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City Council Agenda Packet 08-14-1978AGENDA REGULAR MEETING - MDNTICELLO CITY COUNCIL August 14, 1978 - 1:30 P.M. #0 Mayor: C. 0. Johnson Councilmen: Dan Blonigen, Arve Grimsmo, Gene Walters, Philip White. Meeting to be taped. Citizens comments. 1. Public Hearing - Consideration of Variance on Sideyard Setbacks for Mr. & Mra. Robert Blake. 2. Variance Request for a Certificate of Occupancy - H & D Storage. 3. Consideration of Acceptance of Airport Stud Completed by Ralph Burke & Associates and Recommendations of Monticello Airport Committee. 4. Consideration of Authorizing City Engineer to Prepare Plans and Specifications and Inspect Improvements for Balboul Estates. 5. Consideration of Amending Requirements for Vacation of Former State Highway 25 (Cedar Street). ® 6. Consideration of Soliciting Quotations for Library Shelving. yt. �7. Consideration of Approval of Easements for 1978-1 Improvement t\0 y / Project. B. Appointment of Election Judges for State Primary and General Flection. yr 9. Approval of Minutes - 7/24/78. P �' Unfinished Business - �a New Business Special mooting -August 21, 1978, 5:00 P. to �oora on 1978- act. 1fa,. meeting - Assessment Hearing - 1977-1 and 1977-2 Projects. - c; d l T Fi�9Ai O� J. .Jr4,:rn Amp ro 0 FA O• AGENDA REGULAR MEETING - MONTICELLO CITY COUNCIL August 14, 1978 - 7:30 P.M. Mayor: C. 0. Johnson Councilmen: Dan Blonigen. Arve Grimsmo, Gene Walters, Philip White. Meeting to be taped. Citizens comments., 1. Public Hearing - Consideration of Variance on Sideyard Setbacks for Mr. & Mrs. Robert Blake. 2. Variance Request for a Certificate of Occupancy - H & D Storage. 3. Consideration of Acceptance of Airport Study Completed by Ralph Burke & Associates and Recommendations of Monticello Airport Committee. 4. Consideration of Authorizing City Engineer to Prepare Plans and Specifications and Inspect Improvements for Balboul Estates. 5. Consideration of Amending Requirements for Vacation of Former State Highway 25 (Cedar Street). 6. Consideration of Soliciting Quotations for Library Shelving. 7. Consideration of Approval of Easements for 1978-1 Improvement Project. 8. Appointment of Election Judges for State Primary and General Election. 9. Approval of Minutes - 7/24/78. Unfinished Business - Now Business - Special meeting - August 21, 1978, 5:00 P.M. to approve Plano and Specifications an 1978-1 Project. Special meeting - Assessment Hearing - 1977-1 and 1977-2 Projects. C Z 114 AGENDA SUPPLEMENT AGENDA ITEM 1 - Public Hearing.- Consideration of Variance on Sideyard Set- backs for Mr. & Mrs. Robert Blake. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Blake have made application for a variance to build a garage behind their home at 313 Fast 4th Street. The property is currently zoned as R-2. The legal description is Lot 3, Block E of Riggs Addition to Lower Monticello (see enclosed map depicting area). The Blake's are requesting to build within 3' of their west property line. with a 2' overhang on the garage, the drip line would be 1' from the property line. Letters have been sent to building inspector mid are on file indicating that the abutting property owners have no objections to this variance request. At their last meeting, the Planning Commission unanimously approved of the variance. POSSIBLE ACTION: Consideration of approval or denial of variance request (note: a variance request requires !,/51s approval). REFERENCES: Copies of letters on file with the building inspec- tor, enclosed map depicting area. AGENDA ITEM 2 - Variance Request for a Certificate of Occupancy - H & D Storage. Mr. Henry Doerr, with H & D Storage in the Industrial Park, is requesting a variance from the City's provisions that all land- scaping be completed at the time of the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy. Mr. Doerr is requesting a variance until Fall to allow the land- scaping of the storage area in the Oakwood Industrial Park. According to our building inspector, all other ordinances and building requirements are being met. Should this variance be approved, they will be required to get a bond or security from Mr. Doerr and a definite period of time should be set for the completion date such as 60 days, for example. POSSIBLE ACTIONc Consideration of granting variance from land- scaping provisions for the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy to H & D Storage. AGENDA ITEM 3 - Consideration of Acceptance of Airport Studv Completed by Ralph Burke & Associates and Recommendations of Monticello Airport Committee. r. Diclosed with the supplement, you will find a completed copy of Phase II of the Feasibility Report for the Monticello Joint Airport relative to Site B which is 3 miles south of Monticello, east of State Highway 25, and west of County Road #117. In reviewing this Site, the following concerns were prevalent: 1. Quite an extensive amount of fill was necessary to fill in low areas. 