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City Council - 12/13/1966 - Village Meeting 8L C.1) COUNCIL MEETING 13 December, 1966 The meeting was called to order at 8:00 p.m. by Mayor Osterholt. PRESENT WERE: David W. Osterholt, Mayor Arthur Miller James C. Brown, Clerk Rolf Haugen, Treasurer Kenneth Anderson Quentin Wood, APW Alvin Bren W. Harlan Perbix, Attorney ITEM 12-1-66 MINUTES Motion was made by Arthur Miller, seconded by Alvin Bren to approve the minutes of November 23, 1966 as published. The motion carried. ITEM 12-2-66 VOUCHERS Motion by Arthur Miller, seconded by Alvin Bren to approve vouchers 3661 through 3761. The motion carried. r� ITEM 10-6-66 NORTHERN STATES POWER Northern States Power was represented by Mr. McKellip and Mr. Hassinger. Mr. McKellip read a letter dated December 12, 1966 withdrawing Northern States Power's application for a permit dated July 8, 1964 and advising the Village i that Northern States Power will now proceed to condemm the necessary right- of-way along the original route as presented to the Village. The letter stated that they are doing this because the time allocated for planning has been used up. V) Mayor Osterholt asked what the time table was and Mr. McKellip stated 1967 was the dead line. � Mr. Arthur Miller .asked what the time table was when they appeared before the ca Town Board. Mr. McKellip stated 1967 to 1970 and that when they appeared be- # fore the Council the time table had been set as 1967. 3 Mr. Perbix stated that he had received a copy of this particular letter on the afternoon of December 13 and had not had time to study the matter and did not want to venture an opinion at this time but felt that it may require a Special Meeting for the Council to handle this. Mayor Osterholt asked what the reason was for offering the letter on the after- noon of December 13 instead of after the Council meeting tonight. Mr. McKellip stated that the time was up and they had to act now. i r Mr. Alvin Bren wanted to know why they waited two years. Mr. McKellip stated that the application had been made in 1964. It had spent time in the Planning and . f, �? t COUNCIL MEETING 2 13 December, 1966 40 41 Zoning Commission. The Council had rejected the application and Northern States Power felt they could not work on County Road 18. Mr. Alvin Bren asked why they had not worked with the County. Mr. McKellip stated whether the road was available or not, they did not feel it was good planning to put the high line in with the road. Mr. Alvin Bren stated that Mr. Peterson had advised members of the Council that the line could be built now. The County would be willing to provide them with as alignment and elevations so that they could build their line in 1967. Mr. McKellip stated that this was not Northern States Power's idea. Mr. Oster- holt asked Mr. Wood if he had tried to set up a meeting between the Council, Northern States Power and the County and any other individuals involved in 1965. Mr. Wood said that he had tried to set up a meeting but Northern States Power could not seem to make the meeting when they were contacted. 12 No other action was taken on this matter at this time. 7 ITEM 9-33-66 ORDINANCE ON MASON, HAGEN, ASTLEFORD, DVORAK PROPERTY Mr. Perbix presented Ordinance 92 to the Council along with maps which Mr. Carter had prepared showing the area where the land was to be rezoned and the road which Mr. Carter had laid out along with Mr. Quentin Wood on the map. Mr. Perbix ex- plained the process that had taken place. The Council haJ recommended adopting an ordinance to rezone a certain piece of land up to the center line of a proposed road which was to be laid out on the map by Mr. Carter in the interim. Part of this area had been rezoned because of the fact that there was a requirement for a building permit to be issued in the area. Motion was made by Kenneth Anderson, seconded by Alvin Bren to adopt Ordinance 92 j which would rezone this property from RA,Rl,M2,RC to SI. The motion carried. Mr. Dieter Goetze asked to be heard. He wished to call the attention of the Council. to Mr. Hawkes' report on this area. Mr. Osterholt informed Mr. Dieter Goetze that the Council Has aware of this report. ITEM 12-4-66 MR. EGGAN Mr. Eggan appeared before the Council asking for the balance of his escrow money which is being held pending the completion of the seal coating on Luther Way and the roads in the Kirk Meadow Addition. There seemed to be a point as to whether Mr. Willard Eggan throughly understood the contract which he had worked out with his engineer in laying out this road. Mr. Quentin Wood stated that according to the information supplied to him byp�he! , previous engineer, Mr. Archie Carter, that the seal coating cross section''an Quentin Wood felt that the seal coating was a definite requirement on that j particular road. 9 r� COUNCIL MEETING 3 13 December, 1966 Mr. Archie Carter who was in the audience stated that the figures were his computations and that seal coating had been included in the final escrow agreement. Mr. Donald Rogers appeared before the Council and asked if they were holding only Mr. Willard Eggan to seal coating his road. Mr. Wood stated no, that other contractors and developers had been held to this, in one or two cases they had slipped through. The Council took no action on the matter at this time as they felt that the action taken in the arevious meeting in which the money had been returned less the amount needed to be held for seal coating the roads was correct. ITEM 12-5-66 ASSESSORS SUPPLIES Mr. Whitmer asked for authorization to procure the homestead exemption cards and the necessary postage to mail these out. Mr. Osterholt presented to the Council a questionaire which the Village of Edina had been mailing out with the homestead applications asking the people -to comment on the various aspects of the Village operation and their thoughts re- garding the community. It was felt that this would by a valuable asset to be mailed out with the homestead application cards. Motion was made by Arthur Miller, seconded by Alvin Bren to authorize up to $250.00 for the homestead applications, the necessary postage and the community questionaire to be mailed with the homestead application. The motion carried. 