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-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 .Councilmember Makowske' the .:new Chevy Caprice Classic squad car <br /> wduld `be- put ..on line by the Police Department 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 promisi.ng 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 Response y <br /> bilit . for Claims Resulting from Street Width <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 /> re4uired '36 foot width'.' When Councilmember.s 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 />