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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES MARCH 1, 1988 PAGE 8 Manning Trail where the overflow level of Downs Lake could be lowered. r M/S/P Moe/Armstrong - to deny the Planning Commission's request for engineering review on possible water problem from Downs Lake Estates because West Lakeland does follow the VBWD guidelines and the VBWD will be looking at a project for lowering the overflow level of Downs Lake. (Motion carried 4-0). 8. ADMINISTRATION A. Charitable Gambling Update --VFW and Lake Elmo Jaycees When the City Council adopted the ordinance permitting Charitable Gambling, one of the requirements the City put in the ordinance was to reserve the right to review the distribution of their funds derived from the gambling. John Hughes of the Lake Elmo Jaycees provided a report which covers October 1986 thru January 1988. Leonard Feeley of the VFW will .be sending an update by mail. B. Adoption of Appendix E of State Building Code (Continuation) This was tabled at the last City Council meeting to receive input from Lake Elmo Fire Chief, Fran Pott. Jim McNamara provided a breakdown of the different classification of occupancies. Fire Chief Fran Pott stated the Fire Department was in favor of sprinklers and are looking at the life safety issue with sprinkkTs and gave statistics of 5,000 lives are lost in residential fires. Sprinklers and smoke detectors can save 90 percent of the lives because the occupants get caught sleeping. Twenty cities have Appendix E in the the Metro Area. It has not been adopted universally because of the inflexability and the economics of putting a system in. The water system has to be looked at because you have to get 18 gallons per minute at each head. Steve DeLapp stated that the main factor according to Richard Brooks, State Building Inspector, the greater your fire fighting code, the lower the ISO rating. Lake Elmo's ISO rating is #6 because of very few fire hydrants and all we have are pumpers 5 miles away. Del.app felt the payback would be in lower insurance premiums. Building Official McNamara stated whenever there is a change of occupancy, the building would have to be looked at for sprinkling. DeLapp clarified that occupancy means "change the kind of use". The average cost of a sprinkler is $1.13 per sq.ft., one head covers approx. a 10' x 10' area. Change in feed line, auxilary pumps or towers are not added into this figure. Ed Gorman, owner of the White Hat Restaurant, checked with his insurance company when he expanded his restaurant and found there was no payback. You are in a risk category just being in Lake Elmo. It doesn't matter how great your sprinkling system is. M/S/P Armstrong/Johnson - to adopt Appendix Chapter 38 (E) of the State Building Code into the Lake Elmo building code. (Motion carried 3-1<Moe>).