2. Environmental concern of utilizing wetlands for an airport. 3. Expansion to a 5,500' runway would require road relocations. 4. Transmission lines would have to be relocated. 5. Concern over the migratory path of wild fowl in the Pelican Lake area. 6. Projected costs of a basic transport airport was $8,769,240 which is from $2 to $2J Million Dollars more than an average basic transport type of airport. The additional costs are for road relocations, reloca- tions of transmission lines and filling in wetlands area. At their last meeting, the Monticello Airport Committee voted to recommend to the City Council that they accept the report of Ralph Burke & Associates and additionally they proceed no further 11 in pursuing an airport on Site B. For your information, the Minutes of Juno 5, 1978 and July 26, 1978 are enclosed. POSSIBLE ACTION: Consideration of accepting airport study and (� recommendations of Monticello Airport Committee. \V\ �•,REFERENCES: Completed Airport study and Monticello Air rt Committee meeting minutes of 6/5/78 and 7/2b/78. AGENDA ITEM 4 - Conaidoration of /authorizing Citv Jhmineer to Prepare Plans and Specifications and Inspect Improvements for Balboul Estates, Enclosed, please find an August 99 1978 letter from Marvin George Builders, Inc. of Princeton, Minnesota. As stated in the letter, Marvin George Builders has recently purchased Balboul Estates in Monticello, Minnesota. Marvin George, President of Marvin George Builders, recently inquired as to the possibility of getting improvements to Balboul Estates, and I estimated that the earliest completion Ante would probably be late Summer or Fall of 1979. As a result of this estimated completion time, Mr. George indicated ss he has in this August 9, 1978 letter, that he would request the City Engineer to prepare plans and specifications and in turn, Marvin George Builders, Inc. will be the general contractor for the Improvements. As also stated in the letter, Marvin Goorge Builders would, as required by ordinance, poet a bond for 1* times the engineer's estimated cost. _2_ Marvin George Builders, Inc. is requesting that our City Engineer prepare the plans and specifications, primarily for the reason of a possible conflict between engineers if he has his own set of engineers prepare and specs and have them plans inspected by our engineers. It should be pointed out that our a / engineers, O.S.M., would still be working for the City of Monticello, and all plans and specifications and the design would have to be approved by the City Council. Prior to con- 1 struction, Marvin George Builders would have to post a bond and during all phases of construction, the project would be hr inspected by our engineers. The only difference between the method that the City now uses would be that Marvin George 1 Builders would be putting in the utilities instead of the City having to bond for the utilities. It still would be the City Engineer designing the project and inspecting the project as has been done in the past. ! I have reviewed this arrangement with Springsted, Inc., and they recommend this procedure rather than the developer hiring A h\. his own engineer and the city engineer reviewing the plans and specifications after they have been prepared by another engineer. It should be pointed out that Springsted, Inc. should have a rather objective view of this matter, since they will in fact earn no fees since no bonds will be issued on the matter. 