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MARCH 1, 1988
Mayor Christ called the City Council
the City Council chambers. Present:
City Engineer Bohrer, Attorney Steve
McNamara, Finance Director Banister
Kueffner. Absent: Graves.
1. Agenda
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meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. in
Christ, Armstrong, Johnson, Moe,
Carlson, Building Official
and Acting City Administrator
M/S/P Johnson/Armstrong - to approve the March 1, 1988 City Council
agenda as presented. (Motion carried 4-0).
2. Minutes: February 16, 1988
M./S/P Armstrong/Johnson - to approve the February 16, 1988 City
Council minutes as amended. (See Page 1, 4. Landfill Update; Page 4,
6. James Palecek; Page 5, 7A. Building Dept.) (Motion carried
2-0-2<Abstain: Christ, Moe>).
3. Claims
M/S/P Moe/Johnson - to approve the March 1, 1988 Claims #89930 thru
#89990 as presented. (Motion carried 4-0).
4. Proclamation
Mayor Christ proclaimed the week of March 6-13, 1988 as Volunteers of
America Week in Lake Elmo, Minnesota.
5. Public Inquiries
Ed Gorman, White Hat Restaurant, explained to the City Council that on
1/27, 2/2 thru 2/6 he noticed that a red light was flashing on the
newly installed pump station . Bohrer stated this panel was put into
operation, that would activate the light, the latter part of December.
Gorman provided pictures taken the last 10 days of what he thought was
a potentially hazardous condition. On February 18th he noticed six
large dark spots in the snow, a week later the spots were larger and
standing water developed on top of the field. By Saturday there was a
pond that developed where the water was merky, bubbling and smelled.
Gorman added that he has a substantial investment next to this site
and asked what action was the City willing to take to make sure this
is a safe treatment site --not only for him but for the people living
next to it.
Gorman also brought up the problems with the Legion Avenue collector
system of a large holding tank overflowing, the red light flashing,
alarm sounding, backup into two resident's basements and a licensed
pumper was called out to pump the system. Gorman questioned if City
funds are used to clean this up? He voiced his concerns that this may
be an indication that the systems are not going to work as well as
they were proposed.
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City Engineer Bohrer responded that when only the red light goes on,
without an alarm, it is an indication that inside the control panel
there is a small condensation heater in this control box that is to
keep the box slightly warmer than air temperature in order to prevent
condensation from forming. If the thermostat was not set correctly,
then the red light would go on.
In regard to the pictures, Bohrer felt it was normal snow+,elt and not
sewage. If there are pockets forming on the surface, it might have to
be touched up with topsoil in the Spring. It has been checked in the
past and the system is working very well and the water is dispersing
in the drainfield trenches and the full system is not being
utilized --(that is the effluent is being disposed of on just a portion
of the system and not operating at capacity).
Bohrer answered the questions on Legion Avenue that in December before
the turnover of the system to the City there was an alarm that went
off at the pump station. A sewer pumper was ordered out to inspect
the pump station. Since then the City has taken over the pump station
and the City is performing regular maintenance. Bohrer was only aware
of one resident having sewer backup because there was no power getting
to the pump and determined the problem was in the extension cord
wasn't working. Now, the contractor has turned the systems over and
began operation the latter part of December. This date starts the one
year guarantee period if anything goes wrong with any part of the
system the contractor comes back and repairs that at no charge.
Ed Gorman asked what is the general zoning for city -owned land --will
his property that was taken for the 201 Program be left as General
Business or Public. The staff will look into this.
Problem with the VBWD culvert --James Palecek
James Palecek reported he still had a water problem on 28th and Ivy
because of the freeze up of the VBWD culvert. He now has 80-90+ plus
trees under water. After the last council meeting the VBWD hired the
city maintenance crew to go out with a backhoe and open up a channel.
This was successful, the channel was opened up and the water was
starting to drain down. Over the weekend there was freezing at night
and thawing during the day so the culvert built up with ice and
plugged up. Mr. Palecek stated he has never had this problem before.
City Engineer Bohrer understood that the VBWD is planning on cleaning
out the whole channel. Assistant City Administrator Kueffner had
taked to Al Dornfeld and the VBWD is considering a project to
open/clean the ditches, but the project would not be discussed for a
couple of weeks. VBWD will have a special meeting Thursday to
consider some bids, and this could be brought up for a vote then. The
City Council directed Mary Kueffner to ask the VBWD to consider such a
project on the Thursday agenda.
