commission at their meeting of October 3, 1978. Upon a vote being taken the following voted "aye": Mayor ti7arkentien, Councilmembers 31ack, McGough, Steele, and 3rown and the following voted "nay": None. T~iotion carried. Mayor Warkentien informed Council he had appointed Sandra Larson to the SANDRA CARSON Recreation Advisory Committee to fill the vacancy created by Lillian APPT. TO Duethmann's resignation. RECREATION ADVI SORy Councilmember McGough moved, seconded by Councilmember Steele, to COT~ShSITTEE. approve Mayor ti?arken-~ien's appointment of Sandra Larson to the Recre- ation Advisory Committee. Motion to approve was unanimous. Mayor T~~arkentier. requested the Council recess for seven minutes before RECESS the Public Hearing on Revenue Sharing Fund usage. Mayor Warkentien informed tie public that it is required under Federal PUBLIC HEARING Law to hold two public hearings on the use of Revenue Sharing Funds, 8:00 P.1~. this being the first of the two hearings. The second hearin" will be REVENUE SHARING held October 25, 1978 at 8:00 P.I. Mayor Warkentien also informed the FUNDS USAGE public that funds are anticipated to be used for public safety,. (policing). There were no objections by anyone present. tILNUTE S REGULAR CITY COUNCIL T~ETING OCTOBER 11, 1978 Page 3 ~~~. Iiayor ti7arkentien opened for discussion the matter of closing two rinks RINK CLOSING for the 1978-1979 winter season, as bras recommended py the Recreation DISCUSSIOTd .Advisory Committee. It was referred back to the Council as the Ree- reaction Advisory Committee had atwo - t~rc vote on which rinks should be closed. (Idaho -Snelling or Falccn Heights Elementary School Rink) Councilmember ~3rown reported the University Grove Rink was suggested to pe closed due to lack of use and also due to the location of Falcon heights Community Park, the Fairgrounds Rink and one located in the Commonwealth area. The tecreation Advisory Committee has discussed this ~:,e~tter with tre University Grove Home Owners Association Recreation Committee and they were not oppos~;c;, ~:~ut would licce to keep the rink open on a volunteer basis. T`Iayor Trdarkentien opened the discussion to the pudic in attendance (65) for their imput as to which other ri«?t might be closed. I~Ir. Kubes wanted to know what costs are involved in opening the two rinks and feels the community is taking a step backward rather than moving ahead. Clerk Administrator .3arnc:~ infow~;,ed ::r. Kupes that the City has already expended over the budget for this year in the amount of $107.00 and the heating and lighting cost for all four rinks amounts to $1,500.00. °4iow was it determined that the two rinks had a lack of use?" "There was not a methodical survey taken, only the observation in tre past few years, which indicated little use." "Are the Recreation Advisory Committee mempers polling their respective areas as to the citizens concerns and if not they should do so." "I am not certain whether the t~ecreation Advisory Committee made a survey of their particular areas or not." "I have asked several people in my area to answer NTr. Fitzgerald's question and I will give you a f=.w statistics," "The school rink is used not only py Falccn Heights children put py the whole area who attend Falcon Heights Elementary School." EDti°~ARD KU.3ES 18 7 7 I-TOLTOT~i CLERK ADT. 3AI~I~IES PATRICK FITZGERALD 1t~3~. ~' . IOV.rA CO UT~1C ILN~T~iBER BROjnIT~ PATRICK F'ITZGERALD COUNCILT~TKBER ~3ROti'dTv 5ADTDRA LARSOTd 1883 ld. AL3ERT "One of the reasons there was poor attendance last year was due to rink attendants and many children refused to skate a,t that rink. Adults mig:1, be ~~ailling to volunteer their services to keep the rinks open. Also 3/~. of the student body use the rinks duri.~ school opening ." ''The Idaho Snelling rink is one of the nest rinks due to its geographic JOT-II`d RING lccation and ice can pe maintained better. I am for this particular 136 ti°a. IDAHO one to be kept open.'' iIiVUTLJ ~.ECULAR CITY COUT~'CIL T~~ETITIG OCTOBER 11, 1918 Page ~ Jim Jernberg presented five pages of cor~u,lents to the Council and made the following proposal: 1. rtes±o_ro the $2,~O.OG plus the ~l~~;o U~inter Employee Item in the 3udget from Line >!~. 2. Open all 4 rinks. 3. Be careful in hiring rink attendants and T:ave a re- sponsible adult monitoring each rink, and have them report to the Council. 1;. Also e1ir~linate the $1,000.G0 in Line 5~t for Idaho Snelling; equipment and put into the Youth Hockey Program. Jirn Jernberg also questioned tr;hy there were such large increases in the Council 3uc~;et and the Street Department 3udget. 