4 �+ POSSIBLE ACTION: Consideration of authorizing our engineers to prepare plans and specifications for Balboul Estates. I 4- REFERENCES: Lotter of August 99 19781 from Marvin George Builders, Inc. AGENDA ITEM 5 - Consideration of Amen" Requirements for Vacation of Former State Hiahwav 25 (Cedar Street). At a previous meeting, the Monticello City Council, upon a request from the abutting property owners, vacated former State Highway 25, or Cedar Street, contingent upon the City, along wiLh other utilities, being granted utility rights along the entire 100' right-of-woy, plus the stipulation that no construction take place on the easement itself. Since the time of the vacation, one of the abutting property owners, Mr. Sam Peraro, has bought all the adjacent land or entered into an agreement to buy all the adjacent land and is '1 now proposing to shift the easement rights to the easterly por- tion of the newly created parcel, and also to reduce the easement to 501. Reason for this request is that the proposed 100' case- ment as it oxists now runs right through the middle of the newly n�) created parcel, and by shifting the easement to the east, this would not break up the parcel to such a great extent. V\ N -3- F-4 e Currently, there are no utilities underneath the proposed vacated street, or former State Highway 259 and additionally, there are no improvements contemplated in this area. Addi— tionally, I have talked with Keith Nelson, our engineer, and he indicated that an easement along the easterly portion of this parcel would be fine and 50' is more than adequate. Should the City Council decide to approve of the request to shift the easement to the easterly portion of the parcel and also to reduce the widti� to 50', it should be indicated that no construction would take place on the proposed vacated street until such time as the City received the necessary legal papers granting the City the easement along the easterly portion of the parcel. POSSIBLE ACTION: Consideration of accepting easement along the easterly portion of parcel and reducing the requirement to 601. (Note: this easement j would be for all utility purposes including telephone, electric, city services, etc.) REFERENCES: Ehclosed map depicting area. AGENDA ITEM 6 — Consideration of Soliciting Quotations for Library Shelving. Recently, the Great River Regional Library System, which has a local branch in Monticello, gave me a set of plans and specifi— cations for four sets of shelving that they would like to request f be put into the Monticello branch library. l Gene Walters is currently reviewing these plane and specifications v �P for any modifications. Initially, it was indicated to me by the Great River Regional Library System that the four sets of shelving should total approximately $19800. Purpose of having this on the agenda is twofold. First of all, whether the City Council would approve of soliciting quotes for shelving requested by Library, and secondly, whether the entire four sets of shelving should he imrchased in 1978 or possibly budgeted in fy 1979, or possibly split between the two years. It should be pointed out that no provision in the budget for 1978 was made for this expenditure, although there aro fluids available from other sources. 1 POSSIBLE ACTION: Consideration of soliciting quotes for arty or all of the library shelving indicated, plus any amendments to the plane and specifications. REFERENCES Copy of the plans and specifications are enclosed. (NOTE: While the extra space for the library can be utilized t without shelving for a children's reading room, it will receive muchgrestar utilization according to Librarian, We. Burbank, if library shelves were installed in the area. i �� J AGENDA ITEM 7 - Consideration of Approval of Easements for 1978-1 Improvement Project. 'T At the last meeting, the City Council approved of obtaining appraisals for the easements necessary for the 1978-1 Improve- ment project. Initially, you may recall, it was necessary to obtain four easements from Harold Ruff, Tim Genung, Wally Houle and Gordy Hoglund. As a result of elimination of a portion of the storm sewer, it is necessary now to only obtain easements from Harold Ruff and Tim Gcnung. Mr. John Sandberg was contacted several weeks ago about obtain- ing appraisals for these easements, and he indicated he hasn't got them completely done, but hopefully will have the informa- tion for the Council on Monday night. It should be pointed out that this may not aglow the Council adequate time for review, but the reason it is on the agenda is that we indicated to the property owners this would be on the Council's agenda for August 24, 1978. If the Council is uncomfortable with approving the appraisals at Monday night's meeting, they could table the matter. Procedure if the appraisals are approved would be to approach the property owners with the appraisal figures and request that they accept or make a counter-offer, and ultimately, this would be brought back to the City Council for final approval. POSSIBLE