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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC MINUTES 01141986 Meeting Sheet IIIIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIIIIIIIII 101759 Box: 21 Folder: CC MINUTES AND AGENDAS 1986 Document: CC MINUTES 01141986 CITY OF ST. ANTHONY COUNCIL MINUTES January. 14, 1986- The meeting was opened at 7:30. P.M. with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Mayor Sundl and. Present for,rol-1 call Parks, Ranal..lo,. Sundland, and -Enrooth'. Absent: Makowske Also present: David Childs:'-City Manager.;. Don Hickerson, Police Chief; and Larry Hamer, 'Director of P'ublic"Works. Motion 'by Council.member Marks and seconded by Councilmember Ranallo to approve the minutes of the December 17,' 1985 Council meeting with the following change: _ Page.3, para. 1 : Insert "thousand" between "hyndred" and "dollars" .in .1ine 3. Motion carried unanimously. Motion. by .Councilmember Marks .and seconded by Councilmember Ranallo to grant the following licenses as listed in the January 14, 1986 Council agenda packet: Service Station • Dick' s -St. Anthony Union 76. Contractors North Star Services, St. Paul LaMere Concrete & Masonry, Inc., Roseville Motion carried unanimously. Motion by. Councilmember Ranallo and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to. approve payment of all verified claims listed for December 31 , 1985 in the January 14th Council agenda packet. Motion carried unanimously. Before the motion of- approval of the remainder of the claims listed in the January 14th agenda packet was voted on, Mr. Hamer explained that the new MSA fund rules require soil explorations before authorization of funds for any project. Moti"on by Councilmember Ranall*o and seconded by Mayor Sundland to approve payment of-the following claims as listed in the Council 's January 14th agenda packet: $490.15 to Dorsey- &'-Whitney for legal services during November, 1985; $1 ,945.90 to the Soil Exploration Company for the subsurface exploration program necessary for the reconstruction of St. Anthony Boulevard between Stinson Boulevard and .Silver Lake Road; - $1 ,555.88 to Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, Inc. for administration of the City's 1985 MSA account; -2- $1 ,430.24 to Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, Inc. for engineering consulting services • provided through November 16, 1985 on the St. Anthony;:Boulevard reconstruction project; $26,813.15 to the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission for December services; $556 to the National League•,of Cities for annual membership dues from February 1 , 1986 to January 31 , 1987; and $93 to Ramsey County League of Local Governments for 1986 annual membership dues . Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to authorize a proclamation by the .Mayor that the week of January 21st would be observed in St. Anthony Village in conjunction with the State's observance of the 71st anni- versary of the Kiwanis International . Motion carried unanimously. Copies of the letters from Group W. Cable officials informing its franchising authorities that the cable firm had been sold by its parent company to a group of cable operators had been included in the agenda packet and Mayor Sundland commented that he anticipated there would be franchise changes sought by the new owners about which the Council would have to be kept fully informed. Councilmember Ranallo announced that, because construction of the new Rochester Civic Center would not be completed by the April lst target date, the League of Minnesota Cities conference planning committee on which he serves had rescheduled • the LMM annual conference to be held in Duluth June 17 - 20th. He added that, because of the construction delays, the State Democratic Convention was also moved to Duluth. In reply to the Mayor's statement that he preferred outstate conference locations, Councilmember Ranallo indicated the last St. Paul convention had broken all records for attendance and Mayor Latimer wanted the meetings back in St. Paul in 1987 for the celebration of the Minnesota League's 75th anniversary. A rotating schedule has been set up for all other future conferences between Bloomington, St. Paul , Rochester, Duluth, and St. Cloud, if large enough facilities can be found in that city, he said. In response to the Councilmember's request for program topic suggestions for the Duluth conference, Councilmember Marks suggested that, since the response to the RCLLG's meeting on the county court system had been so positive, it might be interesting to explore the subjects of sentencing guidelines, prosecutions, and fine structures from a statewide perspective with state legis- lators, who actually set the guidelines, prepared to respond to questions from the municipalities about problems they have with the system. Councilmember Marks then indicated he would be participating in the training sessions for elected officials in a few weeks and then opened the discussion of resident complaints about their driveways being plugged up by the City plows as soon as they were cleared during the three day