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SPECIAL MEETING JULY 17th, 1958. ~-~~-'~~ Meeting was called to order at 7:30 with the following Council Members present: Harold C. Nilsen, Mayor; Geo. Shavor, Trustee; Willis Warkentien, Trustee; Paul Coppini, Trustee; and Wm. R. Utecht, Clerk. Also present were Frank N. Graham, Attorney and Ethel E. White, Deputy Clerk and Deputy Treasurer. Minutes of the Special Meeting of June 30th were corrected to read "RTest Side of Iowa" instead of "East side of Iowa", page 1027, 4th paragraph. Minutes of the regular meeting of June 10th were approved as submitted. A. E. Gerald Letter from Mr. Gerald. complaining about his driveway was read. 1478 Idaho Mayor Nilsen said he had contacted Geo. Hughes, Engr. for TKDA& Associates who said he would go down and take a look at it. Some work was done. Mr. Gerald is out of town at present but Nilsen will contact him later. Tatum St. Attorney Graham's letter was read advising that he had checked the larr and finds that statue, Section 471.34 M. S. A., which provides that where a village calls for bids "For the purchase of any supplies or equipment" no bid shall be accepted unless com- petitive bids have also been submitted, has been construed by the Minnesota Supreme .Court not to cover contracts which include furnishing work and labor in connection with the installation of the supplies or equipment. See Otter Tail Power Co. v Village of Elbow Lake (1951) 234 Minn. 419.49 N. W. 2nd. 197. This means that even though only one bid is received in connection with the proposed construction work on Tatum Street, it could be accepted without violating the statute. Attorney Grahsm's letter of July 17th was read wherein he stated he was enclosing copies of Agreement Dated July 10th between the Village of Falcon Heights and T. A. Schifsky & Sons covering the Tatum St. Improvement, also 3 copies of Change Order #1, dated July 8th, eliminating culverts on private property, 2 copies Travelers Insurance Company Certificate of Insurance, as required, and Public Contractor's bond of Maryland Casualty., dated July 14th in the amount of 166,47q.23. Graham advised he had checked the foregoing papers and found them to be in order. He said the Mayor and Clerk should execute the agreement for the Village, also the Change Orders by signing all three of them. He suggested that the papers be returned to him and he would see that a signed copy of tY~e Agreement and Change Order are delivered to the con- tractor, and to T~Ir. Ljungren. He also said he thought it would be desirable that the Village's copy of the contract and change order and the bond and insurance certificates be kept in his file at the office. Sanitary Copy of Attorney Graham's letter to L. H. Langevin, Manager Safe Sewer Keeping Department, First National Bank of St. Paul, was read. Improvement He advised Langevin he was enclosing 2 copies of a resolution Bonds certified by the Village Clerk, passed by the Council Thursday, July 10th, 1958, authmrizing the Safe Keeping Department of the First National Bank, until instructed otherwise by resolution of the Council, to clip and cancel the coupons on the Village of Falcon Heights Sanitary Sewer System Improvement i3onds held in Safe Keeping, as they become due and to cancel the bonds as they become due, and to forward the cancelled bonds and the cancelled coupons to the then Village Treasurer of the Village of Falcon