03-23-88 Council Workshop Minutes

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MINUTES OF THE WORKSHOP MEETING CITY COUNCIL LITTLE CANADA, MINNESOTA P~ar'ch 23, 1988 Pur•suant to due call and notice ther•eof a wor•kshop meeting of the City Council of the City of Little Canada, P9innesota was held on the 23rd day of March, 1988 in the Council Chambers of the City Center• located at 515 Little Canada Road in said City. Mayor~ Michael Fahey chair•ed the meeting and called it to or•der~ at 6:30 P.M. and the following member~s of the Council wer~e pr•esent at roll call: P1E~96ERS PRESENT: P9ayor P~r. P4ichael Fahey Councilman Mr•. Bill Blesener~ Councilman D9r•. Rick Collova Councilwoman Mrs. Bever~ly Scalze MEMBERS ADSENT: Councilman Mr~. Jim LaValle ALSO PRESENT: City Cler•k Mr•. Joseph Chlebeck Recording Secretary Mrs. Kathy Glanzer Little Fahey r•epor•ted that the pur•pose of tonight's meeting is to discuss Canada the r•esults of the special committee study of the issues of the Little School Canada School expansion and possible City par•ticipation,and the Expansion r•ecr~eational facilities at the Capitol View site. & Capitol View Ken ldehrle, Chairman of the Park Commission, Chairman of the Recreation Committee, and landscape ar•chitect for~ the City of St. Paul Par•ks and Recr•eation Depar•tment, pr~esented the Council with the Mar~ch 21st r~epor•t of the Recr~eation Committee on the issues descr•ibed by Mayor• Fahey. blehrle reviewed these recommendations with the Council. Fahey asked if consider•ation has been given to the location of sewer• lines near• Spooner• Par~k in conjunction with the cost factor• of installinq bathr~oom facilities in the Par!;. Jim P1or•el an r~epl i^d tiia t tYier•e i s a sewer• 1 i ne on El i r•oad. Fahey asked for• an explanation of the Committee's feeling that bathr~oom facilities should be mor~e centr•ally located within Spooner• Par•k than in the school building. P1or•el an poi nted out that i n or~der• to access bathr•oom faci 1 i ti es i n the school buildinn, childr•en would have to cr•oss the par~king ar•ea and dr~iveway located to the west of the school building. Mor•elan r~epor~ted that the major• need for• bathr•oom facilities is hy picnicker•s in the par~k and not fr•om bal l pl ayer•s. Ther~efor~e, the Commi ttee fel t that bathr•oom facilities should be located near• the upper~ picnic shelter~, with satellite toilets located near• ballfields. Fahey noted that the addition to the west end of the school will br•inq the building c1oser• to the ballfield ar•ea, and mor•e easily accessible. Page -1-