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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JANUARY 5, 1988 PAGE 11 C. Severin Lawsuit i City Attorney Knaak referred to the letter written by Attorney Steve Carlson. If the Council has any questions City Attorney Knaak encourages them to call him. D. Legion Avenue 201 Project Acting Mayor Armstrong brought to the attention of the Engineer that there was an alarm signaled at the Legion Avenue pump station on Saturday evening, January 2, 1988. The Engineer explained that he became aware of the situation on Monday, January 4th. This pump station had not been taken over by the City, at that time, for maintenance purposes. Because of this, the contractor still had his locks on the pump station. The alarm condition was investigated on Monday morning, by the contractor and the City Maintenance Foreman, and it appeared that the alarm was signaled by the humidistat inside the control cabinet. It was not.a mechanical failure. The City has now placed their_ own locks on this pump station and has assumed the maintenance. On Monday, January 4th, a procedural memorandum was sent out to all of the residents who live near the two pump stations. This memorandum outlined what to do in case of an alarm and phone numbers to call. M/S/P Moe/Graves - to adjourn the City Council meeting at 10:15 p.m. (Motion carried 4-0). Amended ;January 19, 1988 7E. Adoption of 1985 and 1987 MN State Building Codes Building Official Jim McNamara did not see any reason to adopt Appendix E because of the amount of commercial buildings that the City is planning on and asked the Council what commercial buildings are being planned for Section 32, Hwy 5 and Hwy 36. Jim added that if you don't adopt this now --it doesn't say you can't adopt it later. Councilman Graves asked if someone came in and wanted to put up a high-rise apartment building in Section 32 could we go back and adopt Appendix E and tell him he has to add $10,000 to the project because we have retroactively approved Appendix E. McNamara responded that it would be too late for that building, but we would not be caught where we are ever liable. Jim added that there are also areas in the Uniform Building Code that, depending on the size of the building, there are times that you automatically need a sprinkler system. If you do not have a sprinkler system, you have to fire wall. Jim McNamara said he would research Apppendix E and go through it with the council at a later date.