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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC MINUTES 03151977 Meeting Sheet IIIIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIIIIIIIII iossaa Box: 35 Folder: CC MINUTES AND AGENDAS 1977 Document: CC MINUTES 03151977 CITY OF ST. ANTHONY COUNCIL MINUTES March 15 , 1977 The meeting was called to order by Mayor Miedtke at 7:35 P.M. Present for roll call: Sundland, Haik, Miedtke and Stauffer Absent: Sauer Also present: Jerry Dulgar, City Manager William Soth, City Attorney Jim Fornell, Administrative Assistant The following corrections were made to the minutes for the Council meeting held March 1, 1977 : Page 5, last paragraph: Preface "adopt the ordinance. . . " • with "waive further readings and" . Page 7, paragraph 6 : Substitute "State Planning Agency 's fiscal study of municipalities and their operations" . Page 8 , paragraph 9 : An "honorary" citizenship will be awarded to Emilio Garcia Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Haik to ap- prove the March 1, 1977 Council minutes as corrected. Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Haik and seconded by Councilman Sundland to adopt the resolution transferring Section #8 monies to the General Fund. RESOLUTION 77-019 A RESOLUTION TRANSFERRING SECTION #8 MONIES TO GENERAL FUND Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to adopt the resolution which provides for the transfer of Revenue Sharing • Funds to the General Fund. • RESOLUTION 77-020 A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE TRANSFER OF REVENUE SHARING MONIES Motion carried unanimously. After explaining why the previous nomination for the League of Minne- sota Cities ' C. C. Ludwig award had not been submitted, the Mayor reported that the St. Anthony League of Women Voters had indicated that Councilman Stauffer was their choice for nomination for the award and he commended them for their action. However, Councilman Sundland said that, though he felt Councilman Stauffer was certainly deserving of the recognition, he wanted to submit Mayor Miedtke 's name for nomination because of his years of service to the community. He es- pecially commended the Mayor for the part he played in keeping dialogue open, even in the face of disagreement between Council members , saying "as long as there ' s dialogue, the system works" . Councilman Stauffer said although she was gratified by the League 's vote of confidence, she agreed with Councilman Sundland that the honor should go to the Mayor because of the progress which has been made in St. Anthony since he has been mayor. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to nominate Mayor Miedtke for the League of Minnesota Cities ' C. C. Ludwig award for distinguished municipal service. • Votion on the motion: Aye: Sundland, Stauffer and Haik. Abstention: Miedtke. Motion carried. Jim Fornell's memorandum of March 10th regarding the availability of public service special project funding under C.E.T.A. and his recom- mendations as to possible project activities for the City were then considered. There was general agreement that such funding might provide a further impetus for the City' s Operation I.D. sign-up program in view of the evident success of the program in discouraging burglary of objects which are so identified as reported by Councilman Sundland. Councilman Haik wanted the Staff to ascertain whether short term pro- jects such as tree plantings and the chip path around the St. Anthony holding pond might qualify for funding. Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Haik to request the Staff to implement as much of the C.E.T.A. funding as possible for projects in which the Council had indicated an interest. Motion carried unanimously. (2) • Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Sundland to indicate the Council 's support of the amendments to the Dram Shop statute which would establish a maximum liability for a liquor establish- ment and to request the Manager to inform the City' s legislators of this approval. Motion carried unanimously. Dennis Engle, representing the Mirror Lake Condominium owners Associa- tion, said minimal opposition was expressed by the condominium owners who replied to a poll regarding the installation of a wood chip path around the perimeter of Mirror Lake and requested that the path for pedestrians and joggers be provided as per previously tabled plans. Councilman Haik said since the land around the holding pond is public land it should be used as such and developed as a natural resource for the City. She and the Manager agreed that any opposition expressed by New Brighton land owners in that area at the New Brighton Council meeting they attended had been more emotional than substantive involving for the most part an expression of anxiety that the path construction might result in burglary of adjacent homes. Mr. Dulgar said that conversely the City has experienced less buglaries near the parks seemingly because of the heavy foot traffic in such areas . He said the project would call for a minimum of grading and said pos- sibly telephone poles could be used to bridge the culvert on the path. Motion by Councilman Haik and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to request the Manager to prepare a cost and labor analysis for building a chip path around the St. Anthony holding pond for consideration at the next Council meeting. Motion carried unanimously. Mrs. Florence Marks, 3424 Silver Lake Road, read the March 15th request from her Girl Scout Troop #1586 for financial aid from the City in re- turn for services to the City, saying the funds would help the scouts raise money for a camping trip to Colorado. Two projects they suggested were to again be allowed to deliver the City's newsletter for $100 .00 and to undertake -the clean up in the spring for which the St. Anthony High School Band had received payment which then was used for their trip to Hawaii last spring. Mr. Dulgar said the $100 .00 paid to the scouts for delivering the newsletter was less than the amount which would have been required to mail the same literature and delivery was much faster than delayed mailings through the postal service. This was determined to be an administrative decision which was left to his dis- cretion. - Mayor Miedtke said he was reluctant to set the precedent of paying service organizations for service to the community and said the payment • (3) • to the band was a very special