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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC MINUTES 07091985 Meeting Sheet IIIIII VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII IIII IIII ioiaiz Box: 21 Folder: CC MINUTES AND AGENDAS 1985 Document: CC MINUTES 07091985 CITY OF ST. ANTHONY • COUNCIL MINUTES July 9, 1985 The meeting opened at 7:30 P.M. with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Mayor Sundland. Present for roll call : Sundland, Marks, Ranallo, Enrooth, and Makowske. Also present: David Childs, City Manager; and Steve Carlson, Administrative Intern. Before the meeting was opened, the Mayor had been congratulated for having been named Friend of Education by the Minnesota Coalition for Public Education. He said he had been nominated to receive that honor by the St. Anthony School Board. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to approve with the following amendments, the minutes of the Council meeting held June 25, 1985: Page 7, para. 10: Substitute "June 19" for "June 20" in line 2; "discussion of senior housing options was held. " for "tour of senior housing projects was planned. " in lines 2 and 3; and "a" for "that" tour. . . .in line 4, and insert "senior" between "of" and "housing" in line 4. Page 8, para. 4: Delete "in a different light" in line 8. • Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Ranallo to direct that - all members of the St. Anthony City Council be referred to as "Councilmembers" in minutes of all Council meetings hereafter. Motion carried unanimously. In reference to the June 25th report on the tour of senior housing, the Mayor noted that the latest Ramsey County League of Local Governments bulletin had indicated that the July 17th tour would start with a picnic at 5:00 P.M. in the log shelter at Park Island Lake. Councilmember Makowske confirmed that, although the dinner would no longer be held at the St. Anthony Health Center, as originally planned, that facility as well as the proposed site of the Chandler Place next door would be part of the tour which would follow the picnic. At 7:35 P.M. , the Mayor opened the public hearings to consider a program for a multi-family rental housing development (.Chandler Place) consisting of an apartment building containing 119 rental housing units to be occupied primarily by elderly persons of whom at least 20 percent would be of low and moderate income, to be developed and owned by the St. Anthony Health Center on four acres at the northeast corner of the intersection, of Chandler Drive and 37th Avenue N.E. , which would be consistent with the Housing Plan of St. Anthony also up for Council consideration. The development would be financed through the issuance of $6,350,000 in revenue bonds by the City pursuant to Chapter 462C of the Minnesota Statutes. • Notice of both hearings had been published in the June 4, 1985 Bulletin and there was no one present to object to the content of either notice or to tF-e'project itself. -2- Present to speak for the request were Mike Miller, Assistant Administrator of the • Health Center, and Bill Goblursh representing Juran & Moody, bonding company for the project. Mr. Miller indicated he was now a minor partner and owner of the health center and distributed copies of the promotional literature on Chandler Place which included a sketch of a typical 616 square foot, one bedroom unit which, he said, the majority of the units would be. The architect had been able to provide two more units than had been shown on the original plans for_ the development, the health center partner indicated. Mr. Miller said Health Center officials had no desire to generate a long waiting list of applicants for the units although in spite of a minium of advertising, the project had already generated about a hundred inquiries from interested persons. The Health Center spokesman said he anticipated invitations to bid on the project would be issued by July 15th and the bids awarded sometime in August, so the pro- ject could be up and operating by next April . Mr. Goblursh told Councilmember Marks that, although the financing would be made as Industrial Revenue Bonds, they would actually be issued as Housing Revenue Bonds, which, he added, would be exempt from the usual allocation restrictions. The City would only serve as a conduit for the financing which would constitute no debt for St.. Anthony, Mr. Goblursh said. The Manager indicated the City Housing Plan which the Council had been requested to accept for this project had originally been developed for the Arkell project two years ago but had never been used for that purpose because the developers had decided not to use Housing Revenue Bonds for the Kenzington Project. • Mayor Sundland noted that a portion of the residents in the Chandler Place would be low and moderate income persons and said he was glad to see market rent rates charged for the units instead of endowments, which a senior couple had told him could often turn out to be poor investments if the buyers failed to live long enough to