ACTION: Consideration of offering property owners appraised value for the easements. REFERENCES: Mr. John Sandberg will bring in the appraisals hopefully at Monday night's meeting. AGENDA ITEM 8 - Appointment of Election Judges for State Primary and General Election. State Statutes require the appointment of Election Judges 25 days prior to any election. On September 12, 19789 the State Primary Election is held and on November 7, 1978 the General Election is hn1d. Following are individuals who meet the qualifications for appointment as election judges: Joanne Link Marvel Trunnoll Herman Buach Fern Anderson Oolleen DeBoer Hazel Kotilinek Arnold Strehler Joan Dorn Marie Toenjeo Mery Jo Quick - 5 - MVrrtle Haen Arlene Wallin Loma Wolfstelle Ruth Harstad Verena Borchardt Betty Lund Lucille Clausen Betty Grosanickle Ann Voll Barbara Wieber✓ Leona Kline Additionally, the City Council should set the location of the polls, voting hours, and appoa election board chair— person. In the past, the ty tallAas been utilized as to o e polls, the ng hours have been from 700A. ,tC8.00 P.M. and the election board chairmen has been Mr. Busch has indicated that he may not be in Monticello for the November 7, 1978 election, and I would recommend Lucille Clausen as a possible candidate for election board chairperson. POSSIBLE ACTION: Consideration of appointment of election fudges, election board chairperson, loca, tion of polls and hours for polls to be open. -6— i MEMMANDUM TO: Monticello City Council FROM: Gary WieberW DATE: August 8, 1978 __ SUBJECT: Expansion of Spent Fuel Storage Capacity - NSP. This memorandum is intended to be a report to the City Council relative to a matter that was brought to the City Council by Mr. Wilbur Eck at the July 24, 1978 meeting. As you will recall, Mr. Eck was concerned about the expansion of the capacity of the spent fuel storage pool at the NSP Plant in Monticello. One thing should be made clear at the outset, and that is, the City of Monticello has no jurisdiction relative to the expansion of the capacity of the spent fuel operations. There is no construction to obtain a permit for, and it would be just similar to a rearrangement of the existing plant equipment similar to a retail store rearranging their fixtures to allow greater inventory. There is no modification whatsoever of any structure. The pool in which the spent fuel is stored is neither enlarged nor altered. However, the racks, which is part of the equipment within the NSP Plant is being modified to allow further capacity within the pool itself without restructuring the pool. Furthermore, even if there was construction, the local government would not have authority over this, this is quite well spelled out in the following statutes. Minnesota Statute 116.05 relative to the control of tho Minnesota Pollution Control Agency over such new construction and Minnesota Statutes 116.C.61 relative to the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board's control whereby all local government control is superseded, and this is specifically a part of the statute, and finally by the 1954 Atomic &orgy Act. Again, it should be pointed out that there is no now construction being initiated, but these regulations are just reference for your background. On August 7, 3978, the Mayor, Loren Klein, Greg Erickson, of the Monticello Times, and I met with Northern States Power Officials, Ward King, Doug Nevinski and Leon E1laeon, to review the enlargement of the spent fuel capacity at the NSP Plant. During our review mid tour of Lho plait, the following items were brought outs 1. License approval for the modification of the spent fuel storage capacity comes from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 2. Whin the Plant was initially built, it was designed for 740 spent fool bundlos. 3. Current inventory of spent fuel bundles is 616. 4. NSP applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on August 17, 1977 for expansion of the stored fuel capacity from 740 spent fuol bundles to 2,237 spent fuel bundles. I _ Memo - City ConmCil August 8, 1978 Page X ^ 5. 0n April 14, 1978, permission was received from the Nuclear Regula- tory Commission to amend the Northern States Power license to allow for increased capacity to 2,237 spent fuel bundles. 