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48011 WEST 50TH STREET, EDINA. MINNESOTA 55424
612- 927 -8861
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t,PJU.3sAS, the following described property is at present a single tract of
!.and :
That part of the North 113.00 feet of the South 183.00 feet of the
East 150 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision Number 172; and
WHEREAS, the owner has requested the subdivision of said tract into separate
parcels (herein called "Parcels "), described as follows:
That part of the North 113.00 feet of the South 183.00 feet of the East
150.00 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision No. 172, Hennepin County,
Minnesota, bounded by the following described lines:
Beginning at the Northeast corner of the South 183.00 feet of said
hot. 45, thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes 20 seconds East, issumed
basis for bearings, 4.15 feet along the East line of said Lot 45;
thence on a bearing of West, 48.18 feet, thence Wesi :erly 49.02 feet
along a tangential curve, concave to the South radius 101.29 feet,
,_astral. angle 27 degrees 43 minutes 43 seconds; thence South 62 degrees
16 minutes 17 seconds West, 32.39 feet; thence Southwesterly ! :3.9:3
feet along a tangential curve, concave to the Southeast, radius 50.00
feet, central angle 50 degrees 20 minutes 24 secondes, to the i1cst
line of the East 150.00 feet of said Lot 45; thence North 00 degrees
20 minutes 20 seconds West, 64.78 feet along said West line; to the
North line of the South 183.00 feet of said Lot 45; thence on a bear-
ing of East 150.00 feet along said North line to the point of begin-
ning; and
That part of the North 113.00 feet of the South 183.00 feet of the East
150.00 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision Number 172, Hennepin
County, Minnesota, except that area bounded by the following described
lines:
Beginning at the Northeast corner of the South 183.00 feet of said
Lot 45, thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes 20 seconds East, assumed
basis for bearings, 4.15 feet along the :tit line of said Lot 45;
thence on a bearing of West, 48.1" feet, thence Westerly 49.02 feet
along a tangential curve, concave to the South radius 101.29 feet,
central angle 27 deg7:._es 43 minutes 43 seconds; thence South 62
degrees 16 m_inutcs 17 second-s Best; 32.39 Feet; thence Southwesterly
43.93 feet along a tangential curve, concave to the Southeast,
radius 50.00 feet, central. angle 50 degrees 20 minutes 24 seconds,
to the West line of ulle East .1.50.00 feet of said Lot 45; thence
North 00 degrees 20 ^n.i-'iuLes 20 seconds West, 64.78 feet along said
',Jest line, to the Nor•tt> .line of the Soui:b 183.00 feet of said Lot
45; thence on a bearing of East .150.00 feet along said North line
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4801 WEST 50TH STREET, EDINA, MINNESOTA 55424
612- 927 -8861
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WHERCAS, the following described property is at present a single tract of
land:
That part of the North 113.00 feet of the South 183.00 feet of the
Fast 150 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision Number 172; and
W'dEREAS, the owner has requested the subdivision of said tract into separate
parcels (Herein called "Parcels "), described as follows:
That part of the North 113.00 feet of the South 183.00 feet of the East
150.00 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision No. 172, Hennepi_n'CountIv,
Minnesota, bounded by the following described lines:
Beginning at the Northeast corner of the SoutL ; 1.83,00 feet of said
Lot 45, thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes 21) seconds East. assun_ed
basis for bearings, 4.15 feet along the L�',a.st 1.1;_ne, of said Lot 45;
thence on a bearing of West, 48.18 feet:, thea:zc West-rly 49.02 feet
along a tangential curve, concave to cha SculL : radius 101.219'. feet,
central angle 27 degrees 43 minutes 4i . eCCC.n,i :, i!-Ience South. 62 _degrees
16 minutes 17 seconds West, 32.39 ff: >et; t.' ence SouI_hweste-rly 43.93
foet along a tangential curve, concave co i-:rl iuti'C_ a2i'_3t., is dius 50.00
feet, central angle 50 degrees ?0 min-u,:cs _24 se ondes, to the West
line of the East 150.00 feet of said Lot 45; thin:e 'orth 00 degrees
2.0 minutes 20 seconds West, 64.78 f t along sa:A.d :det_ line:, to the
North lane of the South 183.00 rear. of said laC 45; .:hence on a bear-
ing of East 150.00 feet along said North line to -..he point of begin-
ning; and
That part of the North 113.00 feet of the South 183.00 feet of the East
150.00 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision Number 172, Hennepin
County, Minnesota, except. that area lbottrlcted by the following described
lines:
Beginning at the Northeast corner of the South 183.00 feet of said
Logy 45, thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes 20 seconds East, assumed
basis for be= _trings., 4.15 feet along the East line of said Lot 45;
thence on a bearing of West, 48.18 feet, thence Westerly 49.02 feet
along a tangential curve, concave to.the South radius 101.29 feet,
central angle 27 degrees 43 minutes 43 seconds; thence South 62
degrees 16 m:inuLes 17 seconds Wo-st:, 32.39 feet; thence Southwesterly
43.93 feet along a tangent L:°_l curv"_, concave. to the Southeast,
radius 50.00 feet, central angle 50 dog_l;-es 20 ininutes 24 seconds,
to the Wast line of the East 150.00 Pee >.0 of said Lot. 45; thence
North 00 degrees 20 minutes 20 _eco:Atis West, 64.78 feet along said
West lint-::, to tie North line of the South 183.00 feet of said Lot
y5 thevicFe, on a bear.ir.g of East ;!50.100 r_ec,.t along said North lane
t.o the Point,. of beginning; and
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EDINA
4801 WEST 50TH STREET, EDINA, MINNESOTA 55424
612- 927 -8861
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the following described property is at present a single tract of
land:
That part of the North 113.00 feet of the South 183.00 feet of the
East 150 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision Number 172; and
WHEREAS, the owner has requested the subdivision of said tract into separate
parcels (herein called "Parcels "), described as follows:
That part of the North 113.00 feet of the South 183.00 feet of the East
150.00 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision No. 172, Hennepin County,
Minnesota, bounded by the following described lines:
Beginning at the Northeast corner of the South 183.00 feet of said
Lot 45, thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes 20 seconds East, assumed
basis for bearings, 4.15 feet along the East line of said Lot 45;
thence on a bearing of West, 48.18 feet, thence Westerly 49.02 feet
along a tangential curve, concave to the South radius 101.29 feet,
central angle 27 degrees 43 minutes 43 seconds; thence South 62 degrees
16 minutes 17 seconds West, 32.39 feet; thence Southwesterly 43.93
feet along a tangential curve, concave to the Southeast, radius 50.00
feet, central angle 50 degrees 20 minutes 24 seconder, to the West
line of the East 150.00 feet of said Lot 45; thence North 00 degrees
20 minutes 20 seconds West, 64.78 feet along said West line, to.the
North line of the South 183.00 feet of said Lot 45; thence on a bear-
ing of East 150.00 feet along said North line to the point of begin-
ning; and
That part of the North _113.00 feet of the South 183.00 feet of the East
150.00 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision Number 172, Hennepin
County, Minnesota, except that area bounded by the following described
lines:
Beginning at the Northeast corner of the South 183.00 feet of said
Lot 45, thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes 20 seconds East, assumed
basis for bearings, 4.15 feet along the East line of said Lot 45;
thence on a bearing of West, 48.18 feet, thence Westerly 49.02 feet
along a tangential curve, concave to the South radius 101.29 feet,
central angle 27 degrees 43 minutes 43 seconds; thence South 62
degrees 16 minutes 17 seconds West; 32.39 feet; thence Southwesterly
43.93 feet along a tangential curve, concave to the Southeast,
radius 50.00 feet, central angle 50 degrees 20 minutes 24 seconds,
to the West line of the East 150.00 feet of said Lot 45; thence
North 00 degrees 20 minutes 20 seconds West, 64.78 feet along said
[Jest line, to the North line of the South 183.00 feet of said Lot
45; thence on a bearing of East 150.00 feet along said North line
to the point of beginning; and
WHEREAS, it has been determined that compliance with the Subdivision and
Zoning Regulations of the City of Edina will create an unnecessary hardship
and said Parcels as separate tracts of land do not interfere with the
purposes of the Subdivision and Zoning Regulations as contained in the City
of Edina Ordinance Nos. 801 and 811;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Edina
that the conveyance and..ownership of said Parcels as separate tracts of land
is hereby approved And the requirements and provisions of Ordinance No. 801
and Ordinance No. 811 are hereby waived to allow said division and convey-
ance thereof as separate tract(s) of land but are not waived for any other
purpose or as to any other provision thereof, and subject, however, to the
provision that no further subdivision be made of said Parcels unless made in
compliance with the pertinent ordinances of the City of Edina or with the
prior approval of this Council as may be provided for by those ordinances.