benefit from the large sum required. Councilmember Marks stated that he perceived this project, along with other housing developments the City has started or expects to start in the next few years, would. effectively form a continuum of housing in the City which would fill a gap he believed had been left open for elderly housing. Mr. Miller said the Council might be interested to learn about 40% of the 100 persons who had talked to him about the project were from St. Anthony, with half of those owning their own homes. He saw their move to Chandler Place as freeing up housing for young families in the City. The persons he was referring to, Mr. Miller told Councilmember Enrooth, were between 75 and 80 years of age, living alone, and finding it more and more difficult to take care of themselves in their own homes. The Health Center administrator also anticipated there might be a real interest on the part of elderly who live in the inner city to seek greater security in St. Anthony which is not so far from their own homes. The hearing closed at 7:59 P.M. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Ranallo to adopt the resolution which would accept the City Housing Plan for Chandler Place pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 462C. RESOLUTION 85-032 A RESOLUTION ADOPTING A HOUSING PLAN FOR THE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, CHAPTER 462C -3- Motion carried unanimously. • Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to adopt the resolution which gives preliminary authorization to the Multi-family Housing Development Program for Chandler Place, to be developed and owned by the St. Anthony Health Center on the northeast- corner of Chandler Drive and 37th Avenue N.E. , which would be consistent with the Housing Plan of the City and financed by issuance of $6,350,000 in Multi-family Housing Revenue Bonds. RESOLUTION 85-033 A RESOLUTION APPROVING A MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. (.CHANDLER PLACE) UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, CHAPTER 462C AND PROVIDING PRELIMINARY AUTHORIZATION FOR.THE ISSUANCE OF HOUSING REVENUE BONDS IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $6,350,000 TO ST. ANTHONY HEALTH CENTER, PURSUANT TO THE ACT Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Goblursh then indicated that, if the bids should come in a couple of hundred thousand dollars higher than the $6,350,000 figure, the bond counsel would likely call for another public hearing on,the higher amount. He also said the bond company would be anxious to sell the bonds early in the fall to avoid the glut of sales anticipated for the last of the year. Motion by Councilmember Ranallo and seconded by Councilmember Makowske to grant the following licenses and approve the multiple dwelling registrations as listed • in the July 9, 1985 Council agenda packet: BENCH LICENSE U. S. Bench Corporation for the 39th and Stinson location CONTRACTORS LICENSES Ken Weber General Contracting, St. Paul Brunn Construction, New Brighton C & M Builders, Columbia Heights Sonny Miller Construction, Minneapolis HEATING LICENSES J. K. Heating Frank-';s Heating & Air Conditioning Northeast Sheet Metal, Inc. Ray N. Welter Heating Co. Superior Contractors, Inc. Standard Heating & Air Conditioning Owens Services Corporation Yale Incorporated Royalton Heating & Cooling Co. Centraire, Inc. SB.S Mechanical , Inc. O'Keefe Mechanical , Inc. Care Air Conditioning & Heating Suburban Air Conditioning Co. Del-Air Conditioning, Inc. Central Air Conditioning & Heating, -4- MULTIPLE DWELLING REGISTRATIONS • Ivy League Associates for '3804 Highcrest Road Cameron Properties .for 3721 Chandler Drive Sheldon Mortenson for 3713, 3720, 3721 , 3727, 3728, and 3800 Foss Road Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to approve payment of the following claims as they were listed in the July 9, 1985 Council agenda packet: $3,286 annual dues to the League of Minnesota Cities; $6,000 to St. Anthony School District .#282 for the City's use of the Park View facilities from April through June, 1985; and $9,750 to Adrian Helgeson and Company for the 1984 audit and financial statements of various City funds. Motion carried unanimously. Councilmember Makowske reiterated her invitation to.-attend the RCLLG picnic and tour of senior housing projects, July 17th. She also reported her son had gone up to the High School cafeteria with the intention of attending the Alternative Teen Center dance but had found the place empty. The assumption was that the dance "had been called off because of the Fourth of July holiday and that communications about these events might not be the best they could be. Councilmember Enrooth reported receiving calls related to the flyer being dis- tributed throughout the City advertising that a company in Minnetonka would be painting home addresses on the City curbsides and said he was also disturbed that the wording of the advertisement seemed to infer the service was City sponsored and promoted. Councilmember Ranallo recalled that in