6. It is expected that the increase in the spent fuel storage capacity will allow NSP storage capacity intn the 1990's. 7.' The modification in the license was necessary as a result of Presi- dent Carter's decision on April 7, 1977 to defer indefinitely the reprocessing of spent fuel. Prior to this time, General Electric had a contract with the Northern States Power Company to utilize its spent fuel and store it in Morris, Illinois in the hopes of being able to reprocess the spent fuel. 8. Leon Eliason indicates that technology is here today to allow for the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, but because of the mandate set by the President, who is concerned with the proliferation of nuclear waste, the technology cannot be used at this time. 9. There are several countries that are now reprocessing spent nuclear fuel without aro particular problems, according to Mr. Eliason. 10. The Attorney General for the State of Illinois has ruled that no further shipments of spent fuel can be shipped into Illinois, including Morris, Illinois, that come from outside the state of Illinois, including MInnesota. U. According to Mr. Eliascn, there is no more danger with the increased capacity from 740 stored fuel bundles of spent nuclear fuel, to 2,237 bundles. Quite an amount of research has been done by Loren Klein and I in reviewing various regulations and various phone calls to State and Federal Agencies, and there is an extensive file at City Hall if anyone cares to review the materials contained therein. GN/ns C MONTICELLO CITY COUNCIL RDOILAR MEETING August 14, 1978 - 7:30 P.M. Members Present: C. 0. Johnson, Daniel Blonigen, Philip White, Gene Walters. Members Absent: Arve Grimsmo 1. Public Hearing - Consideration of Variance on Sideyard Setbacks for Mr. & Mrs. Robert Blake. Mr. « Mrs. Robert Blake requested a variance to build a garage behind their hone at 313 E. Fourth Street to within 3' of their west property line. With a 2' overhang on the garage, the dripline would be 1' from the property line. The building inspector indicated that the abutting property owners have not indicated any objections to this variance request, and the Planning Com- mission unanimously approved the variance at their last meeting. Motion was made by Blonigen, seconded by White and unanimously carried to approve the variance request to build within 3' of the property line. 2. Variance Request for a Certificate of Occupancy by H d: D Storage. Mr. Henry Doerr, with H R D Storage in the Industrial Park, requested a variance from the City's provisions that all landscaping be completed at the time of the issuance of a certificate of occupancy. Mr. Doerr requested the variance until Fall to allow the landscaping of the storage area to be completed. Motion was made by White, seconded by Blonigen and unanimously carried to approve the variance on the landscaping requirements of the certificate of occupancy with a maximum of 60 days completion time provided a bond or security is provided. 3. Consideration of Acceptance of Airport Stuff�'' Completed by Halph Burke A Associates and Recommendations of Che Monticello Airport Committee. Mr. Gone Walters, committeemember of the Monticello Airport Committee, reviewed with the Council the feasibility report for the Monticello Joint Airport relative to Site B. The feasibility report on this Site which is located 3 miles south of Monticello indicated the following concern ei 1. Quite an extensive amount of fill was necessary to fill in low areas. 2. Environmental concern of utilizing wetlands for an airport. Minutes - 8/i4/78 3. Expansion to a 5,500' runway would require road relocations. 4. Transmission lines would have to be relocated. 5. Concern over the migratory path of wild fowl in the Pelican Lake area. 6. Projected costs of a basic transport airport was $89769,240 which is from $2 to $2+} Million Dollars more than an average basic transport type of airport. The additional costs are for road relocations, relocation of transmission lines and filling in wetlands area. Mr. Walters indicated that the Monticello Airport Committee voted to recommend that the City Council accept the report as presented, and additionally, that they proceed no further in pursuing an airport on Site B. Motion was made by G. Walters, seconded by P. White and unanimously carried to accept the feasibility study presented by Ralph Burke & Associates on Site B and to accept the reconifndations not to pursue any further studies of an Airport on Site B. 4. Consideration of Authorizing City Ehaineer to Prepare Plans and Specifications and to Inspect Improvements for Balboul Estates. Marvin George, President of Marvin