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November 30, 1984 To: Lake Elmo City Council From: Patrick D. Klaers, City Administrator T� Re: Informational Material for December 4, 1984 Council Meeting 1. Attached for your information is the most recent City Newsletter dated 11-27-84. This newsletter edition highlights articles on the 201 Program, the Christmas lights and the water rate increase and includes a notice for Commission applications. 2. I have been advised by the City Engineer, Larry Bohrer, that the contractors for the MSA project have returned to the site and completed the necessary clean-up work, including work to eliminate the problem indicated by Mr. Friend in his October 16 letter which was previously distributed to the Council. All parties hope that the work that was completed will eliminate the erosion problems discussed by Mr. Friend; but, the real test to see if this problem has been eliminated will come in the spring when the snow turns to rain. 3• Attached for your information is an article from the Minnesota Fire Chief magazine of December, 1984. This article discusses the efforts of Washington County and the Lake Elmo Fire Department to provide dry hydrants in the Regional Park to assist in the fire protection of the area. This is just one more example of City/County cooperation between Lake Elmo and Washington County. 4. At a Council meeting in October, the City was authorized to obtain some tax forfeit land in the Lake Demontreville area and in Section 32. The City was under the impression that this land would be free. The land in the Demontreville area was desired by the City as a site for a cluster d.rainfield in coordination with the 201 sewer improvement project. I have been informed by the County that there are some back taxes due which amount to less than $140 on the parcel of land in the Lake Demontreville area because of the VBWD 1005 project. I will be sending a letter to VBWD asking that they waive these back taxes and future taxes on this parcel for the 1005 project. But, even if they do not waive these back taxes, this land is still desired by the City and well worth the less than $140 price for back taxes. Unless I hear otherwise from the City Coucil I will be informing the County that the City of Lake Elmo still intends to obtain this land and will be either paying the back taxes or else obtaining a waiver for this payment from VBWD. 5. Agent of Record and Insurance Bids Attached for your ( information is a letter from the Zignego Insurance Agency explaining the Agent of Record designation. On the backside of the letter is the list of the companies Zignego Agency works with. As the letter indicates, Zignego is formally requesting that we designate their agency as our agent of record for the eight companies listed.