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1992-10-19 CC Minutes . . . ALBERTVILLE CITY COUNCIL October 19, 1992 Albertville City Hall 7:30 PM PRESENT: Mayor Jim Walsh, Councilmen Duane Berning, Mike Potter, Donatus Vetsch, and Mark Barthel, City Engineer Thore Meyer, City Attorney Mike Couri, City Clerk Linda Houghton Mayor Walsh called the regular meeting of the Albertville City Council to order. The agenda was amended by deleting "50th street Plans and Specs" under Engineering, and deleting approval of Check #6862 in the amount of $1,314.40 to Roto-Rooter and issuing Check #6866 in the amount of $1,200 to Roto-Rooter. The amended agenda was approved on a motion by Barthel, seconded by Potter. All voted aye. The follow-up sheet from the October 5, 1992, meeting was approved on a motion by Barthel, seconded by Vetsch. All voted aye. The minutes of the October 5, 1992, meeting were amended as foll ows: (1) (2) (3) Page l, Paragraph Pot ter and Wal sh motion carried." Page 2, Paragraph 3 - Amended to read "Potter, Barthel and Walsh voted no." Page 3, Paragraph 5 - Amended to include the following sentence: "The City Council agreed not to add curb and gutter to the portion of 60th Street east of Main Avenue". 3 - Amended to read "Vetsch, Berning, voted aye. Barthel voted no. The Barthel made a motion to approve the minutes of the October 5, 1992, meeting as amended. Vetsch seconded the motion. All voted aye. Barthel made a motion to approve the minutes of the October l4, 1992, public hearing on the TIF budgets. Vetsch seconded the motion. All voted aye. The maintenance department was directed to clean up the gravel, sand and blacktop by the Joint Powers property left when the sewer truck line was installed. Thore was directed to check the manholes along 50th Street. If they need to be marked, he will notify the maintenance department and the manholes will be marked. Judy Roden addressed the Council under Community Forum. She questioned when the Rugged Road and Custom Canopy propoerties will . ALBERTVILLE CITY COUNCIL October 19, 1992 Page 2 of 5 be cleaned. Linda explained that she has asked the building inspector to provide a list of the materials that should be removed. The City will then have those materials removed using the escrow fund of $3,000 from Custom Canopy to pay the costs. Linda will contact Mrs. Roden when the list is available. Ken told the Council he is requesting $8,000 in the unpaved street maintenance 1993 budget to gravel one mile of the road to the pond. The Counci I wi 11 consider Ken's request at the next budget meeting. Ken showed the Council a fiberglass fire hydrant marker flag now available that is more flexible than the flags currently on the hydrants. The cost of the hydrant flags is $10 each. The Council asked Ken to check whether this hydrant flag is available with the longer bracket to connect to the hydrant. Ken will get a count on the number of hydrants that are missing hydrant flags. Ken plans to do the final fall discharge of the ponds later this week. . The Council authorized Ken to spent approximately $400 to enclose an office area in the maintenance shop, provided that the improvement does not affect the building standards or codes for the rest of the building. Ken and Mike will man the compost site at the ponds this Saturday. Instead of overtime pay, the maintenance department will take equal time off sometime during the week. Ken presented a quote from Fehn Gravel & Excavating to move the old warming house building from City Park to the pond site. Fehn estimates the costs to be around $500, but could be slightly less. Berning was opposed to having the building moved to the pond site. He indicated that the fire department could use the building as a practice burn. All other members of the Counci 1 fel t the building should be moved. Ken brought up a question about sick leave policy. The Council will look into policy questions at the budget meetings. . City Engineer Thore Meyer presented the bid tabulations for the Pysk's 5th Addition project in his letter dated October 19. Northdale Construction is the apparent low bidder at $218,071.80. Thore indicated he has checked Northdale Construction's recommendation and found that Northdale is reliable bidder. Thore recommends awarding the bid to Northdale Construction. Doug psyk, developer of Pysk's Fifth Addition, told the Council he is not positive he will go ahead with this project at . . . ALBERTVILLE CITY COUNCIL October 19, 1992 Page 3 of 5 this time. He has several questions about the developer's agreement. He is also unsure of why he is being allowed only ten connections to the sewer mains instead of the l3 connections he expected on the main trunk line. Thore and Linda were directed to contact MPCA to discover the reason only ten connections were permitted. The