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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES MARCH 21, 1995 9 The meeting with the Minnesota Design Team at the VFW Hall was well attended by the Lake Elmo residents. The council acknowledged receiving a letter from Eldon W. Smith, 10941 32nd Street, and a letter from Ardell Hutton & Debbie Smith -Hutton, 11108 32nd St. N., stating they feel Hammes Sand & Gravel is doing the community a great service by their recycling and are very discouraged about council denial of a text amendment allowing Hammes Sand & Gravel to recycle blacktop and concrete. Council member Conlin received a response back from her letter to Terry Merrit, Municipal Board, stating he had scheduled a third in series of the Municipal Board a May topic being concurrent detachment and annexation. Rita will call Mr. Merrit to find out when the meeting will be. Conlin will report on the cable commission meeting at the next meeting. Councilman Hunt attended the meeting regarding the recreational facilities in school district 832 to look at current recreational capabilities of the school district and what will be required in the future. They discussed how to raise funds for improvements of existing facilities or new facilities; such as, users fees, develop parks for a more community use rather than the city use, and impact fees for new developments. Hunt asked for authorization to talk to the city attorney for a couple of hours to see if impact fees for new developments is feasible. The next meeting will be held on April 6, 6:30 p.m., in the school district #622 Board Room. M/S/P John/DeLapp - to propose the City Attorney use two hours of his time to discuss Impact Fees with Councilman Hunt. (Motion passed 5-0). 10. CITY ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT: A. Recommendation from Solid Waste Advisory Commission on Composting and Recycled Material Purchases The Solid Waste Advisory Committee postponed their meeting to April 3, 1995. Oakdale and Washington County are trying to get out newsletters with compost dates and fees. The Administrator and Maintenance Foreman recommended the composting fees for Lake Elmo residents be raised from $10 to $15 which include taking of brush and Clean -Up day, non-residents $20 to $25 and $75 for commercial licenses. The reasons for raising fees is brush has been added for Lake Elmo residents and the cost to get rid of the tires and appliances have gone up. Kueffner felt $25 is a good deal for a season pass for non-residents to use the compost site. The entire program is not self-supporting because the city has to budget for it. The expenses are more than what we have taken in for Clean up -day. There was council consensus to raise the fees as suggested.