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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-05-85 ~ • CITY OF LAKEVILLE COUNCIL MEETING AUGUST 5, 1985 The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Mayor Zaun. The pledge of allegiance to the flag was given. Roll call was taken. Present: Council members Nelson, Sindt, Enright, Harvey, and Mayor Zaun. Also present: Patrick Farrell, City Attorney; Steve Michaud, Park and Recreation Director; Keith Nelson, Consulting City Engineer; Tom Grundhoefer, Assistant City Attorney; Richard Radermacher, Chief of Police; James Robinette, Community Development Director; Patrick McGarvey, City Administrator/Clerk. Staff announcements: The city administrator advised the council of the five items under Other Business on the agenda. The administrator also asked the city attorney if the eminent domain proceedings now under way on the Lake Marion outlet control project easement could be changed to include the use of the property in the easement for a pedestrian trial system between downtown Lakeville and the Lake Marion area. Mr. Farrell indicated that it was not too late to amend the proceedings to include that use of the property being taken. The council and staff discussed the need to establish a pedestrian trail system from the downtown area out to the Antlers Park area, and eventually up to the Lakeville High School area, and it was noted that one of the larger responses on the 1985 citizen survey indicated a desire for more pedestrian ways in the community. 85.330 Motion was made by Nelson, seconded by Sindt to direct and authorize the city attorney to include in the eminent domain proceedings the taking for a bike trail in the property being acquired for the Lake Marion outlet control project, 84-10. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, Harvey. Citizen comments: There were none. 85.331 Motion was made by Sindt, seconded by Harvey to add other business items 22(a), approval of specifications and taking of bids for CR-2 oil for seal coating; and 22(c), officially receive the 1985-86 Fire Relief Association report from the Lakeville Fire Department to the consent agenda. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, Harvey, Nelson. • e • • • CITY OF LAKEVILLE COUNCIL MEETING AUGUST 5, 1985 Councilmen Harvey and Nelson. indicated that they wanted to have the city staff seek reimbursement for the cost of relocating the gas meter at the new Lakeville Police Station from either the architect and/or contractor, and to have a letter received from Glen Klotz for past applications for planning considerations paid in full when the city releases the check for payment to Mr. Klotz for work on the .liquor store remodeling. 85.332 Motion was made by Harvey, seconded by Sindt to approve the consent agenda items as amended.. (Council Consent Agenda attached hereto is incorporated by reference and specifically made a part hereof.) Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Sindt, Enright, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun. At this time the city administrator gave the city council a report on negotiations to date for a purchase option agreement on one or both parcels of property on the north and south side of 175th Street just east of Junelle Path for a future fire station No. 3 site. The council discussed the written report received and indicated the administrator should continue the effort to reach a negotiated purchase option with one or both property owners. 85.333 Motion was made by Harvey, seconded by Sindt to direct the administra- tor to continue negotiations with the two property owners involved from the report presented and table further action on the matter. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Enright, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt. 85.334 Motion was made by Sindt, seconded by Harvey to table action on the proposed extension of sanitary sewer and water lines along 175th Street east of the Tom Thumb store to the parcels east of Junelle Path until final action is taken on the decision as to whether or not to acquire the property at this location for a fire station site. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt, Enright. 85.335 Motion was made by Harvey, seconded by Nelson to adopt Resolution No. 85-64 receiving the bids on the improvement of Judicial Road north from 185th Street to Brackett's Crossing, project 84-17, and award the contract to Lund Asphalt as the low bidder, as recommended by the city engineer. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, Harvey. 2 • CITY OF LAKEVILLE COUNCIL MEETING AUGUST 5, 1985 85.336 Motion was .made by Harvey, seconded by Nelson to adopt Ordinance No. 276 .amending the zoning ordinance No. 167, section 34.5, concerning inspections of mobile home installations in mobile home parks, with two corrections in the wording. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, Harvey, Nelson. 85.337 Motion was made by Sindt, seconded by Enright to adopt Ordinance No. 277 amending the zoning ordinance No. 167, section 5, (5.1.3 and 5.1.4), as recommended by the Planning Commission. