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Mounds View City Council December 14, 2009 Regular Meeting Page 4 1 2. Resolution 7535 Adopting the 2010 Budgets for All Funds. 2 3 Finance Director Beer presented staff’s recommendation to adopt the resolution and noted the 4 summary for all funds. Council Member Mueller questioned the cost paid for engineering 5 consultants this year for the City’s street and trails projects. Finance Director Beer stated that 6 based on general assumptions, it is 20-25% of construction costs. 7 8 MOTION/SECOND: Flaherty/Mueller. To Waive the Reading and Adopt Resolution 7535, 9 Adopting the 2010 Budgets for All Funds. 10 11 Council Member Stigney stated this Resolution is for funds outside the General Fund, noting that 12 62% of the General Fund budget was for personnel. He stated the 2010 budget includes the 13 hiring of two employees and pointed out that police costs in Mounds View are $169 per capita, 14 higher than New Brighton and 30 other cities. 15 16 Council Member Gunn stated a few years ago, the community voted to hire officers and every 17 resident survey has ranked safety of the community as number one. She noted the Police 18 Department does a fantastic job and is probably the most important department the City has. 19 20 Council Member Stigney stated he is not against safety but felt the City needed to maintain safety 21 or improve it at less cost. He questioned whether the referendum results would be the same if 22 taken today. 23 24 Ayes – 4 Nays – 1 (Stigney) Motion carried. 25 26 C. 7:15 p.m. Public Hearing to Consider Possible Suspension or Revocation of 27 Liquor License for Moe’s, held by JWM Investments, Inc. 28 29 Clerk-Administrator Ericson presented the past consideration of Moe’s liquor license and 30 advised that since Moe’s has paid the State liquor tax delinquency, which was verified by staff, 31 and payment was made to Ramsey County toward the property tax delinquency, the City 32 Attorney has recommended the public hearing not be held at this time. Clerk-Administrator 33 Ericson stated this item is informational so no action is required. 34 35 D. Resolution 7532, Approving a Lot Combination of Two Vacant Parcels on 36 the Northeast Corner of County Road H and Greenwood Drive, Planning 37 Case LC09-001. 38 39 Planning Associate Heller presented the recommendation of staff and the Planning Commission 40 to approve a simple lot combination of two vacant parcels located on the northeast corner of 41 Greenwood Drive and County Road H, which are owned by Steve Ordahl. The request is being 42 made because the Ordahl home was sold in February of 2008 and they now want to sell the 43 vacant parcel. It was noted last year’s approval of a similar subdivision for this property had 44 expired. At that approval, the Council had decided to not require a 5% park dedication fee but to 45