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Mounds View y Council I! December 14, Page Two Reular MeetingURI "j1 ED ------------------------------------- Motion/Second: Wuori/Quick to approve Resolution No. 2271, supporting the efforts of the Pinewood School Playground Committee. 4 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Clerk/Administrator Pauley read three amendments 5. Approval of Councilmember Hankner had asked be made to the Minutes: minutes of November 23. November 23, 1987 Motion/Second: Blanchard/Quick to approve the November 23, 1987 minutes as amended. 4 ayes 0 nays :lotion Carried Pat Rickaby, 8343 Groveland Road, read a list of 6. Residents comments and concerns regarding the drainage ditch Requests and that was cleaned in the area of the proposed Harstad Comments from development, and asked whether a cost benefit study the Floor had been done prior to that work. She also asked if anything had been done to find the file of comments from the Planning Commission regarding sections of the City Code to be worked on, which had been left with Steve Thatcher when he worked for tha pity, but hadnot been located since he had left. �i-;-• Mayor Linke explained the dit ,_in question is the final outlet that serves 200 acres of the drainage basin, and if the ditch was filled, there would be massive drainage problems in the area. He added that the Rice Creek Watershed District had agreed the ditch needed to be cleaned, and it was difficult to determine a cost benefit, and if it was not cleaned, what that damage cost would b3. He stated he felt the sum spent to clean the ditch was small and helped the whole drainage area. Mayor Linke stated that the Council had not heard about the missing documents, but he added that in any business documents do get lost, and the City has implemented policies to have better control over documents at City Hall. He added it is time to let bygones be bygones. Steve Thatcher stated that when he left, the files on comprehensive land use and rezoning were left in both the left and right drawers of his desk. Mayor Linke noted there has been a four to five month period betwoen Mr. Thatcher's employment with the City and the hiring of Ms. Herman, and that many people were in that office during the interim.