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CCM 05/11/2015 CITY COUNCIL MEETING CITY OF FRIDLEY MAY 11, 2015 The City Council meeting for the City of Fridley was called to order by Mayor Lund at 7:04 p.m. ROLL CALL: MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Lund Councilmember Barnette Councilmember Saefke Councilmember Varichak Councilmember Bolkcom OTHERS PRESENT: Wally Wysopal, City Manager Darcy Erickson, City Attorney Scott Hickok, Community Development Director Kay Qualley, Environmental Planner James Kosluchar, Public Works Director PROCLAMATIONS: National Police Week: May 10-16, 2015 Peace Officers Memorial Day: May 15, 2015 Public Works Week: May 17-23, 2015 APPROVAL OF PROPOSED CONSENT AGENDA: APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Approve the Minutes of the City Council Meeting of April 27, 2015. APPROVED. OLD BUSINESS: 1. Second Reading of an Ordinance Amending the City Code of the City of Fridley, Minnesota, by Repealing Chapter 213 Entitled "Fences" in its Entirety and Adopting a New Chapter 213 Entitled "Fences" (Text Amendment, TA #15-01). FRIDLEY CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF MAY 11, 2015 PAGE 2 WAIVED THE READING OF THE ORDINANCE AND ADOPTED ORDINANCE NO. 1320 ON SECOND READING AND ORDERED PUBLICATION. NEW BUSINESS: 2. Resolution Supporting the City of Fridley Approving a Declaration Related to Restrictions for Locke Park and Recording the Declaration at the Anoka County Property Records Department Offices. Wally Wysopal, City Manager, stated this is a resolution agreeing to a title restriction to Locke Park. It is related to State funds which were received in 2011 that were used to improve the park. With those funds came a title restriction. This is a title clean-up item unrelated to any discussions that currently have been taking place regarding the Columbia Arena and Locke Park area. ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 2015-30. 3. Resolution in Support of the Grant Application for a GreenCorps Member from MPCA. Mr. Wysopal stated this is an annual application the City submits. ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 2015-31. 4. Claims (168165 - 168338). APPROVED. 5. Licenses. APPROVED THE LICENSES AS SUBMITTED AND AS ON FILE. OPEN FORM, VISITORS: No one from the audience spoke. APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA: MOTION by Councilmember Barnette approving the proposed consent agenda. Seconded by Councilmember Varichak. UPON A VOICE VOTE, ALL VOTING AYE, MAYOR LUND DECLARED THE MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. FRIDLEY CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF MAY 11, 2015 PAGE 3 ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA: MOTION by Councilmember Bolkcom to adopt the agenda. Seconded by Councilmember Saefke. UPON A VOICE VOTE, ALL VOTING AYE, MAYOR LUND DECLARED THE MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. NEW BUSINESS: 6. Resolution in Support of Regional Council of Mayors' Regional Indicators Initiatives. Kay Qualley, Environmental Planner, stated the Regional Indicators Initiative acts as a measurement tool for the 20 or 30 cities who are GreenStep members. The cities are using this for comprehensive planning purposes to actually quantify goals and show where funds are being allocated. At this time the Urban Land Institute is asking for support through the Regional Council of Mayors. Mayor Lund stated this did come before him and other mayors on the Regional Council of Mayors. They brought this forward to all of the mayors and asked them to sign onto this. He does not see any reason not to, but thought he should bring it to the attention of Council. Ms. Qualley stated this is an opportunity for this organization to continue if it receives enough support. Right now funding for it ends this spring, and it could become an institution with the Pollution Control Agency. It could also remain the entity that it is. The support that is being asked for is that it is a valuable entity for cities that are more sophisticated in their resource allocation and protection and that it could be a valuable asset if it continues for us in Fridley. MOTION by Mayor Lund to adopt Resolution No. 2015-32. Seconded by Councilmember Saefke. Mayor Lund stated the premise is to get continued support or get support for additional funding. Councilmember Bolkcom asked where the funding would come from. Mayor Lund stated Ms. Qualley mentioned the Pollution Control Agency actually funds a percentage. There is very minimal cost. Ms. Qualley stated in addition to the Pollution Control Agency and the Urban Land Institute, there is usually a $500 per city charge, and it is retroactive to 2007 if the City decides to join, because then you get your city's research up-to-date from 2007 to the present date. Each year there would be an annual fee. That fee structure could change and they are not at this time recommending necessarily joining, but it is an opportunity for those cities that are members to get commercial information as well as residential information, and then maybe apply for grants or use it with comp planning information. FRIDLEY CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF MAY 11, 2015 PAGE 4 UPON A VOICE VOTE, ALL VOTING AYE, MAYOR LUND DECLARED THE MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. 