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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC MINUTES 12131988C STY (DE' S T_ ANTHONY C= TY C O UN C= L M S NUT E S D E C E MB E R T3 , 1988 1 The meeting was called to order at 7:30 P.M. with the Pledge of 2 Allegiance led by Mayor Sundland. 3 ROLL CALL 4 Present for roll call: Marks, Ranallo, Sundland, Enrooth, Makowske. 5 Also present: David Childs, City Manager 6 William Soth, City Attorney 7 NOVEMBER 22, 1988 COUNCIL MINUTES 8 Motion by Marks, seconded by Makowske to approve with the following 9 changes: 10 Page 4, line 30: Substitute "lift" for "life". Page 4, line 39: Substitute "non" for "con" in "non -conforming". Page 7, line 23: Substitute "tie" for "time". 13 Page 9: line 17: Substitute "weren't" for "were". 14 Page 9, line 40: Substitute "flow" for "low". 15 Page 11, line 27: Insert ""in a memorandum dated" before "July 18." 16 Page 12, line 17: Delete "all the waste materials". 17 Page 12, line 31: Correct spelling of "Evertz" wherever used on 18 this page or elsewhere in the minutes. 19 Page 15, line 19: Substitute "now" for "not". 20 Page 15, line 35: Substitute "the" for "his". 21 Page 16, line 32: Substitute "above" for "about". 22 Page 19, line 26: Substitute "Christen" for "Christensen". 23 Page 19, line 36: Substitute "charges" for "changes". 24 Page 22, line 8: Substitute "January" for "February". 25 26 Motion carried unanimously. 27 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Enrooth to grant the following licenses 28 as listed in the December 13, 1988 Council agenda packet: 29 Heatina 30 Thermex Corporation, Minneapolis 11 A. Binder & Son, South St. Paul 1 I Contractors 2 Construction 70 Inc., Roseville 3 Bruce Holten Construction, Inc., St. Anthony 4 Paul S. Gray, Faribault, MN 5 H & L Remodeling, Inc., Minneapolis 6 Motion carried unanimously. 7 CLAIMS 8 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Marks to approve payment of all City 9 accounts payable for November 30th and Liquor Operation accounts payable 10 for November 17th as listed in the December 13th Council agenda as well 11 as all City accounts payable for December 13th distributed before the 12 meeting. 13 Motion carried unanimously. 14 Motion by Enrooth, seconded by Ranallo to approve payment of $2,400.00 15 to the Hance & LeVahn law firm for legal services rendered for the month 16 of December, 1988 relative to St. Anthony prosecutions. 17 Motion carried unanimously. 18 Motion by Enrooth, seconded by Ranallo to approve payment of $1,497.98 9 to the Dorsey & Whitney law firm for legal services rendered in .0 connection with the issuance of $210,000 General Obligation Sewer 21 Revenue Bonds for the Foss Road Lift Station. 22 Motion carried unanimously. 23 Motion by Marks, seconded by Ranallo to approve payments of $16,510.79 24 and $2,893.50 to Briggs and Morgan law firm for legal services rendered 25 during October, 1988 in conjunction with the City's water contamination 26 law suit. 27 Motion carried unanimously. 28 Motion by Marks, seconded by Ranallo to approve payments of $3,348.00 29 and $3,240.00 to Calgon Carbon Corporation for service fees on the 30 temporary carbon filtration facility during October and November, 1988. 31 Motion carried unanimously. 32 A short discussion of the extent of engineering services which would be 33 needed to get the permanent filtration facility into place preced the 34 following: 35 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Makowske to approve payment of $1,179.98 36 to Rieke -Carroll -Muller Associates as per billing in the December 13th 17 Council agenda packet. Motion carried unanimously. 2 A report on problems with a subcontractor's work on the lift station 3 preceded the following: 4 Motion by Marks, seconded by Enrooth to approve payment of $1,642.85 to 5 Short -Elliott -Hendrickson, Inc. for engineering services from September 6 18 through October 15, 1988 on the replacement of the Foss Road Sewage 7 pumping station. 1*1 Motion carried unanimously. 9 Motion by Makowske, seconded by Marks to approve payment of $2,807.64 10 to LeRoy Signs for the lettering on the City's new entrance sign. 11 Motion carried unanimously. 12 Motion by Enrooth, seconded by Makowske to approve payment of $2,155.00 13 to Lindberg Concrete for the installation of the brick sign base for the 14 new entrance sign. ii.7 Motion carried unanimously. 16 Mr. Childs indicated the sign would be landscaped and "tastefully" 17 lighted at night next spring. Motion by Marks, seconded by Ranallo to approve payment of $11,220.00 19 to Advanced Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. for installation of the 20 HVAC in conjunction with the fire station renovation. 21 Motion carried unanimously. 22 Motion by Enrooth, seconded by Makowske to approve payments to Dickson 23 Electric, Inc. of $1,790.00 to connect the above roof top HVAC and 24 $1,950.00 for electrical work on the temporary carbon filtration 25 facility. 