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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES APRIL 210 1987 PAGE 8 2. The City should see if the County's bond fund could cover the temporary shortfall. Not all of the Washington County projects are going at the same time; therefore, there may be extra funds available. 3. The City could consider holding an assessment hearing as soon as possible on Parts A, B and C. The assessments would be based on the current estimated assessments and a supplemental assessment hearing would have to be held in August when all costs are known. This will only help if a substantial number of people decide to pre -pay and would not be available for 60 days. The consensus of the City Council was to proceed with the first two courses of action and if they failed proceed with the third option. Councilwoman Armstrong stated that it would have cost approximate four million dollars to sewer Section 32. Probably 80 or 90 percent of the people in the town would never need sewer and they would be paying over $20,000 each for a sewage system they would never need. Armstrong added, if anyone knows of any raw sewage going anywhere besides a drainfield, they have an obligation to notify the City Building Inspector. If they don't, they are negligent. C. Drainage Easement: Edward Gorman, 11011 Stillwater Blvd. An existing drainage ditch is located on Mr. Gorman's White Hat Restaurant property which begins at TH5 between the restaurant parking lot and the bituminous school walkway and run southwesterly to Lake Elmo Avenue behind the video store. Mr. Gorman would like to realign this ditch so that it follows his north and est property lines rather than running diagonally across his property. He proposes to construct the new ditch adjacent to the existing bituminous walkway and provide an easement to the City. The reason this is before the Council is that Mr. Gorman desires the City to accept this easement and asks if the City could maintain this ditch. An existing walkway easement is located along the north line of Mr. Gorman's property. Mr. Gorman would like to combine a new drainage easement with the existing 15' wide walkway easement and create a new 30' wide drainage and walkway easement. A VBWD permit has been granted for this work. City Engineer Bohrer recommendedd that an excavation permit be issued for this work and drainage easements accepted with the following conditions. a. A 9' wide drainage easement should be dedicated for the existing ditch between the parking lot retaining wall and the bituminous walkway along the northeast side of of the property.