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-8- making a street reconstruction feasible and curbs. necessary to al- leviate drainage ditches. He believes , the. Rice Creek District and Roseville are willing to work with. the City to alleviate the problems and Roseville will pay its share of the costs "of disturbing the street surface" -for the sewer. Motion by Councilman. Marks and seconded :by Councilman..Letourneau to approve the Short-Elliott-Hendrickson,. Inc. proposal for engineering .services for investigation, study and report on the street recon- struction for Anthony Lane .at a..cost. of $2 ,500. as proposed in their File No. 80.105. Motion carried unanimously. Consideration-was next given . to .the. August 26 , 1980 request from R. E. Timmer-, Hockey Program Coordinator for- the St. Anthony Boosters for City funding of the costs. of hooking up power- for additional lighting of the City hockey rinks. Mr. Timmer- was present. and,.said. the new lights have been in the offing since 1976 but agreed with Mr. Hamer that it had not been the City who had "dragged- its feet" on getting the project accomplished. The Public Works Director had informed the Manager about the lighting proposals August 8th and the Manager had .suggested. in his August 22nd memo .that, ali. lighting alternatives should be studied. before any. Council.. action taken. Mike Dickson, the City' s electrical contractor, then made recommenda- tions for what he believed would be more - efficient.- lighting than proposed by- the Boosters. He and City staff will work with the Boosters to work out- a- final proposalto be presented to the Council September 9:th following a contact by Mr: Hamer of NSP to ascertain the electrical. service they can provide.. Mrs. Johnson had. indicated the difficulty the .City_ has attaining equal political party representation on .the election boards and Councilman Marks suggested publicizing the matter before the general elections in November. . - Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by. Mayor Pro- Tem. Sundland to approve the list of judges , as submitted, for the Primary Elections September 9th. Since. there was no one. present to discuss the complait_from Christiansen Rubbsh. Hauling .concerning the.. Highway Patrol. giving tickets to garbage haulers for being overweight, no -.Council . action was deemed necessary. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded-by Mayor Pro. Tem Sundland to authorize the City Attorney to prepare a. joint powers agreement with Columbia Heights for the proposed railroad signal on Stinson Boulevard. • Motion. carried unanimously.