ADOPTED.this 7th day of August, 1978.
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) SS
CITY OF EDINA ) CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina,
do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing resolution was duly adopted
by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of August 7, 1978, and as
recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 15th day of August, 1978.
City Clerk
WHEREAS, it has been determined that compliance with the Subdivision and
Zoning. Regulations of the City of Edina will create an unnecessary hardship
and said Parcels as separate tracts of land do not interfere with the
purposes of the Subdivision and Zoning Regulations as contained in the City
of Edina Ordinance Nos. 801 and 811,
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Edina
that the conveyance and ownership of said Parcels as separate tracts of land
is hereby approved and.the requirements and provisions of Ordinance No. 801
and Ordinance No. 811 are hereby waived to allow said division and convey-
ance thereof as separate tract(s).of land but are not waived for any other
purpose or as to any other provision thereof, and subject, however, to the
provision that no further subdivision be made of said Parcels unless made in
compliance with the pertinent ordinances of the City of Edina or with the
prior approval of this Council as may be provided for by those ordinances.
ADOPTED.this.7th..day of :August, 1978.
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) SS
CITY OF EDINA )
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina,
do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing resolution was duly adopted
by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of August 7, 1978, and as
recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 15th day of August, 1978.
City Clerk
WHEREAS, it has been determined that compliance with the Subdivision and
Zoning Regulations of the City of Edina will create an unnecessary hardship
and said Parcels as separate tracts of land do not interfere with the
purposes of the Subdivision and Zoning Regulations as contained in the City
of Edina Ordinance Nos. 801 and 811;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Edina
that the conveyance and ownership of said Parcels as separate tracts of land
is hereby approved and the requirements and provisions of Ordinance No. 801
and Ordinance No. 811 are hereby waived to allow said division and convey-
ance thereof as separate tract(s) of land but are not waived for any other
purpose or as to any other provision thereof, and subject, however, to the
provision that no further subdivision be made of said Parcels unless made in
compliance with the pertinent ordinances of the City of Edina or with the
prior approval of this Council as may be provided for by those ordinances.
ADOPTED this 7th day of-August, 1978.
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) SS
CITY OF EDINA ) CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina,
do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing resolution was duly adopted
by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of August 7, 1978, and as
recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 15th day of August, 1978.
City Clerk
WHEREAS, it has been determined that compliance with the Subdivision and
Zoning Regulations of the City of Edina will create an unnecessary hardship
and said Parcels as separate tracts of land do not interfere with the
purposes of the Subdivision and Zoning Regulations as contained in the City
of Edina Ordinance Nos. 801 and 811;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Edina
that the conveyance and ownership of said Parcels as separate tracts of land
is hereby approved and the requirements and provisions of Ordinance No. 801
and Ordinance No. 811 are hereby waived to allow said division and convey-
ance thereof as separate tract(s) of land but are not waived for any other
purpose or as to any other provision thereof, and subject, however, to the
provision that no further subdivision be made of said Parcels unless made in
compliance with the pertinent ordinances of the City of Edina or with the
prior approval of this Council as may be provided for by those ordinances.
ADOPTED -this 7th day of- August, 1978.
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) SS
CITY OF EDINA ) CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina,
do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing resolution was duly adopted
by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of August 7, 1978, and as
recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 15th day of August, 1978.
City Clerk
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REQUEST NUMBER: LD-78- 7
LOCATION: sngn France Avenue South
REQUEST: Simple Lot Division for
Red Barn Property.
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COHHUNITY DEVELOPMENT
STAFF REPORT
August 2, 1978
LD -78 -7 Lot Division. Part of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision
No. 172. Generally located at 5020 France Avenue
South.
Refer to:. attached graphic:
Recently, the Edina H.R.A. acquired a portion of the Red Barn
property at 50th and France to facilitate the construction of
a service alley. The proposed lot division delineates the
parcel acquired by the H.R.A.
Recommendation: Staff recommends approval of the lot division.
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Minutes of the August 2, 1978, Community Development and Planning Commission meeting:
III. New Business:
LD -78 -7 Lot Division. Part of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision No. 172.
Generally located at 5020 France Avenue South.
Mr. Gordon Hughes told the Commission the subject property
was the Red Barn located on 50th and France and was included in the
Redevelopment Project. He said the City had acquired a portion of the Red
Barn property in this area for the purpose of constructing a service alley.
Mr. G. Hughes explained a lot division was required for tax purposes. He
said staff recommended approval of the requested lot division.
Mr. Runyan asked what would happen to the parking when
this area was changed into a service alley., Mr. Gordon Hughes replied
that seven stalls would be lost. He said at present the parking is clock-
wise, but he proposed the parking be changed to counter - clockwise and
explained tentatively how the Staff had planned it would go. He added
that,bays would be set up for parking semis.
In response to Mr. Gordon Johnson, Mr. Gordon Hughes said
they went over in detail the loss of parking because of the proposal and
the HRA's conclusion was there would be enough public parking stalls and
public ramps to adequately cover the area. He said the seven parking
stalls which would be lost are definitely used at the present time; however,
the parking ramps would compensate for this loss. The other thing Mr.
Gordon Hughes felt should be pointed out was that a new building would be
built on the Red Barn site in the future to which they would lose thirty
total spaces.
In response to Mr. Del Johnson, Mr. Gordon Hughes said
there did exist a police problem wherein someone may become confused and
drive up the wrong way on the one way service alley. Another point Mr.
G. Hughes made was that traffic could not enter the parking lot or ramp
from the service area which discouraged people from using the alley as
a short cut.
Ms. McClelland wondered if trucks would block the alley
up at any time. Mr. G. Hughes replied they would not. He felt the traffic
would flow through.
Mr. Fernelius moved for approval of the lot division. Mr.
Seaberg seconded the motion. With all the Commission members voting aye,
the motion carried, and the lot division was approved.
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pLFTITION FOR LOT DIVISION
Date Jules.- 1978•
Applicant: Edina Housing and Redevelopment Authority
Address: 4801 West 50th Street Phone: 927 -8861
OrRmer (s)
Robert J. Steiner, R.W. Steiner, Loreen Steiner
(as listed on the warranty deed)
Address: 1430 West County Road C, Roseville Phone:
swer(s): Edina Housing and Redevelopment Authority
(as proposed to be on warranty deed)
Address: 4801 West 50th Street _ Phone:
The original tract of
land proposed to be
divided is
described as follows:
That part
of the'north'113.00
feet of the
south 183.00 feet of the
east 150.00 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision Number 172.
The following parcels will be made from the division of the above described tract of
-land:
See Attached
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PARCEL I
That part of the north 113.00 feet of the south 183.00 feet
of the east 150.00 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision
Number 172, Hennepin County, Minnesota; except that area
bounded by the following described line:
Beginning at the northeast corner of the south 183.00
feet of said Lot 45, thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes
20 seconds East, assumed basis for bearings, 4.15 feet along
the east line of said Lot 45; thence on a bearing of West,
48.18 feet; thence westerly 49.02 feet along a tangential curve,
concave to the south radius 101.29 feet, central angle 27
degrees 43 minutes 43 seconds; thence South 62 degrees 16
minutes 17 seconds West, 32.39 feet; thence southwesterly
43.93 feet along a tangential curve, concave to the south -
eastpradius 50.00 feet, central angle 50 degrees 20 minutes
24 seconds, to the west line of the east 150.00 feet of
said Lot 45; thence North 00 degrees 20 minutes 20 seconds
West, 64.73 feet along said west line, to the north line
of the south 183.00 feet of said Lot 45; thence on a
bearing of East 150.00 feet along said north line to the
point of beginning.
