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-2- <br />3P (Pickar- Baumgartner) To approve the following bills: General checks #6575 thru <br />0633 and Payroll checks #2980 thru #3007. Total disbursements $27,301.25. 4 Ayes <br />MSP (Neisen- Johnson) To approve check #6632 transferring $4,654.77 from Sewer Utility <br />to Project Fund 1972 -3 until the bond proceeds are received. 4 Ayes <br />The Council discussed various types of underground street lighting available for newly <br />platted residential underground areas. They decided to invite the NSP street lighting <br />representative to the November 6th agenda meeting. <br />MSP (Baumgartner - Pickar) To adopt Resolution #583 apportioning the assessments for <br />Division #045445, T. V. Construction, Inc. Plat #1 subject to the payment of additional <br />assessments totaling $963.00 for Lot 1, Block 1. 4 Ayes <br />Clerk Zylla received Council permission to attend a revenue sharing seminar scheduled <br />for November 24, 1972 at the Holiday Inn on 494 and Highway 100. <br />MSP (Johnson - Baumgartner) To adopt Resolution #584, opposition to the acquisition of <br />the Village of New Brighton trunk sewer by the Metropolitan Council, and to authorize <br />the Clerk to send copies to the Referral Committee and member communities of Sewer <br />Service Area #2. 4 Ayes <br />Councilman Johnson's Report <br />juncilman Johnson read a letter from Jim Schlichtmann, Superintendant of Public Works, <br />ecommending that Wallace Mortenson be advanced to full pay scale and other employee <br />benefits as of November 1, 1972, the end of his six month probationary period. <br />Councilman Johnson inquired as to whether the owner of the Skelly Station on Groveland <br />Road was selling cars from his property and whether anything on the property met the <br />definition of a junk car. Clerk Zylla informed the Council that about one month ago <br />the Police did make a visit to the property and he was not in violation of the used <br />car lot ordinance though he did have some debris scattered around the property which <br />he later took care of. <br />Councilman Johnson asked Mr. Meyers if there were any new developments on the cast iron <br />pipe manufacturers law suit. Attorney Meyers stated that he had submitted the data to <br />the State by the required deadline. Engineer Boehm stated that his bill for services <br />connected with the case was included in tonights disbursements and amounted to less than <br />one half of the estimated $2,000.00 figure. <br />Councilman Johnson discussed the 1973 Spring Lake Park Fire Department budget noting <br />that Mounds View was the only community that was paying their bill for fire protection <br />on time. He also noted that the Fire Dept. was constantly borrowing money and in effect <br />spending more each year than they took in, in receipts. The Clerk was directed to send <br />a letter to the Fire Department asking them to seek to bring other member communities <br />on a current basis as far as protection payments were concerned. The Council suggested <br />asking the Fire Dept. to bill Blaine and Spring Lake Park for the interest charges for <br />borrowing money because they are not paying current. The letter to the Fire Dept. was <br />-o include a statement that they make "actual expenditures in accordance with budget ", <br />