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December 13, 1975 Page 14 ADtMINISTRATOR ACi1Eil' S REPORT Administrator Achen stated that the '.l dger Addition plat has been received but the Staff.has not had time to review it. He stated that the Council could give approval of the final plat subject to staff approval. Councilmember Shelquist asked if there would he a hardship in holding this matter for one week until the staff has looked at it. Admin. Achen stated that he did not know. !S (Baumgartner Pickar) to adopt Resolution No. 789 approving the Widger Addition.final plat conditioned upon the engineer reviewing and approving it. Councilmember Shelquist stated that he suggested this matter be held to next week to adhere to getting the review of the staff first. He does not see any hardship since the council will be meeting again next week. 4 ayes 1 nay Administrator Achen stated that he had prepared an ordinance to change the starting time of council meetings from 3:99 to 7 Elayor Pickar explained that this is being done to try to end the meetings earlier. MSP (Pickar Hodges) to adopt Ordinance No. 258 changing Council meetings from 8'•00 to 7:30 p.m. beginning January 1, 1977. Administrator Achen stated that the City has tentatively been awarded the 175,000 grant for additional park property for the Silverview Park. The City has to come up with the balance of tee money. One way to get the money is to make a cash payment fron a direct sorce such as revenue sharing, which the City has not received yet. Another eas is to special assess part of the cost if part of the land can be used for detention base for the storn drainage. The third way is by donation by the property owner on the basis of credit for future park dedication. Before a decision is made of which .'ay to go, we have to kno'i hoe the storm water holding pond will be. Administrator Achen stated he Mould like authorization to have the Engineer meet withEannister F_ Shore, the park director and the landscape architect to design that storm water holding pond. Until this is done ::e do not know what land to acquire. Mayor Pickar stated that there have not been any public hearings or public input on this natter. Administrator Achen explained the lay of the land in question. Attorney `levers stated that the only tray the City can assess their portion is under the 429 proceedings, which is storm sewer. In order to do this, hearings would have to be held. Then it could be added as a construction cost of the overall storm sewer. 5 ayes