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To: Mayor and City Council From: Patrick D. Klaers Re: Agenda Memo for May 7, 198 5 City Council Meeting 1. Attached for your information is the draft Planning Commission minutes from the April 22, 1985 meeting. Some of the 5-7-85 Council agenda items were reviewed and discussed at that 4-22-85 Planning Commission meeting. 2. Attached for your information is the most recent City Newsletter dated April 23, 1985. This Newsletter edition highlights an article on the Lake Jane boating ban, and Spring Clean Up Days that is scheduled to take place on this coming Saturday, May 4th. 3. Wish to acknowledge that the Local)County and State weight restrictions or load limits have been removed from the area transportation routes. The load limits were removed from our streets on Monday, April 29th. 4. Attached is a notice from the AMM that the, proposed bill to require local building officials to have a plumbers certificate has been defeated for this legislative session. This issue is not dead for future sessions, and may be a continued issue that the City of Lake Elmo would want to monitor. 5. Attached for your information is an article indicating the problems experienced on Lake Pulaski with high waters and flooding situations. This situation is not unlike our own situation on Lake Jane. 6. Attached for your information is a response from the DNR to Judge Magnuson's letter requesting help on Lake Elmo with the high water situation. The last sentence in the letter is the key to the entire narrative, especially the last four words which reads "as provided by law". The DNR has indicated that they are sympathetic to the high water problems experienced in many communities in Minnesota, but have often responded that their hands are tied because the law does not permit them to lower lake levels. What is really being desired by people in Lake Elmo and on Lake Pulaski is that the law be changed to allow some flexibility in establishing high water marks. 7. Wish to acknowledge that I will be out of the office May 15 thru May 17 to attend the Annual Minnesota City Management Association Conference in Brainerd. 8. Attached for your information is a report from the Fire Chief, Fran Pott regarding Lake Elmo's response to a weather related disaster. I requested this memo because of the possibility that a tornado or something of that nature could come through the Lake Elmo area and cause an extensive amount of damage to homes and businesses. As previously noted, we are without a Civil Defense Director as this title was placed on the Maintenace Foreman, and we have not hired a Maintenance Foreman to date. Even after a Maintenance Foreman is hired, we may have to evaluate whether the Civil Defense title should be given to the Fire Chief or the Maintenance Foreman. Also as previously indicated, we would be well prepared to handle such a weather related disaster and Fran's memo verifies that point.