storm which occured at the beginning of the winter season. Councilmember Marks asked whether it was possible that the city crews could go back and open up those driveways for the residents and indicated he would be interested in finding out how much such a program would cost the City in terms of manpower and capital equipment. Mr. Hamer's response to questions of the same nature which had been raised during • the Council 's December 17th meeting was distributed to Councilmembers and the Public Works Director reiterated some of the problems his crews had encountered trying to keep the streets open during the weekend in question when 22 inches of -3- snow and unusually high winds had caused equipment breakdown and a strain on City • crew members, two of whom were trainees. The problem was worsened, Mr. Hamer said, when residents pushed the snow they shoveled or plowed out of their driveways back onto the streets, preventing passage of traffic and reggiiring additional plowing. For the benefit of Councilmembers who were not on the Council thirteen years ago, the department head indicated that at that time, the City had undertaken a program of trying to clean the residential driveways behind the plows, but the service had been discontinued because of complaints from residents that damage to their curbs and lawns had resulted. To revive the program now would probably cost the City a substantial sum for the additional manpower and equipment and insurance which he perceived would be needed to do the job and Mr. Hamer said, encouraging private parties to perform the service would probably not solve the problem since he understood it had been the elderly who had the most difficulty keeping their drive- ways open after the snow plows went through in the last storm and most of them are on fixed incomes and unable to pay for the service. At one time, Community Services had tried to set up a program where Boy Scouts or other youths would do the plowing (shoveling) for seniors on a voluntary basis but the Public Works Director indicated the present generation of seniors were younger then and better off than now and hadn't shown much interest in the program. However, conditions seem to have' changed and many of the senior citizens appear to welcome a little help now and then, he said. Mr. Hamer estimated it would cost the City at least $15 for 10 minutes of plowing to cover the service because his department just doesn't have the manpower or equipment to do everybody's driveway every time the plows go throuh. He told Councilmember Marks a bobcat itself would cost between $7,000 and ?8,000. Because the last storm would have cost a householder $45 to assure his driveway was open at all times Csince the streets were plowed three times in three days) , the Public Works Director said he anticipated there would be no more interest in the service on a cost basis than there had been in the chipping program this summer. He added that conversation with Edina, where the crews use gates on a roadgrader to clean out the driveways, had indicated that city's street department was not at all happy with the program because it fails to get the job done satisfactorily and is a very expensive proposition. Mr. Hamer then indicated he was somewhat disturbed to have the quality of the job his men were doing questioned because he perceived they had worked under very exceptional conditions that weekend. He invited the Councilmembers to ride along with the crews after the next heavy snowfall to see for themselves "what a difficult job it is to clean the streets and rights-of-ways, as the Public Works Department always does". Several Councilmembers indicated they would like to accept his invitation. Since the latest Newsletter was scheduled to be mailed to residents the next day, any explanation regarding the problems the City has keeping the streets cleared was considered impossible at this time, but the Manager said it would be possible to insert a short questionnaire with the mailing to determine just how many people would be willing to pay to have their driveways opened after each snow plowing . He indicated he would return with the results of the survey and an estimate of what the City' s costs would be to provide the service to that number of households. Before the discussion was closed, the Mayor suggested that if the program turned out is to be not economically feasible for the City, there might be some interest on the part of graduating students from the high school to fulfill their community service _4_ "requisites for -graduation by clearing out the senior residents' driveways for • them. Couneilmember Ranallo indicated the same might be true for Confirmation candidates. from St: Charles parish. Chief Hickerson, who is a member of the St. Anthony Chemical Awareness Committee, distributed copies of the list of that organization's activities and expenditures during 1985, which were. discussed in the copy of the Committee's December 10th minutes included in the agenda packet. The Chief's January 8th recommendation related to the purchase of a used vehicle for investigative work by his department was moved up on the agenda