0 Motion carried unanimously. 27 Motion by Marks, seconded by Ranallo to approve payment of $26,082.04 28 to the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission for December sewer 29 services. 30 Motion carried unanimously. 31 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Enrooth to approve payment of $41,344.00 32 as the percentage due Newmech Companies for the Foss Road sewage station 33 replacement. 34 7 Motion carried unanimously. 1 UNFINISHED BUSINESS z Pull Tab Ordinance Adopted 3 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Enrooth to approve the third reading and 4 adopt the ordinance amendment which permits the sale of pull tabs for 5 charitable purposes in the two City on -sale liquor establishments. [: [$11a@U.1�IN L•I:I:IIijil 7 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO LAWFUL GAMBLING IN MUNICIPAL 8 LIQUOR DISPENSARIES FOR THE ON -SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR; 9 AMENDING SECTION 445:10 OF THE 1973 CODE OF ORDINANCES 10 Voting on the motion: 11 Aye: Ranallo, Enrooth, Sundland, Makowske. 12 Nay: Marks. 13 14 Action on Pull Tab Lease Deferred Motion carried. 15 The Manager suggested that in view of differences between the consortium 16 and the City related to the lease for the space to be used by the 17 consortium, action on the lease and resolution in the agenda packet be '3 deferred for further negotiation. Terry Taylor of the St. Anthony Village Sports Boosters was present but did not speak to the issue. 20 REPORTS 21 COUNCIL 22 Marks and Madden Proposed to Represent St. Anthonv on Ramsev Countv 23 Regional Railroad Authority 24 The Councilmember requested that he be appointed to represent the 25 Council on the Intergovernmental Committee. Councilmember Makowske 26 suggested that Planning Commission member John Madden certainly had the 27 professional background to serve on the Technical Committee. She asked 28 that he be contacted and said if he couldn't serve, she had several 29 names to propose in his place. 30 Council Action 31 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Enrooth to appoint George Marks to 32 represent the Council on the Intergovernmental Committee of the Ramsey 33 County Regional Railroad Authority and to request staff contact John 34 Madden to ascertain his interest in serving on the Technical Committee. 35 0 Motion carried unanimously. 1 Councilmember Marks Reports Participation in North Mankato Planning and Zoning Institute 3 The Councilmember indicated the above institute had been held December 4 8th. 5 City Representatives Report "Cordial and Productive" Meeting That 6 Morning with District #282 School Representatives 7 Councilmember Enrooth and Mr. Childs said they perceived greater 8 cooperation was possible between the City and the School District in 9 conjunction with recreation and community services and the Councilmember 10 indicated future meetings would address some of the services which are 11 now duplicated. The City Manager said he perceived some cooperative 12 janitorial services were possible and said he hoped the recently 13 authorized facility study would address some of the current problems 14 caused by the wide separation of City and Community Services offices in 15 the building. 16 Mr. Childs reported it had been decided that a meeting about every other 17 month would enable the two entities to work on arrangements designed to 18 provide greater cooperation between the City and the School District. 19 He said he perceived the School District's main concerns were of a long 20 range nature while the City was now more occupied with short range 21 issues having to do with the renovation of the building and greater 22 utilization of the available space. Mayor Sundland indicated he knew Superintendent Meriwether had been 24 anxious to have this meeting held and he said he personally was very 25 happy to see a dialogue started with regular meetings scheduled for the 26 future. 27 Council Authorizes Proclamation of Congratulations to St. Charles 28 Borromeo Church on Fiftieth Anniversary 29 Councilmember Makowske gave the Mayor a copy of the program for the 30 Anniversary Mass the local congregation had celebrated the previous 31 Sunday in recognition of establishment of the parish in St. Anthony, 32 December 8, 1938. 33 Council Action 34 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Enrooth to direct staff to prepare a 35 proclamation congratulating the parishioners and clergy of St. Charles 36 Borromeo Church on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the 37 parish in St. Anthony Village. Im Motion carried unanimously. 