the past similar projects had been endorsed by the City. The Manager was requested to contact the flyer company to request they rewrite their promotional literature. He said he was certain they had actually seen the advertisement itself. Mr. Childs distributed copies of the July 5th letter from ;t�he'Minnesota Housing Finance Agency informing him that the St. Anthony proposal had been selected for funding under the 1985 Municipal Home Mortgage Program. The mortgages would be made through the St. Anthony National Bank and the Manager said the bank had been willing to carry mortgages for only four homes at first until they became more familiar with the program. Councilmember Enrooth agreed that might be a wise move since, although there are a good number of $75,000 homes in the City which might qualify, there might not be a large number put on the market at one time. The agenda packet included a copy of the proposed Joint Cooperation Agreement whereby Ramsey County would provide a program of community development block grants for St. Anthony, which Mr. Childs had indicated staff believed should be signed. He said, if there was no Council objection, the necessary response would be made by July 17th, with the agreement returned for Council execution in August. The Manager reiterated that the City could apply for CDBG funds through both Hennepin and Ramsey County and Councilmember Makowske indicated she perceived the City would • have some options through Ramsey County not provided by the Hennepin County program. The most important of these, Mr. Childs said, would be the City's ability to -5- accumulate funds until there were enough for a large project, which because that • was not allowed by Hennepin County, had caused some of these funds to be lost to the City in the past. There were no objections to the Manager handling the matter in the way he had recommended. Mr. Childs reported he and the Mayor had attended a meeting with the Chairman of the Board and Superintendent of District #282 schools where.-a preliminary dis- cussion of the City's Park View lease was held. The Manager said he anticipated no major problems with eventually reaching a satisfactory agreement with the school . The general concurrence was that it would be the best course to have staff continue these negotiations. Councilmember Ranallo suggested it might be beneficial for staff to prepare data on the services the City provides the school district at no charge as a bargaining chip in those negotiations. Councilmember_ Enrooth indicated that he-perceived that, even though rents would be going up .to $1.,000 a month now that the City is no longer providing janitorial services, with cost of labor and materials, the -City actually never saved that much and the hassle wasn't worth the difference. Mr. Childs reported he..and Larry Hamer had attended the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's. briefing of Briggs & Morgan 'on what the Army intends to do regarding the water contamination problem and the Manager said he anticipated it would be February before the Phased addendum report would be available. However, the City' s contamination figures appear to be holding and the Manager indicated he-..saw no need for further conservation efforts this summer outside the partial connection of part of the City's water system with. Roseville. Mr. Childs said he had been • very impressed with the figures the MPCA had compiled and had arranged to have them make the same presentation to the Council at an upcoming meeting. The July 3rd letter from the Metropolitan Council Chair related to the appointment of Regional Transit Board members was noted and filed. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Makowske to adopt the resolution which authorizes the use of City MSA funds for the County Road D reconstruction project, with the deletion of "dollars" after $22,877 in line 7. RESOLUTION 85-031 APPROPRIATION -OF MUNICIPAL STATE AID FUNDS TO C.S.A.H. TO T.H. PROJECT Motion carried unanimously. The format of the ordinance amendment authorizing Group W Cable to combine the higher education and private education channels had been revised according to Council direction, June 25th. Motion by Councilmember Makowske and seconded by Councilmember Marks to approve the second reading of Ordinance 1985-003. ORDINANCE 1985-003 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE 1982-009 • REGARDING THE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY AND GROUP W CABLE Motion carried unanimously. -6- Mr. Childs announced that the META group had approved the mortgage financing for -the Kenzington and indicated he understood Arkell would be bringing the documents to the Council at an upcoming meeting. Motion by Councilmember Enrooth and seconded by Councilmember Marks to adjourn the meeting at 8:30 P.M. for a work session with Lee Entner, the City Fire Chief, on Fire Department staffing which followed immediately. Motion carried unanimously. Respectfully submitted, Helen Crowe, Secretary Mayor ATTEST: Oz.,AA-.17, City C er •