9 2 ITEM 12-3-66 EDINA SEWER Mr. Virgil Muller of Reike-Carroll-Muller reported that he had contacted Mr. Hite of Edina and Edina had sent letters to the city of Minneapolis requesting the necessary approval for hooking up Eden Prairie's Northeast area. t As soon as this approval has been granted to Edina, they will proceed with the next step in the matter regarding this area. Clerk Brown reported that he had received back and had on file approved copies by the State Board of Health and the State Water Folution Control Commission of the Plans for the Sewer System in the Village of Eden Prairie in regards to this Northeast area. ITEM 12-6-66 VILLAGE PERSONNEL { Mayor Osterholt stated that he had received a request from the State Labor Conciliator that we consider the special memorandum of agreement which Local ` 49 had with presented to the Village last August. j i i fi COUNCIL MEETING 4 13 December, 1966 The Council felt that this was a special contract covering just part of the Village Employees and that certain areas in this were not in agreement with the Council's thinking. They instructed the Clerk to write a letter to Local 49 to advise them that the Village would continue to handle their employee relationships as in the past with a memorandum made a part of the minutes which would spell out the various entitlements for various job classifications and individuals. Clerk Brown then read a letter from Mrs. Edna Holmgren stating that for reasons of health she was forced to resign her position as bookkeeper for the Village of Eden Prairie. } Motion was made by Kenneth Anderson, seconded by Arthur Miller to accept Mrs. Holmgren's resignation with deepest regret and express our appreciation for her fine services to the Village of Eden Prairie while she has acted in the capacity p as bookkeeper and Deputy Clerk. F i ITEM 12-7-66 ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND Mr. Ray Stodola appeared before the Council requesting permission to purchase f cutting edges for the various snow plows, to repair the F W D truck and to d purchase some additional tire chains for the vehicles. Motion was made by Kenneth Anderson, seconded by Alvin Bren to authorize up to $250.00 for these items. The motion carried. ITEM 12-8-66 PARK AND RECREATION The Clerk read a letter from the Park and Recreation Commission to the Planning and Zoning Commission which had been forewarded by them to the Council recommend- ing the procurement of the parcel of land owned by the Kutchers in the northern part of the Village for a park. This land is located on the west shore of Birch Island Lake between the lake and County Road #4. The Council felt that there were merits to this proposal and that it should be pursued further. The motion carried. A motion was made by Alvin Bren, seconded by Kenneth Anderson to appoint Mr. tithur Miller from the Council, Mr. Albert Picha from the Planning and Zoning Commission and Mr. Don Nygaard from the Park and Recreation Commission as an investigative group to gather the necessary information including an appraisal and a report from a park planner on this area and to authorize up to $150.00 for this purpose. The motion carried. ITEM 12-11-66 MRS. PHYLLIS OLSON Mrs. Phyllis Olson stated that she did not wish to appear before the Council at this time and she wished to be put on the Agenda for the second meeting in February. No other action was taken at this time. r COUNCIL MEETING 5 13 December, 1966 ITEM 12-9-66 1967 LICENSES Motion was made by Alvin Bren, seconded by Arthur Miller to approve the applications for plumbing and sewer licenses as received by the Clerk and presented to the Council. The motion carried. Motion was made by Alvin Bren, seconded by Arthur Miller to approve the applications for well licenses as received by the Clerk and presented to the Council. The motion carried. Motion was made by Alvin Bren, seconded by Kenneth Anderson to approve the application of the Eden Amusement Company fov a Drive-In Theater license. The motion carried. Motion was made by Arthur Miller, seconded by Alvin Bren to approve the applications for cigarette license as received by the Clerk and presented to the Council. The motion carried. Motion was made by Kenneth Anderson, seconded by Alvin Bren to grant the 3.2 non-intoxicating off sale beer licenses to the following indi'01duals: Gaylord Brown for Eden Prairie Grocery Kenneth A. Schaitberger for Dutch's Resort Tom Madland for the Wye Cafe Sears Lyons for the Lyons Tap Paul Kelly for the Kelly Prairie Motel Don Schmidel for G. I. Grocery The Eden Prairie Legion Association Arthur Schmidt for Schmidt's Market The motion carried. A motion was made by Alvin Bren, seconded by Arthur Miller to grant 3.2 non- ! intoxicating on sale licenses to the following individuals: i Arthur. Schmidt for Schmidt's Market i Kenneth A. Schaitberger for Dutch's Resort Tom Kadland for the Wye Cafe Pail Kelly for Kelly's Prairie Motel Donn Schmidel for G. I. Grocery W. J. Sime for Eden Prairie Golf The Eden Prairie Legion Association Sears Lyons for Lyons Tap The motion carried. Mr. Quentin Wood reported that he had not completed the necessary information to report on the gravel mining licenses and these will be taken up on the meeting o. the 2 Bth of December. 1 COUNCIL MEETING 6 13 December, 1966 ITEM 12-10-66 ;APPOINTMENT OF DELEGATES TO THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LEAGUE OF MUNICIPALITIES Motion was made by Kenneth Anderson, seconded by Alvin Bren to appoint A. W. Miller principal delegate. Motion was made by Alvin Bren, seconded by Kenneth Anderson to appoint D. W. Osterholt alternate delegate and to adopt a resolution so stating for 1967 delegates to the Hennepin County League of Municipalities. The motions carried. Mayor Osterholt stated that he would be in Chicago the week of December 19 and would stop in at the Housing and Urban Development Office to check on the possibilites of a loan for Planning for the Village of Eden Prairie. The meeting adjourned at 11:00 p.m. r Ja C. Brown, Clerk IE i S i) i