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-6- 3. The subject plat generally conforms to municipal standards and where lots are • smaller than required, many similar lots with small frontages, depths, and land area, have been platted and developed in -the adjacent locality; and 4. The final platting specifically identifies the utility easements to which the City is granted access, which was a concern of the Planning Commission. Voting on the motion: Aye: Makowske, Marks, Ranallo, and Enrooth. Abstention: Sundland. Motion carried. An indepth discussion followed on the letter sent by the parents--of the St. Anthony U.S. Swimming Club team to School Board, City Council members, and the City Manager asking that the Board's decision -to close the high school swimming pool for part of the year be reconsidered because of the perceived effect doing so would have on the team.',s ability to •continue in future competitions. Several Council members noted what they believed to be misconceptions in the letter .and the general con- sensus was that it would not be a viable proposition for a municipality to become involved in the ownership of a pool in a school building. There was also a suggestion that, if some arrangements couldn't be made for shared pool time with an adjoining school district, it might just become necessary that the parents of the swim team might have to pay for swim time in another facility just as the parents of City hockey players and other athletes do now. • The Manager wondered if the pool- might not be put under the jurisdiction of the Community Services Committee just as the parks are now on a fee basis. The Mayor indicated he intended to follow up on a-conversation he had participated in between the Chairman of the School Board and a representative of the St. Char:'l:es Borromeo parent organization in which the idea that St. Charles students might be allowed to utilize the pool for a fee had been presented. As much as they understood -the concerns of the Swim -Club parents, the Council members also indicated they could sympathize with the school being forced to cut back on some of its programs "in the face of today's economies." The Mayor reported- he had attended the Ramsey County League of Local Governments picnic and tour of si-x senior -facilities July 17th, which included the St. Anthony Health Center and the adjacent site for the proposed apartments for the elderly. He said there had been a large representation from different senior organizations on the tour and the Mayor indicated he would expect the word about the different types of senior housing which are or soon would be available would spread rapidly. Councilmember Enrooth reported receiving several calls about a meeting to be held in Richfield related to the air traffic problems over the metropolitan area. One of the callers had suggested the precedent might have been set for regulating planes which now take off from the northwest runways at International right over St. Anthony when Georgetown had been successful in forcing planes taking off from National to throttle down as they passed over that City. The Councilmember thanked • Steve Carlson for volunteering to attend that meeting and take notes for the Council . Mr. Childs indicated the City's non-voting representative to the MAAC Board would. also be urged to go to the hearing.