situation which the Council recognized as a public relations effort benefiting the City since so many resi- dents were involved. Mrs. Marks said she could see why paying service organizations for service to the community might not be too wise and added that at any rate her group would probably expand their present clean up operations in the St. Anthony Cemetery to other City localities and the Mayor suggested a Clean Up Day might be instituted for the entire community. The Scout leader then updated the Council on her group's progress in securing a plaque which will designate the cemetery as an historical site reporting her contacts with 16 other service organizations for aid in financing such a plaque had resulted in only one donation from the DFL Club to date, although several organizations had offered help re- garding landscaping, etc. , on the site. Mayor Miedtke told her the Staff has not yet learned whether the City's application through Community Development Grant for funding of the plaque had been approved. Councilman Stauffer then suggested that as a fund raiser the Scouts might be interested in completing the street number identification project taken on the by American Field Society for a section of the City. March 29th was verified as the date on which the honorary citizenship will be granted to the City 's AFS student, Emilio Garcia of Spain. • Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to indicate support of the League of Minnesota Cities ' efforts to amend the State Bingo Law. Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Mayor Miedtke to direct the City ' s legal consultant, John Drawz, to precede with the reas- sessment of all parcels of City land in Ramsey County on which assess- ments are not carried by the Ramsey County Auditor and Treasurer in the manner he had suggested in his February 28 , 1977 letter to the Council. Motion carried unanimously. It is the consensus of the Council that any leasing of the unused old City Hall should be accomplished only with limited parking, a flexible leasing arrangement and very little remodeling. Plans were made for attendance at the annual League of Minnesota Cities ' Conference to be held in Rochester in June. The March 4th updating regarding North Memorial Medical services to the City was considered and the possibility of having an advisory group • (4) • of residents with the necessary expertise to provide input to the City's health officer and the medical center was discussed. The meeting was recessed from 8 :45 to 9 :05 when it was reconvened to hear I.C. Comstock, City Engineer, discuss the problems he is having trying to get information specific enough to present as Change Order #2 for Street Improvement Project 1976-1. Mr. Comstock told of the difficulties he has encountered in attempting to get the necessary documentation from the contractor, Dunkley Surfacing Company which will justify the contractor's request for payment for work not covered by the contract or Change Order #1. The Engineer said the documents which are attached to his February 17th memorandum to the Council comprised the contractor' s submittal for what he considers to be a partially valid change order which Mr. Comstock said he feels could probably be legally upheld. He therefore was requesting that the Council give specific reaction to the itemization of separate invoices Number 1 through 13 so he could base his approval or disapproval of the charges on their directions . The Mayor said he was opposed to the Council being forced to make judg- ments on all the documents which had been presented feeling the Engineer should get a specific change order from the contractor on which he could make a recommendation to the Council with a specific delineation of those items which the Engineer recognized as ligitimately belonging in the change order. • Councilman Haik and Sundland were of the opinion that each item could be considered individually so some reasonable judgment could be made by the Council inview of the Engineer's insistance that he is unable to secure specific documentation and justification for a change order from the contractor. When Councilman Stauffer asked the Attorney what he would suggest the best method of getting the needed information might be, he replied that the Council could indicate either approval or disapproval of each item submitted to them which would probably force the contractor to "prove up" any item for which they had indicated disapproval . Motion by Mayor Miedtke and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to table action on Change Order #2 for Street Improvement Project 1976-1 until the next Council meeting in which time the Manager is to contact the contractor to attempt to get from him a specific request for payment in a logical and justifiable form for review by the City Engineer. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Comstock left at 9 :30 P.M. The January Police Report was filed. Councilman Stauffer discussed her report on the first meeting of the • Task Force formed by the City Council to study the problems of Chemical Dependency. (5) Councilman Sundland and Haik and the Manager then gave the highlights of their attendance at the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference in Washington, D.C. , the previous week. Their discussion included comments on sessions dealing with C.E.T.A. , Community Develop- ment and Revenue Sharing funding as well as their meetings with the Minnesota congressional representatives. The Mayor reported that the applicants for a beer license for the Berger Transfer Softball Tournament had requested their application be withdrawn. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Mayor Miedtke to approve payment of all Verified Claims listed in the March 15, 1977 Agenda. Motion carried unanimously. The Mayor' s motion to table action on the payment to Comstock & Davis was withdrawn because of a lack of a second. Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Haik to approve payment of $1,619. 86 to Comstock & Davis for services rendered from November 15, 1976 through February 19 , 1977 on Street Improvement Project 1976-1. Voting on the motion: • Aye: Stauffer, Haik and Sundland Nay: Miedtke Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Haik and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to adjourn the meeting at 10:07 P.M. Motion carried unanimously. A�g A;W� Mayor • ATTEST: City Clerk OAIVV) A AVAIX • Cit anage (6)