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1 Payment of the September 22nd statement from Braun Engineering had been tabled at the previous Council meeting for further information and Councilmember Enrooth indicated he still didn't fully understand the 4 company's November 17th explanation to Mr. Hamer. Mr. Childs indicated 5 he perceived a portion of the attachments to that letter had been left 6 out of the agenda packet and explained that the Council would be paying 7 for the testing costs for the concrete, curbing, bituminous on St. 8 Anthony Boulevard and for the concrete work done on Kenzie Terrace in 9 conjunction with the traffic signal installation. He also indicated 10 that these costs had been reversed on the September billing. 11 Council Action 12 Motion by Marks, seconded by Makowske to approve payment of $4,852.60 13 to Braun Engineering Testing with $4 ,141. 35 to be paid for the St. 14 Anthony Boulevard project and $711. 25 for the Kenzie Terrace Project 15 contingent upon a corrected billing being submitted to staff. 16 -Motion carried unanimously. 17 The requested public appearance relating to the St. Anthony float/queen 18 candidate was deferred to later in the agenda. 19 REPORTS 20 NOVEMBER 15, 1988 PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES —RICK WERENICZ The Planning Commission representative indicated action on the R. L. Johnson Investment Co. request for a sign variance had been tabled for 23 a month to allow the applicants to work with staff on a more acceptable 24 sign proposal. 25 Video Update Expansion Approval Contingent Upon No Flashing Lights and 26 Improvements Meeting Codes 27 Commissioner Werenicz reported the Planning Commission had accepted 28 Craig Belisle's claim that he had not realized he needed a building 29 permit to expand his Video Update business into the space next to his 30 store. The Commission had perceived there might have been failure in 31 communication between staff and the store owner which had resulted in 32 the store's retention of flashing lights in the windows, which are in 33 violation of the City Sign Ordinance. The Commission was therefore 34 recommending the conditional use permit Video Update received in 1984 35 be expanded to cover the new store space on the condition that the non- 36 conforming lights be removed altogether. 37 Councilmember Enrooth said he was concerned that a businessman who had 38 been operating a store in the City for the number of years Mr. Belisle 39 had would not have become more knowledgeable about the rules and 40 regulations under which he was licensed to operate and he questioned 41 whether the extension should be granted until some of the questions on ® 3