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COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 22,1996 Ms. Dahl said that the City should seriously consider keeping the video tapes and the Time Saver dictation because they put it on a hard disk and this is a permanent record. This is done for the Planning and Zoning Board and Ms. Dahl said that she assumes that the City still has this. Council Member Kuether said that the City Council talked about having someone such as Time Savers do the City Council minutes but the City Clerk has to be here. Mrs. Anderson explained that she is required to attend the Council meetings, however someone such as Time Savers could actually do the minutes. Ms. Dahl said she had talked to surrounding cities and they said that they could not believe that Lino Lakes did not keep a permanent record by keeping the videos. Amy Donlin, 6100 Centerville Road - Ms. Donlin said that she wanted to apply her statement to both public hearings, Trapper's Crossing and Clearwater Creek development. She noted that in considering these so called improvements, we often do feasibility studies and pay amazing amounts of money to see just what has to be done to bring our City up to par for development standards. Meanwhile, developers stand by and dictate what they need and what they shall have and our residents often bear tremendous burdens in terms of increased volumes of traffic throughout our City, students in our schools, needs as far as police, fire and maintenance are concerned, increased incidents of crime and violence and more often than not, increased tax burdens that all of this necessitates. Ms. Donlin said she would like to offer up a term that has been lost in the mad dash toward volumes of rooftops, the term is ethic. She said that ethic is a word that means moral duty or obligation, the principles of conduct which govern us. She said that ethics should be equally as important with feasibility reports and "bean" counting. Ms. Donlin said that did not believe that residents should give up the quality of life which we enjoy here nor should we have to pay dearly through esthetic depletion's, frontage assessments or by way of state funding, which originates at home anyway, to make developers projects profitable for them. She said she believes it is OK to draw the line and to say no to a developments demands when it stands to drain our current residents in any way. It is up to the developer to pull their weight and to pay for which benefits only their pocket books. Ms. Donlin said she hoped you (the City Council) would do the ethical thing and make he who demands the services also pay for them. Kirk Corson, 6662 Ruffed Grouse Road - He explained that he worked for Hokanson Development. He said that he felt that the City has a fine staff and felt that they try their best to represent both sides of the issue. Even though he works for the developer, he could see both sides of a lot of issues and felt the staff has tried to work with both sides. Mr. Corson said he wanted to point out a few things about the traffic issue. First Hokanson did pay for the traffic study. It was not paid by the City. Secondly, the traffic study was completed in October, 1994 and the development agreement was signed in July, 1995 not 1994 as previously stated. Mr. Corson, said that he went back through the records of the minutes and looked at the video tapes of Council meetings. He said it was our (Hokanson) understanding, based on what Darrell Schneider had worked out with Hokanson, that the project (road improvement) would be $1,900,000.00. There were funds that should be allocated from Brandywood, Hokanson's cost would be $250,000.00 PAGE 14