Approved Minutes 7-21-1999 SUMMARY MINUTES OF THE SAINT PAUL CITY COUNCIL
Wednesday, July 21, 1999 - 3:30 - 5:00 P.M.
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 3RD FLOOR
City Hall and Court House
15 West Kellogg Boulevard
The meeting was called to order by Council President Bostrom at 3:26 p.m.
Present- 6 - Blakey, Bostrom, Coleman, Harris, Lantry, Reiter
Absent - 1-Benanav (Excused)
CONSENT AGENDA (Items 1 - 19)
Councilmember Harris moved approval of the Consent Agenda.
Yeas - 7 Nays - 0
FOR ACTION
1. Approval of minutes of June 9, 1999.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
2. Letter from the Real Estate Division announcing a public hearing before the City Council on August
4, 1999, to consider a petition to vacate a part of Johnson Parkway lying northerly of Magnolia
Avenue and southerly of Prosperity Avenue.
3. Communication from the Real Estate Division announcing a public hearing before the City Council
on August 11, 1999, in the matter of improving the alley in Block 3, Ryan Place (bounded by
Hartford Ave., Mississippi River Blvd., Randolph Ave., and Mount Curve Blvd.)by constructing
storm sewer and grading and paving with bituminous material.
(Two Final Orders were laid over indefinitely on February 10, 1999, for continuation of the public
hearings)
4. Letter from the Citizen Service Office/Property Code Enforcement declaring 781 Armstrong Avenue
and 681 Edmund Avenue as "nuisance properties." (For notification purposes only; public hearings
will be scheduled at a later date if necessary.)
5. Administrative Orders:
D001723 Authorizing payment of$1,000 for a reception for the 1999 National Summer
Conference of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials to
be held at the Minneapolis Hilton July 22-25, 1999.
D001724 Amending the spending and financing plans for the Pinehurst and Hillcrest Lighting
project by transferring 1997 CIB funds from the 1997 Citywide Lighting
Improvement project.
Noted as on file in the City Clerk's Office
July 21, 1999 City Council Summary Minutes Page 2
6. Resolution- 99-647 -Approving the Memorandum of Agreement between the City of Saint Paul
and the Lakes and Plains Regional Council of Carpenters and Joiners for the 1999 wage and fringe
re-opener. (Laid over from July 14 for adoption)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
7. Resolution- 99-681 - Approving the reappointments of Bruce Corrie and John Fahey, and the
appointments of Virginia("Ginger") Bethe, John Mancini, Heidi Gesell, and Angel Sanchez, by
Mayor Coleman, to the Neighborhood Sales Tax Reinvestment Program (STAR) Board of
Directors.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays- 0
8. Resolution- 99-682 - Approving the reappointments of Jim Counts, Jr., Alan Herman, Mark
Hughes, Linda Lattin, Jean LaClare, Darrell Paulsen, Walter Waranka, and Rachel Wilcox, and the
appointment of Tracey Sullivan, by Mayor Coleman, to the Mayor's Advisory Committee for
People with Disabilities.
Adopted Yeas- 6 Nays - 0
9. Resolution- 99-683 -Approving the reappointments of Lucie Ferrell, Laura France, Feta-Ann
Hoover, Mary Huot, Gabrielle Lawrence, Patricia Ohmans, and Nancy White, and the appointments
of Mr. Kelly Clark and Gonzalo Martinez, by Mayor Coleman, to the Saint Paul-Ramsey County
Community Health Services Advisory Committee.
Adopted Yeas -6 Nays - 0
10. Resolution- 99-684-Authorizing the City of Saint Paul to accept $84,000 of foundation funding
from Merrick Community Services for the development of the Downtown Work Resource Hub.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays- 0
11. Resolution- 99-685 - Approving the Fifth Amendment to the New Housing and Blighted Lands
Development Project and Tax Increment Financing Plan.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
12. Resolution- 99-686 -Amending the 1999 Capital Improvement Budget for Battle Creek
Community Recreation Center construction.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays- 0
13. Resolution- 99-687 - Accepting a grant from the State of Minnesota and establishing a budget for
Como Park Conservatory and Como Zoo.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
14. Resolution- 99-688 - Accepting a grant from the State of Minnesota and establishing a budget for
the Martin Luther King Community Recreation Center.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
July 21, 1999 City Council Summary Minutes Page 3
15. Resolution - 99-689 - Increasing the 1999 financing and spending plan for a SUISS grant received
by the Police Department from the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning.
