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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC MINUTES 11121974 Meeting Sheet IIIIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIIIIIIIII 105781 Box: 35 Folder: CC MINUTES AND AGENDAS 1974 Document: CC MINUTES 11121974 • CITY OF ST. ANTHONY COUNCIL MINUTES November 12, 1974 • The meeting was called to order by Mayor Miedtke at 7:30 P.M. The following were present for roll call: Haik, Sauer, Sundland, Miedtke and Stauffer. Also present: Larry Vickrey, City Attorney Jim Fornell, Adm. Assistant The following amendments were made to the Council minutes of October 22, 1974: Page 2-para. 1: Add "Councilman Haik also felt the granting of the variance might limit the potential of the neighbor to legally expand his house to his side yard limits". Page 2-para. 2: Councilman Sundland voted "Nay" to the motion to deny the variance. Page 3-para.4: Substitute "to amend wording requiring dual toilet facilities for "to amend the motion requiring toilet facilities". Page 5-para.7: Substitute "apply for deferment" for "to appear before the Council to apply for deferement". Page 6-last para:Add "Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Mayor Miedtke to adjourn at 11:30 P.M. Motion carried". Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to approve the minutes of October 22nd as amended. Motion carried. Mayor Miedtke extended an invitation to the Council to attend the November 19th, 1974 Human Relation Committee meeting which would be attended by Hans Selvog and he made mention of the memo from the committee which indicated a revision of the program for the elderly. George Wynn, Chairman of the 1974 St. Anthony Celebration, presented the financial statement for the event and requested that the Council approve pay- ment of $450.00 to cover the debt incurred by the celebration. A discussion followed on whether the Council wanted to continue the practice of subsidizing future community celebrations if more interest were not shown by the service organizations of the community and yet the possibility of some underwriting of the Bicentennial Celebration in 1975. Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Sauer to approve payment of $450.00 toward the 1974 St. Anthony Celebration but to require a report from those heading future celebrations on the commitment of local organizations prior to incurring a deficit which might be anticipated to be paid by the City. Before voting on the motion, Mayor Miedtke said he thought the Council had indicated an unwillingness to pay any deficit resulting from this year's celebration and made a motion to table action to allow time to review the minutes of the Council meeting where the plans for the celebration were discussed. 1 • -2- His motion to table died for lack of a second. The motion to approve payment of $450.00 towards the celebration carried. • Councilman Sauer questioned the "janitor fees" in the financial statement and said he would follow up on that item. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Haik to adopt resolution §74-033. RESOLUTION 74-033 A RESOLUTION ORDERING A PUBLIC HEARING ON A SUPPLEMENTARY ASSESSMENT ON STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT 1972-1. Motion carried. After assurances were made to Councilman Haik that a resolution dealing with the reapportionment of assessments on the Holien lot split did not grant approval to the lot split itself, the following motion was made: Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Sundland to adopt Resolution #74-034. RESOLUTION 74-034 HOLIFN'S FIRST ADDITION-NFW PLAT REAPPORTIONMENT OF ASSESSMENTS • Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Haik to adopt Resolution #74-030 . with references to St. Anthony as "village" to "city" . RESOLUTION 74-030 RESOLUTION AMENDING RESOLUTION 68-040 A RESOLUTION FSTkBLISHING A HUMAN RELATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTFF AND RESOLUTION 71-013 BY REPEALING SAME AND ADOPTING RESOLUTION 74-030. Motion carried. Mr. Vern Peterson of the Kiwanis Club appeared to thank the Council for their authorization and support of the Peanut Sale which he reported netted the organization $1,500 to fund various community projects. Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Sundland to table action on the Lamppa letter regarding delays in their work on Water Improvement Project 1974-1 until the compaction tests are in. Motion carried. Councilman Haik requested that bulletin boards be set up in City Hall, the post office and bank where the public could be notified of meetings and be advised of where they could seek information on other city business because of failure of other sources of notification to provide such data on a regular basis. Mayor Miedtke reported that such a bulletin board was being set up at city hall and was concerned with the cost and labor involved in keeping the other two bulletin boards current. Mr. Vickrey said the Attorney Generales _3_ recent ruling on notification of meetings of public officials required only "the X number of places necessary to adequately notify the citizens" and that • number would depend on the size of the community. Motion by Councilman Haik, seconded by Councilman Sundland to direct the City Manager to investigate the size, cost and availability of bulletin boards for installation in the Post Office and the State Bank of St. Anthony. Motion carried. Councilman Stauffer requested that the prohibition of parking on Stinson Blvd. be added to the agenda for the next Council meeting. Basic agreement with the Post Office request to restrict parking in front of apartment buildings on Foss Road and Macalaster Drive was expressed by the Council but, because it was not certain there was enough off street parking available, the following motion was made: Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to table action on restricting parking on Foss Road and Macalaster Drive until a report on the adequacy of parking facilities and a recommendation on "on street parking" are obtained from the Police Department. Motion carried. Mayor Miedtke stated his intention of appearing at the November lith public hearing in New Brighton to protest the extension of Silver Lane to connect with Foss Road but to indicate an interest but a lack of fund for the pedestrian bridge as outlined in the proposal from Thomas Lewcock, City Manager of New Brighton. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Haik to indicate to the City of New Brighton that the City of St. Anthony objects to the extension of Silver Lane over the railroad tracks to connect with Foss Road. Motion carried. During the discussion of the letter from the League of Minnesota Municipalities regarding the Fair Labor Standards Act litigation, Councilman Haik said she would like more particulars of the suit as well as the range of differences in wage scales paid on a national basis. