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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1975.07.07 CC Minutes JULY 7, 1975 MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HUGO CITY COUNCIL � , 1- 20 TIME: 7:11 P.M. PRESENT: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. Attorney Johnson and Engineer Kuusisto 3.0 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: CORRECTIONS: 8.0 OLD VILLAGE HALL Property was purchased by the City of Hugo from the school district. School district did not give the property to the City of Hugo. MOTION: Schletty made motion, Leroux seconded to change property was purchased instead of property given to City. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED 5.8 TILTION APPLICATION MOTION: Lease made motion, Schletty seconded to change three acres to five acres. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED MOTION: Lease made motion, Smith seconded to delete MOTION on page 4 of 8 under section 5.5. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED MOTION: Lease made motion, Schletty seconded to add to heading on page 7 of 8 under section 8.0, Fire Truck To Be Sold. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED MOTION: Lease made motion, Smith seconded to approve minutes subject to correction as stated. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED 4.0 APPROVAL OF CLAIMS: MOTION: Lease made motion, LaValle seconded to approve General Claims of June 16, 1975 with the addition of the claim from Irene Leroux for $240.00 leaving a total of $7,084.17. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED JULY 7, 1975 ; APPROVAL OF UTILITY CLAIMS: MOTION: Lease made motion, Smith seconded to approve Utility Claims of June 16 subject to the correction of deleting Claim #10 and inserting Sales & Use Tax with no amount as it has yet to be determined. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED 5.0 PETITIONS, REQUEST, COMMUNICATIONS & LICENSES 5.1 JOHN MOORE RE: SEWER/WATER INSTALLATION Moore stated he would hire either M. Carlson or Ge. Debuzzi to install his sewer, both are licensed with the City of Hugo. He can get the well points. He questioned whether he could pump into Egg Lake. Engineer Kuusisto stated he should contact John R. MacLennan, Engineer for the Rice Creek Watershed District. No connections are to be made unless the hole is dry. Several inspections will be involved. Moore questioned where the water line was. Water line across the street and would be City of Hugo to put the line to the property line Clerk was asked to check with Erickson on method to be used. Moore stated the new occupants would not be moving in until August 1 and he could wait for a couple of weeks before installing the water. MOTION: LaValle made motion to issue the Plumbing Permit when water is a foot below the connecting point. 5.2 JOE OMAN INCREASE NUMBER OF UNITS Oman requesting an increase by 7 units added to his present total of 106 would bring total of units up to 113. He has a potential on one side of the trailer court for 14 more units and on the other, 13 more after the 7 are placed. There would be 7 more SAC's and 7 more RFC's owing. It was suggested that he apply for a Special Use Permit and go before the Planning Commission requesting these additonal units. 5.3 G. RUSSETT - RE EWAL MOBILE HOME PERMIT MOTION: LaValle made motion, Smith seconded to grant a Renewal Mobile Home Permit to Gordon Russett at 8086 - 165th. St. No. under Chapter 40, Article III, Subdivision C. at a renewal fee of $10.00. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith & Schletty. MOTION CARRIED 5.4 J. ZASPEL - RENEWAL MOBILE HOME PERMIT MOTION: Leroux made motion, LaValle seconded to grant a Renewal Mobile Home Permit to Joe Zaspel at 17205 Forest Blvd. , No. under Chapter 40, Article III, Subdivision D at a renewable fee of $10.00. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith & Schletty. JULY 79 1978 5.4 J. ZASPEL - RENEWAL MOBILE HOME PERMIT cont. MOTION CARRIED 5.5 PIONEER CLUB - NUISANCE NOTICE A letter was received by Jerry Roach stating he was going to burn the trees on the property and remove the unburnable material. Lease stated the City has no authority to issue a burning permit and instructed the Clerks office to notify him to contact the Polution Control Agency. MOTION: Lease made motion, seconded by LaValle to notify the Pioneer Club that the City has no authorization to issue the permit and for them to contact the Pollution Control Agency regarding a permit. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED DISCUSSION: Lease stated an inspection should be made in two weeks regarding progress. Also a suggestion to the Pioneer Club that a further possibility to dispose of the debris would be Stoltzmans Dump. 6.0 REPORTS OF OFFICERS & COMMITTEES 6.1 Ordinance Committee - A new Dog Ordinance will be proposed at the July 21 Cir7y Council Meeting. It is presently being reviewed by the City Attorney. 6.2 PLANNING COMMISSION - Chairman D. Spitzer and Leroux are to review the applications for a Planning Commission Secretary - a time will be established at their next meeting, July 9th. 6.3 &ewer Committee - The Ray Palme sewer problem was discussed. The problem stemmed from the fact that the contractor did not de-water. Emergency measures were taken by Councilman LaValle to correct the situation. He drew up three contracts, one with Hood Incorporated, one with Vern Peloquin and one with Joe Oman. MOTION: Lease made motion, Schletty seconded to ratify the three (3) contract that Councilman LaValle entered into to, contract with Hood Incorporated to; 1 . De- watering, 2. Repair the main, 3. Re-set the manhole, manhole #60 of the Sanitary Sewer Project 1973-1 and 4. Hook up service connection, a contract with Vern Peloquin for the purpose of discharging water through his property for a fee of $100.00 and a contract with Joe Oman for discharging water through his storm sewer for a fee of $100.00. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith & Schletty. MOTION CARRIED JULY 79 1975 .a Clerk office, Engineering and the attorneys office are to prepare a report for the Bonding Company. All costs to be submitted and to be reviewed at the next meeting, July 21 , 1975. 6.4 Building Inspector - Has an application for building a tennis court and wanted to know the proceedure and if permit is required. LaValle stated this application wants to build a tennis court on two lots, which would not be the principle building. Applicant should apply for a Variance. Clerks office to instruct the Planning Commission to amend the City Code to include tennis court as an added accessory use. Inspector saidhe has been denying Building Permits due to the slow percolation test. A sewer system is to be reviewed by Kuusisto and report recommendations to City. Johnso to look over agreement drawn up by Bill Schwab. 6.6 Police Chief MOTION: Lease made motion, Smith seconded to accept the Police Chief Monthly report. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED 6.7 Attorneys Report - File No. 1500-111 : LaValle-vs-Bayless-vs-Hugo - The case is under advisement, ten days to file a brief. 1500-152 Pfingston - Mrs. Pfingston unplugged the culvert having a police officer as a witness. HARDWOOD CREEK ESTATES MOTION: Lease made motion, Schletty seconded directing the Clerks office to write to James Mugg stating that the City Council acted in good faith in approving the final plat of the Hardwood Creek Estates subject to some conditions one of which is a Performance Bond in the amount of $10,000 for the completion of the road construction to the city standards, and to date the bond has not been received, please send Bond to City Hall VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith & Schletty. MOTION CARRIED Lease called recess at 9:21 . Meeting called back to order at 9:38. 7.0 ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS Lease instructed Clerks office to draw up a Resolution requesting the speed limit be set at 30 miles an hour on Everton Avenue North and Ethan Avenue. Letter to Washington County and copy of letter to Ramsey County. JULY 7, 1975 �S -3 5 6.9 Clerk Report — Read letter from Sheila S. Davis, Clerk lei of Grant Township regarding his subdivision stating that the property is not buildable unless the Hugo portion of the north—south road from County #10 to the Grant Townslip Line is a public road. Hugo current calculated population is estimated at 3609. Open Meeting law to be discussed at next Council meeting. 8.2 INDYKIEWICZ MINING PERMIT RENEWAL MOTION: LaValle made motion, Schletty seconded to approve the Renewal for the George Indykiewicz Mining Permit subject to the Planning Commissions recommendations plus Item #3. Fence—West property line be repaired in conjunction with adjoining property owner and Item #4. Inspection fee be $121 .00. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED 8.3 WASHINGTON ROAD MAINTENANCE CONTRACT Attorney Johnson pointed out a correction in #5 deleting "specified in Item 9 of this Agreement" and insert the word "hereof". MOTION: LaValle made motion, Smith seconded to approve the County of Washington Road and Bridge Maintenance Agreement subject to the above noted correction. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED 8.4 ASSESSOR FEES Clerk stated the annual assessor fee would be approximately $1 ,400.00. MOTION: Schletty made motion, Smith seconded to notify the Washington County Assessors Office of the City of Hugo by letter of intent to enter into the contract. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED 8.5 STREET IMPROVEMENT — Engineer working on best drainage per cos 9.1 SEWER OPERATOR — Engineer to check on Cerification. Clerk to up date list of people interested in sewer work and to get together with engineer. MOTION: Smith nade motion, Schletty seconded to extend meeting beyond 11 :00 PM. VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. JULY 79 1975 ? 1 7 MOTION CARRIED CETA PROGRAM Those conditions taken into consideration were as follows: 1 . Veteran 2. Welfare recipient. 3. Unemployed 30 or more days. 4. Exhausted unemployment compensation. 5. Chauffeur's License. Gerald Ostermann, Twin Pine Mobile Home Park was introduced to the City Council as his application was recommended by Smith and Schletty for the conditions listed above. He did have a chauffeur's license and said he would get one again. Starting salary will be $815.00 an month. Under the present program, benefits are not extended beyond January 1 , 1975. MOTION: Lease made motion, Smith seconded to hire Gerald Ostermann, under the CETA Program through December 31 , 1975 at a salary of $815.00 per month. VOTING FOR: Lease, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. VOTING AGAINST: LaValle LaValle stated that there would be a bill submitted for the time spent pumping on Francesca. MOTION: Lease made motion, Schletty seconded to adjourn meeting at 12:11 . VOTING FOR: Lease, LaValle, Leroux, Smith and Schletty. MOTION CARRIED Rol5ert E. Burkar , C1erI� City of Hugo