39 City Attorney to Research Costs of Officially Changing City Name to "St. 40 Anthony Village" 5 I Councilmember Ranallo reported several residents, upon noting the City's new entrance sign, had called him to tell him the fact that the lettering for "St. Anthony Village" had confused them. He said 4 their comments were to the effect that the Council had told them not too 5 long ago that St. Anthony was required by statute to be referred to as 6 the "City of St. Anthony" and now, you're telling us its' OK to call it 7 "St. Anthony Village"." Mr. Soth told him if the change was made, all 8 official documentation statutorily had to be identified as from the 9 "City of St. Anthony Village" but it might be possible to refer to the 10 community as "Village" in other situations without changing the 11 letterheads, etc. When Councilmember Enrooth indicated he wouldn't be 12 interested in making the change if it would cost the City or the 13 residents too much to do so, the City Attorney said he didn't think the 14 change would be too difficult or expensive but he would check it out 15 with the Minnesota Department of State and report his findings back to 16 the Council as soon as he could. 17 There was concurrence that having two cities in Minnesota with the same 18 name is very confusing at times and Mayor Sundland pointed to the fact 19 that 67% of the community had responded to the recent survey by 20 indicating they chose to be identified as from "St. Anthony Village." 21 PUBLIC HEARING 22 Gross Golf Course and Sunset Memorial Cemetery Spokespersons Object to 23 Having to Pay for Reconstruction of St. Anthony Boulevard At 8:02 P.M., the Mayor opened the public hearing on the $112,850.95 the 25 City proposes assessing against abutting properties for the 26 reconstruction St. Anthony Boulevard between the Burlington Northern 27 Railroad bridge and the south City limit line. He referred to the 28 Notice of Hearing which had been mailed to the abutting property owners 29 and published in the Bulletin and Resolution 88-047 with which the 30 Council would be adopting special assessments against the only two 31 properties which abut St. Anthony Boulevard in the subject, Gross Golf 32 Course and Sunset Memorial Cemetery. 33 Staff ReRgrt 34 Mr. Childs told the representatives of those two properties that under 35 the City Assessment Policy the Council had adopted in February, 1986, 36 the amounts they were being assessed included the costs of: 37 *a 5 ton roadway thickness, even though a 9 ton roadway had been 38 constructed with the difference between a 5 and 9 ton design being 39 paid for by the City; 40 *an 8 foot traffic lane next to their properties needed for ingress 41 and egress with the cost to reconstruct the middle of the road being 42 paid by the City for the use of the general public; 43 curb and gutters for which they would have to pay 100%. Mr. Soth added that the City was required to conclude that the amount of the special benefit to each property assessed would be at least equal 3 or greater than the amount of the assessments and had retained an 4 appraiser to evaluate their properties and provide evidence that these 5 assessments had met that criteria. The appraiser had written the City 6 a letter assuring that the values of the properties being assessed had 7 increased substantially more than the amounts proposed to be assessed. 8 Assessments Opponents 9 Harvey Feldman, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Secretary, 10 summarized a. _' :ember 13 letter from the Board to the City Clerk which 11 he handed to the Council Secretary in which the Park Board "went on 12 record as objecting to being assessed for St. Anthony Boulevard roadway 13 improvements against Gross Golf Course property in the amount of 14 $56,494.50." 15 The Minneapolis Park Board Secretary reiterated the following points in 16 that letter: 17 *said the Board had an agreement with St. Anthony dated December 17, 18 1965 which stated that the Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners at 19 that time would convey an easement for parkway purposes to the Village 20 of St. Anthony with four conditions; 01 *indicated that the condition he would be addressing that evening would be the one which stated that "the City of Minneapolis and its 23 Board shall not without their consent be assessed for boulevard or 24 other improvements within the Village of St. Anthony"; 25 *argued that St. Anthony should continue to honor the terms of that 26 agreement; 27 *indicated that the Board perceived Gross Golf Course to be "a 28 significant asset to the City of St. Anthony's liveability and should 29 be treated as a major recreation resource enjoyed by the community"; 30 *said he perceived St. Anthony should see to it that the golf course 31 is utilized to the best of both cities abilities and for the lowest 32 possible cost to the golfer; 33 *insisted that those costs would rise if the Minneapolis Park Board 34 had to pay the proposed assessments. 