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Item No: 11B(2) Meeting Date: Nov 24, 2008 Type of Business: Reports Administrator Review : ___ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: James Ericson, Clerk - Administrator Item Title/Subject: Administrator Reports 1. Xcel Energy Easement Update At the November 10th meeting of the City Council, you had asked for an update regarding Xcel Energy and whether there had been any update in response to the worksession on October 6th, at which Xcel representative Dan Woerhle agreed to compensate the City $1,500 for the necessary easement where the manual pipeline shut off is located. Subsequent to the Nov 10th meeting, we received the compensation for he easement. Last week the City received the draft easement document which has been sent to Kennedy & Graven for their review. 2. Gaming Machines at the Community Center Earlier this month, Pat Prindle let us know that the owner of the gaming machines at the Community Center (the two pool tables, the foosball table and air hockey table, plus the change machine) were not generating sufficient revenue according to the owner of the machines--American Amusement Arcades—and they would like to remove the machines from the Community Center. They have provided the City with a cost breakdown of the machines in case we’d like to purchase any of them. Cost Rev 2008 Air Hockey - $700.00 $217.25 Tornado Foosball - $500.00 $ 87.50 Valley Pool Table - $700.00 $174.00 Valley Pool Table - $700.00 $101.00 Rowe Change Machine - $500.00 n/a I asked Pat Prindle if there were a machine or machines that he’d like to see remain at the Community Center, and he indicated it would be nice to keep the foosball table and one of the pool tables. The cost of the two tables would total $1,200. Given the revenues collected in one year, It would take five years to recover the investment, assuming no malfunction or maintenance along the way. If the Council is interested, we could ask the YMCA Advisory Committee to weigh in on the proposal and it could be placed on the Dec 1, 2008 work session for discussion. I told the owner of the machines that we’d provide him with a response no later than December 2, 2008.