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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes June 9, 1997 • Page 3 1 completely. This was because they were able to bring in a double crew on the job. The 2 result is that the utility work is complete and the project is ahead of schedule. 3 Morrison reported demolition of the Parkview building is on schedule. The asbestos has been 4 abated. 5 Morrison reported he continues to apply pressure on the contractor and architect of the City 6 Hall/Community Center building to finish the project. He has informed the architect that June 7 30, 1997 is the deadline for completion of the project. 8 City Attorney Bill Soth noted the City does have a retainer which can be held back if the 9 project is not completed. 10 Morrison reported he received an update on the Silver Lake Road overlay project from the 11 Hennepin County Construction Assistant last week. The overlay project will include 3.8 miles 12 of Silver Lake Road and will be done in late August and September of 1997. The project 13 will cost Hennepin County $125,000 and will cost the City of St. Anthony $1,500 for rings to 14 raise the manholes. The City portion will be obtained from the Sewer Fund. 15 Morrison reported there is a full agenda for the Planning Commission meeting this month. The hearing for the proposed Freedom Gas Station at Apache Plaza has been removed from 7 the agenda. They are intending to request a 12 foot rear yard variance because in the 18 reciprocal easement agreement that Super Valu signed with St. Marie, OPUS and Herbergers, 19 the site lines for that lot were all approved and they cannot go any further than that. They 20 have been unable to receive a response to their request from Herbergers. 21 Mayor Ranallo stated he would not support this variance request. He stated that the City of 22 St. Anthony did not need another car wash and gas station. 23 Morrison reported one change in the property tax law is to local performance aid. This 24 change requires that the City state that the aid is used for property tax reduction, that the City 25 state that they have performance measurements and what they use to measure the 26 performance. 27 Morrison reported Shawn Hess is resigning from the St. Anthony Police Department to take a 28 position with the Minnetonka Police Department. 29 D. Re-Cap of the June 2, 1997 Parks Information Meeting. 30 Morrison noted that included in the Council's packet was the minutes from the meeting, a 31 letter to individual speakers at that meeting and a letter from Kathy Knapp, Community 32 Services. Based on the letter from Ms. Knapp, Morrison proposed the following changes to 33 the letter to individual speakers: •