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Administrator Achen recommended that the Council contact the Planning Commission before <br />the July 11 Council meeting, and if at that time, the Planning Commission did not plan <br />to meet in July, the Council could put the matter on the agenda for July 11. <br />Mayor Pickar polled the Council members for their input. <br />Councilmember Baumgarter stated that the people on the Planning Commission should be <br />contacted and that they should be asked to be at the July 13 meeting, and that if <br />they do not meet, that the Council could discuss it on July 11. <br />Councilmember Rowley stated she felt the same as Councilmember Baumgartner and also <br />stated that she felt there may be several instances occuring during the month of <br />July such as this one, if the Planning Commission did not meet. <br />Councilmember Ziebarth stated he felt that if the Planning Commission could not meet <br />at their regularly scheduled time, that they should schedule the meeting for another <br />time, as he preferred the Planning Commission look at the matter before the Council. <br />Councilmember Hodges stated that if the Planning Commission was not going to meet <br />on July 13, he would be willing to discuss the issue on July 11. <br />Mayor Pickar stated that he was also willing to discuss the matter on July 11 if the <br />Planning Commission did not meet in July. <br />David Notaro, 2749 Arden Avenue NE expressed his feeling of grave concern to the Coun- <br />cil over the water he had viewed the night before during the storm. He stated that <br />there were walls of water going between the houses in his neighborhood and that the <br />water was so forceful that it broke two doors on his neighbor's home. His own yard <br />was completely covered with water, which did not drain off until later the next <br />afternoon <br />He stated that he was so shocked by the water that he called Councilmember Ziebarth <br />at 3 AM and asked him to come over and look at the situation, and that Councilmember <br />Ziebarth graciously did come over and witness the problem. <br />Mr. Notaro stated that as a home owner he is scared of what could happen in the future, <br />with another good storm. <br />Mayor Pickar stated that the City of Mounds View has a very limited drain sewer system. <br />Meetings were held in 1975, which was a very wet year, because the same problem arose <br />then. As a result of the problem and the meetings, the City of Mounds View requested <br />that a storm drainage study be done by Bannister - Short. The study took one year to <br />be completed and was a very comprehensiv/e report. The project was quoted at <br />$4.5 million at that time, plus land acquisition. Hearings were then held on the <br />proposed system, but by that time it was very dry again and very little interest <br />was expressed in the project. Thus, it was then tabled. <br />Mayor Pickar stated that at that time many citizens put in drain tile and that the <br />tax payers were not receptive to the expense of putting a system in. <br />Administrator Achen reported that when the problem occurred in 1975, the Council <br />appropriated funds from Revenue Sharing and put in extra curbing and a collar in the <br />problem area. The area in question is the lowest area around and the water is <br />forced out of the lowest area, which is why the collar was put in. <br />Mayor Pickar reported that the long -range plan is to devert the water to the Scotland <br />