1 JITT JERN~3ErtG 154G t~;f. IOWA mayor rlwr,entien reviewed the Council Budget and informed those i~iAYOR WARKENTIEN in attendance that the greater part of the increase was various League dues only. I~layor ti~~~arkentien also noted the Street ~3udget was up due to contracts received for seal coatit7~; and for one half tractor tiahich must be purchased, one half of which is ~~n the Park Budget. Informed Jim Jernberg that he had not mentioned a $00.00 cut COUidCILT~IET~EF~ in the swnmer program and wanted everyone present to be aware BROU:~Id that cuts in the total budget had to be made so that the City could stay within the Levy Limitation. Informed those in attendance that there have peen problems at the school with rink attendants and serious vandalism. The Council appoints committees to give council recommendations for guidelines in City functions and operations. Her opinion of the Fun and Physical Fitness Trail is that it SHIRLEY MORRIS lends itself to vandalism and the need for ice skating rinks 1I~12 1n1. IDAHO has a greater priority. Questioned whether there should be some guidelines to detern;ine COUNCILMEMSER whether or not there was a need for summer recreation due to BLACK the fact that there are otLL~rer resources to draw from. A question was asked as to whether senior citizens were contacted to be rink attendants. "I doubt that a senior citizen could handle the hose for flooding COUNCILP9ET~3ER as they are rather cumbersome and flooding is part of the job TICC~JUGH cf being an attendant." Councilmember hTcGough was also concerned about them being beat up. "The problers we are having is lack of parental input into I~fAYOR the recreatior_ program. Years ago it was all volunteer and WAIiKENTIEN with parental input. He suggested we go back to the organized volunteer basis for each area. N~NU`1'ES REGULAR CITY COUNCIL NTEETING OCTOBEF~ 11, 1978 Page ~ He recommended all four rinks be kept open and there should be more parental supervision to avoid vand=iis„ even if it re- quires operation on a volunteer basis. "In view of the comments heard tonight, T~layor, probably more funds should be transferred from the summer program to the winter pi°ogram." "It has been said the City is supporting hockey more so than other programs in the recreation areas." "I want those in attendance to know that Roseville will not permit non-residents to participate in any recreational programs in Roseville." Counci.~member 3rown also requested inforrriation as to how many girls are in the hockey program. "There were three out of one hundred thirty last yea_~.~~ "I want once again to inform goose present that if school facilities are used for recreation all children in that district may participate in th.e program, yet Roseville says non-residents absolutely cannot participate. Councilmember ~3rown and I, and Councilmember Black, who sits on the Com- munity Education Committee of District b23, and Senator Neil Dietrich, have met witr. Roseville recreation director Frank ~.og and Roseville City N7anagernent to convince them of the requirement in the use of Community Educatior_ Funds and they still refuse to let Falcon Heights and Lauderdale children participate in their program." Councilmember T~IcGough said he would be very hesitant in cutting back the summer program in view of ttoseville's attitude. ~~~ S. J. FUaCO 1883 sH~LDOra COUTIC ILT~'~K3ER BLACK MAYOR WARKETdTIEN COUNC ILN~NIBER BROti~t JiT~I JERNBERG COUNC ILN~T2BER i~CGOUGH "I feel we do not need a ~,~zt in the summer program and feel JOHN DUNCATI there will be more vandalism if we cut summer or winter programs." 1753 ALBERT "As I am involved in tl:e school system, I want those here to SANDRA CARSON know I have worked hard to get Roseville to run a joint pro- 1883 N. ALBEN.T gram for recreation and request that funds for the summer program not be cut." "I am opposed to the erection of the Big Toy that is being set PAT POTHEN up at the school as it is too dangerous. I recommend we not 1807 N. HANfLINE donate $500.00 towards the Big Toy.i' "I question the X2,000.00 expenditure for the Fun and Fitness IRENE KUEPPERS Trail. I. dcn't think anyone is questioning the summer program. 