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Page 5 the rental business since he felt there was probably an abundance of unrented office space available in the area. Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to authorize the Manager to seek an office -type lessee for the unused office space in the old city hall. Voting on the motion: Aye: Stauffer, Miedtke, Haik May: Sundland Motion carried. Mr. Dulgar, who is vice president of the Interim User Board and serves on the computer subcommittee of the Interim User Board, commented on the status report from the Board and said he anticipated there would be a drastic raise in the users' costs for the county wide public safety communications system. Following a discussion of the letter from Hennepin County regarding the Community Health Service Act, Councilman Haik invited the Council members to make the tour of the services offered by Ramsey County General Hospital which is scheduled for April 30th. Motion by Councilman Haik, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to accept the low bids and award the contract for aggregate to Anderson Aggregate; blacktop to Midwest Asphalt and oil to Koch Refining. Motion carried unanimously. The letter of thanks from Phyllis and Orville Thompson for the opportunity afforded the St. Anthony High School Marching Band members to earn $2,500.00 to help defray the costs of their trip to Hawaii was noted. The April 8th letter from the Association of Metropolitan Municipalities re- garding committee vacancies was filed after the Mayor announced that the annual meeting of the association will be held May 19th. The Fire and Police Reports for March, 1976 were filed. Mr. Fornell commented on his memo which pointed out the need for modification of the Metro Council's policies which specify that the 1976 Community Development Block Grant funds be allocated at the ratio of 6o% for family housing and the rest for housing for the elderly if the City is to get such funds. He cited the project for the elderly which had already been planned for the property across from Apache and the fact that the City lacks the number of undeveloped lots and suitable sites for high density housing for family housing, as the reasons the City is unable to meet the standards set for allocation of the funds. After considering the options he felt the City had and the deadline for making the application for the grant funds, the Council made the following motion: Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Mayor Miedtke to request Mr. Fornell to submit the application for 1976 Community Development Block funds as it is presently written and to adopt a resolution urging the Metro Council to adopt a more flexible policy on family -elderly subsidized housing ratios.