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COUNCIL MINUTES SEPTEMBER 22, 2003 APPROVED 660 GB General Business District and amending the definition of Personal Services. Councilmember 0561 Dahl seconded the motion. 662 663 Motion carried unanimously. 664 665 G. Consideration of Resolution No. 03-156, Accepting Feasibility Report and Calling 666 Hearing on Improvements, 2004-2005 Street Improvement Project, Jim Studenski 667 668 City Engineer Studenski presented the Staff report, indicating Staff recommends approval. 669 670 Councilmember Carlson stated not all the properties on the affected streets are on the assessment list. 671 She indicated it appears some Anoka County properties will not be assessed. City Engineer 672 Studenski indicated that is correct. He stated there are some that do not have street access, or are 673 public properties. 674 675 Mayor Bergeson noted he has property on one of these roads, and asked for a legal opinion on 676 whether he can vote on this subject. City Attorney Hawkins offered that he has had this situation 677 come up in other communities as well. He does not believe it is a conflict of interest. 678 679 Mayor Bergeson stated since this vote is only accepting the report and calling for the hearing he will 680 vote, but when the hearing comes up, he will ask the acting mayor to conduct the hearing. 681 682 Councilmember Dahl moved to adopt Resolution No. 03-156 accepting feasibility report and calling 683 for a public hearing, 2004-2005 Street Improvement Project. Councilmember O'Donnell seconded W84 the motion. 685 686 Councilmember Dahl stated she is on the Charter Commission, and there was discussion a few years 687 ago about Street Improvement projects, at which time they decided to do two years at a time. She 688 indicated this decision was made in part because they thought it would be more cost effective, and 689 they could get more roads done before they became too much in disrepair. She stated in looking at 690 this it tells her it would always save the City money to get the streets in good repair. 691 692 Motion carried unanimously. 693 694 Resolution No. 03-156 can be found in the City Clerk's office. 695 696 H. Consideration of Resolution No. 03-157, Approving Final Payment, Main Street Utility 697 Extension, Jim Studenski 698 699 City Engineer Studenski presented the Staff report, indicating Staff recommends approval of the 700 resolution. 701 702 Councilmember O'Donnell moved to adopt Resolution No. 03-157 approving final payment, Main 703 Street Utility Extension. Councilmember Dahl seconded the motion. 704 705 Councilmember Dahl stated it is nice to see it came in almost $100,000 under the engineer's estimate. Aft706 She indicated it is good to see that once in a while. %07 15