PARCEL II
That part of the north 113.00 feet of the south 183.00 feet
of the east 150.00 feet of Lot 45, Auditor's Subdivision
No. 172, Hennepin County, Minnesota; bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the northeast corner of the south 183.00 feet
of said Lot 45, thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes 20 seconds
East, assumed basis for bearings, 4.15 feet along the east
line of said Lot 45; thence on a bearing of West, 48.18 feet;
thence westerly 49.02 feet along a tangential curve, concave
to the south radius 101.29 feet, central angle 27 degrees 43
minutes 43 seconds; thence South 62 degrees 16 minutes 17
seconds West, 32.39 feet; thence southwesterly 43.93 feet
along a tangential curve, concave to the southeast, radius
50.00 feet, central angle 50 degrees 20 minutes 24 seconds, to
the west line of the east 150.00 feet of said Lot 45; thence
North 00 degrees 20 minutes 20 seconds West, 64.78 feet
along said west line, to the north lire of the south 183.00
feet of said Lot 45; thence on a bearing of East 150.00
feet along said north line to the point of beginning.
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RESOLUTION GRANTING FINAL PLAT APPROVAL
OF DEWEY HILL SECOND ADDITION
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Edina, Minnesota, that
that certain plat entitled "Dewey Hill. Second Addition," platted by
Laukka and Associates,, Inc., a Minnesota Corporation, and Gordon L.
Schuster and Patricia A. Schuster, husband and wife, and presented at
the Edina City Council Meeting of August 7, 1978, be and is hereby
granted final approval.
ADOPTED this 7th day of: August, 1978.
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) SS
CITY OF EDINA ) CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of
Edina, do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing resolution was
duly adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of August
7, 1978, and as recorded in the minutes of said Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 9th day of August, 1978.
City Clerk
August 4, 1978
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TO: Kenneth Rosland, City Manager
FROM: Harold Sand, Assistant Planner
SUBJECT: Fairview Southdale Hospital Family Renewal Center.
The Family Renewal Center is a non - profit organization presently
occupying space in an office building at 6515 Barrie Road. The
programs provided by the organization treat chemical dependancy and
sexual difficulties by counseling on entire families in group and
individual formats. The Family Renewal Center is licensed by the
Department of Public Welfare under D.P.W. Rule No. 43.
The Family Renewal Center is proposing to relocate its operation to
Cahill School, 5601 West 70th Street. The center would occupy
approximately 10,000 square feet of the 60,000 square foot building
on a five -year lease basis. The initial facility will serve 40 to
50 families per evening with staffing of 26 employees (full -time
equivalent of 14.5 employees.)
The Center anticipates future expansion to occupy a larger portion
of the building. The clients of the Center are drawn primarily
from South Hennepin County. The peak hours of operation are between
approximately 3:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. during the week and all day
Saturday.
The Cahill School was modified in 1976 to allow the School District
offices to occupy the lower level of the east wing. As part of the
modification, 60 to 70 parking spaces were located in the east play-
ground area. The west parking area was removed and converted to a grass
playing field. A portion of the school will be rented to the Eden
Prairie School District during the 1978 -79 school year.
The school is located in the R -1 Single Family District which permits:
"Publicly owned and operated civic and cultural institutions
including, but not limited to, administrative offices,
libraries, public safety buildings, historical developments
and places of assembly."
The proposed use is not specifically allowed and thus an interpreta-
tion or modification to the ordinance is required.
The Planning staff believes the Center programs are innovative and
desirable for the community. Additional information concerning the
proposed location in the building, the extent of the interior and
exterior modifications to the building and additional parking and
traffic information would be useful to consider the proposal. A re-
port from the South Hennepin Human Services Council and the Planning
Commission is also desirable.
Memorandum - Kenneth Rosland
Page 2
August 4, 1978
The Planning staff is concerned that the proposed use is compatible
with and more closely conforms to the principal uses permitted in
the Regional Medical District and Office District. The elementary
school is a neighborhood oriented institution and the change in use
to the regionally- oriented Family Renewal Center may prove incompat-
ible with the residences. The traffic characteristics will change to
increase volumes.and cause the peak volume to coincide with residential
activity. The proposed location is less accessible to public
transportation. The off - street parking facilities at the school do
not appear adequate to support the Family Renewal Center. There may
also be a conflict in parking demand in the afternoon.'
The : .compatability of the proposed use
an elementary school should be analyzed.
small portion of the building and it may
acceptable uses of the remainder of the
compatible uses will increase the desire
other medical or office uses.
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to the concurrent use as
The.Center will occupy a
be difficult to find other
school building. A lack of
and tendancy to incorporate
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Fairview. Hospital
6401 France Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55435
Telephone (612) 920 -4400
Kirby J. Erickson ■ Administrator
August 1, 1978
Gordon Hughes, Planning Director
City of Edina
4801 West 50th Street
Edina, MN. 55424
Dear Mr. Hughes,
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The purpose of this letter is to solicit an opinion from your office re-
garding zoning implications for moving our Family Renewal Center into
Cahill Elementary School. In our meeting of July 24, you requested a
written statement of intent with supporting information. Hopefully, this
letter will be adequate.
During our conversation, I expressed our interest in exploring a five
year lease with school district #273 to rent out initially 10,000 square
feet at the Cahill site. We intend for that lease to contain an option
for further space. Our preliminary talks had been with Don Pryor of the
district administration. The school system is interested in a non - profit
organization utilizing the space. They are also interested in our assistance
in working with Edina's chemically dependent adolescents. Our program in
turn is interested in the type of facilities at Cahill and in room for
further expansion.
Further information I supplied to you at that time included:
a) The major programming traffic will occur between three and
ten P.M. daily and on Saturdays.
b) The population will be approximately forty to fifty families
an evening in all of our combined programs.
c) The program is entering its third year of operation with a steady
record of referrals.
d) Clients pay the hospital personally usually with support from
insurance companies.
e) The program was mandated by an extensive needs analysis conducted
by the South Hennepin Human Services Council.
Cl= A Fairview Community Hospital
0 U Achievement through excellence
f) The program is family centered involving all members of the family.
g) The program is approved under Rule 43 of the State Department of
Public,:Welfare and is designed to meet accrediting standards
of the Joint Commission on Accrediting Hospitals.
Attached are program brochures and a newspaper account of our program's
impact. If you need further information, please contact Al Nohre,
Coordinator of Human Services, as I shall be out of town until August
14. Thank you for your consideration of our request.
Sincerely,
foj
Patrick J. Carnes
Director of Family Renewal Center
CC: Al Nohre
Kirby Erickson
Enclosures (2)
Three W of Serving i i i d I and. F1 f es
Affected b ! Alcoholism, I / Chemical ,e,e -
Family Treatment
The programs of the Family Renewal Center are
based on the belief that chemical dependency is
a "family illness" — that is, it has tremendous
emotional impact upon each individual and all
family members. The goal of the Center, is to
provide the care and guidance necessary to
rehabilitate the family, restore its unity and
renew fulfilling relationships in a chemically-free,
lifestyle.
The Family Treatment program is intended
specifically for persons in the early and acute
stages of chemical dependency, including
alcoholism or addiction to any mood - altering
substance. Families are evaluated as to their
appropriateness for the program.
Over a period of five to six weeks, individuals
and their families participating in the program
meet in group sessions, receive individual coun-
seling, and attend lectures, workshops and AA/
Alanon /Alateen meetings. The program is
designed for individuals who are employed and
will continue working throughout the course of
treatment. Consequently, the various sessions
for individuals are scheduled in the late after-
noons, evenings and on Saturdays.
Family Recovery
The premise of the Family Recovery program is
that family members need to participate to-
gether in a long -range recovery process following
primary treatment.
