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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC MINUTES 01041977 Meeting Sheet 105535 Box: 35 Folder: CC fViIW41TE5 AND AGENDAS 1977 Document: CC MINUTES 01041977 ENN • r • CITY OF ST. PNTITOFY COUNCIL NIFU`PS January 4 , 1977 The r^eeting was called to orc°er by rlavor "Liedtke at 7 ?30 P.P1. Present for roll call° SundlanO , Haik, Tlieeltke, Stauffer and Sauer Also present: Jerry Dulgar, City Manager Jiro Fornell, Administrative Assistant The Council designated the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month for the regular Council meetings during 1977 . The Tlayor then read four items which were adoptedas an addendur to the agenda: (1) Legislative Bulletin, (2) Police car pruchase, (3) One heating license and (4) Reappointment of Planning Hoard. T1r. Fornell reported that all members of the present Planning Board had inOicatec' a willingness to continue their service on the Board. Motion by Councilman Sauer and seconded. by Councilr.^an Sundland. to • reappoint William Dowerman, Fen Hiebel, Richard Letourneau, George IRarks , Wil Johnson, Jerry Coti-aan and Richare Rynarchick to the St. Anthony Planning Board ands to request that individual letters be sent to each informina him of his reappointment and extending to him an ex-pression of gratitude for his past service to the City. Motion carried unanimously. To allow the publication of several City notices which had been placed in the Columbia Heights St. Anthony Sun to run during the next few weeks the following ration was made: TTotion by Councilman Sauer and seconded by Councilman Haik to adopt Resolution 77-001 which designates the Columbia ('eights St. Anthony Sun as the City ' s official newspaper from January lst to January 15th of 1977 and to designate the New Brighton Bulletin as the City's legal newspaper from January 15th for the rest of the calendar year of 1977. RESOLUTION 77-001 RESOLUTION DESIGNATING LEGAL NEWS- PAPEP FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to adopt Resolution 77-002 . • RFSOLUTION 77-002 RESOLUTION I'STAFLISHIi'TG MARCH 15 , 1977 AS CUT OFF DATE FOR RECEIVING PE'T'ITIONS FOR PUBLIC I1PRcvrmT'NTS Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Sauer and seconded by Councilran Stauffer to adopt Resolution 77-003. RESOLUTION 77-003 A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE SIGNATURr OF THE MIYOR, TREASURER AND THE CITY MANAGER ON ALL DRAFTS DRRMN AGAINST DEPOSITS OF THE CITY OF ST. AN'T'HOnY, MINNESOTA Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Fsaik to adopt Resolution 77-004 . RESOLUTTON 77-000 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ENGINT'FPING HELP FROr MINNESOTA DL-PPIRTN,17"T OF • HIGHWAYS Potion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Haik to adopt Resolution 77-005. RESOLUTION 77-005 A PESOLUTIOF DESIGNATING DFPOSITORY FOR CITY FUNDS motion carried unanirously. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded. by Councilman Sauer to adopt the resolution continuing the office of Assessor. RESOLUTION 77-006 A RESOLUTION CONTINUING THE OFFICE OF THE ASSESSOR FOE' THE YEAR 1977 Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Payor Miedtke and seconded by Councilman Sauer to adopt the resolution which designates Donna Stauffer as Mayor Pro Tem for the calendar year of 1977 . • RFSOLL'•TTON 77-007 A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING PAYOR PRO TEP'[ FOR CALENDAR YEAR 1977 (2) • Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Payor Miedtke and seconcle(I by Councilman SundlanO to table the designation of a Consulting F:ngi.neer for further evaluation of the engineering services. RFSOLUTION 77-008 P. PESOLUTION DF?SIGNATING CONSLTLTINr, FTIGIFIFER Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Suand.land and seconded by Councilman Sauer to adopt Resolution 77-009 designating the Dorsey Firm as City Attorney for 1977 . RFSOLUTIOP7 77-009 A RESOLUTION DFSIrNATING ATTORNFYS FOR ST. ANTHOITY FOR 1977 Plotion carried unanimously. The Council discussed the January 4 , 1977 recommendations and comments from Jim Fornell regarding the eligibility determinations and cost estimates for the remaining proposals which are to be considered for inclusion in the application for Corntunity Developrent Block Grant • funds due January 30 , 1977 . Mrs . Pat Plelius, President of the St. Anthony High School Parents Group and three other members of the organization were again present to request that $5,000 of these funds be set aside for a chemical de-- pendency counseling ar.d diversion program which could be set up by the Johnson Institute for St. Anthony youth and their parents. firs. "Ielius said she felt the great number of rec:uests for such a program from parents justified its establishment and replied to Councilman Stauffer's conjecture that such a program might more ap- propriately be handled through the school by saying the school could only handle a third of the problem. Councilman FFaik said she-.wanted more specifics on the program and those persons who will be respon- sible for its facilitation in the community. Councilman Sundland also wanted to know whether there might not be other sources of funding for the program which would. be available when the grant funds have run out. Mrs. Violet Dansgard wanted the City to request such aid from the Governor's Crime Commission but the Administrative Assistant said his contacts with members of the Commission had indi- cated a hesitation to giving high priority to these programs because of the failure of similar ventures in other communities . P".r. Fornell added that the application for such funds could be made any time prior to August. Pastors of the Nativity Lutheran and