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MINUTES APPROVED: 8-17-93 i LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES AUGUST 3, 1993 Mayor John called the council meeting to order at 7:06 p.m. in the city council chambers. PRESENT: Mottaz, Conlin, John, Johnston, Johnson, City Engineer Bohrer, and City Attorney Filla. 1. AGENDA Add: 5B. Update on brush chipping, 5C. Cimarron Storm Shelter Regulations M/S/C Johnston/Conlin - to approve the August 3, 1993 City Council agenda as amended. (Motion carried 5-0). 2. MINUTES: July 20, 1993 M/S/C Conlin/Johnston - to approve the July 20, 1993 City Council minutes as amended. (Motion carried 4-1: Mottaz: I voted no on the minutes for July 20, 1993 for reasons of propriety. I have reason to believe that at the special meeting of February 19, 1993, the matter of amending Resolution 93-10 did not take place. Rather, the decision to do so was the result of a telephone vote taken on or about March 18, 1993. 1 will state some of my reasons for believing this. Sometime after being released from the hospital following my operation on March 2, 1993, 1 received a telephone call from Mary Kueffner. She mentioned Resolution 93-10 regarding Lake Elmo's opposition to House File 220 which would allow Oakdale to petition for further annexation of property in Sections 32 and 33. She further stated that there is now a companion Senate bill file #491 and that she wants to amend Resolution 93-10 to include opposition to the Senate bill. She said that she is aware of my opposition to telephone votes as I feel they violate the State open meeting law, but that she already had three votes and she just wanted to inform me about the matter. With me when I had this conversation were my wife, Lenore, and my grandson, Chris. They, of course, heard only one side of the conversation, but I was so incensed that as soon as I hung up the phone I told them what had just taken place. I had not seen a copy of Resolution 93-10 so in July I called the city office and asked to have a copy sent to me. It was then that I discovered that the resolution had been amended by the city council at a meeting on March 19, 1993. 1 wrote to Mary Kueffner asking for a copy of the March 19 minutes. This resulted in a letter to the city council from Mary dated July 20, 1993 stating that there was no meeting on March 19, 1993, but, in fact, this amendment was passed at the Friday, February 19, 1993 special or emergency meeting which was called to discuss House File 220.