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HomeMy WebLinkAboutgr00090_000047_pg090April 10, 1978 Page 8 ANOKA COUNTY AIRPORT - CITY OF BLAINE ACTION ON MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY Mayor Pickar reported that on April 6, the City of Blaine held a meeting and withdrew their support of having the National Guard facilities in Blaine. He stated that through pressure from the citizens of Blaine, the City Council had second thoughts about having the National Guard Heliport in Blaine. The citizens of Blaine were most concerned about the noise factors, and thus the Council voted on the issue and voted with three ayes, 1 nay and one abstain to withdraw their support. MSP (Rowley - Pickar) to approve Resolution #890, opposing the relocation of the National Guard to Anoka County Airport. Mr. McCarty stated that he would like to thank the Mounds View Concerned Citizens Action Committee for their input into the issue. 5 ayes Councilmember Rowley reported that Jeff Hamiel of the MAC had arranged for tours of the airports in the area. Mayor Pickar added that he had taken the tour, which included the Crystal Airport, Flying Cloud, Wold Chamberlain, Holman Field, Lake Elmo and Anoka. He stated that it is apparent Crystal is too boxed in for any expansion. Flying Cloud is surrounded by water at the ends of the north /south runway. Lake Elmo is surrounded by privately owned open space and could be expanded. At the Anoka site, MAC presently owns land on which it is proposing expansion. CETA PROJECTS - REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Park Director Anderson reported that he had just received preliminary word of the grant for Title 6 money, which is available to non - profit organizations, municipali- ties and school districts, and that one of the requirements was that they put a large number of people to work in a short time, and that they must have at least three people and have them work from three months to one year and have them working within ten days of the project being funded. Park Director Anderson stated that he would like to use the grant to work with the neighborhoods and residents to develop programs that they would like. He stated that from experience they found that the programs that were most widely accepted were from those 16 and under, and they would now like to develop programs to interest other age groups. Park Director Anderson stated that they would like to develop Neighborhood Leisure Councils, and that Staff felt that after the Council were established, they would become self - sufficient after the first year. Mayor Pickar asked if there was any direct cost with the grant. Park Director Anderson replied that there would not be any additional money required with the grant. Mayor Pickar also asked if there would be any additional staff required above and beyond the required CETA employees. Park Director Anderson replied that they would not require any additional staff but that they might have to change the direction of some of the present employees. He added that the role of the CETA people would be to actually get out in the neighborhoods, and that there were a number of requirements the people would have to meet to be employed under the CETA program, and that they hopefully would be able to hire people with a park and recreation background or some related field. Councilmember Baumgartner asked if the Neighborhood Leisure Council was a new idea. Park Director Anderson replied that it had not been done dealing specifically with a Leisure Council but that many of the ideas had been used in the past.