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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JUNE 6, 1995 D. Letter from Cimarron Coalition Chair. Floyd Olson Floyd Olson, Chair of the Cimarron Community Coalition Board, asked for permission to use the City of Lake Elmo for a reference on a grant request for $45,000 from the Department of Economic Security with the State of Minnesota to be used for crime prevention and youth programs. M/S/P John/Johnston - that the City Council commends Floyd Olson on all the accomplishments of the Cimarron Coalition and council requests a copy of the Crime Prevention Youth Grant be provided to the City Council before a letter of support is requested. (Motion passed 5-0). E. Washington County Landfill Administrator Kueffner reported the Counties have made an offer to pay Lake Elmo for land reimbursement for actual acreage needed to install the cap and the methane gas extraction system ($43,600), Fire Station #2 ($10,000), Maintenance Facility, ($75,000 and we keep it) at a total cost of $128,000. The proposed agreement would leave public works four acres which is not enough for the department to operate or expand. The City will receive assistance in finding another site for the compost, but the site might not be in Lake Elmo. Attorney Filla was not in favor of discussing negotiations in a public forum, but felt these are negotiating items. The City has enough Information to know we can no longer use the site as intended. Lake Elmo has viewed this as a recreational property which use no longer fits this site. The City decided to operate efficiently and consolidate their public facilities, but with the lack of space needed on the site, the site is no longer available for those purposes. M/S/P Hunt/Conlin - the City Council feels they no longer have a use for maintenance and fire station sites on SW1, and there is not a park use remaining for that site. By the boundary conditions that are being imposed on us by the MPCA and Washington and Ramsey County, the Maintenance & Fire Dept. is not longer a functioning unit for Lake Elmo purposes; therefore, provides us with no commercial value, and that the Mayor, City Administrator, City Attorney, as needed, are empowered to gather Information to bring back to the City Council for an ultimate decision. (Motion passed 5-0). F. Assessments on Unimproved Lots for Street Improvement The Council received a letter from Robert & Sue Horning, 8991 Jane Road N., stating their concerns about proposed road assessments on buildable lots versus no assessments on non -buildable lots on a lake. Jeff Leitch, 9025 Jane Road N., stated if there has been a precedent for not assessing non -buildable lots for road improvements that this policy be changed. The non -buildable lots are used heavily and the street is the only access to the property. They should participate in paying a percentage of the assessment. The Council will discuss the benefit of a street improvement on non -buildable lots and if they should establish another classification for an unbuildable lot that has a recreation use separate from an unbuildable lot and request input from City assessor on how he would value property which benefit really isn't defined as increase in the value of the property --how much of an improvement can there be shown to an unbuildable lot that is used. When the City receives this Information, the people will be advise of this item on the council agenda. Council member Johnston asked how were the common lots in Hidden Bay handled when that area was overlayed? DeLapp asked how are we proposing to deal with the common lots on the south side of Lake Jane Trail. Bohrer responded there are two parcels immediately west of Jamaica Avenue which are not considered in our inventory of assessable lots.