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I be helpful to have overhead transparencies provided to lay over maps and 2 better demonstrate just where the rail lines were being proposed. 3 Ms. VanderHeyden reported she had been attending the Technical Advisory 4 Committee meetings and Councilmember Marks indicated his Committee had 5 requested to see the minutes of those meetings to give his Committee 6 more reliable information on which to base their own recommendations. 7 DEPARTMENT AND COMMITTEE REPORTS 8 -The only report in the agenda packet under that heading was the 9 February Liquor Operations Sales Summary, which was ordered filed for 10 future reference. 11 CITY MANAGER REPORTS 12 Possibility Explored of St. Anthony Chamber of Commerce Taking Over 13 Float Project 14 While Councilmember Makowske was consulting privately with a resident 15 who had come to talk about snow plowing differences, Councilmember 16 Enrooth commented that he understood the research he had done before he 17 left on his trip to Florida had "become moot" while he was gone, but he 18 wanted to report nevertheless that his study had estimated the Public 19 Works Department involvement in the float project as well as up front 20 insurance costs could run between $2,400. 00 and $4,000.00. However, he 21 said he had also. learned that the insurance factor was such as to almost • 22 prohibit the City from contributing towards that portion of the float's 23 costs. 24 Councilmember Ranallo indicated he was certain the Float Committee was 25 still expecting the City to pay the insurance costs for the project and 26 he asked for further clarification of Councilmember Enrooth's 27 assumption, indicating he had understood from conversations he had with 28 the Mayor of Rochester regarding that city's float, that the City would 29 only have to pay a nominal amount like $50.00 to include the float under 30 the City's League Trust Fund umbrella liability coverage. Councilmember 31 Enrooth told him the basis for the City's lower umbrella liability 32 premium was that the City would have to carry higher deductibles which 33 would have to ,be absorbed by the City if an accident connected to the 34 float should occur. He said the City would have to pay the $10,000 35 deductible out of its own cash flow, if an accident occurred. Covering 36 the float could therefore expose the City to a liability beyond what the 37 Council had . originally intended to include under its insurance 38 deductibles. Mr. Childs said he didn't have the exact figures of what 39 the City would have -to pay to insure the float separately, but he was 40 quite certain the premiums would be the same as for any other commercial 41 effort. 42 The City Manager then reported that during the St. Anthony Chamber of 43 Commerce meeting he had attended that morning, several Chamber members 44 had indicated they perceived the float should logically be undertaken • 6