Duration of Family Recovery is 10 to 13
months, with family members receiving individ-
ual counseling and meeting together as a family
and with other family groups. Guidance by the
staff will enable the family to examine all aspects
of their life together, including the life- style,
career, values and communications skills of all
family members. With the help of the staff, each
member will develop and implement a plan for
recovery. An important element of the program
is regular attendance by all participants at
AA /Alanon /Alateen meetings.
Family Recovery is intended specifically for in-
dividuals and /or their families who have received
previous treatment for chemical dependency,
including alcoholism or addiction to other mood -
altering drugs. The individuals may have partici-
pated in the Family Renewal Center's primary
treatment program, or in programs at other
centers.
Family Recovery sessions are scheduled in the
evening and on Saturdays to accommodate in-
dividuals working during the day.
Special Services
During Family Treatment and Family Recovery,
problems often emerge requiring special thera-
peutic attention. Some of these problems
include overeating, sexual difficulties, and lack
of assertiveness. Because of this need a Special
Services component of the Family Renewal
Center has been developed. The following is a
list of specially focused therapy groups presently
being offered: Men's Self -worth and Assertive-
ness, Women's Self -worth and Assertiveness,
Overweight, and Couples. The Family Renewal
Center also provides intensive therapy for
families experiencing serious sexual problems.
Another element of Special Services therapy is a
series of recovery workshops to provide addi-
tional aid to recovering families in the following
areas: physical, sexual, goal- setting, and family
of origin.
Special Services therapy is available to individ-
uals and their families who have participated in
the Center's Family Treatment Program or in
treatment at another facility. Families are evalu-
ated as to their appropriateness for particular
therapy groups. Sessions are two hours weekly.
Family Renewal Center
Philosophy and Goals
1. Sobriety is a major goal of treatment.
2. Treatment of the family system maximizes
the recovery process.
3. All family members are affected by chemical
dependency and need assistance for their own
recovery.
4. Recovery occurs over time.
5. The quality of recovery depends on finding
life -enriching alternatives to chemical de-
pendency.
Staff
The professional staff of the Family Renewal
Center are knowledgeable in both chemical
dependency and family therapy. Their education
and training include professional certification
and post - graduate degrees in psychology, edu-
cation, social work and family social science.
Staff members are carefully selected for their
high degree of professional competence and
their skills in assisting families in the recovery
process.
All staff members, through their own family and
personal experiences, have gained the compassion
and understanding necessary for caring for
chemical dependent individuals and their families.
SOUTHDALE CENTER
Location
The Center is located at 6515 Barrie Road in
Edina, near France Avenue and The Crosstown,
and one block north of Southdale Shopping
Center.
Insurance /Payment
An initial payment of $150 per family is made
upon admission to the program. The Center is
qualified for third party reimbursement. Ques-
tions about insurance coverage may be directed
to the Center intake staff at 920 -4400, ext. 421.
Accreditation and Licensing
The Center and its programs meet the require-
ments of Rule 43 of the Minnesota Department
of Public Welfare and have been designed to
satisfy the standards of the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals.
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The Center is located at 6515 Barrie Road in
Edina, near France Avenue and The Crosstown,
and one block north of Southdale Shopping
Center.
Insurance /Payment
An initial payment of $150 per family is made
upon admission to the program. The Center is
qualified for third party reimbursement. Ques-
tions about insurance coverage may be directed
to the Center intake staff at 920 -4400, ext. 421.
Accreditation and Licensing
The Center and its programs meet the require-
ments of Rule 43 of the Minnesota Department
of Public Welfare and have been designed to
satisfy the standards of the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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HENNEPIN
LFU 935 -3381
20 July 1978
Mr. Fran Hoffman
Director of Public Works
City of Edina
4801 West 50th Street
Edina, Minnesota 55424
Dear Mr. Hoffman:
Re: CSAH No. 18
County Project No. 6742
Submitted herewith are one set of plans, requested special provisions to be
included in the specifications, three copies of a construction cooperative
agreement, and a sample copy of a resolution approving plans and specifica-
tions for the above referenced project for which arrangements are being made
to call for bids.
This is a Federal Aid Project and the specifications and proposal are prepared
by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. A copy of the proposal will be
sent to you when it is available from the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
If the agreement is satisfactory, please have all three copies signed by the
appropriate City Officials and return to this office. Upon completion of the
remaining signatures by County Officials we will send you one fully executed
copy of the agreement. Also, please return a certified copy of the resolution
authorizing the Mayor and Manager to sign the agreement.
We request that a resolution approving plans and specifications be passed by
the City Council at the earliest possible date.
We will be happy to review the plans or any of the documents
convenience if you ha a any questions concerning them.
Ver my you "
Don S. Spielmann, P.-.
Chief, Design Division
DSS /RWE:lar
Enclosures
with you at your
HENNEPIN COUNTY
an equal opportunity employer
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At a duly authorized meeting of the City Council of
Minnesota, the following resolution was moved and adopted:
Edina
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Plans for Hennepin County Project
No. 6742 showing proposed alignment, profiles, grades, and
cross sections, together with specifications and special provisions for the
(construction), of County State Aid
Highway No. 18 within the limits of the City as a (Federal)
(Uwbo (ftar A Aid Project have been prepared and presented to the City.
N014 THEREFORE IT IS RESOLVED: That said plans, specifications, and
special provisions be in all things approved.
Dated this day of 19
CERTIFICATION
State of Minnesota
County of Hennepin
City of Edina
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution is a true and correct
copy of a resolution presented to and adopted by the City Council of
Edina _ at a meeting thereof held in the City of
Edina , Minnesota on the day of ,
19 as disclosed by the records of said City in my possession.
(Seal)
City Clerk
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Information Reports Received By The Board (continued)
Report
Page
Abstract: Evaluation of Composition Skills at Grades Three and Six
35
98
As a result of this sampling, Mr. Bechtle said the instruction
on the use of the comma, instruction on social letter writing,
and a review of these objectives will take place this coming year.
Final Report of Student Activity Fees for 1977 -78
36
99 -106
Recognition of Staff, Board and Students
37
107
Secondary Activity Accounts 1977 -78
38
108 -09
Business Office Information Reports; Revolving Fund Cutoff 6/27/78
39
110 -17
Business Office Information Reports; Revolving Fund Fiscal Year
40
118
Cutoff June 27, 1978
Salaries Not Covered by Contract Paid in June, 1978
41
119
PRESENTATION TO THE BOARD
Dr. Donald Pryor, Assistant Superintendent for Business Affairs, distributed infor-
mation to the Board on costs of operating Cahill Elementary School building as a
school and also present expenses. He said the budget for 1978 -79 is estimated to
be $93,850 less a $10,000 credit for the district office. Cost per square foot of
$3.31 less mothballing costs based on experience at Morningside School would leave
$2.88 per square foot, if used as a school building or $2.38 if used for non -
school use. He noted that Fairview - Southdale Hospital has need for space for their
Family Renewal Center and are interested in this space at the price Eden Prairie
�- School District is paying which is $3.70 a square foot. He added that in this
-' instance the district is dealing with the fact that we do not intend to sell the
facility. Dr. Pryor asked for assurance from the Board that this procedure is
agreeable to them. Member Johnson thought there should be something included to
take care of hidden costs such as insurance, probably 5 %. Superintendent Lieber
said that individual contracts will be brought to the Board, and 5% will be added
to the cost.
ACTION REPORT BEFORE THE BOARD
ADOPTION OF PHILOSOPHY OF MISSION STATEMENT: Chairman Hite had sent a memorandum
to the Board members on modifications in the Mission Statement as dis-
cussed at the Board workshop of June 26, 1978. This was reviewed. Vice -
Chairperson Atchison was asked to Chair the proposed Audit Committee and
begin to identify people to serve on the committee, and the Mission State-
ment should be reviewed before next year using the input received.
