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r; April 22, 1999 • To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: April 26, 1999 City Council Meeting We actually have a relatively short agenda for Monday which for those of you who spent three nights at City Hall this week may appreciate. Here's what we have for Monday: 7A. Unfinished Business - Onan Project: Council will recall residents expressing concern over the Onan plans in Fridley at the April 12 meeting. Last week I talked with Valerie Amundson, the woman who spoke to the Council that night, who was looking for any action the City could consider to minimize the impact of this project. Onan quickly set up a neighborhood meeting for tonight at Onan. I suggested to Ms. Amundson that she see what Onan may contemplate in view of their project's impact on her property. Jim Erickson is to attend that meeting tonight, and Rob Marty has indicated he will be attending as well. The results can be reported on Monday night. I did talk with the city manager of Fridley who expressed some surprise at the comments that problems have traditionally existed between the two cities as he was not aware of any, nor was I. As for this project he said he would let me know if anything of any substance came up. I think tonight's meeting will be important in knowing what else may happen with this project. 9D. Resolution 5334 Approving Assistant City Administrator Position: I added some additional language emphasizing the role in legal management for this position. I do believe that spending more attention on our legal needs can make up for the annual increase in pay for this position. The new language is double underlined and in small cap italics. I also want to emphasize this position as different in that it would essentially be a department head position for administration and personnel functions, as opposed to an extension of my position. I would not be proposing this position unless I felt Ms. Schmidt was capable of the role and that her abilities in an upgraded position would be helpful to the organization. It was also clear from the work session that should Ms. Schmidt leave this position, it would not automatically stay as this job description. That decision would be evaluated at that time. 9E. Antenna Proposal: Mike has a memo on this and is looking for some direction. 9F. Spring Lake Road/County Road I Survey: The results of the survey look interesting. Council direction will be sought here as well. In other business, Bob Long continues to work at the legislature on our airport legislation. He can report on the status of those efforts Monday evening. The mayor and I met with two representatives of the pilots at the airport on Monday, and the Blaine city manager. They would like to take an active role in addressing noise complaints by putting in a phone line to receive and respond to noise complaints. We added that direct contact on an ongoing basis with our residents