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VILLAGE OF FALCON HEIGHTS
Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting of the Village
Council of the Village of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, was held on the 13th day of
December, 1973.
The following members were present: Mayor Warkentien, Councilmen Black,
Ecklund, and Stone, and Councilwoman Stocker, and the following were absent:
None .
Councilwoman Stocker introduced the following Resolution and moved its
adoption:
RESOLUTION #73-38
A RESOLUTION TO THE COMMITTEE Oid SPORTS AND CULTURAL
FACILITIES WHICH WAS CONDUCTING A HEARING REGARDING
THE PROPOSED DOMED STADIUM
WHEREAS, The Special Committee on Snorts and Cultural Facilities conducted
a hearing on the proposed Domed Stadium to be erected on the Minnesota State
Fairgrounds and on the Campus of the Institute of Agriculture in the Village of
Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED, by the Village Council of the
Village of Falcon Heights, that it is definitely or~oosed to the 'erection of
said stadium in the Village of Falcon Heights for the following reasons:
1. Subject to a survey conducted in the Village of Falcon Heights in
September, 1973, the question was `asked:
__ "You. may have heard of St. Paul Mayor Cohen's proposal
to erect a Domed Stadium on the Fairgrounds, do you
approve or disapprove?"
Seventy-nine per cent (79;x) of the residents answering the survey sated that
they would appose a stadium built in the Village of Falcon Heights.
2. A Domed Stadium erected in the Village of Falcon Heights would create
hazardous traffic conditions, because at this time :'the Village does not have
adequate roadways for ingress and egress to a facility of this magnitude.
3. The Village of Falcon Heights does not have in existance the
supporting facilities. i.e. Sanitary Sewer, Storm Sewer, Water or Policing
facilities.
The Village of Falcon Heights is also opAOSed to having any taxes levied
for a Domed Stadium.
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing Resolution was duly seconded
by Mayor Warkentien, and upon a vote being taken thereon, the following voted
in favor thereof: Mayor Warkentien, Councilmen Black, Ecklund, and Stone,
and Councilwoman Stocker, and the following voted against the same: None.
Whereupon, the Resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.
Attest:
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D~wan B. Barnes, Clerk Ad~3.nistrator
Regular meeting of December 13, 1973