Faith Methodist churches were suggested. by Councilman Stauffer and Mr. Dulgar as members of the task force which could study the problem. • Mayor Pliedtke expressed a willingness on the part of the council to do something in the area of solving the problem of chemical dependency among the cormunity's youth even if funding could net be secures' (3) • from the block grants and requested the establishrent of a task force be placed for .further consideration on the January 11th agenda. Mrs. Purge Cowan said the parents group would be able to present a more concrete Proposal at that time. In reply to Councilman I1aik°s queries regarding f17 which requested funding for code enforcement in the Kenzie Terrace area, Mr. Fornell saie that proposal had come .from a Planning Board member but the Building Inspector felt the problems being experienced in that area were not so much building code related as they were the result of poor land usage and marginal profit business enterprises in the shopping center. Mr. Dulgar said he felt more time was necessary to get further input- on nputon #;6 of the proposals which would dedicate funds for the Sewer Inflow/ Infiltration Study and the Playor felt there should be rPA funds available for this study. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Councilr...an Haik to table action on the application for Community Development Grant funds until the January 11th Council meeting. Motion carried unanimously. PIr. Dulgar explained why he thought snencing $630 .00 for an informa- tion page and map in the Sun Phone. Directory might not have merit in the face of the City ' s budgetary problems. It was also felt that although it was essential to provide the residents with the emergency numbers and city office numbers through the directory, some of the other information provided in the past might be a duplication of that which the League of Women Voters were inclueing in their "Know Your. City" booklet. Motion by Councior..an Haik and seconded by Councilman Sundland to authorize the nurchase of a. rnaxir..ur of one-half page in the 1977 St. Anthony Sun Directory in which can be listed the telephone numbers for the Police and Fire Departments as well as those for the City offices. Plotion carried unanimously. The Council then considered the directive from the fiennepin County Assessor that the St. Anthony Assessor increase the residential valuation by 11%. Also discussed was the comparison of sales prices of St. Anthony homes which were sold in 1976 and their assessed valuation which seemed to justify such an increase. Motion by Councilman Eauer and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to re- quest that a letter be sent to the Hennepin County Assessor with a copy to the Commissioner of Taxation, to indicate the City's dis- pleasure with the 11% increase until such time as F?inneapolis, Ramsey County and other Minnesota cor.+.munities are brought up to the same per- centage of valuation as the City of Vit. Anthony. (4) • Motion carried unanir^ously. Joseph McDonald, President of the St. Anthony Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons and Harold Cope, President of the Golden Heirs were present to discuss the establishment of a task force to advise the Council and staff on the Senior Citizens Drop in Center. Both agreed to serve on this advisory group which will plan the disposition of the $6 ,000 designated for such a purpose from the 1976 Community Development Grant funds and will help set up the activities which will be a part of such a center. Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilnan Sundland to establish a task force to work with the City staff in forming a Senior Citizens Drop in Center which will include Joseph McDonald of the AARP, Harold Cope of the Golden Heirs , Councilman Sundland, Wil Johnson of the Planning Board, a yet to be designated member of the School Board and representatives of churches in St. Anthony. Motion carries? unanir^ously. Votion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Sauer to adopt Resolution 77-012 which will authorize the iriplementation of the Strength Change System by the Metro Waste Control Commission. • RESOLUTION 77-012 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE IMPL.FMFTITATION OF TEF STRENGTH CIIANGF SYSTEM BY THE METRO WASTF CONTROL COPVkISSION Jlotion carried unanimously. The Manager was authorized to order two subscriptions for the Legis- lative Bulletin for City use. Pair. Dulgar then cited the economies of the Chevy Nova, including better gas mileage, over the other vehicle which the Police Department had planned to purchase. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Councilman Haik to authorize the purchase of a Chevy nova for use by the Police Depart- ment. Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Sauer and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to grant a heating license to West Plumbing. Potion carried unanimously. The flanager then explained that Resolutions 76-053 and 76-055 which • the Council had adopted December 21st had been corrected. The meeting was recessed from 3 :45 P.M. to 8 ,-50 P.M. when the P";anager (5) • briefed the Council on the status of negotiations with all City employees including the 49 'ers, the Fire Department, liquor store personnel and non-union employees. The Manager indicated non-union employees would receive raises in the area of 5 to 6 percent. His report included anticipated raises in salaries as well as increase in health insurance benefits for employees and their dependents. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by mayor Viedtke to adjourn the meeting at 9A0 P.M. Motion carried unanimously. 41 //, A4A6_____ Mayor ATTEST: Ci y Clerk City r nage (6)