Approved Minutes 2-17-1999 SUMMARY MINUTES OF THE SAINT PAUL CITY COUNCIL
Wednesday, February 17, 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 at 3:30 p.m. by Council President Bostrom.
Present - 6 - Benanav, Blakey, Bostrom, Harris, Lantry, Reiter
Absent - 1 - Coleman(arrived after the consent agenda)
CONSENT AGENDA (Items 1 - 23)
Councilmember Benanav requested Item 5 be removed for discussion.
Councilmember Harris moved approval of the consent agenda as amended. Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
FOR ACTION
1. Claims of American Family Insurance Group (for Jennifer Tiedman), Catherine Carbone, James
Coleman, James Hockert, Fredex Hudson, Tommie Milton, Roberta Sladky, Damion White, and
Christina & Kenneth Wohlford.
Referred to the Employee/Risk Management Office
2. Eminent Domain Petition in the matter of the Board of Education of Independent School District
#625 vs. the City of Saint Paul, et al. (736 York Avenue)
Referred to the City Attorney's Office
3. Letter from the Citizen Service Office/Property Code Enforcement declaring 559 Lawson Avenue
East as "nuisance property." (For notification purposes only; public hearing will be scheduled at a
later date if necessary.)
4. Administrative Order:
D001651 Authorizing an expenditure of$2,500 by the Division of Parks and Recreation to the
Como Ski Center for a trip by its ski school graduates and their families to Wild
Mountain Ski Area.
Noted as on file in the City Clerk's Office
5. (Discussed after the consent agenda)
6. Resolution - 99-144 - Amending Chapter A-14 of the Saint Paul Administrative Code to read:
"Chapter 14. Policy Concerning Citizen Committees."
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
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7. Resolution - 99-145 - Allowing the Saint Paul Police Department to participate in a D.A.R.E.
Golf Tournament.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
8. Resolution - 99-146 - Accepting Federal Weed & Seed grant monies and establishing a budget to
expend the funds in the Police Department.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
9. Resolution - 99-147 - Accepting a grant from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety in which
the Saint Paul Police Department will receive five Automated External Defibrillators, and
authorization for Chief Finney to accept the defibrillators.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
10. Resolution - 99-148 - Accepting the offer of the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority to purchase
a $4,600,000 Sewer Revenue Note of 1999, provide for its issuance, and authorize execution of
the project loan agreement.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
11. Resolution - 99-149 - Authorizing the proper City officials to enter into an agreement with the
Minnesota Department of Transportation for payment to the City of$8,426.85 for the purchase of
landscaping materials to be used for a regreening project along Trunk Highway 94 from Kittson
Street to Mounds Boulevard.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
12. Resolution - 99-150 - Amending Council File 98-1007, adopted November 4, 1998, which vacated
and discontinued public property located near Clarence Street and Maryland Avenue.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
13. Resolution - 99-151 - Reducing the assessment amounts for incorrectly assessed parcels for the
Irvine Avenue Storm Sewer Connection Project.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
14. Resolution Approving Assessment - 99-152 - In the matter of approving assessments for storm
sewer connections installed during 1989 to 1994, and setting date of public hearing for April 7,
1999. (File #18569-4, 18726, 18755, 18720-CONN)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
15. Preliminary Order - 99-153 - In the matter of improving Pillsbury Street from Raymond Avenue
to St. Anthony Avenue as part of the Eustis/Desnoyer Area Paving and Lighting Project, and
setting date of public hearing for April 7, 1999. (File #18760-A)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
16. Preliminary Order - 99-154 - In the matter of improving the alley in Block 1, Pigott's Carbon
Addition by grading and paving with bituminous material (bounded by Maryland, Albermarle,
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Orange, and Rice), and setting date of public hearing for April 7, 1999. (File #18887)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
17. Preliminary Order - 99-155 - In the matter of condemning and taking an easement in the land
necessary for the slope, cuts and fills in connection with the grading and paving of the alley in
Block 1, Pigott's Carbon Addition (bounded by Maryland, Albermarle, Orange, and Rice), and
setting date of public hearing for April 7, 1999. (File #18887S)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
18. Resolution Approving Assessment - 99-156 - In the matter of construction of streets with
bituminous roadway, concrete curb and gutter, concrete driveway aprons, boulevard sodding, tree
planting, construction of lantern style lighting system, water sanitary sewer and storm sewer
service connections, watermain, and all other work necessary to complete the Cohansey Park
Paving and Lighting Project, and setting date of public hearing for April 7, 1999. (File #18888)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
19. Preliminary Order - 99-157 - In the matter of construction of the Wabasha West Streetscape
Project Phase I, and setting date of public hearing for March 24, 1999. (File #18894)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
20. Preliminary Order - 99-158 - In the matter of condemning and taking a permanent roadway
easement to improve the intersection of White Bear Avenue and Minnehaha Avenue, and setting
date of public hearing for April 7, 1999. (File #18895E)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
21. Preliminary Order - 99-159 - In the matter of sidewalk reconstruction on both sides of S. Albert
Street from Stanford Avenue to Berkeley Avenue; and the north side of Palace Avenue from S.