35 Mayor Sundland read aloud the Board's letter. When he read the 36 paragraph which indicated the Park Board "does not recall receiving 37 legal notice of the hearing on the proposed improvements and therefore 38 was not able to object at that time and question the benefits received 39 by the improvements", Mr. Childs produced the Affidavit of Mailing 40 dated December 22, 1987 which certified the Notice of the Hearing had Al been sent to the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board at the same address 7 1 as Mr. Feldman's letter. Mr. Feldman said he hadn't claimed the notice hadn't been sent but only that they hadn't gotten it. He told Council - member Marks that because of that, the Park Board had never had the 4 opportunity of addressing the issue of whether they would have opposed 5 the improvements. 6 Council/Staff Response 7 Mayor Sundland told Mr. Feldman the City had a copy of the agreement 8 he was referring to and recognized it was bound to "generate some 9 discussion," however, the Council perceived the roadbed had deteriorated 10 to the point where the City had to take action because unquestionably 11 its condition was adversely affecting the golf course, the cemetery, 12 and the community in general. 13 Councilmember Marks agreed that the poor condition of the roadway was 14 self evident, even to the point where some people had commented that the 15 Boulevard had "the longest set of speed bumps the City had ever had." 16 Councilmember Enrooth commented that even if the Park Board couldn't 17 recall getting the notice of the hearing, he knew for a fact that the 18 discussions of the improvements between the City and Minneapolis had 19 been carried on continuously since that time and none of those 20 discussions generated a formal objection from the park Board. Mr. 21 Childs agreed, saying the City had dealt with the Park Board relative 22 to construction easements, etc. 3 Mr. Feldman then clarified that the Park Board was not objecting to the 24 City improving the road, but the "bottom line" was that the Park Board 25 just wanted St. Anthony to honor its agreement not to assess them for 26 the improvements. He also expressed concerns that "if the City decided 27 not to honor its agreement regarding assessments, would the City also 28 decide not to honor the condition in the agreement which said the City 29 had to maintain and operate the street in the future?" He told 30 Councilmember Ranallo that if they had received the notice of the first 31 hearing, they would have attended and conveyed the same message about 32 the City honoring its agreement as had been expressed that evening. He 33 said he perceived "we didn't get our day in court, where you might have 34 chosen to work out the assessments in a different manner." However, 35 the Park Board spokesman indicated, he was not prepared to speak for the 36 nine elected Park Board officials as to whether or not they might have 37 been willing to pay less if they had been present at the hearing on 38 the improvements themselves. 39 Mr. Soth read the conditions in the 1965 agreement, including the one 40 which addressed the maintenance and assessment for improvements on the 41 street. He said his firm had researched case law on the latter point 42 as to the validity of such a provision under which the City could agree 43 not to assessa piece of property within the City and had concluded that 44 could be done only with "specific statutory authority", which the City 45 Attorney indicated there had appeared "to have been no such authority 46 in 1965." He said even if there had been, it would have been necessary F 1 based on similar cases where there was such statutory authority to limit ' the duration of such an agreement and the amount related to the value 3 of what was being conveyed. The Attorney indicated that even since 4 those cases, (some of which even involved the Minneapolis Park Board), 5 there had been a Constitutional Amendment in which one of the cases 6 suggests that the amendment itself would even prohibit the legislature 7 from even authorizing such an agreement. He said he therefore had to 8 conclude that "if the City had no authority to agree to exempt a piece 9 of property forever because it would be invalid to do so, that agreement 10 should have no bearing on the City's proposal to assess the Park Board 11 now." Mr. Soth told Mr. Feldman he had not researched the validity of 12 the agreement not to charge the park Board for maintenance of the 13 parkway as well or whether the restrictions of certain types of traffic 14 would still be in force. 15 Mr. Feldman said he perceived the City in 1965 had come to the Park 16 Board requesting the easement because they wanted to control that 17 roadway. He said the Park Board agreed to grant (for an amount the 18 Board assumes was probably a dollar) the easement, making the parkway 19 a St. Anthony street, which the City would maintain. He said he had 20 a hard time seeing how one of the parties could separate one part of the 21 agreement by saying it was invalid without dealing with all the other 22 parts of the agrement. 