for a dis- cussion of .his proposal . Motion by Councilmember. Marks and seconded by Councilmember. Ranallo. to authorize the purchase of the 1985-Olds Ciera from Rosedale Chevrolet for $7,800 to be funded as per the recommendations from Police Chief Hickerson. Motion carried unanimously. The December Fire .Department report and liquor sales summary were ordered filed as was the January'8th proposal from Waste Management in Blaine to manage the City's recycling- center,"following a short report, from_Mr. Hamer 'related to the improvements he;foresaw with the change in center}- management .The residents would be informed of these new services in the Newsletter going out the next day, the -Manager indicated. Mr. Childs gave the 18 minute slide show prepared by the City/School Marketing SCommittee for promoting St. Anthony Village, which was warmly applauded by those pre-sent. The Manager indicated tapes of the presentation would be made for distribution to area- realtors and corporate personnel executives to encourage them to promote the community to .newcomers to the area as well as prospective residents. He said there would also be brochures on the . Village schools and taxes to be handed out by realtors to prospective homebuyers. The Mayor indicated he perceived there might be an interest on the Chamber of Commerce to participate in the-development of the tapes. The January 7th staff notes were ordered filed along with the December 30th notice of the sale of Group W Cable on which the Mayor had commented earlier in the evening. The Manager reported he would be meeting the next day with City of New Brighton representatives and Tom Kalitowski , Director of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to discuss further action related to the two cities ' water contamination problems. Mr". Childs had also distributed copies of the request from the MPCA that the federal Environmental Protection Agency fund a study of alternative water sources for the City in response to the directive from the Minnesota State Health Department that such a study be made. He said if the study is funded by EPA, the same firm would be doing the City's study who are contractors on the main study the EPA is doing right now of the Army's offsite contamination, which would save the City from having to take action before EPA approval is granted, as New Brighton had been forced to do. • The. Manager indicated he would be attending the January 23rd meeting of the North Suburban Association of Mayors at the Sheraton North and that he had been elected to serve as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Metropolitan Area Managers Association, which meant he would progress to the position of Vice President in 1987 and -5- President in 1988. Councilmember Ranallo congratulated Mr. Childs, telling him • he perceived it was very beneficial for the City to have the Manager so involved in activities outside the City. Copies of the invoice from Hennepin County indicating the City's share of land acquisition costs incurred by the County in relation to the reconstruction of County Road D had been distributed by the Manager, who said the City had already been reimbursed from the MSA funds for that amount. Motion by Councilmember Ranallo and seconded by Councilmember Marks to approve payment of $41 ,090.75 to Hennepin County Bureau of Public Service. Motion carried unanimously. Councilmember Ranallo suggested that this might be the appropriate year to consider changing the terms of office for the Mayor from two to four years and requested staff be directed to research what other municipalities have done in this regard and what actions necessary to accomplish the change. There were no objections to his proposal . Mr. Childs indicated the letter frpm Ramsey County Commissioner Ruby Hunt related to the consolidation of the Ramsey County Municipal Court system should require no Council action, since all St. Anthony cases are currently handled by the Hennepin County court system. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to approve • the second reading of the ordinance which amends the City alarm ordinance. ORDINANCE 1985-004 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO ALARMS; AMENDING SECTION 45O:25b., REPEALING SECTIONS 45O:25d.1 , 450:30 AND 45O:35a; AND AMENDING SECTION 45O:35b Motion carried unanimously. In his January 8th memorandum, Mr. Hamer had advised the Council that, because Well #3 has had to be shut down for the past two years, maintenance on Well #4 on which the City has had to rely for its water supply, is now necessary. Because of a perceived wear on the pump bowl in that well , the Public Works Director recom- mended that equipment be replaced while the well is shut down. Since he expects it could take from 4 to 6 weeks for delivery, Mr. Hamer's recommendation was to order the bowl immediately, so Well #5 would have to serve as the City's source of water for only the week required to do the maintenance on Well #4. Mr. Childs commented that eventually the City would have to make some drastic changes to its water system but these temporary measures would buy time until the. EPA study on alternative water sources is completed. Motion by Councilmember- Enrooth and seconded by Councilmember Ranallo to approve the purchase of a new pump bowl for Well #4 from Layne Minnesota for $4,250. Motion carried unanimously. • Motion by Mayor Sundland and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to adopt the resolu- tion which designates Clarence Ranallo to continue to serve as Mayor Pro Tem for the coming year. -6- RESOLUTION 86.