George Builders, Inc., requested that the City Engineer for Monticello prepare plans and specifications for the required improvements such as sewer, water, streets, curb and gutter for Balboul Estates. Mr. George indicated that they would like to be the general contractor for the improvements and would post as required by City ordinance a bond for lir times the engineer's estimated cost of the improvements. Mr. Keith Nelson, of O.S.M., consulting engineers for the City, indicated to the council that in order to serve the Balbma Estates, sewer and water would have to be extended along Prairie Road resulting in improvements of abutting property not owned by Marvin George. Mr. Nelson indicated to the Council that without a public hearing on this improvement, la% of the property owners would have to agree to the improvements, or Marvin George Builders would have to agree to pay all of the cost involved An the improve- ment. Motion was made by White, seconded by Blonigen and unanimously carried to authorize the City Engineer to prepare plans and specifications and a feasibility study for improvements to Balboul Estates. (See Resolution 1978 #12). 5. Consideration of Amendin6 Requirements for Vacation of Former State IIIghwX, 25 - Celer Street. At a previous Council meeting, a request from the abutting property owners was granted to vacate former State Highway 25, or Cedar Street, contingent upon the City along with other utilities, being granted utility rights along the entire 100' right-of-way. Since the timro of the previous vacation, - 2 - Minutes - 8/14/78 one of the abutting property owners, Mir. Sam Peraro, has purchased all of the adjacent land or entered into an agreement to buy all of the adjacent land and is now proposing to shift the easement rights to the easterly portion of the newly created parcel. In addition, Mr. Peraro has requested that the easement be reduced to 50' from the original 100' right-of-way. There are currently no utilities underneath the proposed vacated street, and Mir. Keith Nelson, Qty Engineer, indicated that future plans do not indicate any improvements for this area. Mr. Nelson also indicated to the Council that 50 to 60' right -o£ -way would more than adequate should the City ever need to put in utilities. Motion was made by Gene Halters, seconded by D. Blonigen and unanimously carried to accept a 60' easement along the easterly portion of the parcel for all utility purposes such as telephone, electric and city services. 6. Consideration of Soliciting Quotations for Library ShelvinR. Recently, the City of Monticello has expanded the size of the local Great River Regional Librar7 located in the Oakwood School by renting an additional room from the School District. The additional room in the library is currently in need of shelving and the Great River Regional Library System submitted a set of plane and specifications for shelving that have been reviewed by Councilman Gene Walters. W. Halters indicated that he thouagbt these plans and specifications submitted by the Great River Regional Library were excessive as far as specifications were concerned and felt that much simpler plans could be utilized for this shelving. A motion was made by G. Halters, seconded by Phil White and unanimously carried to have the City Administrator meet with the Librarian regarding a section of shelving that would meet their needs for the upcoming year and solicit quotes from interested builders for this library shelving. 7. Consideration of Approval of Easements for 1978-1 Improvement Proiect. This item was deferred until the next Council meeting in order to enable the City to obtain appraisals on the easements for the 1978-1 Improvement Project. Mr. John Sandberg was unable to have the appraisals completed and will hopefully have them ready at the neat meeting. S. Appointment of Election Judges for State Primary and General Election. State Statutes require the appointment of election ,fudges 25 days prior to any election. The following individuals who met the qualifications for appointment as election judges were submitted for approval: -3- //b 0 Minutes - 8/14/78 Joanne Link Myrtle Haen Marvel Trznell Arlene Wallin Herman Busch Lonna Wolfateller Fern Anderson Ruth Harstad Colleen DeBoer Verena Borchardt Hazel Kotilinek Betty Lund Arnold Strehler Lucille Clausen Joan Dorn Betty Groea fickle Marie Toenjes Ann Voll Mary Jo Quick Barbara Wieber Leona Kline Since some of the Councilmembers were concerned over