23 Mr. Soth told him he assumed the other parts of the agreement were still 24 valid because there is authority for those sections but there was not '5 authority for the City to exempt property for an unlimited period of 3 time or amount forever. Mayor Sundland indicated the City maintained 27 all of its roads, but when the time came to reconstruct them, the City 28 had developed an Assessment Policy whereby abutting property owners 29 shared in the costs. He pointed out that even the non-profit St. 30 Charles Church had been assessed for its share of the costs of 31 reconstructing a section of the same Boulevard in that area. He said he 32 perceived all assessments were based on the benefit received by the 33 abutting property owners and, if even the legislature can't 34 constitutionally exempt property certainly the City can't either. 35 Mr. Soth indicated that even in cases where there had been statutory 36 authority for such an agreement, the Courts had ruled that specific 37 amounts had to be spelled out in the agreement which, as far as the 38 City can see, certainly wasn't done in this case. 39 Councilmember Enrooth reiterated that the Park Board and Sunset Memorial 40 Cemetery were only being assessed for a 8 foot traffic lane on a five 41 tone road, which is estimated to amount to only about 20% of the total 42 reconstruction cost. 43 When Mr. Feldman said the golf course didn't make $50,000 a year and 44 there would have to be reconsideration of the golf fees which would have 45 to be charged, he was told the assessments could be paid off in ten 46 years and Councilmember Ranallo pointed out that the golf course hadn't 47 been assessed anything for the past 30 years and a new road could be 6 1 expected to last at least 10 or 15 years, so the costs could be considered to be spread out a lot further than one year. 3 Councilmember Enrooth commented that as a resident who golfs, he would 4 certainly not mind paying another 25 cents a round to have access on 5 a new road rather than the one which was there before reconstruction. 6 He told Mr. Feldman the complaints the City had gotten about the 7 condition of the road prior to its being fixed were "numerous and 8 continuous" and he perceived pro rating the assessment out over the 9 years wouldn't represent a substantial increase in the costs for the 10 golf course. The Councilmember added that he perceived the new roadway 11 would "help the golf course considerably and would greatly facilitate 12 usage." Mr. Feldman said "golfers will find the best golf course for 13 the money no matter how they have to get there." He pointed out that 14 the highest number of rounds are played at Gross and Meadowbrook and 15 said that "even without an agreement, Meadowbrook did not charge us for 16 improving the roads." 17 Robert S. Patterson of the Phillip S. Resnick & Associates law firm 18 reiterated the Sunset Memorial Cemetery position against the "entire 19 amount of the proposed assessment" contained in the letter signed by 20 Michael Kelley, General Manager of Sunset Memorial Cemetery which he 21 handed to the Secretary. These were that: 22 *there were numerous other residents and businesses who potentially 23 benefitted from the improvement, including large businesses adjoining 14 the City of St. Anthony who generated traffic on the boulevard; 25 *the Boulevard provides a major route of ingress and egress to and 26 from the City of St. Anthony and the City of Minneapolis, therefore, 27 should bear a large percentage of the cost of the reconstruction; 28 *the cemetery management was joining in with the Golf Course objection 29 to the assessment because both parties perceived it was unjust to 30 require only two abutting property owners to bear the entire cost of 31 the reconstruction. 32 Mr. Patterson said he hadn't read the Park Board easement and didn't 33 know whether it affected the cemetery property, but to the extent the 34 Park Board was objecting to the entire $112,850.95 assessment, wanted 35 the record to show that Sunset Memorial was joining in that objection 36 as well as the value of the improvements made in the reconstruction to 37 not only Sunset and the golf course but also the St. Anthony residents 38 as a basis for the assessments. He said as an occasional user of the 39 road and the golf course, he knew a lot of drivers used the boulevard 40 to get in and out of St. Anthony and he perceived there were a lot more 41 people and businesses who benefited from the use of the road than just 42 those who were going to the golf course or the cemetery. 