HomeMy WebLinkAboutgr00090_000032_pg087PROCEEDINGS OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL
VILLAGE OF MOUNDS VIEW
COUNTY OF RAMSEY
A Regular Meeting of the Mounds View Village Council was called to order by Mayor
Neisen at 8:00 P.M. on September 10, 1973, at the Mounds View Village Hall, 2401
Highway #10, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112.
Present:
Mayor Neisen
Councilman Hodges
Councilman Baumgartner
Councilman Johnson
Councilman Pickar
Also Present:
Attorney Meyers
Engineer Bearden
Clerk- Administrator Zylla
MSP (Hodges - Pickar) To approve the minutes of August 27, 1973. 5 Ayes
Residents Requests and Comments from the Floor:
Tim Smith, Mounds View Juvenile Officer, appeared before the Council to discuss seeking
an endorsement of a Crime Prevention Program in the Village of Mounds View. He noted
that September 24th, through the 30th is Crime Prevention Week. At a conference he
recently attended in Alexandria, part one of a four part series on crime prevention -
burglaries -was discussed. The program involves scribing valuables with an NCIC number,
which is identified nationwide. He said that in Edina where the program was initiated
in Minnesota, of the 5,000 persons who subscribed to the system there were only five
burglaries; for the 7,500 people in Edina that were not in the program there were 300
burglaries. Mr. Smith added that the program is voluntary and there is no cost to the
Village.
MSP (Neisen- Hodges) To endorse the crime prevention program and to provide whatever
meaningful assistance that is requested. 5 Ayes
Phil Chenoweth, Village fiscal consultant, appeared to discuss the results of a bonded
debt, assessment, and tax levy study approved by the Council a few months ago. As a
result of the anaylsis, it was recommended that the Village could reduce its water bond
levy by 100 %, its improvement bond levy by 30 %, and its water revenue bond levy by 17.5 %.
For the debt levy 1973 -74, it means a reduction from $213,700 to $148,535 and over the
life of the Village bonds it means a potential savings of $1,012,307. Mayor Neisen
called attention to the fact that because the study was successful in its conclusions,
escrowed connection charges totaling over $300,000 are no longer needed to maintain the
debt levy at 5.25 mills. He referenced a report prepared by the Clerk in 1971, that has
been updated yearly, which budgeted for use a portion of the escrowed connection charges
each year in order to maintain a stable debt levy. He read two paragraphs of a report
prepared by the Clerk dated September 10, which suggested using the escrowed connection
charges for several possible uses in the Village capital improvement program. Clerk
Zylla explained that the Ehlers report and the escrowed connection charges were separate
matters, but linked because the Village had planned the use of the connection charges
to reduce the debt levy before the Ehlers Report was even authorized. The effect of
the Ehlers Report is that the escrowed connection charges are no longer necessary to
maintain the debt levy at 5.25 mills. The connection charges now have been freed up
for use in a capital improvement program.
Ron Murphy and Mr. Korsgaden appeared before the Council to request approval of
Korsgaden Addition. Mr. Murphy stated that in the final plat, a 15 foot storm sewer