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Home My Public Portal About09/04/01 CCM199 MEDINA CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 4, 2001 The City Council of Medina, Minnesota met in regular session on September 4, 2001 at 7:30 p.m. in the City Hall Chambers. Mayor John Ferris presided. Members present: Ferris, Lane, Smith, Workman, and Zietlow. Members absent: None. Also present: Police Chief Ed Belland, Attorney Ron Batty, Public Works Director Jim Dillman, City Engineer Tom Kellogg, Planning & Zoning Administrator Loren Kohnen, and Administrator Clerk -Treasurer Paul Robinson. 1. Additions to the Agenda A. Ron Batty requested that the Consent Agenda items A, B be placed on the business section under Planning & Zoning. B. Item E was removed from the agenda because there was not enough information at this time to approve it. Moved by Carolyn Smith, seconded by Bruce Workman, to approve the agenda as amended. Motion passed unanimously. 2. Approval of the July 17, 2001 Regular City Council Meeting Minutes There was one correction on Page 7, the first sentence under number 16, instead of "his" it should be "the City's". Moved by Carolyn Smith, seconded by Jim Lane, to approve the minutes of July 17,2001 as amended. Motion passed unanimously. 3. Approval of the August 7, 2001 Minutes On page 2 change "included" to "include". Same page third paragraph from the bottom sentence should read "there is probably more storage capacity needed". Moved by Carolyn Smith, seconded by Jim Lane, to approve the August 7, 2001 minutes as amended. Motion passed unanimously. 4. Consent Agenda B. Resolution 01-46 Granting Preliminary Approval - 5240 County Road 101 - Plat of Medina Highlands C. Resolution 01-47 Granting Preliminary Plat Approval - 4622 Pine Street - Kevin Moxness. D. Resolution 01-48 Granting a Conditional Use Permit - 780-790 Tower Drive - Glen Lincoln Partners. Moved by Phil Zietlow, seconded by Jim Lane, to approve item B, C, and D on the consent agenda. Motion passed unanimously. 5. Comments from Residents in Attendance on Items Not on the Agenda There were none. Medina City Council Meeting Minutes September 4, 2001 200 6. Park Commission Comments There were none. 7. Planning Commission Comments Loren Kohnen said that at the next City Council meeting there will be a conditional use permit for a business at the end of Tower Drive. 8. Update on the Holy Name Sewer Protect Tom Kellogg said there are still some items that need to be completed and they are working with the contractor on those items. He said there are still some issues concerning malfunctioning of the lift station panel which will be a warranty issue with Tri-State Pump. He said there are also some small issues that still need to be completed before the project is done, however, they have not invoked liquidated damages yet at this point. 9. Resignation of a Planning Commissioner and Appointment Paul Robinson said Susie MacKay resigned from the Planning Commission. He said that since there was a recent appointment by the Council, we did have some applicants that had not been appointed to the Planning Commission that had applied very recently and on a number of occasions. He said that Ronald Johnson who was in attendance this evening was one of the applicants for the position. He said that if the Council wanted to they could advertise, however, in this instance staff was recommending that they consider the applicants that had recently applied. Phil Zietlow said the City should send a letter of commendation to Susie McKay. He believed that she had been on the Planning Commission for eight years and wanted to send her a letter of special thanks. Council agreed. John Ferris said that he would take care of that. Carolyn Smith asked if Ron Johnson wanted to give brief comments about why he wanted to be a Planning Commissioner. Ron Johnson said that he had lived in Medina for 10 years. He said he was a quality engineer and was good at looking at the details of proposals. He said he lives on Bridal Path and just wants to help out. Jim Lane asked Ron Batty if the City was under legal obligation to advertise Planning Commission vacancies. Ron Batty said that they were not. Moved by Carolyn Smith, seconded by Phil Zietlow, to appoint Ronald Johnson to the Planning Commission. Motion passed unanimously. 11. Elm Creek Task Force Meeting Loren Kohnen said the Task Force wanted representative of each city to fill out a survey concerning water quality issues. He passed out a copy of the survey for all the Council members to fill out and to turn back to him so that we could discuss it at the next Council meeting and then provide our input to the task force. Medina City Council Meeting Minutes September 4, 2001 201 12. Ordinance 346 Approving the General Plan of Development and Rezoning the Property to the Planned Unit Development Ron Batty said this was on the consent agenda. He thought that since this was an ordinance that it should be placed on the regular agenda. Moved by Carolyn Smith, seconded by Phil Zietlow, to approve Ordinance 346. Motion passed unanimously. 