6. Landfill Update
Todd Williams reported that he appeared before the Lakeland City
Council and they did pass a Resolution of support similar to other
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City Councils. REAPP now has 12 resolutions from surrounding cities
and will continue to work to get more. They have also written to the
St. Paul City Council because their president has indicated an
interest in introducing a similar resolution.
The Environmental Protection sub -committee of the Senate passed an
amendment last Thursday to the Waste Manacj'Pnent Act to stop the
landfill siting process and to eliminate all the sites. This
amendment, along with other amendments to the Waste Management Act
will be considered in full -committee on Friday. A similar amendment
is in existence in the House, but REAPP is not sure what it states.
REAPP is submitting a resolution to Washington County requesting that
they pass this asking that the siting process be done. This
particular amendment repeals those sections of the original Waste
Management Act which deal with the requirements of the Met Council to
have an inventory of sites, deal with the original County siting
process and deal with the requirement that the County go through an
Environmental Impact Statement on all the sites.
REAPP had sent a letter to all the caucus convenors in Washington
County requesting them to pass resolutions stating that the landfill
should not be put in the park.
Steve Keefe attended the REAPP meeting on Sunday where he stated as
far as the Metro Council is concerned land use is a more important
consideration than an environmental concern for location of a
landfill. Todd added that he hoped Keefe was saying that the PCA is
supposed to look out for the environmental concerns first and if they
say that this site might be permittable, then the Metro Council would
apply its land use criteria.
Todd stated that REAPP fully supports the City Recycling Program and
complimented Mary Kueffner, Bruce Dunn and the City Council for
proceeding with this program.
In regard to not receiving Chuck Dayton's report on legal
alternatives, Todd expressed disappointment in the City Attorney not
following the City Council's direction. Councilman Johnson read from
the Council minutes that City Attorney Knaak was to meet with Chuck
Dayton and he would like to ,see this item put on the next Council
agenda as an update.
M/S/P Johnson/Moe - to direct the City Attorney to speak at the March
15th Council meeting on the matter of what legal course of action the
City should be taking at this time and the possibillty on winning of
such action. (Motion carried 4-0).
A. Correspondence from City of Corcoran
The City received a letter from Bob Derus, City Clerk/Administrator
from Corcoran, Minnesota soliciting help in his efforts to terminate
the Sanitary Landfill process. Dan Novak felt R.E.A.P.P. was
responding to the request by testifying in support of the Dahl
amendment.
7. CITY ENGINEER'S REPORT
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A. Continuation of Public Hearing to Amend Section 700 of
Lake Elmo Municipal Code.
M/S/P Moe/Armstrong - to remove from the table the continuation of the
public hearing to amend Section 700 of the Lake Elmo Municipal Code.
(Motion carried 4-0).
Mayor Christ reopened the public hearing at 7:45 in the City Council
Chambers.
At the public hearing of February 16, the Council raised some
questions on the proposed ordinances. City Engineer Bohrer clarified
these questions in his letter to the City Council dated February 25,
1988.
Councilwoman Armstrong asked that a clarification be made as to when
the two years would start in regard to the last sentence of Section
701. It will now read "No new connections or flow increases will be
permitted for the first two years following start up of each public
sewage treatment system". Bohrer explained that this is a correct
statement in accordance with MPCA required language. The reason for
the two year delay on any new connections is to provide sufficient
operating time on the new systems to fully evaluate their ability to
accommodate new connections. The startup was December 31, 1987 so
there could be some new connections beginning in 1990.
Mike Severin, 8012 50th Street, asked "was the purpose of the 201
Project to help existing failing systems or was it to build septic
systems for the future?" Bohrer responded that it was to resolve
existing sewage problems. Severin asked why was this wording in
there --were the systems :-.overdesigned intended for new connections.
Bohrer answered that it was a specific prohibiton that we would
intentionally oversize systems for future growth or future
connections. However, especially on the large systems, their
performance is not as well documented as individual systems. A large
system for 10 homes is not the sum of 10 individual systems,
side -by -side. There is no prohibition to prevent the City from
allowing future connections if the system demonstrates that it can
take that additional flow which would be an engineering determination
based on periodic inspections of the drainfield.
Ed Gorman stated that during court condemnation proceedings, Bohrer
had stated that the systems were not for any additional people --no one
else could hook up. Gorman had a problem with making these systems
bigger. Bohrer answered he was not saying they were going to made
larger --they were not designed for more than the flow for which they
were designed for and the language states that you cannot add new
connections the first two years following startup.
