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- C • <br /> -10- <br /> CITY MANAGER'.REPORTS <br /> Mr. Childs answered questions about the following matters discussed in <br /> the April 21st staff meeting notes-: <br /> told'-,.C'ouncilrriember Makowske the new Chevy Caprice Classic, squad car <br /> would be 'put on line by the Police. Depa:rtment that week.- Said the <br /> Department had been very disappointed that the Celebrity model was not <br /> offered as, a squad .car this time; <br /> -told Councilmember Marks the Police' Department had to .readvertise for <br /> a secretary and several promising candidates had already been inter- <br /> viewed to replace the temporary secretary who is working in the <br /> Department now. <br /> Special Council Meeting on Bonding for Stonehouse Project Scheduled for <br /> April 29, 1987 : <br /> Mr. Childs reminded the . .Councilmembers of the above meeting with the <br /> Springsted representative. which would be held in the Council Chambers at <br /> 4 : 30 P.M. _ . . . . <br /> .. City to 'Assume Responsibility for Claims Resulting from Street :Widt <br /> Variance for Next 'St Anthony Boulevard Reconstruction Project <br /> Mr. Childs had distributed copies of a proposed 'resolution designed to <br /> hold the state harmless against any claims which might arise because the <br /> City had been allowed to reconstruct the stretch of St. Anthony Boulevard <br /> past the Gross Golf Course to. a 32 foot wide design rather than the <br /> required 36 foot width. When Councilmembers speculated. that there. would <br /> be little possibility that would happen, Mr. Hastay told them the new <br /> tort law had opened all kinds of opportunities. . for. lawsuits against <br /> public=entities which had not existed before. The MNDOT employee gave us <br /> as an ' example the case of litigation a couple of years ago - which had <br /> resulted when a ,woman had gone through. the stoplight on, Highway 88 and <br /> County Road C and the court had found the state 1% negligible because of'' <br /> the median -design'. ' The state ' s share of that judgment had been about <br /> $100 ,000 <br /> A similar resolution had not been necessary , when the portion of St. <br /> Anthony Boulevard west of Highway 88 had been reconstructed, Mr. Childs <br /> said, -because that project: had been constructed without a. variance.. <br /> Council- -Action <br /> Motion by Marks, seconded by Makowske to adopt -Resolution '87-017 .. <br />