City Council Minutes 03-08-1982MINUTES
REGULAR MEETING - MONTICELLO CITY COUNCIL
March 8, 1982 - 7:30 P.M.
Members Present: Arve Grimsmo, Fran Fair, Dan Blonigen,
Phil White.
Members Absent: Ken Maus.
Consideration of a Variance for a Certificate of
Occupancy - Monticello Printing.
Mr. Dave Kranz, owner of Monticello Printing, re-
quested a certificate of occupancy variance for
his new building being remodeled, located directly
east of the present fire hall. Mr. Kranz requested
the certificate of occupancy variance to enable him
to move into his new bu-ilding prior to the comple-
tion of all finishing, landscaping and hard surfac-
ing of the parking lot.
Mr. Kranz indicated that the building will probably
be ready for occupancy approximately May 1st and
he has agreed to provide the City of Monticello with
a letter from his lending institution, the Wright
County State Bank, providing for one and a quarter
(1 1/4) times the amount of the cost of completing
the parking lot improvements.
A motion was made by Fair, seconded by Blonigen and
unanimously carried to approve the variance for a
certificate of occupancy for Monticello Printing's
new building with the letter of credit provided by
Wright County State Bank for one and a quarter
(1 1/4) times the estimated amount of the unfinish-
ed improvements.
2. _Consideration of Clarifying Current Park Dedication
Ordinance.~
Previously, on March 9, 1981, the City Council
amended the park dedication ordinance requirement
which changed some of the wording to indicate that
an appraisal of the market value of a subdivision
shall be provided by the developer for purposes of
computing the ten percent (100) park dedication
fee if the contribution was to be in cash in lieu
of land. The new ordinance amendment provided that
an appraisal shall be based on current market value
of the raw land. The market value based on raw
land resulted in a substantial increase in the
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market value calculations over the county assessor's
market value, which intended to help equalize the
values should a subdivider contribute either cash
or actual land for park purposes.
Although raw land was not actually defined in the
ordinance, it was the concensus of the Council that
this would mean the value of the land prior to the
actual platting of a subdivision into lots. In
addition, the Council addressed whether any sewer,
water or storm sewer improvements should be consid-
ered in the value of the raw land for determining
park dedication requirements. It was the opinion
of the City Staff along with the concensus of the
Council that the definition of raw land was to mean
unplatted land and unimproved land.
3. Consideration of Allocation of Funds Towards
Monticello's Chamber of Commerce Business & Indus-
trial Development Committee.
Mr. Bruce Gagnelius of the Business & Industrial
Development Committee reviewed with the Council
the Committee's goals for 1982 which include direct
mail advertising campaigns to attract business to
Monticello. As part of their 1982 budget, they
requested $5,000.00 funding to be allocated to the
committee by the City of Monticello out of a total
budget of $16,555.00. It was noted that in addi-
tion to the $5,000.00 requested from the City, the
Chamber of Commerce would contribute $6,710.00 along
with an additional $4,845.00 reserve balance to make
up the total budget of $16,555.00.
Mr. Gagnelius noted that in the past, the City's
contributions have been used primarily for adver-
tising in state publications and again this year,
the City funds would be used primarily to promote
the City of Monticello through direct mail campaigns.
A motion was made by Phil White, seconded by Fran
Fair and unanimously carried to allocate $5,000.00
to the Chamber of Commerce Committee on Business &
Industrial Development during 1982.
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4. Approval of Minutes.
A motion was made by Fair, seconded by Blonigen and
unanimously carried to approve the Council minutes
of the regular meeting held February 22, 1982.
Meeting adjourned.
Rick Wolf steller
Acting Administrator
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