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1988-03-15 Special Workshop t CITY OF ALBERTVILLE " P 0 BOX 131 ALBERTVILLE, MINNESOTA 55301 PHONE (612) 497-3384 SPECIAL WORK MEETING of the COUNCIL MARCH 15, 1988 A specIal work meetIng of the CouncIl was held on Tuesday, March 15, 1988. Members present Included Mayor Loretta Roden, CouncIl members Gary Schwenzfeler and Bob Braun. Others present Included Maureen Andrews, Brad Farnham, Bob MIller and Thore Meyer. The purpose of the meetIng was: *l. * 2. * 3. (. 4. 5. To see a demonstratIon of the computer system beIng conSIdered. DISCUSS a general developer's agreement that WIll be used for all future development. DISCUSS the progress beIng made on the IndustrIal park (or lack there of). DISCUSS the charges beIng establIshed (water and sewer connectIon charges). DISCUSS the Issue of plannIng. Mr. BrIan FrederIckson of Quest Computer Systems was present and gave a brIef overVIew of the utIlIty bIllIng package that the CIty IS thInkIng about purchaSIng. BrIan walked the CounCIl members through the dIfferent thIngs the computer and program are capable of dOIng. There was some general dISCUSSIon about the system. BrIan agreed to leave the purchase agreement for the CounCIl to conSIder at the next regular meetIng. No actIon was taken on the Issue. The next Issue dIscussed was that of LongeVIty CIty, U.S.A., Inc. and what has been happenIng wIth thIS proposal. The CounCIl was brought up to date on what has been happenIng wIth the IndustrIal park. Brad Informed the CounCIl lhat he has been In regular contact wIth Mr. SInger and had requested a lISt of references, both personal and busIness related. It was agreed that the CIty would request that LongeVIty CIty, U.S.A., Inc. Put together a document descrIbIng the proJect, tIme frames, project team partICIpants, references and an agreement to escrow monIes up front for the cost Incurred by the CIty. ~ \-tell\( our t 1/ \ lIf H in \ f( '"10' I ~ 114 I ,i 1 \ 1 I \, ~ ~ , SPECIAL WORK MEETING .. PAGE 2 If the group ~s really ~nterested ~n the Albertv~lle area, th~s w~ll rece~ve a pos~t~ve response; ~f not, ~t would mostly mean that the project would not go forward. If th~s was to occur, ~t was the feel~ng of those present that a letter should go to the State Department of Trade and Econom~c Development express~ng the C~ty's d~spleasure ~n the ~n~t~al phase of th~s proJect. In add~t~on, there was some d~scuss~on regard~ng the fact that J~m W~llequette may have another developer who ~s ~nterested ~n do~ng work ~n Albertv~lle. No act~on was taken on th~s matter. It was also suggested that the C~ty m~ght be ~nterested ~n look~ng at the poss~b~l~ty of a med~a bl~tz to see ~f we could get some compan~es ~nterested ~n relocat~ng to Albertv~lle. It was suggested that the C~ty m~ght cons~der plac~ng ads ~n the League of M~nnesota C~t~es maqaz~ne, developers' magaz~nes or the Star and Tr~bune stat~ng Albertv~lle ~s ~nterested ~n new ~ndustrlal development and would be wIllIng to assIst ~n the development. It was sug~ested that th~s would put Albertv~lle on the map. The group next d~scussed the use of development agreements. It was po~nted out that the e~ty needs to use these agreements for all development, but that staff has not reached agreement on how detaIled the developer's agree- ment needs to be. The CouncIl was ~nformed that staff had met wIth the Darkenwald group earlIer ~n the day and had walked through the Issues set forth In the agreement. It was agreed that the agreement should be gone through by the CouncIl and the ~ssues of concern pOInted out. After a great deal of d~scuss~on, ~t was dec~ded that the CIty should look at agreements drawn up for other commun~tles. The l~st ~ncluded the followIng c~tles: Elk R~ver Buffalo Delano Rockford Montlcello Wa~te Park PrIor Lake LakeVllle Apple Valley The purpose of revlewlog these agreemnts IS to see ~f the C~ty IS requ~r~ng too much In terms of what other clt~es do. It was also dIscussed that AlbertvIlle doesn't want to chase the small "local" developers away by requ~rlng too much. It was decIded that It was ~mportant that staff meet and dISCUSS the Issue w~th the other developers to see what the~r react~on ~s regardIng agreement. After thIS meet~ng, staff w~ll meet agaIn WIth the Counc~l to d~scuss the hndlngs. The Issue of charges were br~efly d~scussed. It was pOInted out that the Darkenwald group showed a real negatIve response to the ~ncreases ~n the charges because of the ~mpact they have on the bu~ldlng perm~ts. The CouncIl was told that the developers may walk out of the deal If the CIty could not show some flexlbl1~ty on these Issues. It was also pOInted out that th~s Issue really IS Influenced by what happens w~th regards to developers agreement. . ~ . - . SPECIAL WORK MEETING ~ PAGE 3 , It was agreed that we would need to look at th~s ~ssue ~n more deta~l once all the other ~ssues are resolved. The last ~ssue d~scussed was the poss~b~l~ty of h~r~ng Northwest Consultants to complete the Plann~ng Ood~nances, Subd~v~s~on Regulat~ons and the Comprehens~ve Plan. There was some d~scuss~on rega~d~ng the f~nanc~ng of the project and ~t appears that a port~on of ~t could be covered by local adm~n~strat~on proceeds ~n the current bond ~ssues be~ng d~scussed. It was agreed that Maureen should contact the f~rm so that they could get started on the work r~ght away. The next work meet~ng has been scheduled for March 30th at 7:00 p.m. at the C~ty Hall. There was no other bus~ness so the meet~ng broke up.