-001 • A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING MAYOR PRO TEM FOR CALENDAR YEAR 1986 Voti.ng on the motion: Ayer Sundland, Enrooth, and Marks. Abstention: ;Ranallo. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Ranallo to adopt resolution 86-002: RESOLUTION 86002 A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE SIGNATURE OF THE MAYOR, FINANCE' DIRECTOR AND THE-CITY MANAGER ON ALL DRAFTS DRAWN 'AGAINST DEPOSITS OF THE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY, MINNESOTA Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilmember. Marks and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to adopt the resolution designating %, t. Anthony edition of the Bulletin .as the official newspaper for the City in 1986. RESOLUTION 86-003 • A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING LEGAL NEWSPAPER FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1986 Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Ranallo to adopt resolution 86-004. RESOLUTION 86-004 A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING MARCH 15, 1986 AS CUT-OFF DATE FOR RECEIVING PETITIONS FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS Motion carried unanimously. RESOLUTION 86-005 A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING THE OFFICIAL DEPOSITORY FOR CITY FUNDS Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilmember Ranallo and seconded by Councilmember Marks to adopt the resolution which vacates a portion. of Harding Street N.E. for the Walker on Kenzie Redevelopment Project. • RESOLUTION 86-006 A RESOLUTION VACATING A PORTION OF EASEMENTS IN VACATED HARDING STREET -7- Motion carried unanimously. • Motion by Councilmember Enrooth and seconded by Councilmember Marks to adopt the resolution which approves the 1986 Public Works Department union contract. RESOLUTION 86-007 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE .MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ARTICLE XIX AND APPENDIX A TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE METROPOLITAN AREA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTING THE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY AND THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERSV' LOCAL 49 Motion carried unanimously. The Mayor gave the background of the formation of the Coalition of Metropolitan Communities representing northern community leaders who questioned the exemption of the proposed Bloomington Mall revenues from the state's fiscal disparities regulations and continuation of the unequal concentration of available highway and economic development funds to the southern sections of the metropolitan area for the project. The St. Anthony official indicated he agreed with the stated objectives of the group to seek equal treatment for developments in the northern suburbs. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to adopt resolution 86-008. • RESOLUTION 86-008 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT TO FORM A COALITION OF METROPOLITAN COMMUNITIES Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilmember Ranallo and seconded by Councilmember Marks to approve the first reading of the ordinance to amend the City Zoning Map to change the zoning of the Blanske property on the corner of Silver Lake Road from R-2, two family residential district, to R-3, townhouse residential district, as approved by the Council at their November 26, 1985 meeting. ORDINANCE 1986-001 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY ZONING MAP Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to reappoint Rosemary Franzese and George Wagner to continue their service on the St. Anthony Planning Commission for three years. Motion carried unanimously. The consensus of the Council and Mayor had been that it was almost impossible to • make a choice between four of the seven applicants to fill the remaining vacant spot on the Commission because those candidates were all so well qualified to 8- bring diverse perspectives to .the. board membership. The Manager was instructed to see if the services of these applicants could not be utilized in some other form of community service before the following -motion was made: Motio rr by Mayor Sundland and seconded by Councilmember Ranallo to appoint Rick Werenicz of- 3610. Harding.-Street N.E. ,_ to fill the three year vacancy on the St. Anthony Planning Commi-ssion. Motion carried unanimously.: Motion by Councilmember Ranallo and. seconded by Mayor Sundland to adjourn the meeting at 9:35 R.M. for a work session relating to-the City* Manager.'s.employment contract. ' Motion carried unanimously. Respectfully submitted, He en Crowe, Secretary Ma or • ATTEST: City Clerk