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ACTION 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
Nancy Anderson, Assistant Secretary to the Council
Mary Erickson, Clerical Support - 266 -8565
Office of the City Council
Present - 6 - Blakey, Bostrom, Coleman, Harris, Lantry, Reiter
Absent - 1- Benanav (Excused)
Web Index
• Consent Agenda
• For Action
• Administrative Orders
• For Discussion
• Ordinances
• Policy Session
• Suspension Items
CONSENT AGENDA (Items I - 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.
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.
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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
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.
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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
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
418882)
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)
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
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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
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)
Reconsideration of Council File 99 -680
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)
Reconsidered, amended and adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
Suspension Item
Resolution - 99 -695 - Approving the appointment of Donna Strusinski, by Mayor Coleman, to the
Neighborhood Sales Tax Reinvestment Program (STAR) Board of Directors.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
Resolution - 99 -696 - Approving the report of the City Clerk dated July 21, 1999, relating to the petition
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to be sufficient for an initiative ordinance concerning a major league baseball park.
Adopted Yeas - 6 Nays - 0
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
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