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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JULY 21, 2009 3 Council Member DeLapp distributed his modifications to the sign ordinance for Council review. After Council discussion, the Council decided there had been ample time to review and comment on the ordinance in the many previous public meetings. At a future date, the Council can consider Council Member DeLapp’s proposed modifications. MOTION: Council Member Smith moved to approve Ordinance No. 08-015, an ordinance repealing existing sign code regulations and adopting new regulations to govern signs in all zoning districts, as presented. Council Member Park seconded the motion. The motion passed 4-1 (Council Member DeLapp voting against) MOTION: Council Member Smith moved to adopt Resolution No. 2009-025, a resolution authorizing summary publication of Ordinance No. 08-015. Council Member DeLapp seconded the motion. The motion passed 5-0. Accounting Services Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator, reported the City Council has asked to solicit proposals and make a recommendation to engage a contractor for clerical accounting services. Over the past year, the City of Roseville charged the City an average of $1,188 per month for similar services. MOTION: Council Member DeLapp moved to approve termination of accounting services with the City of Roseville and enter into an agreement with C&J Consulting Services, LLP at a rate of $25.00 per hour, not to exceed $1,250 per month. Council Member Emmons seconded the motion. The motion passed 5-0. Demontreville Trail – Discussion on trail options as part of the Washington County Reconstruction and Turnback Project Jack Griffin, City Engineer, presented trail options and issues that needed to be addressed. The discussion was prompted by a Washington County plan to reconstruct DeMontreville Trail and turn control back over to the City in either 2010 or 2011. Washington County Transportation is unwilling to tackle the project if it involves widening the roadway. The County would write the City a check for the estimated costs of the simpler project it has planned allowing the City to independently pursue an alternate plan. Jack Griffin explained along this roadway it’s not just a simple matter of adding pavement to an area where there’s already gravel, but would require extensive improvements. It would cost an estimated $384,202 to add a 4-foot-wide paved shoulder to one side of the 2.2-mile-long road which stretched form Olson Lake Trail to Highway 36, known as County Road 13B.