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Sindt, Enright, Zaun, Nelson. Nays, Harvey. At this time, the City Council took up consideration of a report from the chief of police and staff concerning the establishment of a dog K-9 unit in the Lakeville Police Department. It was pointed out that the Lakeville VFW wishes to donate $5,000 toward the initial start up costs of acquiring the dog and equipment necessary to accommodate a K-9 unit. It was pointed out that the City would have to assign one of the present police officers in the department as the handler for the dog and provide one of the used squad cars as the car to transport the dog in, as well as the kennel at the officer's home. The chief of police pointed out various circumstances where a dog is very valuable to a police department, such as searches in buildings suspected of being burglarized, and tracking down and finding of narcotics, which are difficult for humans to locate during a search. It was pointed out that the officer eventually assigned the dog would most of the time work on a shift, or approximately 6:OU p.m. to 2:00 a.m. on a five day work. week basis, and would be doing patrolling the same as other officers very much of that time period. During the initial training period where the officer would need to be sent to training with the dog, some overtime would be necessary to fill in for the hours lost by that officer. 85.338 Motion was made by Harvey, seconded by Sindt to approve the establish- went of of dog K-9 unit in the Lakeville Police Department as per the July 23,.1985, memorandum received from the chief of police and authorize and direct the staff to make the amendments to the city budget in the police department to account for the personnel, equipment and expenses associated with this unit. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Enright, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt. At this time, Dr. John DuBois presented a proposed agreement between the City and Metro Fone Communications, Inc., who is the first party to rent space on top of the Dakota Heights water tower for radio communi- cation. Dr. DuBois recommended council approval of the agreement. 3 • • CITY OF LAKEVILLE COUNCIL MEETING AUGUST 5, 1985 85.339 Motion was made by Enright, seconded by Nelson to approve the agreement with Metro Fone Communications, Inc. for rental space on top of the Dakota Heights water tower. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt, Enright. At this time the city administrator advised the council that the candidate selected by the Personnel Committee for the Media Specialist Consultant position had decided to pursue employment with the City of St. Paul, rather than Lakeville. The other finalist candidates had either found employment elsewhere or had not been contacted. 85.340 Motion was made by Sindt, seconded by Harvey to continue to the August 12th special council meeting or work session the consideration of filling the Media Specialist Consultant Position. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, Harvey. 85.341 Motion was made by Sindt, seconded by Nelson to deny the request of Jerry Tongen to conduct a watercross snowmobile race on Lake Marion on August 24 and 25, 1985, due to the unavailability of the beach area of Antlers Park due to reconstruction. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, Harvey, Nelson. 85.342 Motion was made by Sindt, seconded by Enright to table agreement of the amendment to the Rolling Oaks subdivision development contract govern- ing maintenance on the entrance monument to the subdivision until it is finalized. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Sindt, Enright, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun. 85.343 Motion was made by Sindt, seconded by Nelson to receive a petition from some of the property owners on Judicial Road north of 168th Street requesting the city to install asphalt paving on the road and table further consideration of the matter when more of the residents are aware of the costs associated with this type of an improvement. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Enright, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt. 4 CITY OF LAKEVILLE COUNCIL MEETING AUGUST 5, 1985 85.344 Motion was made by Enright, seconded by Nelson to call a public hearing for August 29, 1985, at a joint meeting with the Lakeville City Council and the Credit River Township Board for considering improvement of Judicial Road between 205th Street and 185th Street, by adopting Resolution No. 85-65. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt, Enright. 85.345 Motion was made by Enright, seconded by Sindt to call a public hearing on the proposed improvement of Flagstaff Avenue south from Dodd Road for September 3, 1985, at the council chamber, Resolution No. 85-66. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, Harvey. . 85.346 Motion was made by Sindt, seconded by Harvey to approve and authorize the mayor and clerk to execute the agreement for the Credit River Watershed District and to appoint James Robinette, Community Develop- ment Director, to the Credit River Watershed Board as the City of Lakeville representative. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, harvey, Nelson. 85.347 Motion was made by Enright, seconded by Harvey to approve the payment of $200 from the liquor fund for the Governor's Conference on handi- capped disabilities. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Sindt, Enright, harvey, Nelson, Zaun. 85.348 Motion was made by Sindt, seconded by Harvey to approve and authorize the mayor and clerk to execute the agreement with Westwood Planning for concept planning on the west Lake Marion proposed park that would involve a portion of the Jens Casperson property abutting Lake Marion, which may be available for sale. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Enright, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt. 85.349 Motion was made by Harvey, seconded by Enright to approve the purchase of park equipment from St. Croix Recreation Company in the amount of $30,950 for installations at the Foxborough Park, Bunker Hill Park, Dodd Park and Oak Shores Park as proposed by the Park and Recreation Director and recommended by the Park & Recreation Committee, with money to be taken from the Park Development Fund. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt, Enright. 