a possible conflict— of-irtereat by having two of the election judges being spouses of employees of the City, a motion was made by Con Johnson, seconded by Phil White to accept the list of election judges as presented with the exception of Lonna Wolfsteller and Barbara Wieber, and to appoint Lucille Clausen as Head judge. This motion was unanimously carried. Additionally, Gene Walters made a motion, seconded by Phil White and unanimously carried to have the election polls open from 7:00 A.M. until 8:00 P.M. at the new City Hall. 9. Amroval of Minutes. Gene Walters made a motion, seconded by Phil White and unanimously carried to approve the Minutes of July 249 1978 as presented. 10. Consideration of a Temooram Certificate of Occuaancv for Tom Chock. Mr. Tom Chock requested a temporary variance on the following items so he could obtain a temporary certificate of occupancy for his duplex. 1. To put in his hard surface parking sometime after the curb is installed along Kim Street. 2. That he be allowed to finish the grading of his property after the curb along his corner lot (NW comer of W. 3rd and Ism) is installed. 3. That he be allowed to put in his shrubs after the weather is more permissible this Fall. !h^. Chock is planning to provide a concrete parking area end driveway and would like to wait until the curb is in along Elm Street to set his driveway and parking to meet the new curb. Motion was made by Phil White, seconded by Dan Blonigen and unanimously carried to approve the temporary certificate of occupancy variance until October 15, 1978 provided a bond is provided for the landscaping and parking requirements. 11. Discussion on Street URhtinrt Improvements - Hiahwav 25 and County Road 117. Public Works Director, Mike Rejala, informed the Council that Northern Ststps Power has indicated that the installation of two Street Lights, -4- // Minutes - 8/14/78 one at the corner of Highway 25 and County Road 117, and the other along l Thomas Industrial Drive in the Industrial Park, wil1 cost approximately $785.00 extra for trenching to install these lights. NSP had previously indicated that street lighting would be installed without cost to the City, but now has indicated that the additional trenching involved for these two lights would have to be picked up by the City. By consensus of the Council, the Public Works Director was authorized to have these two street lights installed. 12. Consideration of Parkins Int Improvements - Oakwood Parking Lot. At the last meeting, approval was given to sealcoat the parking lots in town consisting of the one behind Johnson's Department Store and the one between Security Federal and the old City Hall. At that time, it was recomended that a 1-" bituminous overlay mat be installed on the parking lot known as Oakwood Parking Lot. Mr. Rajala indicated that a decision should be made soon for any overlay on the Oakwood lot if it is to be completed this year. Because the parking lot was considered a benefit to everyone in the Ci Ly, and that some sort of maintenance should be completed soon on this parking lot, a motion was made by Gene Walters, seconded by Phil White to proceed with a 1i" bituminous overlay for this parking lot with no additional assessments to the abutting property owners. Voting in favors Gene Walters, Con Johnson, Phil White. Opposeds Dan Blonigen. 13. Assessment Hearing on 77-1 and 77-2 Improvement Projects. By Council consensus, the City Ehgineer was authorized to prepare assessment rolls for the 77-1 and 77-2 Inprovement Projects with the hearing to be held on October 2, 1978 at 7:30 P.M. Meeting adjourned. Hick Wolfstelr Asst. Admini' rator RW/n s -5- /h MONTICELLO CITY OOUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING August 21, 1978 - 5:00 P.M. Members Present: C. 0. Johnson, Daniel Blonigen, Arve Grimsmo Members Absent: Gene Walters, Phil White Purpose of this meeting was to award the contract on the 1978-1 Improvement Project. Bide for the Project are listed below: Northdale Construction Co., Inc. $1,054,450.00 Arcon Construction Co., Inc. 1,082,596.20 Nodland Associates, Inc. 1,092,378.00 Johnson Brothers, Corp. 1,115,932.00 Barbarossa & Sons, Inc. 1,179,652.50 Park Construction Co. 1,280,824.75 Motion was made by C. 0. Johnson, and seconded by Arve Grimsmo to award the contract to Northdale Construction Co., Inc. for $1,054,450.00. Voting in favor: C. 0. Johnson, Arve Grim®o. Opposod: Dan Blonigen. Meeting adjourned. vara Wie �8ity Astrator CW/ne /6