Council agreed to table awarding a contract for Pysk's Fifth Addition until the November 2, 1992, meeting. The Council also removed discussion of the developer's agreement from the Legal Department agenda. Thore reported that he has received a price from Latour Construction to install a drain line to the flow meter manhole in the amount of $1,398. The Council will not have the drain line installed at this time. Thore reported that he will be meeting with Redstone Construction later this week to discuss the second lift of blacktop in the Westwind Second Addition. Neither the engineer nor the Council is happy about the appearance of the final lift. The Council agreed the a bridge over the curbs must be in place before construction related vehicles are allowed to drive over the curb. Some of the Ci ty' s curbs have been damaged or pushed out of alignment by construction trucks. The policy will become a condition of future building permits issued and will be enforced by the building inspector. Barthel made a motion directing the engineer to prepare plans and specs for the installation of four foot sidewalks and advertise for bids for sidewalking along the east side of Main Street to 50th Street as soon as possible. The Council will complete the sidewalking project from the intersection of Main and 50th Street south to the high school parking lot next spring. Potter seconded the motion. All voted aye. The Council considered the notice of the tax forfeited property in the City. The Council is not interested in purchasing this property. The Council reviewed City Attorney Mike Couri's letter dated October 14, 1992, and his refunding proposal for the $790,000 1988 General Obligation bond. The City can use $495,000 in the debt service fund to retire an equivalent amount of the bond. This would allow the City to refund the remaining portion of the bond ($l10,000) along with the costs of the bond issuance (approximately $6,000) through the issuance of a new refunding bond in the amount of $115,000. The City should realize a savings of approximately $175,000. Potter made a motion to refund the 1988 $790,000 G. O. . ALBERTVILLE CITY COUNCIL October 19, 1992 Page 4 of 5 bond as proposed. Barthel seconded the motion. All voted aye. Couri reported that he and Linda had met with Rod Fraser and Michael Blanchert to discuss the relocation of Energy Technology Systems, Inc. (ETS) to Albertville. Linda and Couri are continuing to work with Blanchert in the relocation. Couri has spoken to DTED's Joe Feist concerning its financing the replacement of the sewer mains. Feist indicated the City would encounter no objections in going ahead with the installation before the project is approved for funding. The Council accepted the recommendation from Planning & Zoning regarding notification if the Council wishes to revise P&Z' s recommendation that 50% of the facade of pole buildings be faced with other materials. Barthel made a motion to appoint Roger Johnson to fill the vacancy on the Planning & Zoning Commission. Vetsch seconded the motion. All voted aye. . Barthel made a motion to approve the Financial Statement for the period September 30 - October 14, 1992, as presented. Vetsch seconded the motion. All voted aye. Barthel made a motion to approve payment of Check #6832 _ Check #6866 as presented. Vetsch seconded the motion. All voted aye. Linda was directed to proceed requirements of Fair Housing Practices the revolving loan agreement through Economic Development. with complying with the as required by the terms of the Department of Trade and Barthel made a motion directing Linda to proceed in getting the motor vehicle record information on each employee as recommended. Vetsch seconded the motion. All voted aye. Potter made a motion to agree to a one-year lease with Zimmer Brothers to rent the land around the wastewater treatment plant with the condition that the City will not be responsible for any crop damage that may resul t from the construction of the new wastewater treatment facility next year. Rent was set at $950 for the year. Vetsch seconded the motion. All voted aye. . The Council reviewed the agreement to terminate the water tower 1 ease agreement wi th Joint Powers. The Counci 1 asked the Joint Powers representatives to get clarification on whether Joint Powers intends to be responsible for the complete dissembly of the 01 d water tower. The Counci 1 wi II consider termination of the . . . ALBERTVILLE CITY COUNCIL October 19, 1992 Page 5 of 5 water tower lease at the next Council meeting. Barthel made a motion to change the date of the Truth-in- Taxation meeting to December 9, 1992, at 7:00 PM and the continuation of the Truth-in-Taxation meeting to December 16, 1992, at 7:00 PM, if necessary. Barthel made a motion to adjourn at 9:02 PM. Potter seconded the motion. All voted aye.