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Mounds View City Council June 27, 2011 Regular Meeting Page 3 Administrator Beer noted that all application fees had been paid in full along with all utilities. 1 2 Council Member Stigney questioned if the City Attorney has any concerns with proceeding as the 3 applicant has requested. Assistant City Attorney Sonsalla indicated the Council could do a 4 conditional approval with a revocation hearing at a future meeting. However, she felt the taxes 5 would be paid by the end of July or the business would be foreclosed. 6 7 MOTION/SECOND: Gunn/Stigney. To Waive the Reading and Adopt Resolution 7784, a 8 Resolution to Consider an On-Sale Intoxicating Liquor License Renewal for Moe’s located at 9 2400 County Highway 10 subject to the property taxes being paid in full on or before July 31st. 10 11 Council Member Hull stated he supported the Resolution and did not want to see Moe’s 50 12 employees out of work. He indicated the Council was working with this business to keep it 13 operating in the community. 14 15 Ayes – 4 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 16 17 B. Resolution 7801, Authorizing the Purchase of a Handheld GPS System from 18 Frontier Precision, Inc. 19 20 Public Works Director DeBar stated a core responsibility of the Engineering Division was to 21 manage maps of the City’s infrastructure. This infrastructure dealt with the City’s 45 miles of 22 water pipelines, sewer lines, sidewalks, signs, parkland, athletic facilities, etc. The collection of 23 this data was tracked through the Engineering Division in a pdf format which was then put into 24 the City’s GIS mapping software. He estimated the life of this piece of equipment to be 10 25 years. 26 27 Public Works Director DeBar noted Staff was working on creating a single mapping document 28 for all of this information as a comprehensive tool to evaluate the City’s systems. This would 29 assist with reducing maintenance expenses in the future, along with reducing Staff time spent on 30 updating the City’s baseline mapping. Several different GPS units were reviewed by Staff and he 31 requested the Council approve the purchase of a handheld GPS system from Frontier Precision of 32 Maple Grove for $9,908.46, to assist with the GIS base mapping of the City. He explained he 33 had budgeted $10,000 for this piece of equipment from the Water Enterprise Fund. 34 35 Council Member Hull questioned if this piece of equipment would reduce Staff time and 36 consulting fees. Public Works Director DeBar stated this was the case as the piece of equipment 37 would eliminate the need for consultants to complete the mandated mapping. Staff could now 38 complete the work in-house. 39 40 MOTION/SECOND: Stigney/Hull. To Waive the Reading and Adopt Resolution 7801, 41 Authorizing the Purchase of a Handheld GPS System from Frontier Precision, Inc. 42 43 Ayes – 4 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 44 45