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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 1992/11/23• CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW CITY COUNCIL NOVEMBER 23, 1992 7:00 P.M. AGENDA The City Council is provided background .information for agenda items sn advance by staff and appointed commissions, committees and boards. Decisions are based on this information, as well as City policy and practices, input from constituents and a Councilmember's personal judgement. If you have comments, questions or information regarding an item on the agenda, please step forward to be recognized by the. Mayor , during the "Residents Requests and Comments From the Floor" item on the agenda. Please state your name and address for the record. A11 comments are appreciated. A copy of all printed materials relating to the agenda item is available for public inspection at the Recording Secretary's Table. 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3. ROLL CALL - 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Linke Rickaby Blanchard Quick Wuori November 9, 1992 Regular Meeting COUNCIL ACTION: A T D Comments: AGENDA PAGE TWO NOVEMBER 23, 1992 5. SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS: A. Consideration and Presentation of Resolution No. 4303 Mounds View Resident Appreciation Award to David Moon, Staff Report No. 92-415C COUNCIL ACTION: A T D Comments: B. Consideration and Presentation of Resolution No. 4304 Mounds View Recognition Award to Irondale High School Student Premal Shah COUNCIL ACTION: A T D • Comments• 6. RESIDENTS REQUESTS AND COMMENTS FROM THE FLOOR Citizens' comments are encouraged to allow individual citizens to address the Council, as a whole, on a matter of interest or concern to the citizens. The preservation of the Citizens' Comments item on the agenda is important sn order to encourage and maintain this information flow. To preserve and protect this valuable cormnunications link, a speaker is Zsmited to three (3) minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------- CITIZENS: BEFORE SPEAKING PLEASE GIVE YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE MINUTES ------------------------------------------------------------- 7. PUBLIC HEARINGS: 7:05 p.m. To Consider A Variance Appeal Request for Roger Westphal, 8232 Greenwood Drive, Staff Report No. 92-416C A. Resolution No. 4305 Approving/Denying the Setback Variance Request by Roger Westphal, 8232 Greenwood Drive COUNCIL ACTION: A T D Comments• t AGENDA • PAGE THREE NOVEMBER 23, 1992 8. CONSENT AGENDA• A. Adopt Resolution No'. 4302 Approving Just and Correct Claims Against City Funds B. Set Public Hearing for 7:05 p.m., December 14, 1992 - to Consider Request for Conditional Use Permit, Randy D. Bennett, 8308 Knollwood Drive C. Licenses for Approval HVAC - Expires 6J 30/93 Bowler Company - New Randy Lane and Sons Plumbing and Heating, Inc.- New COUNCIL ACTION: A T D Comments: 9. COUNCIL BUSINESS: • A. Recreation Commission Request to Use Park Capital Funds for Park Repairs and Equipment, Staff Report No. 92-417C COUNCIL ACTION: A T D Comments• B. Water Treatment Plant Equipment Recommendation, Staff Report No. 92-418C COUNCIL ACTION: A T D Comments• C. Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance Nos. 520 521 Revising Chapters 59 and 60, Respectively Entitled, "Building Permits and Fees" and "Building Code and License Fees" COUNCIL ACTION: A T D Linke Rickaby AGENDA • PAGE FOUR NOVEMBER 23, 1992 Wuori Quick Blanchard Comments: " 10. REPORTS: 1. Report of Councilmembers: Rickaby, Quick, Blanchard, Wuori 2. Report of Mayor Linke 3. Report of Administrator - 4. Report of Staff 5. Report of Attorney 11. ADJOURNMENT' NEST COIINCII, WORK SESSION: DECEMBER 7, 1992 NEST COIINCII, MEETING: DECEMBER 14, 1992 • • PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA Regular Meeting November 23, 1992 Mounds View City Ha11 2401 Hwy. 10, Mounds View, MN 55112 CALL TO ORDER ~he Mounds View City Council was called to order by Mayor Linke at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, November 23, 1992. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The Pledge of Allegiance was said. ROLL CALL MEMBERS PRESENT: Councilmembers Rickaby, Quick, Wuori, Blanchard and Mayor Linke. ALSO PRESENT: Samantha Orduno, City Administrator; Paul Harrington, City Planner; Ric Minetor, Director of Public Works/City Engineer; Jim Thomson, City Attorney APPROVAL OF MINUTES: MOTION/SECOND: Rickaby/Wuori to Approve Meetings from the November 9, 1992 Regular Council Meeting VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried • Mounds View City Council Page Two ~egular Meeting November 23, 1992 SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS: a. Mayor Linke introduced and read Resolution No. 4303 Mounds View Resident Appreciation Award to Dan Moon MOTION/SECOND: Linke/Blanchard to adopt Resolution No. 4303 Mounds View Resident Appreciation Award to Dan Moon VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Mayor Linke presented the above resolution and a plaque stating the same to Dan Moon for his suggestion regarding the cost savings to the City for printing of the City's logo. b. Mayor Linke introduced and read Resolution No. 4304 Recognition Award to Irondaie High School Student Premal Shah for his exemplary leadership and. dedication to community service. MOTION/SECOND: Linke/Quick to adopt Resolution No. 4304 Recognition Award to Irondale High School Student Premal Shah VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried • Mayor Linke presented the above resolution and a plaque stating the same to Permal Shah for his leadership in various organizations and for being an outstanding student and a model example to his peers. RESIDENTS REQUESTS AND COMMENTS FROM THE FLOOR: There were no resident requests or comments. PUBLIC HEARINGS• Mayor Linke opened the public hearing at 7:05 to consider a variance appeal request for Roger Westphal, 8232 Greenwood Drive. Paul Harrington, City Planner, reviewed Staff Report No. 92-416C regarding a variance appeal for Roger Westphal, 8232 Greenwood Drive. Harrington reported that the Mounds View Planning Commission had reviewed and denied this request at their November 4, 1992 meeting. The applicant appealed the denial of this request to the Council per Chapter 40 of the Mounds View Municipal Code. Roger Westphal, 8232 Greenwood Drive, stated that he had asked the Building Inspector for the setback requirement and was told five feet from the property line. Mr. Westphal and his son poured the concrete slab and, after the fact, Mrs. Westphal came in for a Building Permit and was told at that ~ime that the setback would be thirty feet. ounds View City Council ~egular Meeting Page Three November 23, 1992 Mr. Westphal stated that he needed to have more storage for items and so decided to put up a large shed rather than have to add to it every couple of years. Westphal needed to make room in his garage for another car so his wife, who works very late at night, could park in the garage for safety reasons rather than at the end of the driveway. Council concurred that in order to grant a variance of this type the applicant would have to prove that a hardship existed. Council could not find reason to grant this variance on a hardship basis. Mayor Linke closed the public hearing at 7:21 p.m. MOTION1 SECOND: Quick/Wuori to Deny the Setback Variance Request By Roger Westphal, 8232 Greenwood Drive VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Mrs. Westphal asked if this concrete area could be used as a basketball court. Paul Harrington, City Planner, stated he would check into what the uses could be for the concrete area. ~ouncilmember Blanchard asked if permit fees would be refunded and was assured by Harrington that they would be. CONSENT AGENDA• Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, read the Consent Agenda. Mayor Linke asked if there were any items the Council desired removed. The Council removed no items. MOTION/SECOND: presented. VOTE• COUNCIL BUSINESS: Quick/Blanchard to adopt the Consent Agenda as 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried A. Mary Saarion, Director of Parks, Recreation and Forestry, reviewed Staff Report No. 92-417C regarding the Recreation Commission's request to use park capital funds for park repairs and equipment. Saarion explained that the 1992 Parks Capital budget had $12,000 allotted for Lambert Park playground equipment. This money was budgeted before the CDGB grant for the same project was awarded. Because of the grant, Lambert Park has a beautiful playground worth over $50,000 which was funded with grant monies. Mounds View City Council ~~egular Meeting Page Four November 23, 1992 Saarion stated that the Parks and Recreation Commission requests that the Council approve the expenditure of the $12,000 on tracks for the skid loader, floor improvements on the Random Park Building, two nine hole disc golf equipment sets and the replacement of the Groveland Park cargo net. Councilmember Rickaby commended the Parks and Recreation Commission for their work in establishing the needs for the parks and the excellent way to use the budgeted $12,000. Ric Minetor, Director of Public Works, stated there is excess funding in the construction account in the Streets Department and rather than buying the steel tracks for the skid loader would fund half the cost of rubber tracks which would enable the loader to be driven to different locations rather than hauled if the steel tracks were purchased. MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Blanchard to approve the purchase of skid loader tracks, the floor improvements to the Random Park Building, the purchase