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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JANUARY 21, 1986 PAGE 2 doing this, a little will be coming out of all govt. units. It will be better to cut 2-3 percent across the board. Another concern has been insurance. We have put together a good and fair insurance package, but couldn't pass it. This will be brought up again in this session. Gary Laidig - We appreciate the good line of communication we have with the City of Lake Elmo. The revenue projections will be the most important item for the next session and it doesn't look optimistic. We have met with the executives from the St.Paul insurance companies to get an understanding from an internal company perspective of what is happening. We will be talking about tort reform which the trial lawyers are unahppy with. Also to be discussed is Commissioner Hatch's proposal to socialize the insurance industry by state involvement by joint underwriting association. Councilmember Armstrong remarked about the Port Authority having Eminent Domain over the land east of the St. Paul area, and how it was suggested that the Port Authority condemn this land and bring business out here to employ innercity people. We would not like to see land condemned for business purposes. Gary Laidig advised that the Sunray Holiday Inn and the Ramada. Inn expansion was built by the Port Authority. They have become quite an economic development tool. The powers and membership have been highly contested and Eminent Domain will be part of it. Mayor Morgan stated when you have development you start draining your water onto your neighbors. This includes the State of MN when they start building highways which has a drastic affect on the rate the water drains off the area. into Lake Elmo. We are still looking for a way to get agencies to move faster and to resolve this problem. Another concern is Landfills which do not work and it costs more to correct the problem than try to use different ways of getting rid of solid waste. Lake Elmo has a contaminated Landfill which is causing great problems. There is even indications that there are to be other Landfill sites in our City. We would certainly resist this because of the bad experience we have had. Senator Laidig who is on the Waste Management Board advised??Tat they will be discussing lifting the moratorium on a siting with four candidate sites. We have found out that we don't have as much hazardous waste as we thought produced. Mayor Morgan stated that we have never recovered the costs incurred from the mandated programs such as comparable worth and the Comprehensive Land Planning Act. Development is not the answer. The need for services outruns the revenue that development brings in. 6. PLANNING AND LAND USE