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Mounds View City Council September 22, 2003 Regular Meeting Page 10 1 Angela Olson of 5046 Longview Drive indicated she is frustrated with this process and does not 2 feel that Council listened about using TIF because they were told it was fine to use it but now she 3 has heard there are questions. She then said that Council Member Gunn was exactly right when 4 she said that people think that Council does not listen because they feel that way. 5 6 Ms. Olson indicated that the amount of time the school patrol is out is 4.1% of the time of 7 daylight hours using an average of 12 daylight hours. She then said she is frustrated with the fact 8 that she was told by Mr. Lee to hold off on trimming the hedges only to have an inspector come 9 to her house the next day and tell her to trim them or be fined. 10 11 Ms. Olson asked that the City get it together and do things right the first time and not take six or 12 eight months to make a decision. She then said that this should not go through if there are this 13 many problems with it and asked that Council not waste time making decisions that they do not 14 know if it is okay to make. 15 16 Mayor Linke indicated that he did not agree with option one and thanked Ms. Olson for her 17 information but option one does not provide a safe way for kids to cross the street other than at 18 the school and the City is not providing them a way to get to the school before they get to that 19 point so it defeats the purpose of the guards in the first place. He then said that he would like to 20 do option three. 21 22 Ayes – 3 Nays – 2(Linke/Quick) Motion carried. 23 24 D. Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance 718, Implementing a Franchise 25 Fee on Xcel Energy Electric and Natural Gas Operations Within the City of 26 Mounds View for the Year 2004 27 28 Finance Director Hansen gave an overview of the Ordinance. 29 30 Council Member Quick indicated he would like to move a continuance because he would like 31 Xcel to have to post a cash bond of $50,000 for property damage done. He then commented that 32 he had damage done to his property by a contractor of Xcel coming onto his property without 33 permission and causing damage to his property. He further commented that if this was done to 34 him the way Xcel handles its tree trimming must be more widespread and he would like to 35 protect other residents by requiring the bond. 36 37 Council Member Quick indicated he thinks this is out of control because there could be serious 38 trouble if perhaps the dog got out or they got bit by a dog in a back yard or something and he 39 feels that a $50,000 would help control the situation. 40 41 City Attorney Riggs recommended reviewing the franchise to determine whether it is possible to 42 add the bonding information. 43 44