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to contribute $50.00 to the League of Minnesota Municipalities toward lawsuit challenging the validity of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Haik to table action on the letter from the City of St. Paul regarding financial participation in St. P.aul•'s watchdog effort over the Public Service Commission about the Suburban Rate Authority's effort in that regard. • Motion carried. The Police and Fire Reports were ordered filed. The letter from Hans Selvog regarding his work with the youth of the community • was filed and the invitation again repeated to the Council to attend the Human Relations Committee meeting at 7:00 P.M. November 19th. Mr. Frederick Herfurth, President, and Mrs. Carol Brown, Office Manager of the Herfurth Real Estate Company presented their request that their application for a conditional use permit for a real estate office be reconsidered by the Council as it had previously been tabled. Mr. Herfurth said he thought the request had been for rezoning the property he had purchased at 3901 Silver Lake Road to commercial but conceded he only had a record of a request for a conditional use permit which the Planning Board had given approval contingent upon a retirement complex being erected on the adjoining property. The realtor only had the initial landscaping plans with him which were not the plans finally approved by the Planning Board, a survey of the property and a sketch illustrating the proposed renovation of the Holien home and garage to serve as a real estate office. The meeting was recessed at 8:35 P.M. and reconvened at 8:47 P.M. for a resumption of the discussion and the following motions: Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Sauer to remove from tabled the request from the Frederick Herfurth Real Estate Company for a conditional use permit to establish a real estate sales office at 3901 Silver Lake Road. Voting on the motion: Aye: Sauer, Sundland, Miedtke, Stauffer Nay: Haik Motion carried. Councilman Haik said she was still opposed to rezoning the property from Residential because she feared it would set a precedent for dealing with the other undeveloped property in that area. Councilman Stauffer wanted the adjoining land, especially the north portion of the area in question; to be reevaluated to preserve the R-1 nature of the back lots, and was concerned that granting the permit should not substantially diminish the property values. Councilman Sauer felt the proposal was the closest the Council could get to a residential use of -the property. Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to grant a condition- al use permit to the Frederick Herfurth Realty Company to convert the buildings on Lot 1, Block 1 of Holien's lst Addition to a real estate sales office subject to the following conditions: 1. Maintenance of the appearance of the buildings on the property to be in a residential nature. 2. Payment of the application fee by the Herfurth Company. 3. Receipt and approval of parking plans with only one curb cut on 39th Avenue N.E. and landscaping plans as relating to the final parking layout. 4. Required easements to be approved with the parking plans. 5. Review and approval of the plans by the Fire Dept. and Building Inspect- or. 6. Conditional use permit to be non-transferrable. 7. No additional buildings to be erected on the property. -5- In granting this conditional use permit the Council finds that: • a. it will not be detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to other land or improvements in the neighborhood in which the parcel of land is located, b. will not impair an adequate supply of light and air to adjacent property, C. will not substantially increase the congestion of public streets, d. will not increase the danger of fire or endanger the public health or safety and e. will not substantially diminsh or lessen property values within the neighborhood. Voting on the motion: Aye: Sauer, Sundland, Miedtke, Stauffer Nay: Haik Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to table for two weeks action on the various assessment procedures presented for their consideration by Mr. Fornell. Motion carried. In the discussion of the data supplied by Mr. Dulgar regarding the City's possible use of Parkview Flementary School for a city hall, it was reported that the Moundsview School District was considering their needs for a school building and Independent School District §282 was near a decision on the use of Parkview. Councilman Sauer expressed his reluctance to pay out $1200 for a study of a building which the City does not own and Councilman Haik felt the figures for remodelling the City Hall should be updated. Mayor Miedtke expressed the opinion that delaying a decision until January or February might prevent the City having a building to house its new fire truck when it arrived in the spring. Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to accept the architect's proposal to make a study to advise the Council on the cost of remodelling the Parkview School building for a city hall at an hourly rate with the total cost not to exceed that cost provided by the architect. The following motion was made before a vote was taken on the previous motion: Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Sauer to table action on the architect's study until the next Council meeting. Voting on the motion to table: Aye: Haik, Sauer, Sundland, Stauffer Nay: Miedtke Motion carried. • Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Mayor Miedtke to grant all licenses listed in the November 12, 1974 agenda. Motion carried. -6- Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Haik to approve the • Henning Nelson Change Order for $376.19 to replace two old lights on the municipal liquor lounge with decorative outside lighting. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to approve payment of $2,192.19 to the Dorsey Firm for services rendered. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to approve payment of $220.00 to Constructive Design for work on the municipal liquor lounge remodelling. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to approve payment of all the Verified Claims listed in the November 12, 1974 agenda. Motion carried. The Council will hold a special meeting-with members of the board of Independent School District A282 at McGuire's Ramada Inn in Arden Hills at 6:30 P.M., Monday, November 18, 1974. • The Council will work on the proposed ordinance changes and zoning map at a special meeting on November 25, 1974. The attorney pointed out several items they should consider in their study of the map. Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Sundland to adjourn the meeting at 9:42 P.M. Motion carried. Mayor ATTEST: AAZI9tL_W -6- - Owl Clerk Ci 4rn