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6/13-6/17 Meetings for the week of June 13th - June 17th Page 1 of 1 The City of Saint Paul 011‘ *AIM Meetings for the Week of June 13th, thru June 17th, 2005 MONDAY - June 13th No Meetings Scheduled TUESDAY - June 14th *Ramsey County Board 9:00 AM Council Chambers, City Hall/ Court House WEDNESDAY - June 15th *City Council --- see Agenda 3:30 PM Council Chambers, City Hall *City Council Public Hearing 5:30 PM Council Chambers, City Hall THURSDAY - June 16th No Meetings Scheduled FRIDAY - June 17th Planning Commission 8:30 AM Room 40, City Hall * Cablecast live and repeated on Saint Paul Channel 18. Interpreter service for the hearing impaired will be provided at public meetings upon request. Request can be made by calling(651)266-8509(Voice and TDD)Monday thru Friday, 8.00 A.M. to 4.30 P.M A minimum of two days notice is required. For more information on any of these meetings,you can send Email to: citizen.service@ci.stpaul.mn.us, or call the Saint Paul Citizen Service Office at 651-266-8989 If the above page looks good, enter your password one more time, and hit 'Make Meetings' to update the website. (you will be automatically redirected to the page). Otherwise, hit your browser's 'Back' button. Password: Make Meetings, http://www.ci.stpaul.mn.us/cgi-bin/meetgen.pl 6/15/2005 Christine Haas- Fwd: Library Agency Board meeting - Canceled Page 1 From: Shari Moore To: Haas, Christine Date: 6/9/2005 9:04:24 AM Subject: Fwd: Library Agency Board meeting -Canceled >>> Mary Rubio 6/9/2005 9:03:03 AM >>> The Library Agency Board Meeting originally scheduled for Wednesday, June 15, 2005 has been cancelled. The next Board meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 from 2-3 p.m. in the City Council Chambers Office. If you have any questions I can be reached at(651)266-7073. Thank you, Mary Rubio St. Paul Public Library/Administration Office 90 West Fourth Street Saint Paul, MN 55102 (651)266-7073 Fax: (651)266-7060 SAINT PA U L Saint Paul City Council Alf Public Hearing Notice AAAA Ratification of Assessment j• OWNER OR TAXPAYER COUNCIL DISTRICT #4 PLANNING COUNCIL# 13 FILE # 18957CW ASSESSMENT #4247 PROPERTY ADDRESS PARCEL ID RECEIVE') MAY 2 7 2005 PROPERTY TAX DESCRIPTION CITY CLERK THE TIME: Wednesday,June 15, 2005 at 5:30 p.m. PUBLIC PLACE: City Council Chambers, 3rd Floor City Hall-Court House HEARING Written or oral statements by any owner will be considered by the Council at this hearing. PURPOSE To consider approval of the assessment for: Construction of water service connections, as requested by the property owner, in conjunction with the Wheeler/Iglehart Area Street Paving and Lighting Project. (Work Completed) ASSESSMENT The proposed assessment for the above property is $. If the City Council approves INFORMATION the assessment you will have 30 days to pay without interest. Any unpaid balance will be collected with your property taxes over year(s) at 5.000% interest. The proposed assessment roll for this project is available for review in the Real Estate Division, 15 Kellogg Blvd. W., Room 140, City Hall. ASSESSMENT CALCULATION NOTE: THIS IS NOT YOUR BILL. YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INVOICE AFTER THE HEARING SPECIFYING THE AMOUNT APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL WITH COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PAY THIS ASSESSMENT. CONTINUED ON REVERSE SIDE NOTIFICATION DATE 05/27/05 DEFERRED Persons 65 and older or retired by virtue of a permanent and total disability may qualify PAYMENTS for deferred payment of special assessments. You mayapply for deferred a would be a hardship and you homestead this property. pp y payment if it This is not a forgiveness of payment. It is a deferred payment plan in which interest continues to accrue. You can apply for this plan only after the City Council approves the RATIFICATION OF ASSESSMENTS. For more information on deferments, please call (651) 266-8858. QUESTIONS Before the public hearing of a local improvement, call (651)266-8858 and refer to the File#on page 1. City staff will be available to answer any last minute questions on this project in Room 140 City Hall the same day as the hearing. After the public hearing call (651) 266-8858 and refer to the Assessment#on page 1. If this notice is for an assessment to be levied for a Summary Abatement (property cleanup), the Boarding-up of vacant buildings, a Building Demolition or Tree Removal, please call (651) 266-8858 if you have questions. APPEAL City Council decisions are subject to