Saratoga Street to S. Pascal Street, and setting date of public hearing for April 14, 1999. (File
#S99001, S99002)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
22. Preliminary Order - 99-160 - In the matter of sidewalk reconstruction on the east side of Duluth
Street from E. Hawthorne Avenue to E. Orange Avenue; both sides of Frank Street from E.
Hyacinth Avenue to E. Ivy Avenue; both sides of E. Hawthorne Avenue from Frank Street to
Duluth Street; and the north side of E. Orange Avenue from Frank Street to E. Hyacinth Avenue,
and setting date of public hearing for April 14, 1999. (File #S99003-599006)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
23. Resolution Approving Assessment - 99-161 - In the matter of summary abatements (grass cutting
by TDBC) from July through October 1998; demolition of vacant buildings from August through
November 1998, and administration costs for 774 Ashland Avenue; boarding-up of vacant
properties during July and September 1998; summary abatements (property clean-up) from August
through December 1998; towing abandoned vehicles from properties from July through September
1998; and summary abatements (property clean-up) from October through December 1998, and
setting date of Legislative Hearings for March 16, 1999, and City Council Hearings for March 24,
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1999. (File #J98TDBC2, J9812C, J9812B, J9812A, J9812V, J9812A1)
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
5. Resolution - 99-143 - Recognizing the outstanding contributions made by Kathryn Paulson,
Charles Skrief, and Dr. Robert Frame III to the City of Saint Paul's Heritage Preservation
Commission (HPC).
Councilmember Benanav moved to introduce a substitute resolution which corrected some minor
errors in the original resolution.
Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
Councilmember Benanav recognized the three members of the HPC who were present at the
meeting and presented them with certificates.
Councilmember Blakey also commended the three former members of the HPC for their work on
the Commission.
Councilmember Benanav moved approval.
Substitute adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
FOR DISCUSSION
24. Report by Gerry Strathman, Council Research Director, on employee survey of workplace
conditions in the Police Department. (Requested by the Council on November 4, 1998, C.F. 98-
998)
Gerry Strathman reported that the project is well underway, a consultant was selected, and Council
Research has been working with the Police Department and their respective bargaining units in the
development of the questionnaire which is near completion and should be ready to be administered
sometime in March. The final results are expected to be available in April.
25. Resolution - 99-74 - Approving the appointment of Harold Fotsch, by Mayor Coleman, to the
Saint Paul Planning Commission. (Laid over from January 27)
Councilmember Benanav moved approval.
Adopted Yeas - 7 Nays - 0
26. Resolution - 98-1142 - Approving application for a Malt Off Sale License by Abdulhadi K.
Abrahim, dba Mona's, 920 Selby Avenue. (Legislative Hearing Officer recommends approval
with conditions) (Laid over from February 3)
Councilmember Blakey reported that a neighborhood meeting was going to be held on this issue
on February 18, 1999 and he moved a one week layover.
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Laid over to February 24 Yeas - 7 Nays - 0
ORDINANCES
27. Second Reading - 99-136 - An ordinance prohibiting the use of the City's traffic signal preemption
and priority systems by unauthorized persons, and providing authority for such use by authorized
operators of emergency vehicles and public transit service buses.
Council President Bostrom stated there was an amendment to the ordinance which removed the
public transit service buses and will only deal with the emergency vehicles.
Amended and laid over to February 24 for third reading/public hearing
28. Second Reading - 99-137 - An ordinance amending Council File 98-766 relating to study of
pawnshops.
Laid over to February 24 for third reading/public hearing
29. First Reading - 99-162 - An ordinance to amend the Zoning Code relating to the location of
pawnshops.
Laid over to February 24 for second reading
30. POLICY SESSION
Three Comprehensive Plan Chapters
I. Staff Presentation on the "Summary and General Plan" Chapter of the
Comprehensive Plan
Ken Ford, Planning Administrator, Department of Planning and
Economic Development
II. Staff Presentation on the "Implementation" Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan
Ken Ford, Planning Administrator, Department of Planning and
Economic Development
III. Staff Presentation on the "Housing Plan" Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan
Nancy Homans, Planner, Department of Planning and Economic Development
IV. Public Comment on the Third Chapter of the "Housing Plan:" Ensuring Availability of
Affordable Housing - 45 Minutes
[Break]
V. Public Comment on the First Chapter of the "Housing Plan:" Take Care of What We Have
(Existing Housing Stock) - 45 Minutes
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VI. Public Comment on the Second Chapter of the "Housing Plan:" Meet New Market Demand
(New Construction) - 45 Minutes
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Councilmember Blakey moved to adjourn the meeting.
ADJOURNED AT 5:40 P.M.
Dance Bostrom, Council President
ATTEST:
Minutes approved by Council
Nancy An son P\ti, l°kckq
Assistant Council Secretary
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