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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES OCTOBER 20, 1987 PAGE 2 so far, as he had promised to have it in on Friday so they would have time to look at it. Also, the City Attorney was asked to respond to Chuck Dayton's comments at the Special Meeting. These comments were not in Knaak's letter that was handed out. Todd thought the whole idea was to find out what Chuck Dayton would offer and at what cost versus what City Attorney Knaak could offer. Todd asked the City Council to approve the expenditure of $1000 to hire Chuck Dayton to do the work on the covenants, state and federal monies and the legal options available. If it came to the point when Attorney Dayton needed a couple of $100, the committee would fund it out of their meager treasury. Councilwoman Armstrong was in favor of hiring Chuck Dayton who is eminently qualified, but would like to see the City Council spend up to $900 and the Citizen committee spend $100. Her reasoning for REAPP paying some of this was it showed that there was some citizen input into this money. Wyn John, President of the Tri-Lakes Association, supported the efforts to fight the landfill in the Regional Park. As far as finances, he has not been able to get an official quorum together to obtain a proper decision on the amount to be allocated, but this will be decided at the next meeting (in two weeks). Councilman Graves felt the City should proceed with some sort of legal assessment of what our options are. Graves would be in favor of the City spending up to $1000 for this. He did encourage them to request, as a result of this analysis, that they clearly define what the legal options are, when they should be exercised, what they would assess as the probability of success in pursuing this and their best estimation of what the legal expenses incurred would be to pursue each option. In regard to the conflict of interest that Attorney Dayton has with the City in that he is representing the Sunfish Lake residents in litigation against the City, Councilman Johnson asked for an amendment to the motion that a satisfactory release must be obtained both by the City and the Sunfish Lake residents. Councilman Graves asked for City Attorney Knaak to check into the legalities of the City giving money to REAPP for hiring Attorney Dayton to work for them. City Administrator Overby commented that it should be construed that the City is hiring Mr. Dayton and he report to the City Council. Graves added that he did not want it to be presumed that because he is supporting the allocation of $1000 that he would "carte blanche" support the expenditures of $100,000-$200,000. These questions will be looked at as they come up . Todd Williams stated that Fritz had agreed at their meeting last week that it was important for the City to retain an engineering firm to monitor the EIS and Todd was disappointed there was nothing in his letter suggesting an engineering firm. M/S/P Moe/Graves - to approve spending up to $1000 to hire attorney Charles Dayton to do a preliminary assessment of the legal issues and strategy alternatives for the City in regard to Site G and the EIS