13. Telecommunication Tower Jim Lane said we presented our case to the City of Plymouth. He said it was not well received. He explained the issues concerning the proliferation of towers and said we gave it a good shot but it did not work out. 14. Goals Robinson said that included in the packet was a copy of the Goal Setting Workshop materials. He said that the three issues that could be acted on by the Council were adopting a goals program, the mission statement and the values. After some discussion it was decided to place this on the next council agenda for discussion and have staff condense the memo into those three options. 15. Adoption of the Preliminary Lew and Preliminary 2002 General Fund Budget Robinson described the issues with the levy. He said overall this is a fairly significant increase in the levy, around 32%. He said $242,000 of that makes up for the loss of state aid and the COPS grant and that $110,000 is new expenditures. That was later corrected — it was around $137,000 in new expenditures without the COPS grant. There was some concern about the new employee being requested. Some council members wanted further discussion on that position and on the minute taking service, the amount for the fire department capital improvements, and the amount for the contingency. Robinson went through some of the changes in the way he was proposing the budget for street improvements. He said there was the amount being transferred into a street improvement fund and that street improvements would be funded out of that capital improvement fund. He said the $120,000 budgeted actually translated into $440,000 in actual spending by the City for road improvements. Moved by Carolyn Smith, seconded by Jim Lane , to adopt Resolution 01-49 setting the preliminary levy and budget. Those in favor: Ferris, Smith, Lane and Workman. Those opposed: Zietlow. Motion passed. 16. Pay the Bills Moved by Phil Zietlow, seconded by Bruce Workman, to approve the bills, order check numbers 22812-22861 for $104,567.45 and payroll check numbers 17226-17246 for $19,530.68. Motion passed unanimously. Medina City Council Meeting Minutes September 4, 2001 202 17. Adjournment Moved by Jim Lane, seconded by Phil Zietlow, to adjourn the meeting at 8:32 p.m. Motion passed unanimously. John B. Ferris, Mayor Paul Robinson, Administrator Clerk -Treasurer Medina City Council Meeting Minutes September 4, 2001 203 ORDER CHECKS - SEPTEMBER 4, 2001 22812 ORCHARD TRUST $880.00 22813 A.T.& T $48.74 22814 AMERICAN SUPPLY GROUP $99.80 22815 ASPEN ENVIRONMENTAL $258.57 22816 BATTERIES PLUS $159.43 22817 BENDICKSON, WESLEY $2,400.00 22818 BNSF $1,200.00 22819 BONESTROO, ROSENE, ANDERLIK $26,683.40 22820 CATE, W.H. $10,700.00 22821 CLASSIC CLEANING $399.38 22822 CRYSTEEL TRUCK EQUIPMENT $221.80 22823 DELTA DENTAL $898.35 22824 E-Z-RECYCLING $2,627.46 22825 ERICKSON, ROLF ENT., INC. $3,759.80 22826 FORTIS BENEFITS $316.16 22827 HAMEL FIRE DEPT. $18,314.10 22828 HAWKINS INC. $402.84 22829 HENNEPIN CO.TREAS.,ACCTG.SVCS. $308.50 22830 KENNEDY & GRAVEN $2,629.40 22831 KRAEMER, EDWARD & SONS, INC $6,166.67 22832 KUSTOM SIGNALS, INC. $93.58 22833 LAW ENFORCEMENT LABOR SERVICES $231.00 22834 LORETTO FIRE DEPT. $11,185.00 22835 MAPLE PLAIN FIRE DEPT $1,080.30 22836 MATRIX LASER CARE $46.86 22837 MEDICA CHOICE $2,347.14 22838 METROCALL $108.73 22839 METROPOLITAN COUNCIL WASTEWTR $2,277.00 22840 MINNESOTA CHILD SUPP. PYT.CTR. $630.00 22841 MINNESOTA CONWAY $315.54 22842 MINNESOTA DEPT. OF HEALTH $653.00 22843 MOTHERS MOTORS/LORETTO TOWING $15.00 22844 MULE $65.00 22845 NW METRO MINNEAPOLIS SAFE KIDS $50.00 22846 OIL AIR PRODUCTS $66.54 22847 PUBLIC SAFETY EQUIPMENT $798.50 22848 QWEST $432.75 22849 RANDY'S SANITATION $104.63 22850 RELIANT ENERGY MINNEGASCO $33.11 22851 RODDY, MATHEW $190.96 22852 ROTO ROOTER $241.95 22853 SCHMIDT CURB CO. $2,682.00 22854 ST. PAUL STAMP WORKS $14.54 22855 STREICHER'S $109.70 22856 TRUGREEN CHEMLAWN (MTKA) $90.53 Medina City Council Meeting Minutes September 4, 2001 204 GENERAL CHECKS - SEPTEMBER 4, 2001 22857 UNITED RENTALS HIGHWAY TECH $73.00 22858 USPS $500.00 22859 VERIZON WIRELESS $7.94 22860 WRIGHT-HENNEPIN ELECTRIC $1,506.44 22861 XCEL ENERGY $142.31 $104,567.45 PAYROLL CHECKS - AUGUST 27, 200fi 17226 SMITH, CAROLYN A. $138.52 17227 FERRIS, JOHN B $207.79 17228 ZIETLOW, PHILIP K. $138.52 17229 ROBINSON, PAUL A. $1,305.97 17230 SCHERER, STEVEN T. $1,221.11 17231 MCGILL, CHRISTOPHER R. $1,480.25 17232 ROUILLARD, MICHAEL J $630.91 17233 DILLMAN, JAMES D. $1,545.11 17234 DRESSEL, ROBERT P. $961.71 17235 BELLAND, EDGAR J. $1,905.35 17236 VIEAU, CECILIA M. $992.56 17237 SULANDER, LAURA L $1,075.51 17238 LARSON, SANDRA L. $896.11 17239 BOECKER, KEVIN D. $931.39 17240 PRIEM, JON D. $1,427.06 17241 CHRISTENSON, JEREMY $1,147.49 17242 NYSTROM, JAMES $1,399.47 17243 LANE, JAMES S. $138.52 17244 WORKMAN, BRUCE $138.52 17245 DERMODY, WILLIAM H. $645.17 17246 NELSON, JASON $1,203.64 $19,530.68 Medina City Council Meeting Minutes September 4, 2001