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• CITY OF ST. ANTHONY COUNCIL MINUTES February 27, 1979 The meeting was called to order at 7 : 35 p.m. by Mayor Haik. Present for roll call: Sauer, Sundland, Haik, Ranallo and Letourneau. Also present: Jim Fornell, City Manager Bill Soth, City Attorney Ron Berg, Administrative Assistant Carol Johnson, Clerk/Treasurer Larry Hamer, Public Works Director The minutes for the Council 's February 13th meeting were corrected as follows: Page 7, Paragraph 2 : Reference to the President's guidelines should have been for "7%" rather than "6%" Motion by Councilman Ranallo and seconded by Councilman Letourneau to ap- prove the minutes for the February 13, 1979 Council meeting as corrected. Motion carried unanimously. • Dick Klick appeared to discuss actions taken and recommendations to the Council made by the Planning Board during their February 20 , 1979 meeting as reflected in the minutes of that meeting. He reported the major action taken was regarding the expansion plans for American Monarch, 2801 37th Avenue N.E. A recommendation of Council ap- proval of all variances necessary to the proposed 80 ' x 265 ' plant expan- sion to the west was made subject to conditions set by the Board to assure adequate parking and landscaping. The Board representative said because the new survey of the property had not indicated utility easement locations, one of the conditions was the investigation by staff of the reference in the legal description to such an easement. Mr. Fornell reported there is a 45 foot wide easement for a 33 inch storm sewer line which abuts the building on the east and which might prove a hindrance to the firm's future expansion plans in that direction as detail- ed in the application for the variances from American Monarch . Duane Duerre, 2606 37th Avenue N.E. , was the only resident present to speak for or against the proposal . He said he had been unable to attend the public hearing on the expansion but his daughter had been in attendance and reported she understood that the parking on 37th Avenue would increase and the street would be posted for only American Monarch employees . Edward J. Fiore, American Monarch Manager, explained to him that the firm was only proposing employee parking on specified side streets under strict management supervision for only the period when the new parking lots are