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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC MINUTES 09111984 t; S Meeting Sheet 101876 Box: '21 Folder: CC MINUTES AND AGENDAS 1984 Document: CC MINUTES 09111984 ,i • CITY OF ST. ANTHONY COUNCIL MINUTES September 11 , 1984 The Mayor called the meeting to order at 8:01 P.M. , just after polls for the primary election had closed. Present for roll call : . Marks, Ranallo, Sundland, and Makowske. Absent: Enrooth (_arrived at 8:05 P.M. ) . Also present: William Soth, City Attorney; David Childs, City Manager; and Carol Johnson, Finance Director. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Mayor Sundland to approve as submitted the minutes of the budget work session conducted by the Council August 20, 1984. Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Ranallo and seconded by Councilman Marks to approve as submitted the minutes of the budget work session conducted by the Council .August 27, 1984. Motion carried unanimously. Councilman Enrooth arrived during the discussion of and before the vote on the • acceptance of the August 28th regular Council meeting. The following changes were made to those minutes: Page l , .para. 1 : Insert "of" between "Pledge" and "Allegiance". para. 4: Insert following the proposed amendments to the August 28th minutes: "Motion by Councilman Makowske and seconded by Council - man Makks to approve as amended the minutes of the Council meeting held August 14, 1984. ' Motion carried unanimously. " Page 5, para. 3: Insert "approving the St. Anthony Court signage" between "motion" and the comma i)n the last line. Page 7, para. 5: Insert "concept" between "give" and "approval ". Motion by Councilman Makowske and seconded by Mayor Sundland to approve as amended the minutes of the Council meeting held August 28, 1984. Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Councilman Makowske to approve the registration and grant the licenses listed in the September 11th Council agenda as follows: is Multiple Housing Registration Cameron Properties for 3721 Chandler Drive. -2- Contractors License Herbst & Sons Construction Co. , Inc. , New Brighton. Heating License Bowler Company Hoff Plumbing Del Air Conditioning, Inc. Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Ranallo and seconded by -Councilman Marks to approve payment of all verified claims listed for August 31 and September .11 , 1984, in the September 11th Council agenda. Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Makowske and seconded by Mayor Sundland to approve payment of $26,304. 16 to the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission, representing the install - ment due April 1 , 1984 for the sewer services to the City. Motion carried unanimously. Copies had been distributed of the September 11th letter from-the-Municipal Caucus to the Waste Control Commission urging an immediate selection of the consultant to • perform an independent management study of the Commission at the same time the Caucus acknowledged the cost would eventually be paid by the metropolitan communities in their rates. The Council indicated concurrence with the recommendation before ordering the letter filed. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Councilman Makowske to approve payment of $16,832 to Hennepin County for services rendered by the County Assessor under the contract due September, 1984. Motimn carried unanimously. Mr. Childs affirmed that the City would be reimbursed from Superfund monies for the engineering costs related to the water connection with Roseville and said the state had already been billed for the costs which the Council had before them that evening. Motion by Councilman Ranallo and seconded by Councilman Enrooth to approve payment of $16,956.24 to Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, Inc. for engineering consulting' services from March 28 through July 28, 1984 on the Roseville water connection project. Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Ranallo and seconded by Councilman Marks to approve payment of $1 ,371 .72 to Dorsey & Whitney for legal services rendered- during July, 1984. • Motion carried unanimously. Dick Peacha and Ted Holsten of the St. Anthony Kiwanis Club presented their organi- zation 's request to conduct their annual Peanut Day fund raiser in the City -3- September 28th. Donations from Council and staff were accepted and pictures were • taken by the Bulletin reporter. Motion by Councilman Marks .and seconded by Councilman Ranallo to authorize the Kiwanis Peanut Day fundraiser to be conducted on St. Anthony streets September 28, 1984. Motion carried unanimously. The Mayor reported he had received a call from Douglas Kentock the previous even- ing regarding what Mr. Kentock considered to be an increase in air flights over the City. Mr. Kentock suggested the City might request the same noise measurements be taken for this area as are being taken for cities near the airport. Mayor Sundland said this call had reinforced his own observations while attending the Miracle Sunday observance at Faith Methodist Church, where the speaker's address was drowned out by the sound of large planes flying overhead. He reminded those present that this was not an unusual occurence since, in response to resident complaints in 1982 and 1983, he had written to the Metropolitan Airport Commission questioning at that time whether the airport traffic patterns had not been altered to send more flights over the City. It was the Mayor's recommendation tht he, the City Manager, and several concerned residents should meet with the Commission Chairman to discuss the problem. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Councilman Enrooth to direct the Mayor and City Manager to set. up an appointment with the Chairman of the Metropolitan Airport Commission to discuss with him what is perceived by the City to be an • increase in air traffic over St. Anthony. Motion carried unanimously. The Chemical Abuse Information Committee had conducted its Kids, Sports and Drugs program for high school students the previous Tuesday night, Councilman Marks reported and the response had convinced the Councilmember that "the greater com- munity is concerned about the drug problem among City youths". . Councilman Marks reported each student who participates in a school activity had to sign a pledge not to use drugs or alcohol , which was witnessed by his or her parent. The success of this program can only be evaluated in thee-years to come, the Councilman said. At 8:22 P.M. , the Mayor opened the public hearing to receive resident input on the allocation of what is estimated would be approximately $33,857 in Revenue Sharing funds for 1985. A notice of the hearing had been published in the August 28th Bulletin and posted at various locations throughout the City. When no one present responded to the Mayor 's invitation to speak to the issue, Councilman Marks inquired whether the funds could be used for the senior housing 202 project. He was told that:such funds had traditionally been used for capital equipment purchases and building maintenance, for which the need would be great next year.. The Mayor indicated the City had historically stayed away from utilizing these funds for long term expenses like salaries which could present major funding problems for the City if Revenue Sharing is eliminated in the future. The hearing was closed at 8:25 P.M. with the final budget to be prepared by staff • for Council approval at a later date. -4- During the consideration of the August liquor operations summary, the Manager com- mented that he was amazed that the revenues from Store 1 had dropped only 50% due to the opening of the warehouse in the same area. Councilman Ranallo indicated he perceived it only supported the strength of consumers' purchase habits, which he believes would .soon become apparent to another community nearby who had closed their main outlet when they opened a liquor warehouse. In considering the listing of 1983 uncollectible checks for the municipal liquor stores, Councilman Makowske inquired why a $1 ,600 item was . listed as uncollectible when the writer was making restitution. Mr. Soth indicated that he assumed it was probably an auditor's bookkeeping procedure decision. The Manager indicated staff would continue to try to collect, these checks whenever it was economically prudent to do so. Councilman Enrooth indicated he believed writing off a couple of thousand dollars in bad checks was more than offset by the check cashing revenue of $41 ,084.19 in 1983. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Councilman Enrooth to authorize the write-off of $2,905.67 in municipal liquor store uncollectible checks for 1983 as listed in the. September 11 , 1984 Council agenda. Motion carried unanimously. The. Manager had in his September 7th memorandum, addressed the changes in procedures undertaken by staff in response to the management recommendation from the auditor, which included the establishment of separate checking for H.R.A. funds. The September 6th staff notes and North Suburban Cable Commission 1985 budget were • ordered filed as informational; as was the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's August 30th listing establishing sites for permanent priorities for MPCA removal or remedial action related to 'releases', or threatened releases of hazardous sub- stances, pollutants and contaminants, which included the site suspected to be the source of the City's contaminated water problems. Mr. Childs indicated he would research the merchandising efforts towards cable service in the City and would report back to the Council at their next meeting. Councilman Ranallo discussed the request from the National League of Cities that the City designate a voting delegate and alternate to the 1984 Congress of Cities to be held in Indianapolis, November 24-28. The Councilman stated that he perceived it was essential to have other Council members, in addition to himself, become well known in the League. He said many of the appointments for the National Conference in Washington, D.C. , would be made at the Indianapolis conference and he would, therefore, like to see at least one of the other Council members attend that con- ference. . The designation of a delegate and alternate to the Indianapolis meeting was deferred until the next Council meeting. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Mayor Sundland to adopt the resolution which designated Offerman and Co. as a depository for investments, as the City Manager had recommended in his September 7th memorandum. RESOLUTION 84-041 A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING A DEPOSITORY FOR CITY FUNDS Motion carried unanimously. -5- If the next Council agenda is not too heavy, Mr. -Childs said he would-be scheduling for that meeting the 18-6inuute s11de-t•ape presentation-'on the April_26th •tor_nado developed by Lee Entner, who is making the same presentation before various service organizations and groups throughout the City. Mayor Sundland indicated the Fire Chief is the guest speaker for the Kiwanis meeting September 26th . The Manager drew the Council 's attention to the fact that, as recommended by the auditor, the proposed budget modification resolution included the source of revenue which would finance the expenditures. Motion by Councilman Ranallo and seconded by. Councilman -Makowske to adopt the resolution which authorizes the budget modifications necessary to bring the 1984 salary and fringe benefits negotiated with the unions into balance with the expendi- tures anticipated for this year. RESOLUTION 84-035 A RESOLUTION MODIFYING THE 1984 BUDGET Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Councilman Enrooth to adopt the resolution which addresses a change in assessment rolls brought by the replatting of certain properties to accomodate the reconstruction of County Road D. RESOLUTION 84-036 A RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE APPORTIONMENT • OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Councilman Makowske to adopt the resolution which appropriates the City's share of the costs of reconstructing County Road D from Municipal State Aid Street funds. RESOLUTION 84-037 APPRECIATION OF MUNICIPAL. STATE AID FUNDS TO C.S.A.H. OR T.H. PROJECT Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Mayor Sundland to adopt the resolution which establishes the trust for the employees ' deferred compensation plan. RESOLUTION 84-038 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE ICMA RETIREMENT TRUST Motion carried unanimously. • Motion by Councilman Makowske and seconded by Councilman Marks to adopt the resolution which authorizes the purchase of the Doppler Radar system for donation to the National Weather Service under the terms- of the agreement with the Weather Service. -6- RESOLUTION 84-039 • A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO THE AGREEMENT WITH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE REGARDING THE PURCHASE OF A DOPPLER RADAR SYSTEM ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Ranallo and seconded by Councilman Enrooth to adopt Resolution 84-040. RESOLUTION 84-040 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO THE AGREEMENT WITH KAVOURAS, INC. REGARDING THE PURCHASE OF A DOPPLER RADAR SYSTEM ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY Motion carried unanimously. In his September 7th memorandum, Mr. Childs had addressed the proposed ordinance amendment which was written to bring the City ordinances into conformance with recent legislation regarding the regulation of gambling activities by non-profit organizations which will now be under the jurisdiction of the state agencies. A revised version of the ordinance had been distributed to the Council members and Mr. Soth confirmed that the City would no longer be issuing licenses for bingo. . Motion by Mayor Sundland and seconded by Councilman Ranallo to approve the first reading of Ordinance 1984-005. ORDINANCE 1984-005 AN ORDINANCE REPEALING SECTIONS 445:00 THROUGH 445:35 (BINGO) AND SECTIONS 905:00 AND 905:05 (.BETTING) OF THE 1973 CODE OF ORDINANCES, AS AMENDED Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Makowske and seconded by Councilman Marks to approve the third reading and adopt Ordinance 1984-004. ORDINANCE 1984-004 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO FIRE PREVENTION; AMENDING SECTION 305 OF THE 1973 CODE OF ORDINANCES Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Enrooth and seconded by Mayor Sundland to adjourn the meeting at 8:55 P.M. for the meeting of the Housing and Redevelopment Authority which followed. Respectfully submitted, 0 Helen Crowe, Secretary ATTEST: or,A Mayor City Cler