43 The counsel for the cemetery said he would like to see a copy of the 44 ordinance which adopted the 1986 assessment policy as well as the 45 calculations which determined what the benefits to the two properties 10 1 were. Mr. Soth reiterated that the City had an appraiser review the ? benefits, but he had not arrived at specific dollar amounts at this i point. Mr. Childs indicated the appraiser had used the costs of the 4 project prepared by the engineers this fall which differentiated 5 between the 5 ton and 9 ton road. The City Manager confirmed that the 6 road was a state aid road and the City used its MSA allocation to pay 7 the City's share of the costs just the same as had been done on the 8 other end of the boulevard, which had also been reconstructed. He 9 corrected the misinformation the lawyer had that there has been any 10 direct federal aid received for the project. 11 Mr. Patterson said the cemetery, unlike the Park Board, is operated to 12 make a profit for the corporation which owns it. He reiterated that he 13 believed that given all the advantages this street offers other 14 residents and businesses besides the two entities which are being 15 assessed, in the interest of justice the costs should be spread more 16 evenly among the users of the road, particularly the business just north 17 of the golf course, which gets an advantage from that street. 18 Mayor Sundland indicated that was the same argument all property owners 19 make whenever their street is improved and they are assessed for the 20 costs. He said all the residents on the other side of St. Anthony 21 Boulevard had to pay the same share of assessments as were being 22 proposed that evening. The Mayor also pointed out that the former 23 owners of Sunset Park had been very vocal in their complaints about the 24 condition of the roadway. Councilmember Marks said he understood that 15 when a corporation changed hands, the new owners had to assume all the 3 debts and responsibilities of the previous owners. 27 Mr. Childs pointed out that because state law does not require 28 cemeteries pay property taxes, it should be remembered that the cemetery 29 is receiving with out the cost the benefit of police and fire protection 30 and regular street maintenance, which is considerable. He reiterated 31 that the cemetery and the golf course were not being assessed for the 32 extra width or strength required for the middle of the road which all 33 traffic uses, but only for the 8 feet next to their properties which are 34 needed to get into and out of their properties. 35 Councilmember Marks said he was fairly certain that the same cemetery 36 general manager who had signed the letter of opposition had attended the 37 hearing on the improvements which included estimates of over $400,000 38 for getting the road improved and still had been in favor of going 39 forward with the project. Councilmember Ranallo told him he perceived 40 this was just more of the same story the Council always hears where the 41 golfers at Gross as well as all the morticians who drove to Sunset had 42 complained for years about the terrible condition of that roadway and 43 continually asked the Councilmembers "when are you going to fix that 44 street?", but now "no one wants to pay for it." 45 Mayor Sundland told Mr. Feldman and Mr. Patterson their objections would 46 be recorded and indicted the figures they had expressed an interested 11 1 in seeing would be mailed to them at the addresses listed on their letterheads. 3 The hearing was closed at 8:40 P.M. for the following: 4 Council Action 5 Motion by Marks, seconded by Enrooth to adopt Resolution 88-047. 6 Motion carried unanimously. 7 CONTINUATION OF COUNCIL REPORTS 8 Councilmembers Give Impressions of National League of Cities conference 9 They Attended in Boston. December 3-7 10 Councilmember Makowske indicated she perceived this conference had been 11 only 50% as good as the San Antonio League convention because there 12 weren't as many good workshops this time. However, she said she found 13 the workshops on "Volunteerism" and "Beautification" to be excellent. 14 The one on "Beautification" had shown how well beautification works to 15 upgrade communities like Kansas City and Gary, Indiana, the 16 Councilmember She indicated she would be distributing the brochures and 17 literature which illustrated that point. Councilmember Makowske said 18 since she had returned she had been even more aware of the need for 19 improvements in St. Anthony, especially at locations like the one on '0 29th Avenue "with all the junk and cars in front yard." Mr. Childs said he understood the owner of that residence would be cited by the 22 police that week. 23 Councilmember Makowske said she had found the ways other cities use 24 volunteers to do work the cities have to pay to get done to be most 25 interesting, although that seminar had emphasized the importance of 26 having a staff person assigned to directly oversee any such program. 