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-5- 5. The City's right-of-way which averages 62 feet in that area would not only supple- ment the eight foot setback but would provide sufficient green area between the . facility and Highway '88. Motion carried .unanimously. Councilmember Makowske reported she had gone to an AMM Housing Committee meeting that afternoon where a number of issues which might be of interest to the Councilmembers had been discussed. Sh.e -indicated she would be passing around the three pieces of information she had obtained at the meeting which each Councilmember could read and pass on. The Councilmember said the August 20th RCLLG picnic had been well attended considering the threat of rain before the tour of the Ramsey County regional parks commenced. Councilmember Makowske said she had personally found the .tour "well worth the trip" and had been especially interested to learn the Park Board's plans for developing the Long Lake Regional Park, which is the closest to St. Anthony. Her family had found the train project in which he is involved very interesting, Council - member Makowske told Councilmember Marks. The discussion of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's hearing earlier that day was initiated by Councilmember Makowske who commented that, although she wasn't certain the Council 's presence had directly affected the MPCA Board's six to two vote to accept the RFRA which required response action by the Department of the Army, Federal Cartridge CFederal Hoffman) and Honeywell regarding source contamination on the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (_TCAAP) and contamination of water supplies -in New Brighton and St. Anthony, she perceived it had been good for the Councilmembers ✓to witness-an agency of the U.S. Governmental as well as two large corporation failing to accept responsibility for their own actions which had caused major problems for • others. Councilmember Ranallo agreed that those actions had affected more than 50,000 lives, a fact that seemed to have been missed by many because no actual fatalities had resulted, as had happened:.when the pipeline burst in Mounds View. The Councilmember indicated he had found it "very disillusioning to witness out and out lying about their responsibility by representatives of the U.S. Army". Mr.' Childs said the reason he had urged all the .Councilmembers to attend the hearing had been because the .attorneys handling the City' s case had been thoroughly convinced that the Board's action would to a great extent be based on the number of municipal officials who showed up at the hearing and the number of calls the Board received from other persons .of some importance on the. issue. Councilmember Makowske indicated that as a follow up to the meeting she would like .to see a letter sent from the Council to the Board members who had voted in favor of St. Anthony's position to let them know the City appreciated the time they Out into their jobs and the concern they had exhibited for the welfare of the residents of St. Anthony. There was 'a brief discussion of the two votes which had been cast against the RFRA as well as the attempts which had been made to cloud the issue for the decision makers. Mayor Sundland said he had been alerted by the Board Chairman to,the fact that the intent of the Army and the two corporations had been to widen the existing rift between the MPCA Board and staff and that the first vote against the RFRA had actually represented more of a "slap for the MPCA staff -than a vote against St. Anthony". The Mayor indicated he had perceived that the hearing had "really degenerated" when the • attorney for Federal Cartridge (Hoffman) had accused the Board members of breaking the Open Meeting Law by discussing the matters between themselves between hearings because he had .perceived no different testimony had been offered between the two votes and one of the two Board members who had voted against the RFRA had responded that he personally knew all the Board members had been provided with all sorts of additional information between hearings.