Bohrer explained the purpose of Section 707, Waste Water Service
charge Ordinance, was to establish certain requirements for approving
funds or revenue so that the City has sufficient funds available to
operate and maintain those off -site or collector systems that are
under the city's jurisdiction to maintain. A second purpose of the
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ordinance is to charge the users of those offsite and collector
systems for those operations and maintenance costs. This ordinance
defines what maintenance is to be done by the homeowner and by the
City. This ordinance would also establish the method of apportioning
out the maintenance charge. The proposal is to proportion the
maintenance charge on the basis of sewage flow.
The Sewer Service Charge System document tablulates the number of
connections that are going to be on the offsite/collector systems. An
average residence discharges between 230-250 gallons per day,
therefore 250 gallons a day were picked as an "equivalent residential
use".
Operation, Maintenance, and Replacement costs for one year were
predicted for the systems as follows:
1. Utilities 35.00
2. Replacement $360.00
(1st year covered under warrantee)
3. Labor $2,925.00
(One man, 3 Hours per week, 52 weeks @$17/Hr.)
4. Equipment & Site Maint. $1,000.00
FIRST YEARS TOTAL $3,960.00 (divided by 41--the total
number of equivalent residential connections) _ $96.59 + 10%
contingencies = $115.00/Yr. + $5 for clerical costs.
Estimated Operation, Maintenance & Replacement Costs for the First
Year would be $120 per residential connection. ($30 per unit
quarterly).
Mike Severin objected to the charge saying it was too high just to mow
the mound and stated he wasn't ever notified of such a maintenance
sewer charge. Bohrer explained that in the notification of the public
hearing in 1981 it was mentioned that there would be an operation and
maintenance charge. (In 1981 it was estimated to be $25 per system
and in 1982 estimated $35 per system).
Rich Keller, representing Elmo View Townhomes, stated that when City
Engineer Bohrer talked to them about the 201 Project one of the
residents asked him if there would be a charge for the 201 systems and
Larry answered there would be a charge for installation. Bohrer never
mentioned there would be a charge for maintenance.
Acting Administrator Kueffner stated the City received a telephone
call from Charles Kent, townhome owner on Lisbon, who was opposed to
the high maintenance charge for retired people.
Mayor Christ closed the public hearing at 8:45 p.m.
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M/S/P Moe .Johnson - to adopt Ordinance No. 8012 amending Section 701
and 702 o the Lake Elmo Municipal Code as revised per Larry Bohrer's
letter dated February 25th and to include changes made at the public
( hearing. (Motion carried 4-0).
M/S/P Johnson/Moe - to adopt Ordinance No. 8013 establishing Section
707--"Wastewater Service Charge" of the Lake Elmo Municipal Code.
(Motion carried 4-0).
M/S/P Johnson/Moe - to adopt Ordinance No. 8014 establishing "Sewer
Service Charge System for the City of Lake Elmo dated January 1988".
(Motion carried 4-0).
B. Continuation of Discussion on a City-wide Reporting Card
System.
At the last meeting the City Council discussed the possible
implementation of a city-wide Reporting Card System. The intention of
the Reporting Card System is to put more teeth into this ordinance by
requiring that licensed pumpers make this inspection, fill out the
card and return it to the City. The City Council called a public
hearing for March 15 to consider this amendment.
A meeting has been set with the City Staff and the licensed septic
pumpers for Wednesday, 3-2-88, to get their input on how they feel
this reporting card system would work the best. To be able to have
this information available, a public hearing will be set for April
5th.
M/S/P Johnson/Moe - to rescind the motion of the 2-16-88 meeting to
call a public hearing for an ordinance change to include the
broadening of the reporting card septic system city-wide to a public
hearing date of April 5th, 1988. (Motion carried 4-0).
C. 47th St. Right -of -Way Appraisal
At the public hearing for the 47-th Street Improvements, City Engineer
Bohrer advised the Council that additional right-of-way would have to
be obtained from Gilbert Sullwold in order to shift the road to the
the north to avoid trees. On February 2, 1988 the council authorized
Bill Schwab of Penfield, Inc. to perform the land appraisal for 0.47
acres. On February 12, 1988 Mr. Schwab met with Mr. Sullwold and
viewed the property.
City Engineer Bohrer recommended that the Council authorize the City
staff to offer Mr. Sullwold the appraised amount of $3100. Land costs
and appraisal are eligible for State Aid reeimbursement.
M/S/P Moe/Armstrong - to authorize the city staff to offer Mr. Gilbert
Sullwold the appraised amount of $3100 for 0.5 acres. (Motion carried
4-0).
