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HomeMy WebLinkAboutDec 21, 1972p. 268 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS Special Meeting December 21, 1972 The meeting was called to order at 7:13 p.m. Roll Call: Land, Heintz, Nawrocki - present. Norberg, Connor - absent. It was noted that Councilmen Norberg and Connor were both in the hospital and therefore unable to be in attendance. Minutes of Last Regular Meeting. Motion by Land, seconded by Heintz that the minutes of the regular meeting be approved as presented in writing and the reading be dispensed with. Roll Call - All Ayes. last Payment of Bills. Motion by Heintz, seconded by Land that the following bills be paid out of their proper fund. Roll Call - All Ayes. Val Bjornson,St.Treas. $ 96 Val Bjornson,St.Treas. 2,353 Payroll Account 2,561 Cash Register Sales 482 Famous Brands, Inc. 518 Griggs, Cooper & Co. 40 Johnson Bros.Whle. Liq. 840 Ed Phillips & Sons 186 Quality Wine Co. 17 Twin City Wine Co. 270 Wine Merchants Co. 126 Payroll Account 48,132 Johnson Bros.Whle. Liq. 183 Merrill Chapman Co. 11 Old Peoria Co. 17 Quality Wine Co. 17. Twin City Wine Co. 86. Am. Linen Supply 28 Anderson Aggregate 383 Autotraac 8 B & E Patrol 325 Barton Contracting 198 Donald C. Bailey., Co.Trea. 1,280 Canteen Co. of Minn. 35 Cargill, Inc. 869 Chapin Publishing 19 John D. Christenson 7 W. H. Barber Oil Co. 121 Col.Hts. Fire Dept. 412 Col.Hts. Fire Dept. 413 Col.Hts. Fire Relief As. 14,302 06 Col.Hts. Library 17 Col.Hts. Pharmacy 92 Col.Hts. Poi.Petty 60 ColHts.Pol.Relief 50 Col.Hts. Water Dept. 26 Computer Election Sy. 88 Computer Election Sys. 87 Dunkley Surfacing 82 Dworsky Barrel Co. 04 Elk River Concrete 18 Elvin Safety Supply 39 Fridley Office Supply 28 Gestetner Corp. 06 Gillette Tire Wareh. 23 Gopher Glass 72 Gross Industrial 03 Royhl Hedblad 20 Royhl Hedblad 29 Royhl Hedblad O0 Hoover Wheel Align. O0 Houser Corporation Indep. School Dist.#13 16 Theo. & Darlene Jonak O0 Ronald Kalina 04 Albert Kordiak 80 Miner-McAlpin Ag. 50 Mpls. Gas Co. 41 Mpls. City Treas. 50 Minn. Safety Equip. O0 Minn-Kota Excav. 72 Modern Clean-up Serv. $ 6.00 17.10 Ch. 33.27 23,774.22 1,201 5! 152 2U 125 O0 2,902 50 7O O0 794 9O 4 75 150 09 94 O0 82 56 7 96 29 40 17 82 10 O0 10 50 21 00 794 83 53O 54 85 O0 8OO O0 160 O0 53 O0 1,058 34 12,460 96 12 51 769 44 1,000 O0 269 Myron's Cafe $ 17 North Star Concrete 416 N.W. Bell Tel . Co. 25 O'Donnel ls Cleaners 10 Ovshak Printing 184 Petty Cash -Admin. Dep. 45 Silver Lake Clinic 25 H.V. Smith Co. 18 Standard Oil Div. 1,170 Taft Marine Woodcraft 21 Tom Thumb Food 10 Tracy Printing 90 Twin City Testing ll Wahl & Wahl 22 Wal lace Supply 5 Malcolm O. Watson 39 Weber & Troseth, Inc. 35 Payroll Account 1 ~04 Col.Hts. Park Pet.Cas. 29 Donovan Constrc. 87 North Star Concrete 306 Sun Newspapers 3 Superior Equip. Div. 70 A. Weisman Co. 85 Lowry Central Bowl. 71 Plywood Minnesota 79 Chester Ewer 72 Gross Industrial 8 C. V. Hewi tt 86 N.W. Bell Tel . Co. 5 Select Systems 69 45 20 O0 O0 5O 25 O0 O0 23 5O O0 O0 O0 O0 62 8O 4o 9O O8 5O 54 O0 62 92 7o 6o 24 4O 88 5O O6 F. D. Chapman Dunkley Surfacing Hardrives, Inc. $ 3,206. 10 1 ,255.71 ~8,100.75 Total Bills $ 148,419.60 Resolution #72-~Designating Director and Alternate Director to Suburban Rate Authority. Offered by Heintz, seconded by Land. BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Columbia Heights, Minnesota, as follows: Gayle Norberg is hereby designated as a Director of the Suburban Rate Authority, and Bruce G. Nawrocki is hereby designated to serve as Alternate Director of the Suburban Rate Authority for the year 1973 and until their successors are appointed. Roll Call - All Ayes. p. 270 Resolution #72-8~'- Establishing Administrative Procedures for Collecting Service Availability Charges. Offered by Land, seconded by Heintz. WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Sewer Board and the Metropolitan Council did on October 12, 1972, despite the objections of the City of Columbia Heights and representatives of over 70% of the population in the Metropolitan Sewer District, adopt a new cost allocation system whereby a Service Avaibbility Charge will replace the previously billed reserve capacity and deferment charges; and WHEREAS, the City of Columbia Heights along with 15 other municipalities have filed a complaint in the 4th Judicial Court in Hennepin County to test the legality of said action by the said Metropolitan Sewer Board and Metropolitan Council; and WHEREAS, there has been an establishment of charges for the purpose of paying costs of reserve capacity allocated to the City each year by the Metropolitan Sewer Board, there is hereby established a charge for: (a) (b) The availability of treatment works and interceptors comprising the metropolitan disposal system; and Connections, direct and indirect, to the metropolitan disposal system. The charge is imposed on each building or structure in the City and each connection to the