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1 1 1 of the B.K.O. Inc. fees after September lst. . The discussion returned to the problem of sanitary sewer for the Village. Mr. Jaworski asked the Clerk to write to the County Health Department requesting their presence at the next Council meeting to answer questions. Mrs. Goldbeck felt that if North Central will not service her area with gas, then Circle Pines should be allowed to hook up. Mr. Jaworski moved to table the matter of the proposed ordinance on an environ- mental quality commission until the next meeting. Seconded by Mr. Bohjanen. Crystal felt that a more aggressive better business commission, i.e., the Business Development Commission would do better on enforcing such matters than setting up a new commission; the present commission needs more cooperation. The vote on the motion was unanimously in favor. Louis Jaworski requested the use of Sunrise Park by the VFW Club for their annual picnic on Sunday, August 22nd, and a beer permit. Mr. Jaworski moved to approve issuing a beer permit to the VFW Club for Sunrise Park on August 22nd, with the stipulation that the Village receive a letter stating that the VFW is covered by insurance. Seconded by Mr. Cardinal. Carried unanimously. Denny Houle was asked to report on the audit of the Forest Ike Hospital. Be stated that there was absolutely no money shortage, that the Hospital Board had the same problem as the Village, namely that in the old. minutes not every- thing is documented. ile_felt that the audit report was far- fetched in some aspects. In one instance they were censured because State law only allows a Hospital Board to pay $1.00 per hour for election clerks and they had paid Lino Lakes election clerks $2.35'per hour. Another case was that they had purchased a total of 167 gallons of gasoline from a Holiday Station without collecting a refund of the Federal tax which would have amounted to about $6,00., The audit report had.stated that illegal uses of money included sending flowers to the families of deceased members of the old hospital board as well as the new one; this had been done with - approval of all the Board members but was not documented. They had donated 1 case of whiskey to the ambulance drivers who work for free. They had also donated a case of whiskey to the Forest Lake Fire Dept. after the Dept. bad not only put out a fire in the hospital's lab but pfd cleaned up the lab for immediate use after- wards. This whiskey had subsequently been raffled off. Mr. Houle stated that overpayments not documented in the minutes were on the records that the Board sees each month. Another item, that the bank accepted deposits in excess of 90% of the collateral, had been rectified. The hospital used -a business method of accounting different from the State method, The audit had said the hospital made no profit last year, denoting the profit as capital expenditures. Mr. Houle stated that the Hospital Board feels that they,have done nothing morally wrong. They were unaware of an Attorney General's opinion that employees cannot -be paid for working their vacations. This was done in the case of the administrator, nurses and administrative personnel who woad have had to be re- placed by new people if they had taken their vacations. Since these persons could not take advantage of their vacation time and wished,to work instead, the Board had felt it to the benefit of the hospital to employ them rather than hire new people. Mr. Houle stated thst the Attorney General's Opinion in question refers to County Highway employees and that the Board will ask for another Opinion in this matter. Mr. Houle stated that the hospital expects to clear $60,000 this year, which would be enough-to pay off the remaining bonded indebtedness, but will spend