D. Review Pre -assessment Role for 201 Project
City Engineer Bohrer explained the costs associated with the 201
Project cost of Construction, Engineering, Land, Administration,
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Easement, County Finance and City Finance which are stated in his
letter dated March 1, 1988. In order to prepare an accurate
assessment tool, Bohrer needed the City Council's concurrence on the
appointment of the above costs. Bohrer noted that the Oakland School
system took about 10 times the cost and the effort to design as the
residents, so he recommended we consider Oakland School 10 units for
the purpose of this cost.
A preliminary assessment roll was prepared for the Council's review.
The assessments were comprised of all non -grant funded construction,
engineering, land acquisition, and administrative costs. One cost
that must be included which was not anticipated is the County finance
costs.
City Engineer Bohrer explained that when the staff met with John
Devine, County Comptroller, to decide whether the City should bond on
its own or combine with the County for the interim construction
financing. Mr. Devine stated that he thought there would be no County
finance charge because interest earned on the bond proceeds would
equal the interest paid on the bonds. The City proceeded on that
basis and prepared estimated assessment to individuals in the 201
Program. Now that the City is ready to assess the costs, we were
informed by the County that there is a finance cost. The City Auditor
was asked to check this cost and his report, dated February 22, 1988
was provided.
Bohrer felt this finance charge was unfortunate because it was never
anticipated, but the amount is fair and probably less than if Lake
Elmo had to finance the project itself. Bohrer also called the
attention to the City that when a building permit comes in where the
use has changed, the City has to evaluate the septic system.
The City Council felt the method of assessing was fair, but was
astounded by the County Finance Charge. Therefore, the City was in
favor of the County having the public hearing to explain that the City
has no control over the finance charge. The final assessment roll
will be available for the City Council's review at their next meeting.
E. Request from Planning Commission for City Engineer to
review Downs Lake Estates.
The Planning Commission held a public hearing on February 22nd to
consider a 2-lot subdivision known as Downs Lake Estates. The
Commission expressed concerns with Downs Lake 2nd Addition --which lies
.entirely within the boundaries of West Lakeland. Their concern was
with the water going into Downs Lake from this development and asked
;that the Council direct the City Engineer to look at the West Lakeland
plat and report back any concerns he has with the ponding, or any
potential water problems this subdivision might put upon Lake Elmo.
Planning Commission Chairman DeLapp stated that West Lakeland does not
!honor the 1% Rule. City Engineer Bohrer responded that West Lakeland
does follow the current VBWD guidelines. TKDA is also the engineering
firm used by West Lakeland. Bohrer explained he was aware of the VBWD
looking at a study for a simple grading plan that could be done along
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Manning Trail where the overflow level of Downs Lake could be lowered.
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M/S/P Moe/Armstrong - to deny the Planning Commission's request for
engineering review on possible water problem from Downs Lake Estates
because West Lakeland does follow the VBWD guidelines and the VBWD
will be looking at a project for lowering the overflow level of Downs
Lake. (Motion carried 4-0).
8. ADMINISTRATION
A. Charitable Gambling Update --VFW and Lake Elmo Jaycees
When the City Council adopted the ordinance permitting Charitable
Gambling, one of the requirements the City put in the ordinance was to
reserve the right to review the distribution of their funds derived
from the gambling. John Hughes of the Lake Elmo Jaycees provided a
report which covers October 1986 thru January 1988. Leonard Feeley of
the VFW will .be sending an update by mail.
B. Adoption of Appendix E of State Building Code (Continuation)
This was tabled at the last City Council meeting to receive input from
Lake Elmo Fire Chief, Fran Pott. Jim McNamara provided a breakdown of
the different classification of occupancies.
Fire Chief Fran Pott stated the Fire Department was in favor of
sprinklers and are looking at the life safety issue with sprinkkTs and
gave statistics of 5,000 lives are lost in residential fires.
Sprinklers and smoke detectors can save 90 percent of the lives
because the occupants get caught sleeping. Twenty cities have
Appendix E in the the Metro Area. It has not been adopted universally
because of the inflexability and the economics of putting a system in.
The water system has to be looked at because you have to get 18
gallons per minute at each head.
Steve DeLapp stated that the main factor according to Richard Brooks,
State Building Inspector, the greater your fire fighting code, the
lower the ISO rating. Lake Elmo's ISO rating is #6 because of very
few fire hydrants and all we have are pumpers 5 miles away. Del.app
felt the payback would be in lower insurance premiums.