metropolitan disposal system directly or through the City's system, inside any Sewer Service Area established by the Metropolitan Sewer Board, construction of which is commenced on or after January 1, 1973. The charge shall be payable upon the issuance of a building permit or a connection permit, as the case may be, but no charge shall be due upon the issuance of a connection permit if a charge was paid upon issuance of a building permit. The charge for each building or structure shall be equal to the number of units of sewage volume which it will discharge, multipled by $275 for 1973, $300 for 1974, $325 for 1975, $350 for 1976 and $375 for 1977. A unit of sewage volume shall be 100,000 gallons per year and shall be assigned as follows: (a) Single family houses, townhouses and duplex units shall each comprise one unit; (b) Condominiums and apartments shall each comprise 80% of a unit; (c) Mobile homes shall each comprise 80% of a unit; p. 271 (d) (e) (f) Other buildings and structures shall be assigned one unit for each 100,000 gallons of flow or part thereof which it is estimated they will discharge; Public housing units and housing units subsidized under any federal program for low and moderate income housing shall be counted as 75% of the unit equivalent ~or that type of housing; Units existing or for which building permits were issued prior to January 1, 1973, shall be counted as one-half the unit equivalent for that type of housing, if connected to the Metropolitan Disposal System prior to January 1, 1974, and shall be counted at the full rate thereafter. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Columbia Heights, Minnesota, that the City Manager establish a special fund to be kept by the City Treasurer into which all moneys collected as a "sewer availability charge" shall be deposited and held until such time as a district court determination is made in respect to the legality of such a charge by the Metropolitan Sewer Board. Roll Call - All Ayes. Resolution #72-8~ - Correcting Assessment at 4166 Polk Street. Offered by Land, seconded by Heintz. WHEREAS, the property known and described as Lot 1, except parcel #2280, Block 15, Aud. Sub. of Walton's Second Subdivision, Anoka County, Plat #33077, Parcel #2270 was assessed $385.84 for local improvement No. 476 and $305.76 for local improvement No. 477, and WHEREAS, there was an error made in the computation of the footage of this property, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Columbia Heights that the City Clerk be and is hereby authorized and directed to reduce from Local Improvement No. 476 the amount of $72.08, and from Local Improvement No. 477 the amount of $57.12. Roll Call - All Ayes. Human Rights Commission Requests. Vicki Wilson and Tom Durand, representing the Human Rights Commission were present and requested two items - on~ that the Commission be authorized to use part of their 1972 budget for a trip to Roosevelt City, Alab~na by their chairman, and the other, that they be allowed to carry over any balances in their 1972 budget to 1973 for use in connection with 'JHuman Rights Month" in March of 1973. p. 272 Hrs. Wilson said the Commission met with Hei Aanerud following his trip to Roosevelt City at which time it was suggested the City should keep in contact with Roosevelt City and develop some programs. The commissioners got several ideas together and asked their chairman, Rev. Carl Caskey, if he would be willing to go down to Roosevelt City to help get things going. The commission has $176 left in the Roosevelt City fund collected a few years ago, but the cost is $150 for just air flight, therefore Rev. Caskey would need a little more money. The suggestion was made that the commission use part of their budget for this. Hrs. Wilson said they would like to use this year's money, although Rev. Caskey probably won't go until danuary, 1973. Mayor Nawrocki said the problem is the carry-over of fund balances. The question is whether or not the City would make an exception to what has been policy in the past. Councilman Heintz expressed concern and said he wouldn't object if the City were requesting someone to go down there, but this is a project taken on by the Human Rights Commission. By whose direction is he going to represent the City? The Council never asked him to go and you are now asking the Council for money for him to go. Going next year with this year's budget is another thing. He would sooner see the money come out of next year's budget. Every department in the City would like to carry over fund balances, but we cannot start a precedent. Mayor Na~rocki said the project is certainly worthwhile and interesting, and part of the reason is the fact that this was a community-type project where civic groups and organizations participated and raised money for the program. Motion by Land, seconded by Heintz that the Human Rights Commission be authorized to spend up to $100 for expenses to send