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3P (Pickar- Baumgartner) To approve the following bills: General checks #6575 thru
0633 and Payroll checks #2980 thru #3007. Total disbursements $27,301.25. 4 Ayes
MSP (Neisen- Johnson) To approve check #6632 transferring $4,654.77 from Sewer Utility
to Project Fund 1972 -3 until the bond proceeds are received. 4 Ayes
The Council discussed various types of underground street lighting available for newly
platted residential underground areas. They decided to invite the NSP street lighting
representative to the November 6th agenda meeting.
MSP (Baumgartner - Pickar) To adopt Resolution #583 apportioning the assessments for
Division #045445, T. V. Construction, Inc. Plat #1 subject to the payment of additional
assessments totaling $963.00 for Lot 1, Block 1. 4 Ayes
Clerk Zylla received Council permission to attend a revenue sharing seminar scheduled
for November 24, 1972 at the Holiday Inn on 494 and Highway 100.
MSP (Johnson - Baumgartner) To adopt Resolution #584, opposition to the acquisition of
the Village of New Brighton trunk sewer by the Metropolitan Council, and to authorize
the Clerk to send copies to the Referral Committee and member communities of Sewer
Service Area #2. 4 Ayes
Councilman Johnson's Report
juncilman Johnson read a letter from Jim Schlichtmann, Superintendant of Public Works,
ecommending that Wallace Mortenson be advanced to full pay scale and other employee
benefits as of November 1, 1972, the end of his six month probationary period.
Councilman Johnson inquired as to whether the owner of the Skelly Station on Groveland
Road was selling cars from his property and whether anything on the property met the
definition of a junk car. Clerk Zylla informed the Council that about one month ago
the Police did make a visit to the property and he was not in violation of the used
car lot ordinance though he did have some debris scattered around the property which
he later took care of.
Councilman Johnson asked Mr. Meyers if there were any new developments on the cast iron
pipe manufacturers law suit. Attorney Meyers stated that he had submitted the data to
the State by the required deadline. Engineer Boehm stated that his bill for services
connected with the case was included in tonights disbursements and amounted to less than
one half of the estimated $2,000.00 figure.
Councilman Johnson discussed the 1973 Spring Lake Park Fire Department budget noting
that Mounds View was the only community that was paying their bill for fire protection
on time. He also noted that the Fire Dept. was constantly borrowing money and in effect
spending more each year than they took in, in receipts. The Clerk was directed to send
a letter to the Fire Department asking them to seek to bring other member communities
on a current basis as far as protection payments were concerned. The Council suggested
asking the Fire Dept. to bill Blaine and Spring Lake Park for the interest charges for
borrowing money because they are not paying current. The letter to the Fire Dept. was
-o include a statement that they make "actual expenditures in accordance with budget ",