Building Official McNamara stated whenever there is a change of
occupancy, the building would have to be looked at for sprinkling.
DeLapp clarified that occupancy means "change the kind of use". The
average cost of a sprinkler is $1.13 per sq.ft., one head covers
approx. a 10' x 10' area. Change in feed line, auxilary pumps or
towers are not added into this figure.
Ed Gorman, owner of the White Hat Restaurant, checked with his
insurance company when he expanded his restaurant and found there was
no payback. You are in a risk category just being in Lake Elmo. It
doesn't matter how great your sprinkling system is.
M/S/P Armstrong/Johnson - to adopt Appendix Chapter 38 (E) of the
State Building Code into the Lake Elmo building code. (Motion carried
3-1<Moe>).
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C. Ordinance Amending Fee Schedule of Lake Elmo Municipal Code
In January, 1988 the City Council adopted the 1985 Universal Building
Code and 1987 State Building Code (Ordinance No. 8011). The fee
schedule (Section 307) should have been adopted by a separate
ordinance but was not.
Jim McNamara explained that the City has been using the 1979 fee
schedule and with the new 1985 fee schedule, which is directly out of
the UBC code, would raise building permit and planning review fees 47
percent. The Council has been considering increasing permit fees and
therefore made the following motion.
M/S/P Moe/Armstrong - to adopt Ordinance No. 8015 adopting the
Building Permit Fee Schedule as outlined in the 1985 UBC. (Motion
carried 4-0).
D. Formal Adoption of 1988 Budget
Finance Director Marilyn Banister reported at the February 2, 1988
Council meeting she had received the tax figures from the county and
the tax levy would be 13.9 mills so the budget would have to be
lowered $4,400 which was taken out of the fire, maintenance, parks
department's reserves.
Mayor Christ was surprised to read that the state law requires cash
flow reserves of one-half the cities budget levy and local government
aid received. Banister responded that this has been put in the audit.
In regard to the new fire true],, Banister stated the money had been
set aside to buy this. When she started the budget it looked to her
to try to even things out and the only way to get extra money was to
get an equipment certificate. Then they wouldn't have depleted the
fire department's reserves. Mayor Christ asked if we could levy to
build up these reserves, and Marilyn answered you could not levy for
this. Reserve funds can only be put in from the tax levy.
Mayor Christ felt in order to maintain the mill rate, the Council
better watch what they spend. They have spent a lot of money
upgrading the Maintenance Dept. He would only let the mill rate go up
in order to fight the landfill. Marilyn explained you cannot levy for
special projects.
In regard to $75,000 Park Bond due in 1992, Banister explained that
the problem at the end of 1992 we won't be able to levy an additional
$75,000. The taxpayer will be paying that much less in taxes. Mayor
Christ felt it was significant that 10 percent of our annual budget
was used for park acquisition.
Councilwoman Armstrong brought up the word "Rent" which should be
deleted under Building, Rent and Expense since there is no rental for
1988. Also suggested was to look for a light for the flag outside andfor
the City signs.
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M/S/P Moe/Johnson - to formally approve the 1988 Budget per Finance
Director Banister's recommendations and revisions. (Motion carried
4-0).
E. Clerical help for City Office (Continuation)
Mayor Christ agreed the Staff needed help, but felt it was a temporary
situation until we get a new City Administrator and then review it at
that time. The Council recognizes the Fire Department needs help with
their paperwork. This position was not in the budget.
M/S/P Moe/Armstrong - to advertise for a temporary parttime help at
$5/Hr. for 3-4 months or until a City Administrator was hired.
(Motion carried 4-0).
F. Recommendation from Parks Dept. for donation to
Stillwater Athletic Field (Continuation)
John Hughes will ask the Lake Elmo Jaycees if they would be willing to
take out of their charitable gambling earnings to make a contribution
toward the Stillwater Athletic complex. This donation would be in
part of the City and the Lake Elmo Jaycees. The Council decided to
delay a recommendation until they hear from John Hughes.
G. Preparation for detachment hearing --Municipal Board
Mayor Christ expressed the problem he had with the boundary lines, a
possible landlocked parcel and he opposed the piecemeal annexation.
Christ also stated the City of Lake Elmo owns the sewer connection and
Oakdale doesn't have sewer capacity to support them. He felt the City
has been a good faith bargainer and it was very futile to suggest
annexation at this time because sewer, water had not been worked out.
Councilman Moe had a problem with giving up the tax monies in excess
of 10 grand.
