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The regular meeting of the Lino Lakes Village Council held on August 26, 1968, was called to order at 8:11 p.m.. Mayor Ralph L'Allier with all members present. The minutes of the August 12 meeting were read and corrected. Mr. Jaworski moved III to accept the minutes as corrected. Seconded by Mr. Bohjanen. Carried. A letter from the League of Minnesota Municipalities was read concerning meetings and workshops set up for municipal officials to discuss the Metropolitan Council's preliminary sewer plan with the consulting engineers and Metro staff.Mayor L'Allier indicated that he would like to attend. The Clerk read the resolution which had been sent to Governor LeVander supporting Mr. Bruce Nawrocki for the Metropolitan Transit Commission. Mr. Cardinal moved to accept the Clerk's appointment of Mrs. William Houle as the Chief Election Judge and to authorize Mrs. Houle to be paid at the rate of $1.65 per hour for accompanying the Clerk to a meeting with the County Auditor on Aug. 28th. Seconded by Mr. Bohjanen. Carried. Mr. Bohjanen thought that we should not supercede our budget by increasing the hourly rate for the electbn judges. The Primary Election is set for September 10th. The Clerk announced that the money had been received from the State Treasurer for the cigarette and liquor apportionments in the amount of some $5100.00. Mr. L'Allier announced that Civil Defense Director, Kenneth Bryant, who had pre - viously indicated his resignation, would step down from that post effective Aug. 27, 1968. Thereupon, Mr. L'Allier appointed Mr. Charles Cape, a capbble and dedicated Civil Defense member, to be the new Civil Defense Director effective August 27, 1968. Mr. Cardinal moved to ratify the appointment of Mr. Cape as Civil Defense Director. Seconded by Mr. Jaworski. Carried. The Clerk was instructed to send a letter of notification to Mr. Cape and to write a letter of thanks to Mr. Bryant for his services as director. Mr. L'Allier announced that the next police -mayor meeting would be September 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hall. He also announced that the next meeting of the Assoc- iation of Municipalities would be on August 31 at Coon Rapids and that they were considering hiring a half -time executive secretary for the organization. A ribbon - cutting ceremony for the opening of I -35W will be held on September 4 at 2 p.m. on the boundary point of Blaine and Lino Lakes with Mayors Ramsdell and L'Allier officiating at the cutting. Dignataries expected are Governor LeVander or the Lieutenant Governor, the State Highway Commissioner and the Secretary of State. The freeway will be opened to traffic latter in the day or the next morning up to Highway 8. The press was invited. Mr. L'Allier announced the Civil Defense firearms safety course to be held at Sunrise Park commencing Thursday, August 29 on consecutive Tuesdays and Wednes- days for those 12 years (or within one month of 12) or older. The P&Z minutes wereread of the August 21 meeting. Mr. Cardinal asked Mr. Locher whether the narrow width of Aqua Lane would make any difference on the rezoning of Mr. Claggett's property and received the answer that there only need be access. Mr. Locher stated that he had spoken with the son of the deceased man to whomc> the easement is listed and was told that the easement had been turned over to the Countyin the forties; however no such documents have been located and until such are found the Village can assume Aqua Lane should be a cartway easement of 66 feet.