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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 1994/01/24 • PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA Regular Meeting January 24, 1994 Mounds View City Hall 2401 Hwy. 10, Mounds View, MN 55112 CALL TO ORDER The Mounds View City Council was called to order by Mayor Linke at 7 : 00 p.m. on Monday, January 24, 1994. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE • ROLL CALL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Linke, Councilmembers Trude, Wuori, Blanchard and Quick MEMBERS ABSENT: None ALSO PRESENT: Samantha Orduno, City Administrator; Mary Saarion, Director of Parks, Recreation and Forestry APPROVAL OF MINUTES MOTION/SECOND: Trude/Quick to Approve Minutes of January 10, 1994 As Presented VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS: Mayor Linke introduced and read Resolution No. 4485 Commending Captain Floyd Paulson for Twenty Years of Service with the Spring Lake Park, Blaine, Mounds View Fire Department MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Blanchard to Adopt Resolution No. 4485 Commending Captain Floyd Paulson for Twenty Years of Service with 411 the Spring Lake Park, Blaine, Mounds View Fire Department Mounds View City Council. Page Two • Regular Meeting January 24, 1994 VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Mayor Linke presented Captain Floyd Paulson with Resolution No. 4485 proclamation declaring that Tuesday, January 25, 1994 is Captain Floyd Paulson Day in Mounds View. Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, announced that Captain Floyd Paulson Day would also be displayed on the City's outside message board on Tuesday. CONSENT AGENDA Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, read the Consent Agenda. Mayor Linke asked if there were any items the Council desired removed from the Consent Agenda. Mayor Linke removed Item B, Resolution No. 4493 Approving Salary Adjustment for City Administrator. MOTION/SECOND: Wuori/Blanchard to Adopt the Consent Agenda minus Item B. VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried • Mayor Linke explained that he had removed Item B from the Consent Agenda as the resolution had been rewritten because the former resolution did not adequately state the reasons for approving a salary adjustment for the City Administrator. Mayor Linke read rewritten Resolution No. 4493 Approving Salary Adjustment for City Administrator. MOTION/SECOND: Linke/Quick to Adopt Resolution No. 4493 Approving Salary Adjustment for City Administrator. VOTE: 5—ayes 0 nays MatIon—Ca-r-r-icd RESIDENTS REQUESTS AND COMMENTS FROM THE FLOOR There were no resident comments or requests at this meeting. PUBLIC HEARINGS There were no public hearings scheduled for this meeting. COUNCIL BUSINESS: A. Consideration of Resolution No. 4488 Approving Performance Pay Adjustment for Parks, Recreation and Forestry Director, Mary Saarion Mounds View City Council Page Three . Regular Meeting January 24, 1994 Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, reported that Mary Saarion is an employee who represents the very best in quality, commitment, work ethic, positive attitude, energy and dedication to the Mounds View community. Orduno further stated that Mary is an employee who consistently goes the extra mile to serve others, to help others and to make Mounds View the very best that it can be. Mary, over the past three years, has been an outstanding member of the staff, exhibiting a consistently outstanding performance in the area of leadership, cooperation, innovation, interpersonal relations, customer service and countless others. Orduno stated that Saarion's. performance is an example of the very best that exists within the staff of the City of Mounds View. Orduno made a recommendation that Mary Saarion receive a 2% performance pay adjustment on the 1994 base, effective January 1, 1994 . MOTION/SECOND: Blanchard/Wuori to Adopt Resolution No. 4488 Approving 2% Performance Pay Adjustment for Parks, Recreation and Forestry Director, Mary Saarion VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, presented Resolution No. 4488 • to Mary Saarion. B. Consideration of Resolution No. 4486 Rejecting Emergency Plans for Town's Edge, Colonial Village and Mounds View Manufactured Home Parks Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, reported that this item had been discussed at the November Council Work Session and is a result of several meetings between the City, the County, representatives of the manufactured home parks, and Representative Geri Evans. Orduno further reported that action to reject the current emergency plans of the three manufactured home parks will serve as the iii--i-a-step—in—re valuat ng the emergency needs of the park residents. Orduno stated that upon adoption of Resolution No. 4486, Ramsey County