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working on the two collaborative schools. Enrollment as of 9/8 was 10,733 - 74less than Anticipated but they had closed open enrollment. Ther is an issue of school district boundaries which needs to be addressed. Woodbury shares three School Districts, but no one ditrict can afford to give up the substatial tax revenue accruing from State Farm. They are establishing a task force on the subject to report in early '96. Ramsey County: Their tax lavy was an increase of 3.3% but they aim to keep it down to an increase of 1.9% after further trimming. They had recruited tax lawyers to be as well protected against tax abatement claims as their applicants. County board meetings lasted 45 minutes. Ice Arena Task Force: The Joint Powers agreement and the review of feasibility had been completed. They were in the process of selecting new technical committees for the Mighty Ducks Funds, as well as engineers and architects for the project. Collective Schools Update: School District 916 - the building location has been fixed, principal selected, staffing issues being resolved. Will open in the fall '96 for, 900 pupils Tri District School - School District 6067: Planned to open fall '96. they have been meeting as a joint board of St. Paul, N. St. Paul and Ramsey County. The site will be on County Road B, East of the Rice Street Cub Foods location. Instructional strategies based on personalised learning in a multi cultural resource center. The funding is based on the students who attend from each district, with a 400-500 pupil size. The State of Minnesota will fund the school on a per student basis using State aid funds. Valley Branch Watershed District: In response to a query by a Lake Elmo resident, Chairman Moosebrugger indicated that it was unlikely that the VBWD would reverse itself on the execution of an ordered project. After some discussion it was agreed to let the project against approved bids at the October 12 meeting, with a final completion date of July 1. 1996 for the pipeline and August 1 for the road. Drawings would be supplied to the Oakdale and Lake Elmo City engineers in advance of October 3 to permit comment before going out for bids. The VBWD discussed the potential of requesting the City of Oakdale to remove the plug to enable draw down of the pond to occur before ice over of Lake Olson. This would then permit buffer storage in the pond in the event of heavy Spring run off, after expiry of the easement over the Winkel property. No conclusion was reached because it was not apparent whether the DNR would allow the discharge to take place until they had assurance that the problems with the sewage system valves had been fixed. Washington County Board meeting: At this morning's board meeting, the Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the Joint Agreement with Lake Elmo giving Lake Elmo $213,000 compensation for the loss of the land fill site, The basis of the agreement has been circulated to you tonight. It isn't the solution we would have liked, but the best we could achieve in the circumstances.