7. Informal Status Reports: Drinking Water Updates Mr. Wysopal stated the City will be conducting water quality tests this week with specific interests again to its 1, 4-Dioxane. This is a precautionary action on the City's part. Results will be posted on the website. They will keep everybody informed on what is going on. Locke Lake Mr. Wysopal stated Anoka County Parks, as part of their repair of the trail under the East River Road bridge, has requested and received approval to lower Locke Lake by as much as four feet in mid-June to facilitate construction on some retaining structures. Locke Lake would be lowered and allowed to fill. This would permit the work to be completed. The work is expected to take about six weeks. Engineering staff is working with Anoka County Parks. They are assuring us that advanced notice will be given to Locke Lake residents. 2015 Twin Cities Gateway Municipal Marketing Grant Mr. Wysopal stated they have received the City's 2015 Twin Cities Gateway Municipal Marketing grant. The City received $5,784. This is money that comes from the City's participation in the Twin Cities Gateway. It is from taxes paid on hotel stays in town. As a member of the Twin Cities Gateway, Fridley is part of a nine-member tourism bureau. The lodging tax collected was $873,000 and it is an increase of about 11.3 percent over last year's amount. The base grant is $3,000 and the City has some additional monies that are put towards that. In the past the City has used that for marketing funds for the Fridley '49er Days celebration, Pumpkin Night in the Park, Winterfest, and Spring Fling. The grant agreement will be signed by the City, and then they will make those funds available to those groups again. Councilmember Bolkcom stated she had a couple of questions for Mr. Kosluchar related to Locke Lake as she first read about what was going to happen this weekend. She asked if it had to be done in the summer. This is a recreational lake. If it drops down what happens to all the fish in that lake? There is really no advance notice to people. Do they have any idea when it is going to happen? Is the Rice Creek Watershed going to look at doing some other things? If it is going to be dropped that far, can they do some shoreline restoration? James Kosluchar, Public Works Director, said it is a very interesting project. There is downstream work on the sheet piling wall underneath the highway bridge. The trail goes underneath so they need to stabilize that trail. They basically need to have an area that has limited water coming through. This is an Anoka County project. Fridley staff is trying to convey information. Staff has encouraged Anoka County to notify all of the owners on Locke Lake, because obviously that is something that impacts their daily life in the summertime. The plan as he understands is to start around June 15. At that point, under the proposed plan, the dam to the lake should be lowered by four feet, then set to its maximum level. It would be allowed to FRIDLEY CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF MAY 11, 2015 PAGE 5 fill up as rains come and water fills the lake. The idea there is to hold enough water back that they can complete the construction within about a six-week timeframe. He would guess they could possibly do it another time of year. Anoka County has permits from the Rice Creek Watershed District and the DNR. He is certain Anoka County is getting their notices together to send out to the Locke Lake residents. He did ask the staff at Rice Creek to look at protection of shoreland plans and other elements that may be affected by this. Councilmember Bolkcom stated there is really not much notice for anyone to do much planning at this point. They are only a month away. She asked if the fish would die. Mr. Kosluchar replied, the DNR did not seem concerned. Councilmember Barnette stated after that derailment a number of years ago, there was a lot of corn that went into the lake and settled down. Has that ever been a problem, and would this have any effect on that? Mr. Kosluchar replied, he does not know. He said if people have concerns they can call his office at 763-572-3552. Mayor Lund stated they could call the County Commissioner and find out why they picked that time frame. Councilmember Bolkcom stated normally when MnDOT or the City does, for example, a street project, they contact people way in advance to let them know. There is not a lot of notice. ADJOURN: MOTION by Councilmember Barnette to adjourn. Seconded by Councilmember Varichak.. UPON A VOICE VOTE, ALL VOTING AYE, MAYOR LUND DECLARED THE MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AND THE MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:30 P.M . Respectfully submitted by, Denise M. Johnson Scott J. Lund Recording Secretary Mayor