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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 1992/09/28 CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW CITY COUNCIL SEPTEMBER 28, 1992 7:00 P.M. AGENDA The City Council is provided background information for agenda items in 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. AIZ 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 - Linke Blanchard Rickaby Wuori Quick 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: September 14, 1992 Regular Meeting COUNCIL ACTION: A T D 5. SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS: a. Adoption and Presentation of Resolution No. 4282 • Commending Tony Griebe for Construction Slabs for Park Bleacher Areas AGENDA PAGE THREE SEPTEMBER 28, 1992 Fire Protection - Expires 6[30/93 National Automatic Sprinkler Company.- New Northern Fire Protection - New COUNCIL ACTION: A T D ' Comments• 9. COUNCIL BUSINESS: A. Development Review, Tyson Trucking, 4825 Mustang Circle, Planning Case No. 349-92, Staff Report No. 92-3$3C COUNCIL ACTION: A T D Comments: B. Consideration of Adopting Ordinance Nos. 517 and 518 Approving an Electric Franchise and a Gas Franchise with NSP and Ordinance No. 519 Adopting a Franchise Fee on Gas and Electric Utilities, Staff Report No. 92-384C COUNCIL ACTION: A T D Linke Blanchard Quick Wuori Rickaby Comments: C. Consideration of Authorizing a Property Appraisal Per the Request of the Golf Course Task Force, Staff Report No. 92-3$5C COUNCIL ACTION: A T D Comments• • PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA Regular Meeting September 28, 1992 Mounds View City Hall 2401 Hwy. 10, Mounds View, MN 55112 CALL TO ORDER ~'I'he Mounds View City Council was called to order by Mayor Linke at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, September. 28, 1992. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The Pledge of Allegiance was said. ROLL CALL MEMBERS PRESENT: Councilmembers Rickaby, Blanchard, Quick, Wuori and Mayor Linke. MEMBERS ABSENT: None ALSO PRESENT: Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, Paul Harrington, City Planner, Don Brager, Finance Director APPROVAL OF MINUTES: MOTIONLSECOND: Rickaby/Wuori to approve September 14, 1992 minutes as presented. VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried • Mounds View City Council .Regular Meeting SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS: Page Two September 28, 1992 a. Mayor Linke introduced and read Resolution No. 4282 Commending Tony Griebe for Construction of Concrete Slabs for Park Bleacher Area MOTION/SECOND: Linke/Quick to adopt Resolution No. 4282 Commending Tony Griebe for Construction of Concrete Slabs for Park Bleacher Area VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried b. Mayor Linke introduced and read Resolution No. 4283 Commending Jeff Norman for Conducting a Bicycle Rodeo for the Children of the Community MOTION/SECOND: Linke/Quick to adopt Resolution No. 4283 Commending Jeff Norman for Conducting a Bicycle Rodeo for the Children of the Community VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried iMayor Linke thanked Tony and Jeff on behalf of the City of Mounds View for he work put into these projects and presented them with resolutions of commendation. RESIDENTS REQUESTS AND COMMENTS FROM THE FLOOR: Lyle Johnston, 7640 Woodlawn Drive, owner/occupant of a duplex which has single stall garages and driveways for both units, addressed the Council regarding the waiver of a fee for a variance needed to widen his driveway due to the recently passed no on-street parking law in the City. Mr. Johnston stated that he has two cars and in order to keep one in the garage and one in the driveway and off the street he needs to widen the existing driveway. Mr. Johnston stated that he did not feel that he should be required to pay the fee for the variance because he was only trying to provide himself and his tenant parking in light of the on-street parking restrictions adopted by the City Council. Following Council discussion it was decided that Paul Harrington, City Planner, would gather information on the breakdown of the fees for a variance and present that information to the City Council at their October 5 Work Session. PUBLIC HEARINGS No public hearings had been scheduled. Mounds View City Council Regular Meeting Page Three September 28, 1992 CONSENT AGENDA Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, read the Consent Agenda. MOTION/SECOND: presented. VOTE: COUNCIL BUSINESS: Quick/Blanchard to adopt the Consent Agenda as 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried A. Paul Harrington, City Planner, reviewed Staff Report No. 92-383C regarding Development Review, Tyson Trucking, 4825 Mustang Circle. Harrington stated that Everest Development representing Tyson Trucking has made application for a development review of their proposed office and parking expansion at 4825 Mustang Circle. The applicant is proposing the conversion of approximately 4,635 square feet of existing warehouse space into office space. An additional 4,175 square feet of office space will be created with the construction of a mezzanine. In addition to the aforementioned alterations, the applicant is requesting review of a proposed 57 vehicle parking area adjacent to the building. Harrington further stated that staff has reviewed the proposal and • found it to be in conformance with all applicable sections of the Mounds View Municipal Code. The City Engineer has reviewed the proposed parking area and determined that its location and size will not impact the storm water management capacity for the site. The Mounds View Planning Commission has reviewed this request and recommended approval. MOTION/SECOND: Blanchard/Rickaby to adopt Resolution No. 4286 Approving the Site Plan Design Submitted by Everest Development, 4825 Mustang Circle VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried B. Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, reviewed Staff Report No. 92-348C. Orduno stated that staff would again ask the Council to table this item as the information requested from NSP had not been received. Orduno stated that the information the City had requested from NSP has been more difficult to secure than NSP had originally calculated. Orduno stated that NSP and the City had not had the opportunity to meet and develop additional options to the proposed straight percentage fee. NSP has informed staff that they anticipate they will have the information by the middle of the week of September 28th. MOTION/SECOND: Wuori/Quick to Table the Consideration of Adopting Ordinance Nos. 517, 518 and 519 regarding the Electric Franchise, Gas Franchise and Adopting a Franchise Fee on Gas and Electric Utilities to the October 13, 1992 Council Meeting. Mounds View City Council ~egular Meeting Page Four September 28, 1992 VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried C. Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, reviewed Staff Report No. 92-385C. Orduno reported that the Golf Course Task Force met for the first time on Thursday, September 17 to begin discussions and plans for the proposed municipal golf course. The discussions involved the acquisition of additional land to expand a 9 hole executive golf course to an 18 hole executive golf course. The City had received three quotes. The low bid was for $900 to appraise Lots 1-5 (plus Outlot A), and Lot 16 in the Industrial Park. The other bids were in the $3,000 to $4,000 range. The reason the low bidder came in at $900 is that this company has done work in the area and has the information on his database. Staff asked Council to authorize Larson Appraisals to conduct an appraisal of the properties outlined above at a cost not to exceed $900 and charge the appraisal to the Golf Course Development Fund. MOTION/SECOND: Wuori/Quick to Authorize Larson Appraisals to Conduct • a Property Appraisal Per the Request of the Golf Course Task Force VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried D. Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, reviewed Staff Report No. 92-386C regarding the approval of publication of a special City Newsletter. Orduno reported that at the September 14, 1992 Council Meeting Council directed staff to prepare cost estimates for a Special City Newsletter similar to the one mailed to the residents in August. Orduno reported that cost to be approximately $1,400, half of the cost of the large City Newsletter. Council also asked staff to prepare a list of topics that would be included in the newsletter. The topics brought forward were, Issues Survey Results, Franchise Fee Implementation and Notice of October 13 Meeting, Results of EQTF Study, Election Information, Update on Recycling, Budget Information and Golf Course Task Force Study. Orduno stated that staff could have this Special October issue prepared and distributed to the residents the second week in October if the Council desires. Councilmember Quick had another item that he would like included. Quick reported that he had a phone call from a person who was interested some flower landscaping in the parks. Quick would like an article placed in the newsletter asking if there is anyone else interested in forming a committee to do landscaping work in the parks and, if so contact the Parks and Recreation Department. `~ Mounds View City Council ~egular Meeting Page Five September 28, 1992 Orduno asked that if any Councilmember had any other items that they contact her by Friday of this week as the newsletter will go to press on Monday. Councilmember Rickaby asked if the names of the individuals on the Environmental Quality Task Force be included in the article referring to the same in the special newsletter. Councilmember Quick commented that according to the last City survey, the residents stated that they liked the short concise newsletter. Quick stated that this small newsletter is a good way to get information to the residents to keep them informed. Councilmember Wuari commented that the Charter Commission was going to look at reducing the number of newsletters. Wuori suggested that perhaps the size of the newsletters could be cut down and the City could send out a couple of large brochures with Park and Recreation information and more of the small newsletters. Mayor Linke commented that he is a member of the Charter Commission and will bring this up at the Commission's meeting in November. ~EPORTS• Report of Councilmembers Councilmember Blanchard - No report. Councilmember Quick - No report. Councilmember Wuori - No report. Councilmember Rickaby - No report. Report of Mayor Linke: Mayor Linke reported that a week or so ago the Irondale Marching Band participated in field show competition in Waseca and took all of the honors. Report of Administrator: 1. Samantha Orduno announced that there will be a meeting of the Golf Course Task Force on October 8 at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall. The public is welcome to attend. Mayor Linke stated that he would like to attend occasionally and there are two other Councilmembers on the Task Force. .This would be a quorum so he asked staff to post a notice to this affect. Orduno reported that this had already been done and staff would continue posting notice when these meetings occur. ounds View City Council ~2egular Meeting Page Six September 28, 1992 2. Samantha Orduno reported that Irondale High School had contacted Mike Ulrich, Public Works Foreman, and asked if he and perhaps some of the maintenance crew could help them reconstruct their baseball fields because they were impressed with the condition of Mounds View's fields. Mike Ulrich and members of the Public Works crew have volunteered to do this work after their normal working hours but it would require the use of City equipment. The equipment needed would be the skid loader and two dump trucks. A motion of the Council would be needed to allow the equipment to be used on this project. MOTION~SECOND: Quick/Rickaby to approve the use of two dump trucks and the skid loader to be used to aid Irondale High School in the reconstruction of their ballfields. VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried There being no further business before the Council, Mayor Linke adjourned the meeting at 7:52 p.m. • Respectfully sub fitted, ~) Mic ele Severson Recording Secretary •