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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JULY 6, 2004 9 Elmo/Met Council Comprehensive Plan issue; and, to determine if the Met Council had actually proposed any other potential settlement – as had been reported to the City by third parties. Administrator Rafferty reported that the majority of the meeting involved reviewing the June, 2003 proposal for settlement that had been suggested by Chair Bell, and thereafter found to be unacceptable to the City Council. He also noted that Council Member John then briefed Bell and Weaver as to the history of the Regional Sewer discussions during the late 1990’s. He then reported that Council Member John advised the METC representatives that he distinctly recalled the lake Elmo Council telling METC representatives at a meeting in the Lake Elmo City Hall that the City would only consider a small WONE interceptor capacity increase to support Business Park service as far west as Keats Avenue. The Met Council engineers had said that such a capacity increase could be accomplished by a short stretch of parallel piping at a cost of around $400,000. John continued that the $10 million dollar Lake Elmo Interceptor was never discussed with the City before appearing in the Met Council amended Sewer Plans in 2000. Administrator Rafferty summarized the Met Council position regarding Lake Elmo’s Comprehensive Plan as unchanged, with no new Met Council proposals “on the table”, and no compromise proposal so far forthcoming from Lake Elmo. The City Planner then reminded the Council of his June 18, 2003 Memo to them which quantitatively described the “Bell Proposal” as less of a departure from the adopted Lake Elmo Plan, but which would still result in double the housing units and population in the City by 2003 than the Lake Elmo Plans specifies – most of which would be located in the area of the City between 10th Street and I-94. 11. CITY COUNCIL REPORTS: A. Mayor Hunt – Champion of Industry Mayor Hunt reported the City could use its annual donation from the Lake Elmo Jaycees to help defray the costs, and he has been talking with local businesses to see if they would be willing to help cover some of the costs. About 45 percent of the costs are covered. Mayor Hunt and Council Member John indicated they wanted to talk about the City’s good planning and thought this was a tremendous way to have the City come together. Council member Johnston stated that people like Lake Elmo being a well kept secret and it was a terrible waste of money. He questioned the validity and usefulness of the award that was given to cities that paid the $28,000 fee. M/S/F Hunt/DeLapp – to proceed ahead with accepting the Champions of Industry 300 award for “best small town” from Pat Summerall Productions. (Motion failed:Dunn:The remaining funding was too high for the City, Johnston:He could come up with a dozen