172i N. HAMLINE Also, why are we being cut frcm the Roseville program?" Due to Roseville's size and amount of their budget for rec- COUNCILTfiEM~3ER reation they have sufficient citizens participating in their BLACK program, and therefore do not need outsiders in their program." "It is alsc a request of many of our citizens to develop the only park w© have and I believe that was the original intent." P~IIT~IUTES Ii,EGULAR CITE' COUNCIL P~ETIPIG OCT03ER 11,1978 Page 6 "3e informed had we gone along with Roseville's plan for rec- reation it would have cost us $23,000.00 and control of our parks. Furthermore, we would have to assume our share of the cost to repair their ice arena, which has a heaving floor, due to l8 foot deep frost. It is estimated the cost could be between $225,000.00 and $400,000.00 totally. The Council COUNCILMAN ti1CGOUGH decided not. to go along with an open ended agreement such as that." ~~~ "I have just moved to your area from Wisconsin where we did not CHRIS QUELLO have cold enough weather for ice and we do enjoy the rinks in this 1889 SHELDON area and hope you w~_11 reconsider." "I want to make the Council aware that the Sit, Toy may be a EVELYIQ DILGER good thing, but on this date a motorcycle was traveling through- 1811 N. HANH,INE out the play area endangering young children playing on the equipment and something should be done in respect to this problem.'' "I am one of the Park Development Committee Tiernbers and all JANET BROtiJN members represent the citizens within the whole city. We do 1887 SIPS SON not get many calls from citizens and what we have recommended was, hopefully, to benefit all citizens within their area. This came about due to a survey being taken several years ago." 'tI would rather see 'oetter grass in the Idaho Snelling Park than JOHN JERNBERG the equipment." . 1540 w. IOV:~A '`I believe that a good sheet of ice is very important and LADOIdDtA SCHUGEL possibly reduce the hours the warming house will be open at 1896 HOLTOPI all rinks. I f eel we are putting too much money in the Falcon Woods Park compared to the other recreation areas in the city." Councilman Steele suggested parents come forward as volunteers COUNCILMEMBER and give ideas on their concerns to appointed committees of the STEELE Council so that they might review them for recommendations. The Council can then consider the matter in respect to the concerns of those who are present at the meeting. P~layor Warkentien deferred the rink discussion until October 25, MAYOR WARKENTIEN 1978 so that the Park Development and Recreation Advisory Conunittees could have a joint meeting to recommend a workable solution. Then the Council could make a determination on the use of 1979 funds. Cn?zncilmember Black suggested the Council review sick leave and SICK LEAVE & vacation policy for city employees at some future meeting so the VACATION EMPLOYEES Clerk Administrator would have some direction. Councilmember McGough requested the discussion for Rescue RESCUE SCHEDULING Scheduling be deferred to October 2$~ 1978 meeting. The Council discussed the procedure taken by the Firemen in AMBULANCE selling tickets to fund an ambulance, due to the fact that the 'tickets were being used for chances on various prizes. MINUTES REGULAR CITY c;OUTJc:IL MEETING OCTOBER 11, 1978 Page 7 Attorney Kenefick advised the Council the law specifically states it is illegal as the law defines it as gambling. Councilrnemoer T~icGough explained to the Council the Firemen had informed him of their intent and it was his mistake in not mentioning it to Council for their opinion. Council advised Councilmember McGough to inform the Fire Department to stop selling tickets for an ambulance with draw- ing to 'oe made for prizes as it is illegal. Engineer Lemberg advised the Council that Amoco has agreed to a barricade between their property and Hermes property. It shall be a treated timber as follows: 8 inch square post set 6 feet on center with two 2" by 12" boards affixed to them at a height of 21~". Engineer Lemberg explained this type of barricade would be more durable than any other type of barricade. Engineer Lemberg suggested to the Council that the Engineer and Attorney appear at Council meetings once a month to minimize expenditures. The Council concurred and suggested it be the first meeting of the month. ~~~ AMBULAiJCE ( cont. ) BARRIER AMOCO STATION LARPENTEUR & SNELLING Iiayor 1nlarkentien moved, seconded by Councilmember McGouh to i~TEETING EXTENDED extend the meeting to 11:15 P.M. Upon a roll call the following TO 11:15 P.M. voted "aye": Mayor w'arkentien, Councilmembers Black, McGough, Steele and Brown and the following voted "nay": None. Motion carried. Councilmember Steele suggested the Council set up some guide lines on future discussions on matters before the Council when citizens are asked for input. Councilmember Steele moved, seconded 'oy Councilmember Brown ADJOURNMENT to adjourn the meeting at 11:05 P.M. Upon a vote the follow- ing voted in favor: Mayor Warkentien, Councilmembers Black, McGough, Steele and Brown, and the following voted "nay": None. T~Iotion carried. ~'~ ~ Yvillis C. A. ti~Tarkentien, Mayor Attest: swan B. Barnes Clerk Administrator Regular IZeeting of October 11, 1978