one person to Roosevelt City, Alabama. Roll Call - All Ayes The matter of carrying over the remainder of this year's budget to next year - Motion by Land, seconded by Heintz that the request be denied. Roll Call - All Ayes. A discussion was held on a position and policy statement of the Human Rights Commission. Mayor Nawrocki noted the commission was supposed to be advisory to the Council and the Council should be advised when statements are made. Housing Authority Request to Purchase City Property. Tom Sherohman, Chairman of the Housing and Redevelopment Authority, was present and requested the City grant an option to the Housing Authority to purchase City property on 40th Avenue east of Central, for the senior citizen housing project. p. 273 A discussion was held on the assessed valuation of the property in question and how the Authority arrived at a purchase price. Mr. Sherohman explained what was involved in getting the property from the City and the private owners. It was noted this would require an ordinance for sale of property and the City Attorney was directed to prepare the proper ordinance for a first reading later in the meeting. Rumpsa Claim. It was reported this claim came about when Mr. Rumpsa's son's car ~ras stolen from the High School parking lot. The car was later found and the Police told Mr. Rumpsa the car had been located, but asked if it could be left where it was as the people who stole it may be back. The police were right, and the people came back, got in the car and took off before the Police could catch them. In the chase, they skidded and smashed into a pole causing damage to the car. Apparently the insurance company indicated they would not defend the claim. The Council members felt the City had a moral responsibility to the individual and suggested complete restitution. It was suggested that the people who drove the car ought to be third partied in. Motion by Heintz, seconded by Land to refer the matter to the City Attorney. Roll Call - All Ayes. Recess was called at 8:16 p.m. The meeting reconvened at 8:30 p.m. Ordinance #797 - Sale of Property. A first reading was held on Ordinance #797 for sale of an option on Lots 14, 15, 16, W½ of Lot 44, and W.½ of Lot 13, Block 5, Reservoir Hills Addition to the Columbia Heights Housing and Redevelopment Authority for $18,165.00. Appointment to Park Board and Recreation Commission. Motion by Heintz, seconded by Land that Gordon Schelde, who is on the Recreation Commission, be appointed to the Park Board to fulfill the unexpired term of Donald Welch. Roll Call - All Ayes. Motion by Land, seconded by Heintz that Mike Farrell be appointed to fulfill the unexpired term of Gordon Schelde on the Recreation Commission. Roll Call - All Ayes. p. 274 Electric Scoreboard for Park Department. A request was received to purchase an electric scoreboard for the Park Department, based on three informal bids that were taken. The Jaycees have indicated their intention to reimburse the City for this expenditure. Motion by Heintz, seconded by Land that the City Manager be authorized to spend up to $1,060.75 for the electric scoreboard. Roll Call - All Ayes. Bids for Legal Publications for 1973. Motion by Lan], seconded by Heintz that the City Manager be authorized to advertise for bids on legal publications for 1973, bids to be opened January 8, 1973. Roll Call - All Ayes. Public Works Conference. A request was received to allow George Brown, Mitch DeMars and Earl Gustafson of the Public Works Department to attend a conference on engineering and public works February 1-2 sponsored by the University, to be held at the Holiday Inn Central. The registration fee is $37.50. Motion by Land, seconded by Heintz to grant the request. Roll Call - All Ayes. Minneapolis Water Rates. The City Ma n~jer reported a letter he received from the Minneapolis Water Department indicating there will be a rate increase. He said hopefully he would have a good projection to present at the next meeting on the status of the funds. December 26th Council Meeting. Motion by Land, seconded by Heintz that the December 26, 1972 Council meeting be cancelled because of the apparent lack of a quorum on that date. Roll Call - All Ayes. Licenses. Motion by Heintz, seconded by Land that the licenses as listed be granted upon payment of proper fees. Roll Call - All Ayes. Deficit in Recreation ~dget. Councilman Heintz reported a deficit in the Recreation Budget and recommended that the Council appropriate from the Contingency Fund $1,572 as 1/2 share and request the School Board do likewise. Motion by Land, seconded by Heintz that an encumberance be set up on the 1972 unallocated general expense in an amount of $1,572 in anticipation of ultimate passage of a resolution p. 275 transferring said amount to the Recreation Budget. Roll Call - All Ayes. Motion by Land, seconded by Heintz to adjourn at 9:00 p.m. Roll Call - All Ayes. -eta'~y t~o th"e Council uce G Nawrock~, Mayor