appeal to the Ramsey County District Court. You must first file a notice stating the grounds for the appeal with the City Clerk within 20 days after the order adopting the assessment. You must also file the same notice with the Clerk of District Court within 10 days after filing with the City Clerk. NOTE: Failure to file the required notices within the times specified shall forever prohibit an appeal from the assessment. Section 64.06 of the Saint Paul Administrative Code requires regular assessment payments to be made even if an assessment is under appeal. If the appeal is successful, the payments including interest will be refunded. NOTICE SENT BY THE REAL ESTATE DIVISION DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 140 CITY HALL-COURT HOUSE SAINT PAUL, MN 55102-1613 Saint Paul City Council Public Hearing Notice • AAAA Ratification of Assessment OWNER OR TAXPAYER COUNCIL DISTRICT # 7 PLANNING COUNCIL# 04 FILE # 18961C ASSESSMENT # 6014 PROPERTY ADDRESS PARCEL ID RECEIVED PROPERTY TAX DESCRIPTION MAY 2 • 2005 THE TIME: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 5:30 p.m. PUBLIC PLACE: City Council Chambers, 3rd Floor City Hall-Court House HEARING Written or oral statements by any owner will be considered by the Council at this hearing. PURPOSE To consider approval of the assessment for: Construction of sanitary sewer service connections as requested by the property owner in conjunction with the Margaret/Atlantic Street Paving and Lighting Project. (Work Completed) ASSESSMENT The proposed assessment for the above property is $. If the City Council approves INFORMATION the assessment you will have 30 days to pay without interest. Any unpaid balance will be collected with your property taxes over year(s) at 5.000% interest. The proposed assessment roll for this project is available for review in the Real Estate Division, 15 Kellogg Blvd. W., Room 140, City Hall. ASSESSMENT CALCULATION NOTE: THIS IS NOT YOUR BILL. YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INVOICE AFTER THE HEARING SPECIFYING THE AMOUNT APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL WITH COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PAY THIS ASSESSMENT. CONTINUED ON REVERSE SIDE NO IFICATION DATE 05/27/05 DEFERRED Persons 65 and older or retired by virtue of a permanent and total disability may qualify PAYMENTS for deferred payment of special assessments. You may apply for deferred payment if it would be a hardship and you homestead this property. This is not a forgiveness of payment. It is a deferred payment plan in which interest continues to accrue. You can apply for this plan only after the City Council approves the RATIFICATION OF ASSESSMENTS. For more information on deferments, please call (651) 266-8858. QUESTIONS Before the public hearing of a local improvement, call (651) 266-8858 and refer to the File#on page 1. City staff will be available to answer any last minute questions on this project in Room 140 City Hall the same day as the hearing. After the public hearing call (651) 266-8858 and refer to the Assessment#on page 1. If this notice is for an assessment to be levied for a Summary Abatement (property cleanup), the Boarding-up of vacant buildings, a Building Demolition or Tree Removal, please call (651) 266-8858 if you have questions. APPEAL City Council decisions are subject to appeal to the Ramsey County District Court. You must first file a notice stating the grounds for the appeal with the City Clerk within 20 days after the order adopting the assessment. You must also file the same notice with the Clerk of District Court within 10 days after filing with the City Clerk. NOTE: Failure to file the required notices within the times specified shall forever prohibit an appeal from the assessment. Section 64.06 of the Saint Paul Administrative Code requires regular assessment payments to be made even if an assessment is under appeal. If the appeal is successful, the payments including interest will be refunded. NOTICE SENT BY THE REAL ESTATE DIVISION DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 140 CITY HALL-COURT HOUSE SAINT PAUL, MN 55102-1613 Office of the Mayor Office of Financial Services Matt Smith,Director i n F City of Saint Paul 160 City Hall Telephone:(651)266-8800 i Randy C.Kelly,Mayor 15 West Kellogg Boulevard Facsimile:(651)266-8541 Saint Paul,Minnesota 55102-1658 A11AA SAINT PAUL LONG-RANGE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING Monday,June 13,2005 at 4:00 p.m. CROSBY LAKE BUS. PARK/SUMMIT BREWING CO. PUBLIC MEETING ROOM MEETING MINUTES Members Present: Jon Commers, John Dunkley, Peter Eigenfeld, Jim Lonetti, Eric Mitchell II, Gene Olson, Paul Savage, Julie Shortridge, Michael Steward, Remi Stone, and Ed Warn Members Absent: Monica Bryand, Manuel Castillo, J. Frank Caulfield, Donavan Cummings, Larry Dandrea, Floyd Jaehnert, and Gary Unger City Staff Present: Peter Butler and Paul Kurtz 1. Convene The meeting convened at 4:00 p.m. 2.Approval of agenda Item G was added to the agenda. The amended agenda was unanimously approved. 