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April 10, 1978 Page 8 <br />ANOKA COUNTY AIRPORT - CITY OF BLAINE ACTION ON MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY <br />Mayor Pickar reported that on April 6, the City of Blaine held a meeting and withdrew <br />their support of having the National Guard facilities in Blaine. He stated that <br />through pressure from the citizens of Blaine, the City Council had second thoughts <br />about having the National Guard Heliport in Blaine. The citizens of Blaine were <br />most concerned about the noise factors, and thus the Council voted on the issue and <br />voted with three ayes, 1 nay and one abstain to withdraw their support. <br />MSP (Rowley - Pickar) to approve Resolution #890, opposing the relocation of the <br />National Guard to Anoka County Airport. <br />Mr. McCarty stated that he would like to thank the Mounds View Concerned Citizens <br />Action Committee for their input into the issue. <br />5 ayes <br />Councilmember Rowley reported that Jeff Hamiel of the MAC had arranged for tours <br />of the airports in the area. Mayor Pickar added that he had taken the tour, which <br />included the Crystal Airport, Flying Cloud, Wold Chamberlain, Holman Field, Lake <br />Elmo and Anoka. He stated that it is apparent Crystal is too boxed in for any expansion. <br />Flying Cloud is surrounded by water at the ends of the north /south runway. Lake Elmo <br />is surrounded by privately owned open space and could be expanded. At the Anoka site, <br />MAC presently owns land on which it is proposing expansion. <br />CETA PROJECTS - REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS <br />Park Director Anderson reported that he had just received preliminary word of the <br />grant for Title 6 money, which is available to non - profit organizations, municipali- <br />ties and school districts, and that one of the requirements was that they put a large <br />number of people to work in a short time, and that they must have at least three <br />people and have them work from three months to one year and have them working within <br />ten days of the project being funded. <br />Park Director Anderson stated that he would like to use the grant to work with the <br />neighborhoods and residents to develop programs that they would like. He stated <br />that from experience they found that the programs that were most widely accepted <br />were from those 16 and under, and they would now like to develop programs to interest <br />other age groups. Park Director Anderson stated that they would like to develop <br />Neighborhood Leisure Councils, and that Staff felt that after the Council were <br />established, they would become self - sufficient after the first year. <br />Mayor Pickar asked if there was any direct cost with the grant. Park Director <br />Anderson replied that there would not be any additional money required with the grant. <br />Mayor Pickar also asked if there would be any additional staff required above and <br />beyond the required CETA employees. Park Director Anderson replied that they would <br />not require any additional staff but that they might have to change the direction of <br />some of the present employees. He added that the role of the CETA people would be <br />to actually get out in the neighborhoods, and that there were a number of requirements <br />the people would have to meet to be employed under the CETA program, and that they <br />hopefully would be able to hire people with a park and recreation background or some <br />related field. <br />Councilmember Baumgartner asked if the Neighborhood Leisure Council was a new idea. <br />Park Director Anderson replied that it had not been done dealing specifically with <br />a Leisure Council but that many of the ideas had been used in the past. <br />