5 CITY OF LAKEVILLE COUNCIL MEETING AUGUST 5, 1985 85.350 Motion was made by Enright, seconded by Sindt to approve easement agreements on parcels number 334 and 335 on the Trunk Highway SU project with Gerald Bowen, as recommended by the city attorney. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Nelson, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, Harvey. The staff discussed with the council the need for a commitment from Mr. Bowen to fulfill the conditional use permit requirements for the Power Center property, especially the removal of the diesel fuel and semi truck parking, and improvement of the parking area. The council directed the city attorney to prepare a letter to the council advising the council on what steps could legally be taken to insure compliance in development plans approved by the City for this property as defined in the conditional use permit on it approved by the council in 1984. At this time the City Council took up consideration of the commission- ers' award for the right-of-way on the Cedar Avenue project involving the Belzer property at the southwest corner of Trunk Highway 50 and Cedar Avenue. Tt was .pointed out that the county appraiser had set the value at $7,000 for the 8,700 square foot parcel, and .that the property owner had amended his request to $154,000, with the commissioners awarding $31,700. This being a joint city/county project, the staff is asking the council whether or not they wish to have the county board appeal the award to the district court. 85.351 Motion was made by Sindt, seconded by Harvey to ask the Dakota County Board of Commissioners to appeal the award on the Belzer property on the Cedar Avenue project to the district court. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, Harvey, Nelson. 85.352 Motion was made by Enright, seconded by Sindt to receive a letter from William Ahlberg, attorney for Glen Klotz, concerning the future apportion of assessments on Mr. Klotz 's four unit building on the north side of 205th Street and direct the city attorney to redraft the document into one which could be recorded against each of the pieces of property involved with the four units for recording. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Sindt, Enright, Harvey, Nelson, Zaun. At this time councilman Nelson had to leave the meeting to go to work. 85.353 Motion was made by Enright, seconded by Sindt to authorize and direct the city engineer to include the installation of two culverts in the Lake Marion outlet control project to provide conveyance across the drainage ditch on the Hammer's property. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Harvey, Zaun, Sindt, Enright. 6 • • CITY OF LAKEVILLE COUNCIL MEETING AUGUST 5, 1985 85.354 Motion was made by Harvey, seconded by Sindt to adjourn the council meeting. Roll call was taken on the motion. Ayes, Zaun, Sindt, Enright, Harvey. Time: 10:08 p.m. Respectfully subm'tted, Patrick E. McGarvey, City Cler Duane Zaun, M 7 • • i CITY OF LAKEVILLE AGENDA COUNCIL MEETING AUGUST 5, 1985 7:UU P.M. Call to order. Flag pledge. 1. Roll call. 2. Staff announcements A. Attorney B. Engineer C. Administrator 3. Citizen comments. 4. Consent agenda. a. Approval of the minutes of the July 15, 1985, council meeting.. b. Approval of the claims for payment. c. Receive the minutes of the following advisory committee meetings. Planning Commission, July 18, 1985 d. Approval of final payment and acceptance of improvements in the South Creek Addition, project 84-9. e. Receive the 1984 financial statements. f. Approval of the 1985-86 ski trail and snowmobile trail grant applications. g. Approval of a revised completion date for Hydrostorage, Inc. on the elevated water tower, project 84-4. 5. Report on the option to purchase agreements for potential sites for a branch fire station on 175th Street east of Highway 50. a. Approval of a purchase agreement. 6. Approval to extend water and sanitary sewer utilities along 175th Street to east of Junelle Path. 7. Receive the bids and .recommendation on the award of a contract for Judicial Road from 185th Street north to Brackett's Crossing, project 84-17. a. Award of the contract. ! ~ • CITY COUNCIL AGENDA (Continued) August 5, 1985 8. Application of the City of Lakeville for an ordinance amending the Lakeville Zoning Ordinance, Section 35.5, to permit inspections of mobile home parks. 9. Application of the City of Lakeville for an ordinance amending the Lakeville Zoning Ordinance Section 5, subsections 5.1.3 and 5.1.4, pertaining to qualifications for variances. 10. Recommendations on establishing a dog K-9 unit in the police department. a. Approval of the unit and amendment for. the police department. 11. Approval of an employment contract for the media. specialist consultant. 12. Request to conduct a snowmobile watercross race on Lake Marion on August 24th and 25th. 13. Approval of an amendment to the development agreement to provide for continuous care maintenance on the entrance monument to the Rolling Oaks subdivision. 14. Receive petition from property owners asking for he city to pave Judicial Road north of 168th Street. a. Authorize an engineering feasibility report. 15. Call a public hearing on the. proposal to pave Judicial Road between 205th Street and 185th Street. 16. Call a public hearing on the paving of Flagstaff Avenue south of Dodd Road to Dodd Ridge. 17. Approval of an antenna agreement with Frank Fernkes for use of the Dakota Heights water tower. 18.' Approval of the agreement for storm water drainage in the Credit River Watershed District. 19. Request to support the Governor's Conference on Disability. 20. Approval of an agreement with Westwood Planning for conceptual plans of a proposed West Lake Marion Park. 21. Approval of playground equipment for Foxborough Park, Bunker Hill Park, Dodd Park and Oak Shores Park. 22. Any other business. 23. Adjourn.