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1 " 010 COUNCIL MIETING February 24, 1986 The regular meeting of the Lino Lakes City Council was called to order by Mayor Benson at 7:00 P.M. Members present:. Marier, Bisel, Bohjanen Reinert. City Attorney, Bill Hawkins; Adminis- trator, Randy Schumacher; Building Official, Pete Kluegel; Engi- neers, Bob Toddie and John Davidson; Police Chief, Dean Campbell; and Clerk- Treasurer, Marilyn Anderson were also present. CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES - FEBRUARY 10. 1986 Mr. Marier moved to approve the minutes as presented. Mr. Bohjanen seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously. CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF DISBURSEMENTS - FEBRUARY 24. 1986 Mr. Bohjanen moved to approve the Disbursements as presented. Mr. Reinert seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously. 7 :00 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING - POST OFFICE Mayor Benson opened the Public Hearing at 7:02 P.M. and introduced Mr. Roger Nelson, Director of Customer Services. Mr. Nelson intro- duced Sharon Brown, Postmaster at Circle Pines, Harold Peterson, Postmaster at Hugo and John Sozma, Address Information Office. Mr. Nelson stated the Postal Service policy; the Postal Office pro- vides service which is cost effective and provides the customer with dependable and reliable postal service. However, the post office does not follow City lines anywhere, this is a national po- licy. Tonight he is here to answer questions and to listen to the problems. Mr. Sozma presented a map of Lino Lakes which indicated the bounda- ries of the five post offices that serve Lino Lakes. There are 33 square miles in Lino Lakes itself and the City is unique in that it completely surrounds another City and is also almost completely divided in half vertically by a chain of lakes. There are 1,551 residences and 58 businesses in the Circle Pines postal area; 34 residences in the Forest Lake postal area; 246 residences and one business in the Hugo area; 76 in the White Bear Lake area and 35 in the Shoreview postal area. The post office realizes there is a problem in Lino Lakes because of the five different post offices delivering here. He noted 70% of the deliveries are made out of the Circle Pines Post Office. Mr. Sozma presented the correct way to address mail to be delivered to Lino Lakes. This was a four line address with Lino Lakes being written directly under the name and the fourth line indicating the correct post office and zip code. Mr. Sozma indicated that accord- ing to growth projection figures, Lino Lakes will not have its own post office with its own zip code until after the year 2000. Even then the entire City would probably never be covered by one zip code because of its unique problems. He also noted that Lino Lakes cannot