Changes were made by the Board on the various pages of the Mission State-
ment and Superintendent Lieber was asked to get the revised Mission State-
ment to the Board by the end of the week so the Board members can react
to the changes. The Board asked the Superintendent for a list of the
key issues and emerging tasks of the school district. He was asked to
develop an initial working document in terms of internal and external
strengths and weaknesses. Member Thiss reminded the Board that the
.district should have their long -range plans ready for the legislature
by December 1. Action on the-Mission Statement was delayed pending
final modifications.
Mul�u IT;7 Nii}W
Date: August 4, 1978
To: Mayor and Council
From: Kenneth E. Rosland, City Manager
Subject: Joint Council Meeting - Edina and Richfield
A joint meeting between the Edina and Richfield Councils to discuss
storm water problems has been scheduled for 5 p.m., August 21st in
the Conference Room at Edina City Hall.
Sandwiches will be available for Edina Council Members following
the meeting and prior to the regular Council meeting.
KR:md
cc: Engineering Department
Planning Department
City Clerk
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REQUEST FOR PURCHASE
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Bob Kojetin
VIA: Kenneth Rosland, City Manager
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR PURCHASE OF ITEM IN EXCESS OF $1,000
DATE: August 3, 1978
Material Description (General Specifications):
Mechanical refrigeration revisions to Braemar Pavil
Quotations /Bids:
Company
1• Palen /Kimball
2. Hoov - Aire Inc.
3.
Department Recommendation:
Recommend award to Palen /Kimball
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Amount of Quote or Bid
$8,150.00
$9,740.00
Park & Recreation Department -
• Sign ure -- Department
Finance Director's Endorsement:
The recommended bid is is not Clvii thin the amount bud g ed for the purchase.
J. N. Dalen
Finance Director
City Manager's Endorsement:
6� 1. I concur with the recommendation of the Department and recommend Council
approve the purchase.
2. I recommend as an alternative:
REQUEST FOR PURCHASE
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: }3ob.Kojetin
VIA: Kenneth Rosland, City Manager
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR PURCHASE OF ITEM IN EXCESS OF $1,000
DATE:
July 27, 1978
Material Description (General Specifications):
2 Electric Engines for Braemar Refigeration
Quotations /Bids:
Company
1' Refrigeration Equipment Co.
2' Louis Allis Co.
3.
Department Recommendation:
Purchase from Refrigeration:. Equipment- for $3494.00
Amount of Ouote or Bid
$3494.00
$4836.00
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'7? Park and Recreation
a V, e Department
Finance Director's Endorsement:
The recommended bid is is not - within the amount budgeted for the purchase.
J . Dalen, Finance Director
CYanager's Endorsement:
1. I concur with the recommendation of the Department and recommend Council approve
the purchase.
2. I recommend as an alternative:
N� • ,
Kenneth Rosl'an , City Manager
Refrigeration Equipment Company
5000 North River Road
Schiller Park, Illinois
To: City of Edina
Attn: Mr. Robert Kotejin
Job: Braemar Arena
- PROPOSAL -
We propose to furnish two electric motors for your Vilter
refrigeration compressors to replace two gas engine drives
as follows:
Manufacturer - Lincoln
100 HP 230/460- 3 -60HZ
1200 RPM
Frame 444TS
Complete with adjustable base
Net Price ----------- $3,494.00
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Richard C. 011erman
TO:
FROM:
VIA:
SUBJECT:
DATE:
REQUEST FOR PURCHASE
Mayor and City Council
Bob Kojetin
Kenneth Rosland, City Manager
t.
REQUEST FOR PURCHASE OF ITEM IN EXCESS OF $1,000
July 21, 1978
Material Description (General Specifications):
Quotations /Bids:
Company
l' i.4iracle Recreation Equiptment
2.
3.
Department Recommendation:
2 Playground Shelter Buildings
1
Amount of Quote or Bid
$4079.00 each or $8158.00 Total
Recommend purchase from Ifiracle as comparable quality building _is not available from
other suppliers
Park and Recreation
1,ae ' Sig, a tir Department
Finance Director's Endorsement:
The recommended bid is . not
City anager's Endorsement:
1. I concur with the recommendation of the Department and recommend Council approve
the purchase.
2. I recommend as an alternative:
Kenneth Rosland, City Manager,
within the amount budgeted for the purchase.
N. Dalen, Finance Director
EQUIPMENT FOR PLAYGROUNDS
AND ATHLETIC FIELDS
JOB NAME
fillIRACLE °JAMISON
RECREATION EQUIPMENT COMPANY
P. O. BOX 275
GRINNELL, IOWA 50112
PHONE (515) 236 -7536
TO
91-n1l.
ATTENTION OF
YOUR BID NUMBER
QUANTITY
U/M
MODEL
TERMS F.O.B.
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CUSTOMER COPY
DATE HIS BID IS SUBJECT TO OUR
I'f ACCEPTANCE 32 DAYS AFTER
/ TH IS DATE.
PLEASE REFER
TO THIS NUMBER
ON ALL
CORRESPONDENCE
OUR QUOTATION NUMBER
A B UNIT PRICE
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YOU ARE HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO SHIP SUB TOTAL
THE EQUIPMENT LISTED ABOVE FOR
WHICH WE AGREE TO PAY THE TOTAL
AMOUNT SPECIFIED TO THE RIGHT. SALES TAX
FREIGHT
PURCHASER NON - TAXABLE
BY As TOTAL 10'
TITLE DATE
AMOUNT
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TO:
FROM:
VIA:
SUBJECT:
DATE:
REQUEST FOR PURCHASE
Mayor and City Council
Florence Hallberg
Kenneth Rosland, City Manager
REQUEST FOR PURCHASE, OF ITEM IN EXCESS OF $1,000
August 4, 1978
Material Description (General Specifications):
Must be.adjusted.to eliminate top line of driver's license.
5-
0
It would be desirable to have these printers for the Primary Election.
Low bidder cannot promise until 8/9/78. High bidder can give us printers
for the Primary Election.
Quotations /Bids:
Company Amount of Quote or Bid
1.1 Farrington Business Machines (38 machines)
2. Savage Bait & Tackle ( 29 machines)
3.
Department Recommendation:
Farrington Business Machines
Finance Director's Endorsement:
$42 each /Total,.$1,596.00
$62 each /Total, $1,798.00
Signature Department
The recommended bid is
E4
is not within the amount budgeted for the purchase.
N. alen, Finance Director
City Manager's Endorsement:
1. I concur with the recommendation of the Department and recommend Council approve
the purchase.
2.' I recommend as an alternative: ,
Kenneth Rosla d; City Manager
REQUEST FOR PURCHASE_
TO: Mayor and City Council
�r
FROM: Bob Kojetin
VIA: Kenneth Rosland, City Manager
SUBJECT:. REQUEST FOR PURCHASE OF ITEM IN EXCESS OF $1,000
DATE:
July 21, 1978
Material Description (General Specifications):
Irrigation for Lake Edina Park
Quotations /Bids:
Company
1. Aqua City
2. Green Acres
3.
Department Recommendation:
Aqua City
Finance Director's Endorsement:
The recommended bid is
Si gnat
L•.
Amount of Quote or Bid
$1,990.00
$2,247.00
.Department
is not -within the amount budgeted for the purchase.
22
. N. Dalen, Finance Director
City ager's Endorsement:
C*
1. I concur with the recommendation of the Department and recommend Council approve
.the purchase.
2. I recommend as an alternative:
Kei neth Rosl and, City Minag7 r
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the City of Bloomington is seeking F.A.U.Funds to construct a road-
way which will provide a major connection from the Southdale area to the
Southtown area without accessing the Freeway System; and
WHEREAS, this roadway would be consistent with the Highway 100 - 494 Corridor
Study completed in the early 1970's; and
WHEREAS, the City of Edina has no competing submittals in the roadway construc-
tion category and construction of this roadway would assist the City of Edina
by providing additiona pi ary roadway to the Xerxes Ave. - 494 area h
) and
would assist the City of Richfield by diverting some of the York Avenue - W.
76th Street - Penn Avenue traffic between the two shopping areas;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Edina City Council does hereby concur
with the request of the City of Bloomington for F.A.U. Funds for construction
of a roadway on W. 80th Street between Xerxes Avenue and Penn Avenue.
