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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES FEBRUARY 21, 1989 PAGE 8 Downs Lake outlet first is because they know for sure that outlet has district wide significance. Part of the MN Statutes Chapter 509 requires local communities within a certain period of time to develop their own local drainage plan to conform to the overall plan, and we have not heard from the VBWD when this deadline is. They may consider Legion Pond and Eden Park Pond to be of that local significance that we should address in the City's own plan. The reason for this is that Legion Pond does not receive surface water from area outside the city limits. Concern was raised on the process getting bogged down further if other bodies of water are included in the resolution. M/S/P Williams/Graves - to amend the motion to include: Further, Lake Elmo expresses its concern that high water problems on Legion Pond, 32nd Street Pond, among others, still remain unsolved and request inclusion of those waters in a comprehensive analysis of region -wide drainage options. (Motion carried 5-0). One of the residents that would be stranded in Eden Park, spoke against the concept because he feels the large amount of money spent for a solution to a problem that may occur once in 34 years doesn't make sense, where flood insurance can be bought at $200-$300 a house. Tim Mandel responded "we are already spending money and we are not getting anything for it." M/S/P Williams/Graves - Resolved: that the City Council of Lake Elmo expresses its dissatisfaction with the options presented by the Valley Branch Watershed District in its Downs Lake Study, dated January 13, 1989, because the options do not provide relief from high water to the residents around Eden Park Pond, and, Further, the City Council of Lake Elmo requests the Valley Branch Watershed District Board of Managers, to study other options which will give relief from high water to the residents around Eden Park Pond by providing some surface water outlet from Eden Park Pond and Durand's Pond, including, but not limited to, the options proposed by the Lake Elmo City Engineer Bohrer in his letter to the City Council of February 7, 1989. Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the Lake Elmo City Council hereby requests that the VBWD include a project to provide an outlet to Downs Lake i-acerporrat-e-the-r-eaol-ut�ien-of- the.- i�ow s:Lake-ca�t4at, i.n their Capital Improvement Plan, as a Chapter 509 Project, and, (Amended) Further, that Lake Elmo expresses its concern on high water problems on Legion. Pond, 32nd St. Pond, among others, which still remain unsolved, and requests inclusion of those waters in a comprehensive analysis of region -wide drainage options. (Motion carried 5-0). The City staff will write Al Dornfeld a letter and submit to him the Resolution recommended by the Council. If he has questions, he can appear before the City Council for recommendations. The Eden Park Residents were asked to contact the City on a monthly basis for an update.