3. Approval of May 9 meeting minutes The meeting minutes were unanimously approved. 4. Chair's comments Mr. Savage chaired the meeting through the Action Item(#5). Mr. Olson chaired the remainder of the meeting. Mr. Savage referenced the June 8th, 2005 letter from the Planning Commission to the CIB Committee about the need to evaluate the CIB process. Mr. Savage said the letter made some good points, and asked committee members to think about it. Mr. Savage requested that the Committee spend a half-hour at the July meeting to discuss how to respond to the letter. Mr. Savage will provide his thoughts in writing before the July meeting. Mr. Lonetti shared a cover memo on a draft of the letter that his wife received, as a planning commission member. The memo said in part that the letter's purpose "was not to complain or even to comment on the projects and rankings for '06-'07... [but] to raise longer range questions and to see if further improvements can be made to the capital budgeting system." 1 AA-ADA-EEO Employer 5.Action Public Works—Paul Kurtz Item A(GS#208296)—to amend the Sewer Fund's 2005 spending and financing for$1.8 million in 2004 excess sewer availability charges. Mr. Kurtz said excess sewer availability charges are transferred to the capital budget for projects,per a 1983 council resolution. Mr. Warn said this policy stems from the Met Council takeover of the City's sewer system. The excess charges are similar to a refund for the transfer of the City's assets and for reduced need due to St. Paul demolishing many buildings back then. The resolution was unanimously approved(Olsen, Shortridge, and Steward were not present to vote). Item B (GS#206297)—to close out the 2001 and 2002 RSVP program and transfer$563,000 in CIB and assessment financing to cover cost overruns in the 2003 RSVP program. Mr. Kurtz explained that Public Works wants to close-out completed projects and move excess funds to current ones. The resolution was unanimously approved(Olsen, Shortridge, and Steward were not present to vote). Item C (GS#206298)—to use $327,000 in cost savings to continue burying utility lines along White Bear Avenue. Mr. Kurtz explained that this 2004 project's original cost estimate was $600,000 because Xcel Energy staff believed extensive sidewalk work would be necessary to bury the lines. When the actual work started, the sidewalks did not have to be torn up, so the original project was completed under budget. This resolution requests the authority to continue the project south of the original stopping point to Ivy Avenue. In response to questions, Mr. Kurtz said the City is not burying lines anywhere else in the City at this time, that the department had requested funds in the 2005 Process to continue this project, and that burying lines would not be a standard for all street projects because homeowners would have to be assessed for upgrading their service connections. The resolution was unanimously approved. Item D (GS#206299)—to add $284,000 in MSA to cover contract overruns in the Downtown Street Redesign project. Mr. Kurtz stated that this resolution allocates MSA from four completed projects to the Downtown Street Redesign project to cover overruns. The resolution was unanimously approved. Item E (GS#206300)—to transfer$1 million in MSA funding from the Maryland Ave. Bridge project to the White Bear Ave./Minnehaha and Maryland Ave. Intersection Improvement project. Mr. Kurtz explained that the Committee had reviewed a resolution last year that reallocated the Maryland Avenue Bridge MSA funds to a new project to purchase right-of-way at White Bear Avenue and 7th because federal funding became available for the bridge project. Council never adopted this first resolution because Ramsey County had not committed the construction funds for the project. Typically, the City buys the rights-of-way and the County provides the construction funds. The current resolution is to use the money to buy right-of-way at White Bear Avenue at Minnehaha and Maryland avenues. The County has committed construction funds at these intersections. The resolution was unanimously approved. 