N
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To; Ken Ros.land, City Manager
From: Fran Hoffman, Director of Public Works & Engineering
Date: August 7, 1978
Subject: F.A.U. Application for Bloomington - West 80th St.
The City of Bloomington Staff has been asked to solicit response from adjacent
Communites on a Federal - Aid to Urban Streets (F.A.U.) application regarding West
80th Street, from Xerxes Avenue to Penn Avenue
lam' The City of Bloomington is seeking F.A.U. Funds to construct a roadway which will
provide a major connection from Southdale area to Southtown area without accessing
the Freeway System. /This roadway would be consistent with the Highway 100 - 494
Corridor Study completed in the early 70's. a-f--J
The City of Edina has no competing submittals in the roadway construction category.
d
t `mss would assist the City of Edina
by providing additional primary roadway to the Xerxes - 494 area (with the idea in
mind to seek interchange ramps at Xerxes). T
UI-6- �, .
a.r-J wev+ -bz— assist4iag Richfield by diverting some of the York Avenue - W. 76th Street -
Penn Avenue traffic between the two shopping areas.
V
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WHEREAS, plans for Hennepin County Project No. 6742 showing proposed align-
ment, profiles, grades and cross sections, together with specifications
and special provisions for the construction of County State Aid Highway No.
18 within the limits of the City as a Federal Aid Project have been pre-
pared and presented to the City;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that said plans, specifications and special
provisions be in all things approved; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor and City Manager are hereby auth-
orized to enter into said agreement.
ADOPTED this 7th day of August, 1978.
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) SS
CITY OF EDINA )
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of
Edina, do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing resolution was
duly adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of August 7,
1978, and as recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 29th day of August, 1978.
City Clerk
August 29, 1976
Mr. Don S. Spielmann, P.L.
Chief, Design envision
Department of Transportatiou
326 Washington Ave. S.
iiopkins, IlU 55343
0
Dear .1r. Spielmann :
Enclosed herewith are three copies of Cooperative Agreement : +o. PW 30 -11 -78
which have been signed by the .fayor and `iana;er, along Frith a certified
copy of the resolution aaopted by t;ie City Council approving the agreement.
Please do not hesitate to call me if you have any questions.
Yours very truly.
City Clerk
enclosures
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At a duly authorized meeting of the City Council of
Minnesota, the following resolution was moved and adopted:
RESOLUTION
Edina
WHEREAS, Plans for Hennepin County Project
No. 6742 showing proposed alignment, profiles, grades, and
cross sections, together with specifications and special provisions for the
(construction) , (,Wb 0M4, (f, kNxCrM&), of County State Aid
Highway No. 18 within the limits of the City as a (Federal)
(fit (ftvr&A Aid Project have been prepared and presented to the City.
N014 THEREFORE IT IS RESOLVED: That said plans, specifications, and
special provisions be in all things approved.
Dated this day of 19
CERTIFICATION
State of Minnesota
County of Hennepin
City of Edina
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution is a true and correct
copy of a resolution presented to and adopted by the City Council of
Edina at a meeting thereof held in the City of
Edina , Minnesota on the day of _
19 as disclosed by the records of said City in my possession.
(Seal)
City Clerk
RI1116EINA
4801 WEST 50TH STREET, EDINA, MINNESOTA 55424
612 - 927 -8861
R r.gnT.TTTTON
WHEKFAS, plans for Hennepin County Project No. 6742 showing proposed align-
ment, profiles, grades and cross sections,.together with specifications
and special provisions for "the.construction of County State Aid Highway No.
18 within the limits of the City as a Federal Aid Project-have been pre-
pared and presented -to the City;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that said plans, specifications and special
provisions be in all things approved; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that- the -Mayor and City - Manager are hereby auth-
orized to enter into said agreement.
ADOPTED this 7th day of August, 1978.
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) SS
CITY OF EDINA )
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of
Edina, do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing resolution was
duly adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of August 7,
1978, and as recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 29th day of August, 1978.
City Clerk
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EPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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320 Washington A v. South
Hopkins, Minnesota 5534
HENNEPIN
935 -3381
20 July 1978
Mr. Fran Hoffman
Director of Public Works
City of Edina
4801 West 50th Street
Edina, Minnesota 55424
Dear Mr. Hoffman:
Re:. CSAH No. 18
County Project No. 6742 .
requested special provisions to be
Submitted herewith are one set othPeencopies of a struction
and specifics -
included in the specifications,
°f a resolution approving P ma. de
agreement, and a sample copy ro ect for which arrangements are being
tions for the above referenced p j
to call for bids. 1 are
This is a Federal
Aid Project and the specifications and
°fptheo proposal pwiPlrbe
by the Minnesota,Department of Transportation. A copy
sent to you when it is available from the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
ee copies signed by the 11 thr
If the agreement is satisfactory,
Upon co p
e lon of the
a ro ria ials and retu�Otllis ffi ce. �P
executed
remaining signatures by County icia s we w� tified °co one resolution
rem g agreement. Also, please return a
r..opy of the ag reeme
authorizin the Mayor
and Manager to sign the ag
lans and spe cifications be passed by
We request that a resolution approving p
the City Council at'the earliest possible date.
to review plans or cerning them.
convenience if you ha e any of the documents with y ou at your
the p
We will'be happy questions con any q
Verv-.truly
Don S. Spielmann, P.:E.
Chief, Design Division
DSS /RWE:lar
Enclosures
HENNEPIN COUNTY
on equal opporlunliy cmpioyer
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RESOLUTION OF WELCOME .
WHEREAS, the American Cryptogram Association is holding its Forty -
Fourth International Convention at the Biltmore Motel in the City of
Edina on August 18 thru August 20, 1978; and
WHEREAS, this group has been instrumental over the years in perform-
ing its patriotic duty to the United States of America in time of war
and in time of peace; and
.WHEREAS, the American Cryptogram Association peQ4eanssato offer its
services to this country and to other countries throughout the world;.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and City Council does
hereby extend their heartiest welcome to the American Cryptogram
Association, with very best wishes for a successful convention in the -
City of Edina.
DATED this 7th day of August, 1978.
Mayor
DEAN J. DISCHER
MEDICAL & SURGICAL COUNSELING DIRECTOR
IN ASSOCIATION WITH M. S. HANSON, M.D.
SUITE 1000
ANSWERED 24 HOURS
TELEPHONE: 16121 870 -1334 MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. 55404
DEAN J. DISCHER
MEDICAL & SURGICAL COUNSELING
�61802[D[�CH®l7�COQOID
MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA 55404
TELEPHONE: 18121 870-1334
ANSWERED 24 HOURS
RESIDENCE: 18121 533-3555
July 18, 1978
Hennepin County Municipal Court
2215 West Old Shakopee Road
Bloomington, MN. 55431
Gentlemen:
2217 Nicollet
On July 1, 1978 I had my vehicle parked in front of Building #6670 Vernon Avenue
of.Fountainwood Apartments in Edina along a grantedly.marked fire lane. Here is
my plight. �1
I was unloading a handicapped person from my car., As I pulled into the parking lot
there was a car parked already in the circle in front of the main.door. I pulled
behind the door so Iwas'markedly out of the circle in front of':the entrance to
Building #6670 but, again as I mentioned- ,.there was a car parked in front of me. I
got the handicapped person out of my car, up to my 4th floor apartment and came back
.down and there was absolutely no more than 12 to 15 minutes that had elapsed. On
the ticket I have in front of me, I believe the officer's . badge number was .-.10. I
quickly brought the handicapped person into my.apartment, ran back downstairs to
attempt to move my car, because it.is obviously a violation to park in a fire lane
zone, and found one of your Edina police officers issuing a ticket. He admittedly
had been there a total of 10 minutes: It perhaps took him 3 minutes to write the
ticket, so he had waited approximately 7 minutes. It.took me more than 7 minutes
to get upstairs to drop off.a handicapped party and get back downstairs to move my
car. I think it is highly unjust and unfair when someone is attempting to do a:
favor, both to a handicapped person and to the city,, by attempting to rush back down
and move my car and then get a very expensive ticket for doing said activities.