27 The Councilmember perceived a potential for using senior citizens who 28 have expertise in many fields and want to continue to be active 29 recognizing at the same time that it would be hard to prepare a budget 30 based on such potentialities. 31 The Councilmember reported she and Councilmember Ranallo had both served 32 on the Human Development Committee with the latter being a member of the 33 Steering Committee while she had only been a committee person. She 34 reported that in spite of objections from FAIR, one of the resolutions 35 that committee had passed had supported legislative efforts requiring 36 benefit packages to include six months parental leave which included 37 cities as well as businesses. 38 Councilmember Makowske indicated her concern that the City might have 39 to deal with the issue someday where it would be very hard economically 40 for the City to hold jobs open for an employee for six months or more 41 during parental leave. 12 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 '5 _6 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 When she commented that both she and Councilmember Ranallo had concluded from this convention that the League was rapidly becoming an organization primarily concerned with big city issues with only a few seminars offered which addressed small city concerns, Mayor Sundland said it was because he also perceived that happening that he feels it is so important for smaller community officials to keep involved and not just pay their dues. In contrast to the rest of the convention, Councilmember Makowske reported the Minnesota League had arranged a very interesting tour of the JFK Library for the Minnesota conventioners as well as what she perceived to be a very good learning experience, the presentation of a case study by a Harvard professor for which each attendee had to do a lot of background study in advance of his presen- tation. Councilmember Ranallo agreed that many of the resolutions passed to effect national issues could also have local ramifications. One such resolution, passed by the Human Development Committee, called for mandatory health benefits for all employees without specifying how they would be paid for. He said he perceived those who supported that resolution had failed to realize that the biggest employers would no doubt be governmental entities, including the cities. He also reported going to a workshop on "Child Care" where the responsibility for providing those services seemed to be pushed on the states, counties, and cities. The Councilmember indicated he had noticed that among demonstrated at the "Waste Management" workshop had been gallon containers on wheels which he contrasted to the containers Waste Management was proposing for St. Anthony. ber Ranallo reported he had learned that almost all cities ing or are going to confront the problem of recycling with just passing ordinances which support recycling. Other into the recycling business themselves, he said, but Minneapolis gave a workshop in which they reported they out of the rubbish hauling business. the items small 30-35 90 gallon Councilmem- are confront - a lot of them Others are getting in contract, were getting Councilmember Ranallo reported he had ordered a copy of the tape in which one of the McNeil Lerner Report reporters had given commentary on the last eight presidential years and what he perceived might be happening in the next four. He also reported every Minnesota delegate who had attended the same Human Development workshop he and Councilmember Makowske had, from Carol Johnson, Minneapolis Alderwoman, Jim Scheibel of St. Paul, Stan Quam of Richfield, and Councilmember Makowske had all gotten up to speak on the issues. He agreed with Mayor Sundland that if the smaller cities didn't continue to participate in these conventions where would be no one to speak up for their rights at all. Councilmember Marks commented that he perceived the smaller cities had no protection from being affected by what t"e 'jigger cities do and he perceived their issues to a very substantial degree become the smaller cities issues as well. He pointed to the golf course assessment as an example where forcing the Park Board to pay assessments to St. Anthony may open the door to "their having to pay their own way for the 13 1 first time as well as having to cooperate with a city which is much smaller." The Councilmember said he also perceived that by knowing what the larger cities' issues are, St. Anthony might get a better insight 4 into how to deal with those issues. 5 Councilmember Ranallo said of course, because he serves on the League 6 of Minnesota Cities Board, he perceives those issues are handled better 7 by the state organization. He therefore urged all the Councilmembers 8 to make plans now to attend the convention the LMC would be sponsoring 9 in Minneapolis, June 6, 7, and 8, 1989. 