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AGENDA 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
Nancy Anderson, Assistant Secretary to the Council
Mary Erickson, Clerical Support - 266 -8565
Office of the City Council
Web Index
• Consent Agenda
• For Action
• Administrative Orders
• For Discussion
• Ordinances
• Policy Session
CONSENT AGENDA (Items 1 - 19)
NOTE: ALL ITEMS LISTED UNDER CONSENT AGENDA WILL BE ENACTED BY ONE
MOTION.
THERE WILL BE NO SEPARATE DISCUSSION OF THESE ITEMS. IF DISCUSSION IS
DESIRED,
THAT ITEM WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AND CONSIDERED
SEPARATELY.
FOR ACTION
1.Approval of minutes of June 9, 1999.
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
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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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
I O.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.
I l Resolution - 99 -685 - Approving the Fifth Amendment to the New Housing and Blighted Lands
Development Project and Tax Increment Financing Plan.
12.Resolution - 99 -686 - Amending the 1999 Capital Improvement Budget for Battle Creek Community
Recreation Center construction.
13.Resolution - 99 -687 - Accepting a grant from the State of Minnesota and establishing a budget for
Como Park Conservatory and Como Zoo.
14.Resolution - 99 -688 - Accepting a grant from the State of Minnesota and establishing a budget for the
Martin Luther King Community Recreation Center.
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.
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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.
17.Resolution - 99 -691 - Establishing a financing and spending plan for the St. Paul Police Department
Impound Lot.
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.
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
418882)
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)
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.
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 (Community Employment Partnership Director, Community Employment Partnership)
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)
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