I am a surgical psychologist and deal quite often wiffi handicapped, retarded or \
anomalied parties I dictate this letter because I don't feel I should have to
waste my time to plead this in a court situation with the aforementioned circumstances
Again, the reason for my letter is that there has to be a certain amount of time al-
lotted or marked _areas for unloading or loading handicapped parties, even in fire
lane or fire zone areas. I would greatly appreciate it if charges on this ticket
would be dropped and we can ignore the entire situation; however,.even if charges on
the ticket and the cost of the fee is ignored, I would again urge that you do have a
marked area for loading or unloading handicapped persons near entrances or exits to
buildings. I think this is a very important part of our society.. I think we have
done very well as far as having marked handicapped parking zones but for residential
areas, apartment complexes, town houses and mass dwelling situations, there is to my
knowledge no areas that may be marked fire lanes or no parking zones where--therd,is-an
area for dispensing of said persons. I urge that someone pay immediate attention -
my letter. This has become a very distressing situation to me.
y,
Dean ischer, irector ` �� _1
Medics & Surgical Psychologist p
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We are sorry that we are unable to send you a personal reply to your recent com-
munication. The volume of mail in this office necessitates this approach.
This department operates under orders of the Municipal Court. We cannot excuse tickets
or accept fines less than the amount prescribed by the Court. If you wish to plead Not
Guilty or offer an explanation to have your ticket excused or the fine lowered you must
appear in this office to arrange an appearance in Court.
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If you sent the ticket in with your letter, it is returned herewith with the amount of the
fine now payable stamped-thereon.
It is strongly urged that you handle this matter without delay, to avoid a higher fine or a
warrant for your arrest. ,
ORDINANCE VIOLATIONS BUREAU
TVB -74-A HENNEPIN COUNTY MUNIMPAI. COURT
D14. 4, 2215 WESI OLD SHAKOPEE :2OAD
BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA 55431
POLICIES AND
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
Six League study committees of municipal officials
met during 1977 -78 to develop these policies.
1978-1980
League of
Minnesota Cities
Foreword
One of the most important purposes of the League
is to serve as a vehicle through which municipal
officials throughout the state can define their mut-
ual problems and develop positive policies and pro-
posals for their solution.
To accomplish this purpose a three step consulta-
tive process has been established providing for the
study of issues by committees of municipal offi-
cials, the review of the resulting recommendations
by the Legislative Committee composed of the
Board of Directors and the study committee chair-
persons, and final adoption at a biennial legislative
conference attended by representatives of all
member municipalities.
The policy statements and legislative proposals
contained herein are the result of this process and
are intended to be of a continuing nature, sub-
ject to review and amendment every two years.
Thus they will provide the League Board of Direc-
tors and the staff with a continuing source of
guidance when testifying before legislative com-
mittees and taking other actions which have legis-
lative or policy implications.
Priority designation. The priority designation is
indicated next to the title of each proposed policy.
These priorities were developed by the study com-
mittees and reviewed and in some cases modified
by the Legislative Committee. This is the first year
that priority designation has been part of the poli-
cy development process. The committees also
ranked items within the `A " priority categories.
The priorities are intended to give additional
guidance to the League Board and staff in imple-
menting the League's legislative program.
'A " priority indicates a major issue, one where
the League would introduce legislation or would
work actively with other groups to seek new laws
and regulations. An asterisk ( *) indicates top
priority.
"B " priority indicates items that are important
to cities but where the League would probably
spend substantially less time unless the legislature
or other groups mounted a major effort to which
we had to respond. While the League might initiate
legislation on "B" priority items, these would be
relatively non - controversial items, or those where
most of the research has already been completed.
"C" priority indicates items where the League
would respond only when the issue is raised by
other groups.
SUMMARY LIST OF "A" PRIORITY ITEMS
1 -1 Tort Liability
* 11- Development Strategies
III -1 Land Use and Agricultural Preservation
III -2 Solid Waste Management
III -8 Shade Tree Disease Control
V -1 Issues in Law Enforcement Personnel
• V -2 Building Codes and Fire Codes
• V -3 Insurance
V -6 911 Emergency Telephone System
• VI -1 Levy Limits
IV -2 Public Employment Labor Relations Act * VI -2 County - Municipal Aid
* IV -3 Local Police and Firefighters Pension * VI -3 Assessment Equalization
Funds
* IV -4 PERA Benefits, Financing and Admini-
stration
IV -12 Group Insurance
* VI -5 Taxation of Railroads
* VI -7 (3) Reimbursement for Services to Tax -
Exempt Property
*NOTE: Policies with an * indicate top priority.
I. GENERAL LEGISLATION
Preamble
Although the great majority of Minnesotans
have chosen to live in cities, there is a wide di-
versity in the size and the range of services pro-
vided. by the cities themselves. While a. number
of cities are major population centers, more than
60 per cent have less than 1,000 population.
Furthermore, while more than 100 cities have
chosen to operate under local home rule charters
which permit voters to develop and adopt a govern-
mental structure to accommodate local needs;
other cities operate under the city code .which
gives cities structural arid, operational flexibility
within broadly defined limits. Finally, cities as
general purpose units of local 'government have
demonstrated their ability to develop and to im-
plement policies and services that respond to their
own constituencies. There is a wide variation
among cities in types of programs and levels of
service, and city services are typically those in
which local policies are expected, to be controll-
ing, such as community development, police,
fire, street, park and recreation services, in con-
trast to educational and welfare programs where
the state's interest is more clearly manifest.
Consequently, when new state programs that
directly affect cities or city services are considered,
the League urges that the following guidelines be
used:
1. The state should consider the diversity of
cities in services, size and programs.
2.
3. Mandated . programs should carry a clear
identification, of - compelling statewide in-
terest and the cost should be borne by
the state.
4. Laws should maximize the opportunity for
the responsible exercise of authority at the
local level. The League further urges the
adoption of the following proposals, which
would increase the effectiveness of local
government.
1 -I. Tort Liability (A)
In view of the escalating costs of providing in-
surance coverage to cities, an affirmative effort
to minimize changes in the current governmental
tort liability law applicable to cities seems essential.
Therefore, the League suggests that the legislature
recognize .that, cities are diverse and that any law
governing tort liabilities of cities accommodate
that diversity by, permitting maximum discretion
to local governing bodies to determine policies
as to payment of claims and procedures by which
those claims would be paid.
In the: event that the legislature determines that
change in the existing law is absolutely required,
that change should only be in the direction of mak-
ing the local government Tort Liability Statute
more similar _to the State, Governmental Tort Lia-
bility,Law.
-2. Adjusting Dollar Amounts in City Statutes
by a Constant .Dollar Index -(B)
Inflation has had an effect upon `cities beyond
a mere exertion of upward thrust on budgets and
expenditures. The legislature has quite consistently
included within authorizing and enabling .legisla-
tion, limitations expressed in dollars. These dollar
limitations, while, quite appropriate at the time of
enactment, become progressively more constric-
ting with advancing inflation. Therefore, the
League recommends that certain of the more im-
portant and often used authorizing statutes con -
taining dollar limitations be modified by applica-
tion of a constant dollar index figure calculated
from the. year of enactment, to the limitation
set out in the act. The modification should be
made so that when statutes relating, to other sta-
tutes are modified, the dollar limitations are ad-
justed in a uniform manner.
1 -3. Open Meetings (A)
City officials strongly support the basic pre -
mise of the open, meetings law - to assure the
public's right to be informed about the conduct
of the, public business. Experience with this law
since 1974, however, indicates clearly,. that .there
are areas where the legislature should make it more
specific or should amend the law in the public
interest.
First, the law should specifically state that it
e
b
intarnretatinn,
We also believe that there are certain specific
instances where the public interest would be
better served by permitting a local governing body
to meet in executive or closed session. These
instances include discussion of n
strategy, s�ass+�r-rei°aiYi grin ep otes,
and d+setts regvd'ir -of -Iarrd -for
a se-In order to safeguard the public's
right to know in these instances, the local govern-
ing body would make the decision to hold a
closed session via two - thirds vote, and a record of
the meeting would be made for later disclosure
when information is no longer sensitive.
