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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-19-78 CCMAGENDA --City Council City of Lake Elmo, Minn. 55042 MEETING TO BE HELD TUESDAY, SEPTSMBER 19, 1978. 5:00 P.M. -- Meeting convenes Sewer Study--0ld Village 6:00 P.M. -- Regional Park feasibility report 6:15 P.M. -- 208 Plan for Lake Elmo 6:30 - 7:30 P.M. -- Dinner broak--Ben's Elmo Inn 7:30 P.M. -- Meeting reconvenes: Council Reports: 194 Challenge Committee Resolution---L. Shervheim 7:45 P.M. -- Clerks Report 8:00 P.M. -- Budget -Hearing "Revenue" Certified Assessments and levy 9:00 P.M. -- Tont Noyes, City Engineer Improvement of Cty. State Aid Highway #6 (Outlet Beutel Pond ) 9:15 P.M. -- Derrick Land Co. Demontreville Highlands, 6th. Addition 9:30 P,M. -- Attorney's Report: PZC Appointment --define alternate 194 Resolution Report on Resolutions: Foxfire; Green Acres, Demontreville Highlands, 5th. Comment on Inter Fund Audit Adjustments Industrial Bond Resolution 10:00 P.M. -- Adminstrative Assistant Report: Forester Assessor Street Vacations: Lanes Demontreville Country Club Office Plan Adminstrators Contradt Job description for Clerk Mottaz furnace FUTURE MEETINGS: September 25, 1978--Joint PZC and Council --Zoning Ord. October 12, 1978--John Boland,Metro Council, will visit City at 7:30 p.m., in the City Hall to listen to us and our neighboring cities. Minutes of Lake Elmo City Council Meeting, September 1.9, 1978. Meeting called to order at 5:07 p.m. by Mayor Armstrong. Present: Mayor Armstrong, Councilwoman Lyons, Councilmen Pott, Shervheim and Morgan. Agenda -•--Additions Seutels Pond- Ron Harnack, State Hwy. Plan, Payne's Driveway, undersize house variance. Resolution for Parks Trail grants. Motion by Mayor Armstrong 2nd by Councilman Morgan to approve agenda as amended. Carried 5-0. Beutel's Pond Culvert: Ron Harnack of DNR presented his position relative to lowering the 15" culvert from Beutel's Pond to Eagle Point Pork.. He maintained that this action would be worthless. He inferred that city would be wasting $4,000. (cost of reinstallation). DNR will not issue a permit without a hydriologic study. A minimal study which would suffice would cost $2,000. to $2,500. Suggested that attempts should be made to have county include this in the county road 6 project and hopefully have part of drainage costs picked up by county. Mayor Armstrong summarized the city's options: 1. Do nothing 2. Sit back and ask VBWS to do it 3. Approve study 4. Ask the county to do it. Sewer Study --Old Village Lake Elmo Area: Petition received, signed by 72 area residents, petitioning and urging the city council to pro- ceed immediately to take action necessary to procure the early installation of a sewage collection system to serve the old village area. Each expressed a willingness to incur whatever reasonable assessments become necessary beyond any grants which may be avail- able. Any approval would require that at least 4 members of the council would have to be in favor of project. Some question was raised as to what grants might be available to cover some of the costs of installation of a sewer. Motion by Councilman Shervheim 2nd by Councilman Pott to defer any decision until October 3, 1978 or until information on possible grants is available. Carried 5'-0. No Smoking Area in Council Chambers: Question was raised by one of the citizens as to what was the smoking -non smoking regulation in the city hall. Signs should be put up designating the non smoking area. Park feasibility study: Councilman Pott offered Resolution R78-32, a Resolution Setting Forth the Policy of the City of Lake Elmo with respect to Development of the "Mears Property? for Regional Park or Other Purposes and requested council. to approve. Second by Councilman Shervheim. Carried on a vote of 3.2 with. Pott, Shervheim and Lyons for, Armstrong & Morgan against. 6:30 Recess for supper. 7:30 Meeting reconvened. Tennis Court Lights --Pebble Park. A set of specs has been prepared for lights on Pebble Park tennis courts. Copy should be submitted to engineer to see if it is an acceptable design. Minutes of Lake Elmo City Council Meeting, September 19, 1978 pg. 2 194 Challenge Committee: Councilman Shervheim offered resolution R-78-33, A Resolution permitting one or more individual tax payers, fee owners in Lake Elmo to become taypayer representative plaintiffs in this law suit.and requested council to approve. Second by Councilman Pott. Motion carried 3-2 with Shervheim, Lyons and Pott in favor, Armstrong and Morgan opposed. Trail Grants: Councilman Morgan offered Resolution R78-37, a Resolution Requesting Trail Grants from the DNR. Second by Mayor Armstrong. Carried 5-0. Claims: Motion by Councilman Pott 2nd by Councilman Shervheim approving payment of claims 73528 thru 78616, Carried 5-0. Minutes Sept. 5, 1978: Page 2- hardy Driveway $100.-$200. Revenue sharing should reference the Revenue Sharing complete history of all receivables and expenses. Copy of report should be attached to 9/5/78.minutes. Page 5 amount to approval for rescue equipment should be $5,044. Motion by Councilman Pott 2nd by Mayor Armstrong to approve minutes of Sept. 5, 1978 as amended.. Carried 5-0. Minutes Sept. 11, 1978. Last paragragh--page 1-full insurance benefits, should be amended to read full insurance benefits the same as other city employees up to $60.00. Motion by Mayor Armstrong 2nd by Councilman Shervheim to approve minutes of Special Meeting of Council Meeting of Sept. 11, 1978 as amended. Carried 5-0. Meter Reader: As previously reported --meter reader has resigned. Suggestion that this be put in newsletter to see if anyone applies. 