will be notified of the Council's action and will then begin discussions with managers and owners of the three parks to determine alternative emergency plans which may include construction of additional shelters on site or designation of alternative shelter sites closer and more accessible to park residents. MOTION/SECOND: Trude/Quick to Waive the Reading and Adopt Resolution No. 4486 Formally Rejecting the Emergency Plans for Town's Edge, Colonial Village and Mounds View Manufactured Home Parks VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Mounds View City Council Page Four 0 Regular Meeting January 24, 1994 C. Consideration of Approval of Contract for Golf Course Engineering Services Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, stated that the construction of the golf course provides for various engineering services related to such activities of water and sewer service to the site as well as the necessary permitting processes with Rice Creek Watershed. The Supplemental Letter of Agreement provides for those services as an extension of the current Agreement the City has with SEH for general engineering services. MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Trude to Waive the Reading and Adopt Resolution No. 4492 Authorizing the City Administrator to Execute the Supplemental Letter of Agreement with SEH for Engineering Services for the Golf Course in an Amount not to Exceed $11,700 to be Paid out of the Proceeds of the Revenue Bond Sale and Account No. 698-4120-303 . VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Discussion among the Council and staff evolved around the fact that Blaine is proposing to build two golf courses. • D. Consideration of Resolution No. 4487 Authorizing an Application for Conveyance of Certain Tax Forfeited Parcels Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, reported that Ramsey County's division of Property Records and Revenue has informed the City that two parcels in Mounds View have been declared as tax forfeit parcels. Orduno reported that the City Council at the January Work Session discussed the acquisition of the two parcels, through a use deed, as part of the City's on-going surface water management program. Orduno stated that the use deeds would allow the City to hold the parcels in the public trust, for public use, for an indefinite p&r- od--o- time. O-r-duna reported—that the cast of obtaining the use deeds would be approximately $150 to $200. Councilmember Quick mentioned that one of the parcels of land is between Woodlawn and Edgewood, north of Sherwood and the other parcel is on the west side of Silver Lake Road across from Silver • View Park between County Road I and Bronson (if Bronson were to go through) . MOTION/SECOND: Blanchard/Wuori to Waive the Reading and Adopt Resolution No. 4487 Authorizing An Application for Conveyance of Certain Tax Forfeited Parcels. VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Mounds View City Council Page Five • Regular Meeting January 24, 1994 E. Consideration of 1993 Budget Transfer and Amendment Mary Saarion, Director of Parks, Recreation and Forestry reported that official approval for the purchase of the water truck was never officially documented. The purchase of the water truck was approved by Council but not the transfer of monies from the Recreation Activity Fund revenues to the 1993 Parks Capital Equipment fund 100- 436-703 and Amendment of the 1993 Budget by increasing 100-4360-703 by $3 , 500 and by increasing transfer 100-3961 by $3 ,500. MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Blanchard to Approve Budget Transfer of $3 ,500 for the 1993 Purchase of the Water Truck Using Recreation Activity Fund Revenues to the 1993 Parks Capital Equipment fund 100-4360-703 and Amend the 1993 Budget by Increasing 100-4360-703 by $3,500 and By Increasing 100-4360-703 by $3, 500 and By Increasing Transfer 100- 3961 by $3 , 500 VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried F. Consideration of Resolution No. 4489 Approving CDBG Proposal for Utilities in the Four Neighborhood Park Buildings • Mary Saarion, Director of Parks, Recreation and Forestry, asked that this item be postponed because she would have to rework the Community Development Block Grant. No action was taken on Resolution No. 4489 Approving CDBG Proposal for Utilities in the Four Neighborhood Park Buildings. G. Consideration of Resolution No. 4490 Regarding Credit Card Program Mary Saarion, Director of Parks, Recreation and Forestry, stated that the Parks and Recreation Department is looking into the puss-ibili y—of credit-card regist-r-a-ttons—SevPra 1 other communities have adopted this policy and have had good response. Saarion stated that the Department would like to have this policy up and running by Spring registration. The Park and Recreation Department would like to try