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MINUTES APPROVED: 3-2-93 MINUTES AMENDED: 7-20-93 LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL EMERGENCY MEETING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1993 Mayor John called the emergency meeting to discuss the city's strategy in opposition of House File 220 at 3:11 p.m, PRESENT: John, Conlin, Johnson, Administrator Kueffner, State Representative Pamela Neary, City Attorney Filla (arrived 3:20). State Representative Pam Neary reported she will be meeting with Oakdale on Monday night. There is strong interest among the staff and one city council member to not have this legislation go through, but to sit down with the Lake Elmo City Council. She has talked to MnDOT who will not take a stand either way on this, but indicated typical procedure would be to offer this land to the public entity within whose boundaries it resides. She is getting confirmation from the Dept. of Transportation to make sure that there is no other MnDOT property within the description of Section 33 that may have been inadvertently be encompassed by this bill. She has contacted United Properties who are willing to come and testify. Neary was hopeful that there would not be the hearing on Tuesday, February 23rd. Neary explained where she is coming from had to do with the process and not on the merits of whether or not this land should be annexed. A number of things should be stressed in this hearing: process, expense, and point out that the city came up with some agreement with United Properties and that this particular company is also looking at options in Oakdale and Woodbury. Neary voiced her strong preference for both cities to sit down and come up with a solution so it isn't decided in court. She urged the Council to go into the meeting with no assumptions about motivations because the key issue is what affect this would have on your City. At this time no meeting date was set for the two cities to meet. Attorney Filla agreed with Rep. Neary for the two cities to get together because what this bill allows is for one or both of the cities to continue to ignore each other. Councilman Johnson pointed out the Council approved a Resolution where the Lake Elmo Council offered to meet with the Oakdale City Council to identify and discuss matters of mutual concern in connection with the development of property within Section 32 and Section 33, Copies of Resolution No. 93-10 will be sent to every member of the Local Government & Metropolitan Affairs Committee. The Council amended Resolution No, 93-10 to reflect both the House File 220 bill and the Senate Pile 491 bill,