Adopted Yeas- 6 Nays - 0
16. Resolution - 99-690 - Increasing the 1999 financing and spending plan for a Strike Force grant
received by the Police Department from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
17. Resolution- 99-691 - Establishing a financing and spending plan for the St. Paul Police Department
Impound Lot.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays- 0
18. Resolution - 99-692 - Accepting the contribution of a building addition at the Saint Paul Police K-9
Facility from the Saint Paul Police K-9 Foundation.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
19. Resolution Approving Assessment- 99-693 - In the matter of installation of new bituminous
surfaced streets with concrete curb and gutter, concrete driveway aprons and outwalks, boulevard
landscaped with sod and trees, a new lantern style lighting system, lead water service replacements,
and sanitary sewer repairs, in the area called Pascal/Jefferson RSVP generally bounded by Snelling,
St. Clair, Hamline, and Randolph Avenues, and setting date of public hearing for September 8,
1999. (File#18882)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
FOR DISCUSSION
20. Resolution- 98-566 - Ordering the owner to remove or repair the building at 674 Wells Street
within fifteen(15) days from adoption of resolution. (Legislative Hearing Officer recommends
approval) (Laid over from May 26)
Gerry Strathman, Legislative Hearing Officer, reported the owner is slowly working on the building
with approximately 75%to 85% completed according to Steve Magner from Code Enforcement.
Councilmember Harris moved to lay over four weeks at the request of Council President Bostrom.
Laid over to August 18 Yeas- 6 Nays- 0
ORDINANCES
21. First Reading- 99-694 - An ordinance establishing a"Managed Competition"chapter of the Saint
Paul Administrative Code to provide a framework by which the City of Saint Paul can enter into
contracts with vendors, including existing City employees and outside entities, to provide City
services currently performed by City employees.
Laid over to July 28 for second reading
July 21, 1999 City Council Summary Minutes Page 4
Councilmember Coleman moved to reconsider the following resolution: Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
Resolution- 99-680 - Authorizing transfer of the 1999 Fire Emergency Communications Center
budget to the Police Emergency Communications Center budget as of July 31, 1999. (Adopted by
the Council on July 14)
Councilmember Coleman moved to amend the resolution by removing Lines 23 and 24 and approval
as amended.
Adopted as amended Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
Suspension Item
Councilmember Reiter moved for suspension of the rules to introduce the following resolution:
Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
Resolution- 99-695 -Approving the appointment of Donna Strusinski,by Mayor Coleman, to the
Neighborhood Sales Tax Reinvestment Program(STAR) Board of Directors.
Councilmember Reiter moved approval.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
22. POLICY SESSION
Workforce Development
I. Introduction
Kenneth Smith (Policy Analyst, Council Research)
II. History and structure of the public workforce system
Readus Fletcher(Program Manager for City of Saint Paul, PED)
III. How does the labor shortage challenge the public workforce system?
Lyle Wray(Executive Director, Citizens League)
IV. How does welfare reform challenge the public workforce system?
Jean Hammink(Director, Community Employment Partnership)
(The meeting was recessed briefly and resumed)
July 21, 1999 City Council Summary Minutes Page 5
Suspension Items
A motion was made for suspension of the rules to introduce the following resolution and approval:
Resolution- 99-696 -Approving the report of the City Clerk dated July 21, 1999,relating to the
petition to be sufficient for an initiative ordinance concerning a major league baseball park.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
A motion was made for suspension of the rules to introduce the following resolution and to lay over
to July 28:
Resolution- 99-697 -Approving the report of the City Clerk dated July 20, 1999, relating to the
petition to be insufficient for an initiative ordinance concerning billboards.
Laid over to July 28 Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
POLICY SESSION CONTINUED
V. Private employers and public workforce issues/Employers Solutions, Inc.
Ellen Watters (Executive Director, ESI)
VI. Joint Powers Agreement, The City-County Workforce Strategy
Peter Hames (Director, Technology and Management Services, City of Saint Paul)
VII. City union perspective of proposed Joint Powers Agreement
Michael Wilde (Business Agent, Professional Employees Association)
VIII. Opportunity for Saint Paul with regard to the new Workforce Investment Act
Rolf Middleton(Chair, Saint Paul Workforce Development Council)
ADJOURNED AT 6:00 P.M.
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D i :ostrom, Council President
ATTEST:
Minutes approved by Council
Nancy An on \'\'
Assistant Council Secretary J
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