the program for one year and then assess its statistics and decide whether or not it pays to continue with this service. Councilmember Trude commented that the credit card program is an excellent idea. MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Trude to Adopt Resolution No. 4490 Agreeing to Credit Card Recreation Activity Registrations VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried 411 Mounds View City Council Page Six Regular Meeting January 24, 1994 H. Consideration of Approval of Richard Oman as Chair of Environmental Quality Commission Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, reported that on January 18, 1994, Richard Oman was again appointed to the position of Chair of the Environmental Quality Commission by the Commission members present at that meeting. Orduno stated that per Chapter 33 of the Municipal Code, this one-year appointment is subject to Council approval. The Code allows a Commissioner to serve in the position of Chair for no more than two consecutive terms. MOTION/SECOND: Trude/Blanchard to Approve Richard Oman as Chair of the Environmental Quality Commission VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried I. Consideration of Approval of Environmental Quality Commission Appointment Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, reported that the Environmental Quality Commission Chair, Richard Oman, has requested that the Commission seats on the Commission be declared vacant. One • application for these vacant seats has been received by the City. James Mennell is an environmental attorney in Minneapolis and has an extensive background in environmental issues and regulation. Mr. Mennell would complete Josey Warren's term which expires December 31, 1994 . MOTION/SECOND: Trude/Wuori to declare vacant the seats of Josey Warren and Lillian Fellay and to appoint James Mennell to the Environmental Quality Commission, term to expire December 31, 1994. VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried C-ouncklme ►ber—Trude--c-ommented—tha sly was pleased to see his type of application come in and that new people are getting involved. J. Consideration of Resolution No. 4491 Authorizing Transfer of $2338 ($2195 + tax) from Contingency Account #100-910-000 to Central Services Account #100-4190-703 for Purchase of Computer Network Software Upgrade Mayor Linke stated that he had a conversation with the City Admin- istrator a couple of weeks ago regarding the network system. There are more people wanting to use the network than the network is capable of handling. Mayor Linke stated that he asked Samantha Orduno, City Administrator to place this item on the next agenda. iCouncilmember Trude state that this is an effective way for staff to communicate. Mounds View City Council Page Seven • Regular Meeting January 24, 1994 The network system saves time and money. Instead of typing agenda items, they are sent to the Administration Secretary via E-mail. Councilmember Blanchard stated that at the FOCUS 2000 meeting it was agreed that equipment should be up to date. MOTION/SECOND: Linke/Wuori to Adopt Resolution No. 4491 Authorizing Transfer of $2338 ($2195 plus tax) from Contingency Account #100- 4450-910-000 to Central Services Account #100-4190-703 for Purchase of Computer Network Software Upgrade VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried REPORTS: 1. Report of Councilmembers: a. Councilmember Trude reported that her school age children had brought home a flyer listing the goals for the School District for 1994 and asking the residents to rank the goals in order of importance to them. The School District is asking the input be turned in by February 1st. 411 Councilmember Trude wanted to thank those persons who came and braved the cold for the FOCUS 2000 forums. Trude stated she hoped there would be some public feedback after the final report. There are some good samaritans. Councilmember Trude had a flat tire and a gentlemen stopped and changed the tire for her. b. Councilmember Wuori - Thanked all persons who came out and attended the FOCUS meeting. Councilmember Wuori stated that it would have been nice to have more time. c. Councilmember Quick - No report. d. Councilmember Blanchard - No report. Report of Mayor Linke: a. On Wednesday, January 12, 1994, an Appreciation Dinner for the area Police Departments was held. A good time was had by all. Report of Administrator: a. No report. 0 Mayor Linke announced the upcoming Council Meeting Dates. Mounds View City Council Page Eight 411 Regular Meeting January 24, 1994 ADJOURNMENT There being no further business before this Council, Mayor Linke adjourned the meeting at 7:41 p.m. Orduno announced that Laurie Schley, Charter Commission member had a baby girl, Hallie. Congratulations to Laurie and Doug Schley. Respectfully submi ed, Michele Sever - •n Recording Se/ etary