10 DEPARTMENTS AND COMMITTEES REPORTS 11 The Hance & LeVahn report of cases the law firm had prosecuted for the 12 City in Hennepin County District Court up to November 16, 1988 was 13 ordered as filed as were the October Financial and November Fire 14 Department reports in the agenda packet. 15 During the consideration of the November Liquor Operation Sales Summary, 16 the City Manager indicated he would be requesting a meeting with the 17 Liquor Manager as one of this own reports. 18 Manager Reports Liquor Operation Had Gotten Back $2,600 of the Checks 19 Written on the Bankrupted Advance United Account 20 Mr. Childs reported many of the above had been bought back by the check 91 writers who had then been able to get a settlement from the firm. He reiterated that just because the Liquor Operation lists the check as 23 uncollectible, that doesn't mean collection efforts are stopped, but 24 rather that the City needs to write off the 1987 uncollectible checks 25 for accounting reasons. 26 It was agreed that the "bottom line" when it came to check cashing was 27 that it made a profit of $20,261.12 in 1987 for the City and drew a lot 28 of customers into the City's establishments. 29 Council Action 30 Motion by Enrooth, seconded by Ranallo to authorize the write-off of 31 $9,868.03 in uncollectible checks for 1987 as recommended by the City 32 Manager. 33 Motion carried unanimously. 34 CITY MANAGER REPORTS 35 December 7, 1988 Staff Meeting Notes 36 Mr. Childs drew the Council's attention to the list of accomplishments 37 the City had made in 1988 which he sought from staff members present at 38 the meeting. As noted in the report, the City Manager indicated the 39 perception was that most of the goals set in the January goal setting 14 1 retreat had been achievable chunks of work which allow for a feeling of ? accomplishment at various mileposts. 3 Executive Session on Negotiations with Army Scheduled After H.R.A. 4 Meeting 5 The City Manager indicated the water contamination lawsuit negotiations 6 had gotten to a final sticking point where he needed further direction 7 from the Council. 8 Council's December 27th Meeting Scheduled for December 21st Instead 9 The main purpose of this meeting would be to act on recommendations from 10 the Planning Commission, December 20th, the Manager said, because there 11 were several applications which had to be handled before the end of the 12 year. 13 Council Action 14 Motion by Makowske, seconded by Marks to reschedule the Council's 15 December 27th meeting to 7:30 P.M., December 21st. 16 Motion carried unanimously. 17 1988 Employment Agreement With the City Police Department Approved 18 Motion by Marks, seconded by Makowske to adopt the resolution which 9 approves a one year employment contract with AFSCME Local 57. 20 RESOLUTION 88-051 21 A RESOLUTION RATIFYING THE 1988 AGREEMENT 22 BETWEEN THE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY AND AMERICAN 23 FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES 24 (AFSCME) COUNCIL 14, LOCAL 57, REPRESENTING THE 25 ST. ANTHONY POLICE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES 26 Motion carried unanimously. 27 1989 Goal Setting Retreat Scheduled to be Held January 20-21 28 Because she had been so well received the previous year, Mr. Childs 29 indicated he was recommending Barb Arney again serve as the facilitator 30 for these sessions. Councilmember Enrooth indicated he concurred with 31 that choice for this year, but perceived a different facilitator with 32 new techniques and direction might be advisable for 1990. The Manager 33 was directed to retain Ms. Arne at her quoted price of $1,980.00. 34 Work Session with Liquor Manager and Planning Commission Interviews 35 Scheduled for January 11th Fall I Mr. Childs reported receiving several applications in addition to those from the three incumbent Commissioners to serve on that board in 1989. s The decision was made to combine those interviews with the work session 4 with Ray Nelson related to the Apache Wells and the discussion of off- s sale activity the Council had requested. The date of January 11th was 6 agreed upon with the interviews to be held first at 7:00 P.M., followed 7 by the discussions with the Liquor Manager. 8 NEW BUSINESS 9 $3,450 Delson Plumbing Bid Accepted for Fire Station Renovation 10 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Enrooth it quotes from Delson Plumbing and Jack's 12 project and to award the contract for 13 for $3,450. 14 15 to accept the lowest of the two Plumbing received on the above the plumbing to Delson Plumbing Motion carried unanimously. 16 Motion by Marks, seconded by Ranallo to adjourn the meeting at 9:30 P.M. 17 for the St. Anthony Housing and Redevelopment Authority meeting which 18 followed immediately. 19 20 Respectfully submitted, 21 Helen Crowe, Secretary i 22 � 23 Mayor 24 ATTEST• 25 City Clerk 0U Motion carried unanimously.