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1788 SPECIAL MEETING 8/1/62 Meeting was called to order at 7s30 P. M., the following Members of the Council being presents Harold C. Nilsen, Mayor; W. A. Mortenson, Clerk; Charles P. Stone, Trustee; Willis Warkentien, Trustee. Also present were B. Lemberg, Engineer; and Ethel E. White, Deputy Clerk and Deputy Treasurer. Absent: George J. Shavor, Trustee. Building Letter of July 28th from. George Croft, resigning as Inspectors .Building Inspector and Zoning Administrator, due to the press of his private business was read. It was moved by Stone, seconded by Mortenson and voted to accept Croft's resignation with regret. Mayor Nilsen moved the appointment of R. K. Magnuson, 1$10 No. Holton as Building Inspector and Zoning Administrator for the Village of Falcon Heights. Seconded by Stone and carried. Special Hearing The Special Hearing was opened at 8:05 P. M. Clerk Morten- Proposed Improve- son read copy of notice as published and mailed to the res- ment of Iowa Ave. idents abutting Iowa Avenue, also letter sent to them. by installation Mayor Nilsen advised that the Village had received petitions of curbs and signed by approximately 75~ of the owners of property gutters. abutting on Iowa Avenue from Hamline Avenue to Arona Avenue. The Council then thought it might be well to include the block from Arona to Snelling Drive to give the street a "finished look", feeling also that the residents of that block might want to have curb and gutter, and inasmuch as the lax permits deleting part of a project but does not permit the enlargement of it, this was done. Mayor Nilsen reported he had contacted a resident of that block, asking that he inform his neighbors about the proposal. Engineer Lemberg outlined the plans pointing out that the installation of curb and gutter would improve drainage and preserve the black-top by preventing pot holes which permit the water to seep under the mat thereby causing it to break up. The Council heard all who wished to speak for or against the project. In the block between Arona and Snelling Drive, the owners of five homes petitioned against the installation of curb and. gutter. That represented. a 5/9 majority of the property owners on that block. A fex people requested that their names be crossed off the petitions covering the blocks from Hamline to Arona. However, that still left a strong majority in favor of the curb and gutter installation. The following points were brought out: The Council would try to hold the assessed cost to X2.50 per foot. The boulevards would be blended in, sod replaced with cultured sod, boulevard to property line crossings at corners would be finished with concrete sidewalks, the street edge would be finished to blend with curb and gutter.