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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC MINUTES 10081974 Meeting Sheet IIIIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIIIIIIIII 105777 Box: 35 Folder: CC MINUTES AND AGENDAS 1974 Document: CC MINUTES 10081974 CITY OF ST. ANTHONY COUNCIL MINUTES October 8, 1974 The meeting was called to order by Mayor Miedtke at 7:30 P.M. The following were present for roll call: Sauer, Haik, Sundland, Miedtke, Stauffer. Also present: Jerry Dulgar, City Manager Larry Vickrey, City Attorney The following amendments were made to the Council minutes of September 24,1974: Page 2, para. 3: Add "and with a Hennepin County Welfare Worker whose clients are senior citizens from N.E. Mpls." Page 4, para. 5: Strike "and a comparison of the costs of using the school building or renovating the present City facilities for a city hall". Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to approve the Council minutes of September 25, 1974 as amended. Motion carried. Marlys Berg, Chairman of the Human Relations Committee in commenting on her group's minutes of September 17, 1974, requested that the recommendations re- garding water fountains be striken from the minutes. She also reported that . comments about Hans Selvog's lack of communication with the Committee had resulted from a misunderstanding about his not working for two months while he was in training sessions and Mr. Dulgar reported that his meetings with Mr. Selvog had resulted in an agreement that the youth worker would submit written reports to the Committee on a regular basis. To assure that Mrs. Berg was serving legally as chairman of the Committee, the Mayor officially designated her to head the Committee. The Human Relations Committee minutes were directed filed as amended. The following amendment to the October 1, 1974 Public Hearing on Storm Sewer Project 1972-1 was made: Page 1, para. 3: Change "2.5 cents" to "2.526 cents". Motion by Councilman Haik and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to approve the minutes of the October 1, 1974 Public Hearing as amended. Motion carried. Requests from senior citizens for relief from payment of assessments on the storm sewer project were referred to the City Attorney who explained how the March 23, 1974 Hardship Tax Referral Law allowed the Council to grant defer- ments of payment of assessments on a basis of hardship to senior citizens. He said the elderly must initiate their requests for deferment and their requests are to be processed through the County and then returned to the City for acceptance or rejection. The Mayor appointed Councilman Haik and Sundland to investigate the total picture of assessment deferment and the criteria for hardship to be used in granting such deferments. They were to report back to -2- the Council as early as possible in November. • Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to adopt Resolution 74-027 and set the interest rate at 8% with assessment to be spread over 5 years. RESOLUTION 74-027 RESOLUTION ADOPTING ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR PAVING, CURB AND GUTTER PROJECT IMPROVENT 1973-1 Motion carried. Mr. John Prueter, 7700 Logan Avenue South, Mpls., Mr. George Nason, 2210 Duswell Avenue, St. Paul, and Elizabeth B. Hanley, Attorney, Engineer and President respectively of the Sunset Memorial Park Association, attended the meeting and Mr. Prueter stated that they were objecting to the amount which had been levied against the cemetary association to pay for the storm sewer system. Mayor Miedtke pointed out that the Sunset Memorial assessment represented only for their share of participation in the cost of the pipe built by Minneapolis, St. Anthony and the Highway Department into which the cemetary's own storm sewer flowed. He told Mr. Prueter that the assessments were based not only on the cost of the pipe which lay within the confines of St. Anthony but for the entire storm sewer system as it carried waste waters to the river. The attorney questioned why the Hillside Cemetary Association was identified on the mailing lists with the Sunset Memorial Park address. Mr. Fornell was called from the Is Planning Board meeting in another part of the building to further clarify the source of the data which was used to compute the individual asssessment rates. The City Attorney told the Council that the cemetery association objections should not delay their passing the resolution approving the assessment rolls for the storm sewer. Martin Rainer, 282+ Highway 8, said the above discussion had cleared up some questions in his mind regarding the method of assessment and was told he had 39 days from the date of the resolution to pay up his assessment without interest. Mr. & Mrs. Walter F. Bochnak, 418 9th Avenue N.E.J. were present and wondered what portion of the vacant lot they own at 3510 Belden Drive was affected by the storm sewer assessment since the lot is located at the crest of the hill. A A check of the assessment listings indicated that theirs was only a partial assessment for the portion of the lot from which water flowed in a southerly direction. Before the following motion was made, a memo from Jim Fornell indicating four adjustments to be made in the calculations were included in the assessment roll: Motion by Sundland, seconded by Miedtke to adopt Resolution 74-028. RESOLUTION 74-028 A RESOLUTION ADOPTING ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT 1972-1 Interest rate to be 7% to be spread over 10 years. Motion carried. • Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to adopt Resolution 74-029 . A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE 1975 BUDGET Motion carried. -3- The meeting was recessed from 8:30 P.M. to 8:40 P.M. Because there was some question whether Resolution 68-040 establishing a Human Relations Advisory Committee had not been revised at a later date, the following motion was made: Motion by Councilman Haik, seconded by Councilman Sundland to table action on Resolution 74-030 which would amend Resolution 68-040. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to grant approval to the YMCA to again sell Xmas trees in the St. Anthony Shopping Center subject to their obtaining the permission of the shopping center owners. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to approve the list of election judges and registrars for the General Election to be held November 5, 1974. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to grant approval to Paul C. Broberg to sell Xmas trees in the Wards Garden Center at Apache • Plaza subject to his obtaining permission from Wards and the Apache Plaza management. Motion carried. Mr. Frederick Herfurth of the Frederick Herfurth Realty Company who was accomp- anied by Mrs. Carol Brown appeared to request permission to establish a small branch office for his realty firm on the property they own at 3901 Silver Iake Road. The discussion on the request centered around the Council's previous action as well as the Planning Board's approval of the project which was contingent upon a retirement complex being built next to the Herfurth property which plan had been abandoned by Rembrandt Corporation because of lack of funding. Councilman Sauer said he felt the real estate office would be a good use for that property and the matter should be referred back to the Planning Board for immediate action. However, when Mr. Herfurth learned that the Plann- ing Board was considering his property in their evaluation of the zoning for the property across from Apache Plaza and that their decisions on the revisions of the zoning ordinance should be presented to the Council for approval by their 1st meeting in November, he was agreeable in deferring his request until the November Council meeting. Geri Evans and Bob Johnson of the Community Services Advisory Committee gave the recommendations to the Council which their group had formulated. Mr. Johnson showed a series of slides which illustrated the walkway through the Salvation Army Camp which the director of the camp, Jim Brown, was seeking to build with the cooperation of the City for the use of the general public. Mr. • Johnson said his committee felt the City should contribute to the construction of the nature trail by donating City personnel and machinery to help build the chip pathway. He also gave Mr. Brown's proposal of methods of supervising the use of the trail. Mr. Vickrey and Mr. Dulgar joined the discussion of previous efforts by the City to cooperate in a similar use of the camp for which the Chicago office of the Salvation Army had declined to enter into a written agreement. -4- Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to direct the • Manager to meet with Jim Brown, Salvation Camp Director, and work out plans and financial arrangements on the development of a wood chip trail through the camp site which might afford better use of the camp by the community. Motion carried. The Committee then recommended coordination with New Brighton and Columbia Heights on a bikeway system for the City and that the Council take action on the blacktop path going from County Road E to 37th Avenue N.E for pedestrian travel to Apache Plaza Shopping Center. The Committee representatives were told that the City had earmarked funds for the walkways but that they would not be installed until Silver Lake Road had been widened in that area. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Mayor Miedtke to table action on the pathways until March 1, 1975. Motion carried. The Committee also recommended concentration on fixture tennis courts at Silver Oak Elementary School with financing coming from New Brighton, St. Anthony School District #282 and the City of St. Anthony. They said they were meeting with officials from New Brighton and the school district and would make a report at the joint Council/School Board meeting which has been tentatively set for • November 18, 1974. Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Sundland to direct the Community Services Advisory Committee to continue conversations to ascertain New Brighton's interest in the joint financing of the tennis courts in anticip- ation of a report to be made to the Council and School Board November 18th. Motion carried. The investment report was directed filed after clarification of a few items by Mr. Dulgar. Motion by.:Councilma.n Sundland, seconded by Councilman Haik to approve payment of $659.40 to North Suburban Day Activity Center for services rendered to residents of St. Anthony. Motion carried. The Council then discussed whether St. Anthony received its money's worth from the services provided by the Suburban Health Nursing Service and heard of Councilman Stauffer's conversation with Hilda Boyle of the nursing service. There was also speculation that if this service were dropped in the suburbs and had to be provided by Hennepin County Welfare Services, it might cost the City more. Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to adopt Resolution • 74-031, and to approve payment of $21685.51+ to Suburban Public Health Nursing Service with the payment for 1975 to be made from the Council's Contingency Fund for 1974. RESOLUTION 74-031 s A RESOLUTION REIATING TO PARTICIPATION IN THE • SUBURBAN HENNEPIN COUNTY NURSING DISTRICT Motion carried. After the attorney had explained the preparation of Highcrest Road vacation cost to Councilman Haik the following motion was i.ade: Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to approve payment of $2,106.5+ to the Dorsey Firm for services rendered during August, 197+. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Mayor Miedtke to approve payment of $414.00 to Constructive Design for architectural engineering work on the liquor lounge remodelling project. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to approve payment of $52,833.60 to Henning Nelson for their work on the liquor lounge. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to approve Change Orders #2 and #3 and payment of $377.80 to Henning Nelson. • Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to approve payment of all verified claims listed in the October 8. 197+ agenda. Motion carried. Mr. Fran Schuck's letter regarding the costs of a feasibility study on the existing Parkview School building for the purpose of remodelling part or all of the building for a municipal building was discussed. Motion by Mayor Miedtke to engage the architect to conduct a feasibility study of Parkview on the basis of the criteria contained in his initial report on this space died for lack of a second. Following a straw vote of Council members in which there was no consensus of approval for the move from the present municipal building to Parkview, the following motion was made: Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Sauar to table action on the feasibility study until the Council is in receipt of the report from the Manager and the Community Services Director in which their evaluation of the city needs are given. • Motion carried. Some of the proposals for City participation in the Bicentennial Celebration were planting of memorial trees on 29th Avenue N.E. when it is upgraded, writing of the history of the community, a special flag raising ceremony and inclusion of the commemoration in the October Frest activities for 1975. 1 • Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to adopt a resolut- ion stating that the City of St. Anthony will participate in the Bicentennial efforts of the committee chaired by Judy Just and to designate Councilman Haik to act as the Council's liaison with the committee. Motion carried. RESOLUTION 711-032 A RESOLUTION INDICATING ST. ANTHONY'S INTENT TO PARTICIPATE IN BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Mayor Miedtke and several of the Council members were to attend the Hennepin County Bicentennial flag raising ceremony. Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to adjourn at 11:00 P.M. Motion carried. e Mayor ATTEST: Clerk 'All • C' Mana V —U[