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-5- The Council was next requested to set a date for the St. Anthony Village Community • Update so the community meeting of City officials, staff, with- residents and the business community could be announced during the April 13th Biennial Ball and in the Chamber newsletter, which would be put out that week. The meeting was scheduled to be held in the cafeteria of the St. Anthony Village Community Center at 7:00 P.M. ,' Wednesday, May lst, with the invitations sent to business, school and religious representatives as well as service organizations in St. Anthony. The Manager indicated the residents would. be informed about the event through the media and special notices posted around the Village. Mr. Childs reported Brighton Development Corporation had held a meeting March 2nd with the neighbors who might be affected the most by the townhome project they are constructing on the Walbon property and the developers had accepted the neighbors' input into the selection of the type of architecture which would be adopted for the townhomes. The final plans would be presented to the Planning Commission March 19th and then brought to. the Council at their April 9th meeting, he said. Larry Hamer was present. to report on the proposed Joint Powers Agreement to establish- a surface water management program for Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, Minneapolis, St. Anthony and St. Paul , as well as the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and the University of Minnesota. The Public Works Director indicated he had served for the last six months on the committee which had drawn up the agreement and perceived that, if the Middle Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization is not established, the mandated water management program would be turned over to the County, which Mr. Hamer said he believes would probably cost the City taxpayers a good deal more than the initial St. Anthony budget of $700 which would also be a lot less than the City has already paid out to support the Rice Creek Watershed • District. One of the reasons the costs would be less is that the new organization would not be utilizing consulting engineers, he said. If accepted by all parties, the agreement would have to be approved by the Metro- politan Council , which would set up the watershed district. Each entity, no matter what its size, would have a vote on any project proposed by another municipality or agency and the Public Works Director. said, if Minneapolis should decide to over- haul its system, the City would have some say in whether or not the costs could be allocated to the City taxpayers. Mr. Hamer said, surprisingly, St. Anthony is second only to Minneapolis as the largest land area in this proposed watershed district. Under the agreement, the redeveloper would have to construct a ,..re,tention.,basin for the Kenzie Terrace project, which the City representative indicated, he perceived would be a good thing, since the basin would alleviate some of the existing water problems in the south side of the City. The City would have to develop a Comprehensive Sewer Plan by 1987, which Mr. Hamer said he has almost completed for St. Anthony and is only waiting for direction from the Rice Creek Watershed District related to the north side where that District has jurisdiction. He has served on -the technical task force for the Rice Creek District and the Public Works Director anticipates no problems with this input since there is very little potential development planned for that area. However, Mr. Hamer said, he would like to see Councilman Enrooth, who serves as a Com- missioner on the Rice Creek District, insist the water quality of Silver Lake be • tested if that organization ever holds another meeting. The Councilman said he had been waiting for a notice that the commissioners would meet in March which was long overdue, and. he agreed to serve in the same capacity on the new organization, if appointed by the Council .