of two nine hole golf disc equipment sets and the replacement of the Groveland Park cargo net. VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried B. Ric Minetor, Director of Public Works/City Engineer, reviewed Staff Report No. 92-418C regarding the water treatment plant equipment bids. Minetor stated that staff is recommending that the existing plant equipment be retained and modifications to the plant be made to provide backwash reclamation and automation and that the Council reject bids for filtration equipment from Filtronics and Hungerford and Terry. Minetor stated that the cost of remodeling the existing equipment, rehabilitating the building and automating controls is estimated to be approximately $482,000. This is in comparison to the estimate of $890,000 to renovate the filter plants with new filter equipment. Minetor stated that if the Council concurred with Staff recommendation to rehabilitate the City~s existing filter plants, SEH can have plans and specifications for bid by the end of December. A decision would have to be made at this time regarding the roofs of the buildings due to the fact that the roofs are in need of repair. Minetor asked if the Council wanted to have pitched roofs so the buildings would blend into the neighborhoods where they are located. MOTION~SECOND: Quick/Rickaby to reject the bids for filtration equipment from Filtronics and Hungerford and Terry, rehabilitate the existing filtering plants which includes filtration equipment modifica- tion and building renovation and stay with the flat roof on the buildings. Mounds View City Council Page Five ~egular Meeting November 23, 1992 VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried C. Ric Minetor, Director of Public Works/City Engineer, reviewed Staff Report 92-414C regarding revisions to Chapters 59 and 60 of the Municipal Code entitled, "Building Permits and Fees" and "Building Code and License Fees", respectively. The revisions to these chapters have been prepared to conform with State Statutes and to clarify the types of work requiring a license from the City. A roll call vote was taken. VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried REPORTS Councilmember Rickab At the November 9, 1992 meeting the appointment of Lee Trotta to the Environmental Quality Task Force was tabled because more information was needed regarding the Task Force and its purpose. Rickaby would like this item taken from the table and moved on. • MOTION/SECOND: Rickaby/Blanchard to remove from the table consideration of application for appointment to Environmental Quality Task Force VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Rickaby stated that the Environmental Quality Task Force is in need of more members if the Task Force will be taking on further tasks. Rickaby further stated that at the last meeting the two persons in attendance had some new ideas. MOTIONJSECOND: Rickaby/Wuori to appoint Lee Trotta to the Environmental Quality Task Force. Mayor Linke stated that perhaps the Council should wait until the first meeting of 1993 to appoint members as this is when all other new appointments are coming up. Mayor Linke further explained that new liaisons are chosen for the Commissions at the last meeting in December or first meeting in January. Councilmember Rickaby asked what Mayor Linke meant when he stated that this Task Force is coming up for renewal. Mayor Linke explained that normally with a task force, when the task has been completed the task force is dissolved. Mayor Linke stated that he understood that there are persons interested in making this Task Force a Mounds View City Council ~egular Meeting Page Six November 23, 1992 commission and that a work plan should be formulated. Councilmember Wuori stated that the Environmental Quality Task Force is a unique group. This Task Force seeks its own mission. All other Task Forces and Commissions have a course to follow. This group sought out items to cover and brought those items to the Council. Wuori stated that it is nice to see a community working together. VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Councilmember Rickaby stated that she received her Property Tax Statement this past week and it showed a significant increase in her property value as well as significantly more than 8.3~ increase in property taxes proposed for the City of Mounds View. Rickaby wanted to know if the increase valuations were considered when the dollar amounts were given to Council. Mayor Linke stated Don Brager, Finance Director, did not have all that information from the County. Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, responded that she had received many phone calls and stated that property values have gone up. Some of the reasons behind the increase in property values are that there have been legislative changes in property classifications plus increases in the values hat Ramsey County places on homes. Orduno stated if the value of the home went up, then the City's portion of the taxes also went up. Mayor Linke stated that property values on his own home have gone up and down in the last two years. Linke stated that according to Ramsey County the average is about three and one-half percent. Those whose property values went down will have a decrease in taxes. Orduno stated that the Proposed Property Tax Statement was confusing because the persons reading as the State Truth in Taxation Law states that the cities provide the County with their proposed levy by September 15. The City has not finalized their budget by the time the city has to provide the County with the levy. People need to be told that it is a proposed levy. Councilmember Rickaby stated that with the proposed 8.3~ property tax levy. Rickaby asked if that means this would be what an average homeowner would pay increased over the property taxes in 1992. Orduno stated that the 8.3 is the percent levied from 1992 to 1993. Orduno stated that the Council did not make a direct correlation between the 8.3~ because Council was looking at the total revenue the franchise fee would provide if the Council were to raise that same amount through property taxes. ouncilmember Rickaby stated that 8.3 percent is the increase from 1992 to 993. Rickaby stated that hers says the increase is 13.2. When the Mounds View City Council Page Seven ~egular Meeting November 23, 1992 Council talked about 8.3 percent, increased valuations were not taken into consideration. Rickaby would like to have a recalculation reflecting the increase in valuations so that it can be calculated what the City is truly increasing if the City did the proposed top value and what the difference in dollar would be from what was previously proposed. Rickaby stated that she would also like to know the amount of levy decrease that it would take to achieve the 0 percent increase in Mounds View property taxes that the Council discussed in connection with the franchise fees. Mayor Linke stated that a 0~ increase would be charging the same percentage, 17, that the City is now. Rickaby stated that Mayor Linke stated that the City would not consider an increase in property tax if the City did the franchise fee. Rickaby would like to know how much decrease in the levy would it take to achieve the 0 increase in property tax. Orduno stated that it was stated clearly that it was a rate increase. Rickaby stated that in the publication that it is a 0 rate increase, in the iscussions it was very clearly stated that it was a property tax increase. ~ickaby stated that she has the minutes that clearly state that. Mayor Linke asked if the City could do a special mailing on this subject. Orduno stated that the school district is reacting just as negatively as the City is in regard to the misrepresenttion of information sent out with the property tax statements. The School District sent home special mailings with the school children. Orduno stated the City could do the same thing and get a publication out as early as Tuesday. This publication would inform people that this is a proposed levy and let people know the budget hearing is December 9. In general, people will open special mailings. Councilmember 4uick Commended the Planning, Building and Public Works Department on resolving the problems on Ardan Avenue. Councilmember Blanchard - No report. Councilmember Wuori - No report. Report of Mayor• 1. Mayor Linke brought forth Resolution No. 4308 Concerning a Constitutional Amendment to Create a New Property Taxpayers' • Trust Fund in Minnesota Mounds View City Council ~egular Meeting Page Eight November 23, 1992 MOTION/SECOND: Linke/Quick to adopt Resolution No. 4308 Concerning a Constitutional Amendment to Create a New Property Taxpayers' Trust Fund in Minnesota VOTE:. 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried Report of Administrator: Reminder that Budget Hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, December 9 at 6:00 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers. Encouraged all residents to attend the school district, county and city budget hearings. Report of Staff• Ric Minetor, Director of Public Works/City Engineer, explained that Ramsey County is accepting applications for use of SCORE funds to improve recycling participation by the public. Minetor asked for Council approval of Resolution No. 4309 Approving a Recycling Grant Request to Ramsey County. MOTION/SECOND: Wuori/Blanchard to adopt Resolution No. 4309 Approving Recycling Grant Request to Ramsey County VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried There being no further business before the Council, Mayor Linke adjourned the meeting at 8:23 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Michele Severson Recording Secretary •