Councilman Johnson didn't support annexation of any part of Section 32
to Oakdale. Johnson suggested the City Attorney find legal ground
that would supportrthis position and draft it in a resolution.
M/S/P Johnson/Moe - to direct the City Attorney to draft a resolution
for opposing annexation(for submittal to the Municipal Board)for the
Council to review at the next meeting and to have the staff complete
the form requested. (Motion carried 4-0).
H. City Administrator Selection Process
The City Council chose six applicants out of the 13 finalists. Mary
Kueffner will call the six candidates to inform them that interviews
will be done on Saturday morning at City Hall from 9-12.
M/S/P Moe/Armstrong - to accept the voting of the six top applicants.
(Motion carried 4-0).
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M/S/P Moe/Johnson - to set up a personnel executive session for
( interviewing the six candidates chosen on Saturday from 9-12 at City
Hall. (Motion carried 4-0).
I. 1996 Summer Olympics
Mayor Christ received a letter from the Bid Committee for the XXVIth
Olympiad in Minneapolis -St. Paul inviting him to an informational
meeting regarding a bid effort to bring the Twin Cities and
Duluth -Superior the Summer Olympic Games in 1996. A gathering will be
held at the Ballroom of the Sheraton Midway Hotel, located at I-94 and
Hamline in St. Paul on Wednesday March 9, 1988 from 7:30 p.m. until
about 9:30 p.m.
Councilman Moe and Mary Kueffner are interested in attending this
informational meeting.
J. Purchase of MN/DOT Property
A letter waSreceived from MN/DOT in which they offer the city the
option to purchase a parcel of land (Parcel 16, A. Schilitgren 5.94
acres) at a value of $2000 per acre. The City Council didn't see any
need for this land and recommended holding off accepting this offer.
K. Vacancies in Multi -Member State Agencies
A letter was recevved from Joel Jamnik, Legislative Counsel giving
notice of vacancies in Multi -member State Agencies. The Council
suggested these vacancies be advertised in the Lake Elmo Newsletter
and if anyone is interested in these positions they are to contact the
City office.
M/S/P Moe/Johnson - to adjourn the City Council meeting at 11:53 p.m.
(Motion carried 4-0).
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Ordinance No. 8012 amending Section 701 and 702 of the Lake Elmo
Municipal Code as revised per Larry Bohrer's letter dated 2-25-88
and to include changes made at the public hearing.
Ordinance No. 8013 establishing Section 707--Wastewater Service Charge
Ordinance No. 8014 establishing Sewer Service Charge System for the
City of Lake Elmo dated January 1988.
Ordinance No. 8015 adopting the Building Permit Pee Schedule as
outlined in the 1985 UK.
Since we do not have time to discuss every point presented, it may seem
that decisions are preconceived. However, background information is
l provided for the City Council on each agenda item in advance from City
Staff and appointed Commissions; and decisions are based on this
information and past experiences. In addition, some items may also have
been discussed at previous Council meetings. If you are aware of
information that hasn't been discussed, please fill out a "Request to
Appear Before the City Council" slip; or, if you came late, raise your
hand to be recognized. Comments that are pertinent are appreciated.
Items requiring excessive time may be continued to another meeting.
AGENDA
LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL
MARCH 1, 1988
7:00 p.m. 1. Agenda
2. Minutes: February 16, 1988
3. Claims
4. Proclamation
5. Public Inquiries
6. Landfill Update
A. Correspondence from City of Corcoran
7:30 p.m. 7. CITY ENGINEER'S REPORT
A. Continuation of public hearing to amend
Section 700 of Lake Elmo Municipal Code
B. Continuation of discussion on a city-wide
reporting card system.
C. 47th St. Right -of -Way Appraisal
D. Review pre -assessment role for 201.Project
E. Request from Planning Commission for City Engineer
to review Downs Lake Estates.
8:30 p.m. 8. ADMINISTRATION
A. Charitable Gambling Update --VFW and L.E. Jaycees
8:45 p.m. B. Adoption of Appendix E of State Building Code
(Continuation)
' C. Ordinance amending fee schedule of L.E. Municipal
Code.
9:00 P.M .----------------------B R E A K-----------------------
9:10 p.m. D. Formal Adoption of 1988 Budget
E. Clerical help for City Office (Continuation)
F. Recommendation from Parks Dept. for donation to
Stillwater Athletic Field (Continuation)
G. Preparation for detachment hearing --
Municipal Board
H. City Administrator Selection Process
I. 1996 Summer Olympics
J. Purchase of MN/DOT Property
K. Vacancies in Multi -Member State Agencies