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1 1 COUNCIL WORK SESSION 6 SEPTEMBER 11, 1989 Acting Mayor Reinert called the Council Work Session to order at 5:40 P.M., Monday, September 11, 1989. Council Members present: Neal, Bohjanen, Bisel. Mayor Benson was absent. City Engineers, Ron Stahlberg and Brian Bourassa; City Planner, John Miller; Public Works Director, Don Volk, City Administrator, Randy Schumacher and Clerk— Treasurer, Marilyn Anderson were also present. Mr. Stahlberg gave a brief history of the projects that either were in progress or began during his tenure as City Engineer. Mr. Stahlberg noted four items of concern: 1) issuance of building permits prior to the completion of the subdivision; 2) the policy regarding overall drainage plans and financing of this type of an improvement with regard to the City Charter. Mr. Schumacher explained that problem in the Sunrise Meadows /Sunnygate area regarding obtaining the necessary easements for drainage and funding of the construction of the drainage improvement. He noted that the Charter does not allow the City to use General Fund monies for this type of improvement and it would have been difficult if not impossible to assess the area benefiting from the improvement. However, now that the area is developing, there are people who are willing to pay this expense. At this time the City is behind schedule in obtaining easements, but the delay has been a matter of financing. Mr. Stahlberg explained that the City now faces the same situation north of 35W in the area of the Morehouse property. Currently there is a holding pond in the MarDon Acres subdivision. This pond does not have an outlet and two years ago during the heavy spring rains, this pond overflowed. As the area builds there will be more people /developers willing to pay for an area wide drainage plan. Acting Mayor Reinert expressed concern regarding a possible slow down in the housing market. He asked what would this do to the City in terms of meeting its bond obligations. Mr. Schumacher explained that there are letter of credits on file for all subdivisions currently being developed. There was further discussion on this matter. The third item of concern to Mr. Stahlberg was drainage easements in the area north of Main Street. He gave a brief background regarding the improvement to County Ditch #22 but noted that there is the potential for heavy development north of Main Street and there are no easements for the ditches that currently exist in that area. He felt this is the time to determine an area wide drainage pattern for this area, obtain the easements and have this improvement completed before the plats are presented to the Planning and Zoning Board. Acting Mayor Reinert suggested that dedication of drainage easements could be made a condition of the plat.