1976 Assessment: Clerk pointed out that because of consolidation of lots in Lanes Demontrevi.11e Country Club that number to be assessed in that area would be reduced from over to 200 to 60. Council issued instructions to redo the assessment role and prepare a resolution for approval at next meeting. Relative to combining of plates council requested Adm. Assistant to prepare a letter to the ooun�y requesting that county accept the requests to combine plates where area includes only one ownership. Meeting recessed 8p45 p.m. --hearing on Revenue }budget called to order at 8:45 p.m., adjourned 8:55 p.m. Council meeting reconvened at 8:55 p.m. Motion by Councilman Shervheim and by Councilman Morgan to approve following change to past and current Revenue Sharing expense and budget. Income prior to 19'78--$69,056, 1978-$25,918 and 1979-$26,578. Expense: 1977 Police protection $35,687, 1978 Police Protection $45,000., 1978 Firemen's Relief $4000., 1979 Firemen's Relief $2,000. and 1979 Police Protection $49,000. Carried 5-0. Minutes of Lake Elmo City Council Meeting, September 19, 1978 pg. 3 1979 Budget: Mayor Armstrong offered Resolution R78-36, a Resolution approv- ing the 1979 Budget. Total operating budget $368,460. The amount to be levied against General Property tax is 9.5 mils or $168,631. whichever is less. Special assessments include $75,000. for Park Bonds and $5,500. for water bonds. He re- quested council acceptance. Second by Councilman Shervheim. Carried 5-0. Lake Jane Pumping: Report that pond where we are pumping was filled. A second depression in the same area can be used for water storage. Motion by Councilman Pott 2nd by Councilman Shervheim to alternate filling pond 2 and 3 as long as we can until Lake Jane is down to approved level. Carried 5-0. Coppersmith: Mr. Coppersmith did not approve the watermain extension on Lisbon based on the one quote. IIe requested that a second bid be obtained. A second bid of $2,225.00 was received from F. Morettini Co., 852 Westminster, ST. Paul. Mr. Coppersmith approved. Engineer informed to proceed under the original motion as soon as written acceptance to pay necessary expense is received from Mr. Coppersmith. Pebble Park Well --Engineer authorized to check well. and hydrant in pebble park to determine why we can't get a better flow and more pressure. MSA Rds.: Engineer advised that Lake Elmo has 38.1 miles of roads, exclusive of county and state highways. We can, because of our 5000+ census, expect to receive approx. $11,000. for maintenance and $51,000. for road construction. Motion by Councilman Pott 2nd by Mayor Armstrong to approve road improvement plan proposed by engineer. (map attached) Carried 5--0. Payne Driveway: Adm. Assistant instructed to write Mr.& Mrs. Payne instruct- ing them to install a 30" culvert at the intersection of, their driveway and Keats Ave. The original culvert did not receive either engineer or adm. assistant approval. Mrs. Danielson --Variance: Mrs. Danielson requested a variance to permit her to build a 960 sq. ft. home on her property, a 5 acre parcel of the 52 acres she :owns at 11240-50th. St. No. Motion by Councilman Shervheim 2nd by Mayor Armstrong 'to approve the Danielson Variancefor a 960 sq. ft. residence at 11240�-50th. ST. No., subject to approval of PZC. Carried 5-0. 3M--A plan for revision of the 3M recreation area was+submitted to the city council Sept. 19, for city approval. Plans have already been presented to VBWD and have approval. Plans were turned over to engineer who is to review them and report to council at meeting of October 3, 1978 Minutes of Lake Elmo City Council Meeting, September 19, 1978 pg.4 Bldg. Insp.: Requested permission to attend an building inspectors update seminar at Owatonna on Thursday, Sept. 21, 1978 at city expense. Motion by Councilman Shervheim 2nd by Councilwoman Lyons to authorize bldg. insp. to attend Sept. 21, 1978 seminar. Carried 5-0. The 1976 version of the building code was approved by the state Sept. 18, 1978. City will be required to purchase two additional copies of the code. Demontreville Highlands,6th. Addition: PZC has approved. Park Committee is to review the park donation matter at their meeting September. 27, 1978. Request is to plat out 109 acres into 1-1/2 to 3 acre lots. Approval is necessary for rezoning and subdivision. Motion by Councilman Shervheim 2nd by Councilman Pott to'+approve rezoning from agricultural (5 acres) to SPU to permit 1-1/2 to 3 acre lots. Carried 5-0. Councilman Shervheim offered Resolution R78-35 approving Demontreville Highlands 6th. Addition preliminary plat subject to inclusion of street from 59th. ST. No, to High frail No. and to clarification on the park dedication and requested council approval. 2nd. by Councilwoman Lyons. Carried 5-0. PZC Appointment: Counsel was directed to redo ordinance to permit the position of one or more alternates and to define the conditions under which alternate could be seated by the chairman as a voting member of committee. Industrial Bond Policy: Councilman Shervheim offered Resolution R78-34, A Resolution Establishing a Policy With Respect to consideration of Projects Financed Under the Minnesota Industrial Development Act (Industrial Revenue Bonds) and asked for council. approval. Second by Councilman Pott. Carried 5-0. Forester: Mr. Beach has advised Adm. Assistant that he does not plan on being available for 1979. (Not written). Office Plane Adm. Assistant has offered proposal for change of office. Item held off for final review until meeting of October 3, 1978. Adm„ Assistant Employment contract: Mr. Whittaker has submitted an employ - went contract to counsel and he has accepted the Lake Elmo offer subject to council acceptance of contract. Motion, by Councilman Shervheim 2nd by Councilman Morgan to approve employment contract. Carried 5-0. Adjournment: Motion by Councilman Shervheim grid by Mayor Armstrong to adjourn at 10:37 p.m. Carried 5•0.