2 AA-ADA-EEO Employer Financial Services—Peter Butler Item F (GS#3026726)—to allocate $102,000 in 2005 CIB Contingency for the new Wabasha St. Mines Closing project. Mr. Butler explained that an engineering firm had studied several alternatives to closing the Wabasha St. mines after three teenagers died in them. This resolution provides funds for the actual design work for developing construction bids to implement the preferred alternative: hiding the entrances. Committee members commented about the possibility of selling the mines to eliminate the City's liability and how difficult it was to eliminate every risk in the City. The resolution passed with 7 in favor and 4 opposed (Shortridge, Steward, Stone and Warn). [Post-meeting note: Bob Bierscheid, Parks director, said the City never considered selling the mines. He reported several barriers to doing so. The mines were originally privately owned before abandoned by the owners and coming into the city's possession. They still may have no economically viable purpose. The City Charter requires replacing any park land sold with other parcels. Finally, there's a legal question of how far down the property rights of the land owners above the mines extend.] Item G (GS#3026728)—to allocate $2.7 million for completing the Meritex-Car Lo building acquisition and relocating the Fire Administration offices to a new County/City emergency communication center building at the Griffin Building complex. Mr. Butler explained that the City will have to pay $350,000 more for the Meritex land than had been originally budgeted,plus some additional construction costs. Also, the Fire Administration offices have to be relocated from the Public Safety Building. The construction of a new County/City emergency communication center on the Meritex-Car Lo sites provides the opportunity to relocate the Fire Administration to that location. The funding comes from re-allocating money from other capital projects: • $1.345 million from an 800MHz Communication System project that the County will now undertake. • $800,000 from the Sandy Lake Soccer Field project that will not proceed because additional money to complete the project is unlikely to be approved. • $139,000 from the completed Trout Brook Acquisition project. • $224,000 from the 2005 CIB Contingency • $130,000 from the Fire Station#10 replacement project design money. • $200,000 from the Fire Station#8 replacement project construction money Committee members expressed concern that these projects were circumventing the normal CIB process and that community groups were pleading for their projects at the June 9th public hearing. Mr. Savage made a motion that the Committee reject the resolution and request that Council provide $250,000 of additional funds for the CIB Committee to recommend funding for smaller projects that went through the 2005 CIB Process. The motion was seconded and approved with 7 in favor and 1 opposed(Eigenfeld). Lonetti, Shortridge, and Warn were not present for voting. 6. Approve 2006-07 budget recommendations Mr. Mitchell made a motion to fund the Furness Linear Park Improvement project by reallocating $411,000 in 2006 and$274,000 in 2007 from the Jimmy Lee Recreation Center project. The motion was seconded and approved with 7 voting in favor and 3 opposed(need names). Warn was not present for voting. 3 AA-ADA-EEO Employer Mr. Eigenfeld made a motion to adopt the preliminary recommendations as the Committee's final ones, with the inclusion of the preceding motion on the Furness Linear Park Improvement. The motion was seconded and unanimously approved(Warn not present for voting). 7. Make recommendations to the Mayor and City Council for the use of excess project appropriations This item was not discussed due to time constraints and lack of excess project balances for making any recommendations. 8. One or two volunteers are needed to attend the July Parks Commission meeting The Parks Commission has invited CIB Committee members to attend its Wednesday, July l3th meeting to give an overview of the capital budget process. The meeting starts at 6:30 pm at the West Minnehaha Recreation Center(W Minnehaha Ave and Pierce Butler Route,just west of Dale St.). Mr. Unger and Mr. Butler will attend. 9.Adjourn The meeting adjourned at 5:25 pm. Executive Secretary: Peter Butler(651-266-8547) peter.butler@ci.stpaul.mn.us http://www.ci.stpaul.mn.us/depts/ofs/cib/ G:\Shared\Budget\DEPTS\CIB\Committee meetings\yr2005\June 13 05 minutes.doc 4 AA-ADA-EEO Employer