1 -4. Legal Notice Publication System (B)
The expense of publishing financial statements,
the entire text of ordinances and other information
far exceeds the necessity to inform the public of
these details of city administration. The League
suggests that the legislature study the entire sub-
ject of publication in legal newspapers and that
the I
I ins- creed- to-terrow•
1 -5. Petitions for State Audit of
Municipal Records (B)
City officials as a group agree that the proce-
dures permitting citizens to petition for a state
audit of municipal records is a safeguard which
should be continued, although it is the normal
practice of cities to have books audited annually
by a recognized accounting firm. However, under
present procedures, the petition process can be
abused because of the relatively small number of
freeholders (who need not be residents) required
for the petition. To remedy this problem and still
keep the process available, we recommend that the
law be amended so that signatures of a number of
voters equal to 20 per cent of those voting in the
last presidential election are required for the peti-
tion, and so that the city as well as the lead peti-
tioner is notified when the petition is certified.
Eligible petitioners must be registered voters of
the municipalities.
1 -6. Special Elections (B)
Now that statutory cities have uniform terms
of office for elective officials, we suggest that
ext-at Ti or gerveratneterbuff
d - c-effsistert wiTh i mg a d &se,tee- bal#o-t-
-req i - erm- nts- C`ard''i-dares -to fii' al-=council vac'�ff-
c�,_shootd -tie 5crr en Tiedd-o-n -the mt ot- Ho- w- evv-a,
�ih- �kr��to-fiYl`tfi e
vaoaac.y b*__appein+mvTrt until the election is
held and the successor qualifies.
1 -7. Dilapidated Building Law (B)
The League- sponsored law providing a proce-
dure for the repair or removal of hazardous build-
ings and the filling or protection of hazardous
building excavations has been useful to cities in
eliminating blight and upgrading neighborhoods,
but several minor defects in the law should be
eliminated to make it more workable. The League
therefore recommends the following changes in
that law, Minnesota Statutes, Section 463.15 -
463.261:
Elimination of the inappropriate refer-
ences to the assessment procedure of the
local improvement code. Reliance should
be made instead on the present provision
of M.S. 463.22 for the collection of the
municipal net expenses for repair or re-
moval of a dilapidated building as a special
charge after court determination of the
amount and upon a new provision for as-
sessment after notice and hearing in the
case of the filling or protecting of dan-
gerous building excavations.
2. Extension of the definition of owner,
occupying tenant, and lien holder, now
applicable to mailed notice requirements
in consent proceedings, to all hazardous
building and excavation proceedings.
The law should also be simplified where -
ever possible.
1 -8 Campaign Financing and Disclosure Law (B)
Campaigns and elections to local office are the
most important single contact between voters
and representative local government. While there
has been substantial public concern with campaign
financing and ethics on the national and state
level, the public has not demonstrated the same
anxiety about financing and conduct for city
election campaigns. The general public confi-
dence probably reflects the fact that city cam-
paigns are locally based, largely address purely
local issues, are for the most part non - partisan and
that the candidates are running for "part- time"
offices out of a sense of civic responsibility.
We believe that public confidence in local cam-
paigns and election conduct is deserved and that
ar4a &Fe- heeded. If the legis-
lature believes that new laws are needed, any
modifications should encourage, rather than dis-
courage, qualified candidates from seeking or
continuing in office. Nonetheless, there are steps
that can be taken to strengthen local campaign
laws, including the. following:
Candidates should be encouraged to seek
broader backing from among constituents
by eft X-
co�- =� ity = e#eetieR =tea
R &4nS_
2. In view of the fact that most elected city
officials are part-time, low paid and serve out
of a sense of civic responsibility, it is pro-
bable that requiring candidates to file state-
ments of economic interest would effective-
ly discourage many qualified candidates
from seeking or continuing in office,
L aadated fequtrea
rnen =ts.
3. The present outdated
f oty= �t€et+e+� =c a�afg� �s
rn4i a+ed. In cities of less than 20,000 popu-
lation, campaign expenditure limits or report-
ing requirements are unnecessary because of
the local nature of the campaigns and because
stringent conflict of interest rules already
govern the actions of elected officials in all
cities.
4. Cam- t ,ity-
toestabiistr -fists - for- etai =- campaign-= expen-
d4ufes, as well as the li n;- � at= - any =one,
i �rganizaFt>ar tau# contfibute
-s- campatgn�caTfrrrxfttee.
In--cidmAmcrf2O4OflOT campaign expenditure
limits for city elections can be more effec-
tive, over -all limits by ir&
do es= a €--samiiwgn _ittees
-hmde-
jiig = sponsib4e= =for =all-fands= -spent by his
or her election campaign committee.
a _from
a. ogle= soorce=of= rr wre-thw"40a shou4&be
reported, with cities able to set this figure
lower. Campaign financing reporting forms
and requirements should be kept as clear and
simple as possible, consistent with the need
for voter information, and the reports sh .ould
be filed in a local location and available to
the public.
7. Since there is no evidence to suggest that any
ethics commissions to watchdog local elections
are required, and since there are already effec-
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tive legal avenues for enforcement of cam-
paign practice laws affecting cities, the League
recommends that no enforcement mechanism
be created.
1 -9 Home Rule (B)
Minnesota's constitutional home rule policy,
while permitting home rule charters in some cir-
cumstances to depart from the provisions of sta-
tutes that would otherwise be applicable, has
made charters subject to the provisions of state
laws when they express a policy intended to over-
ride local charters. In implementing that policy,
the legislature has often by a general law author-
ized one or more classes of home rule charter
cities to meet new problems for which existing
charters listing city powers in specific detail pro-
vided inadequate authority. It has also, by general
law and increasingly by special law, removed char-
ter restrictions or imposed restrictions where the
local charter had none. Following the adoption of
the 1958 local government amendment to the
Minnesota Constitution, the legislature has, on
League recommendation, made it easier for cities
to adopt and amend charters and thus better able
to meet local legislative needs at home.
In an effort to provide for a more consistent
policy on the relationship between state law and
local charters, the League recommends to its
own member cities as well as the legislature the
following guidelines on meeting legislative needs
of home rule charter cities:
1. Every general law applying to cities shot"
state sped icaRk - whet# -o"u�t--i-appt es to
hone- =rate a� r etf mss- tc -statutory - cities:
When a uniform state policy is not required, a
law applying to home rule charter cities,
whether applicable with or without local
action, should authorize an affected city to
supersede the law or any provision in it by
charter action on the same subject.
When a legislative problem can be met simply
by a charter amendment, particularly where
amendment by ordinance is feasible, state
legislation on the subject should not apply
to home rule charter cities. Some existing
obsolete legislation applying to home rule
charter cities was repealed by the 1976 Legis-
lature; other similar legislation of doubtful
current use should be repealed, perhaps
with an effective date sufficiently far in the
future to permit any city for which the legis-
lation was later found useful to adopt an
appropriate amendment to its charter.
1 -10. Voting Equipment (C)
Present law allowing local options in selecting
voting equipment, so long as it has been approved
by the Secretary of State, has aided election offi-
cials and voters by permitting the selection of
equipment based on a number of local factors
including size of community, type of election and
others. Where the size of the community warrants
it, the use of voting machines, including electronic
voting machines, has facilitated voting and -has aided
the speed and accuracy of counting ballots. In
t -
The League o irri"tt
t tme voting equipment
a
ei.
1 -11. Regional Development Commissions (C)
One of the principal purposes of regional de-
velopment commissions_ is to provide a mechanism
for intergovernmental cooperation within which
local elected officials and the units they repre-
sent can engage in working and planning together.
It is becoming increasingly clear that one of the
most significant tests of the commissions' work
is the extent to which they are in touch with their
local constituency. Since RDC's are now in the
process of developing comprehensive regional
plans, the League recommends that the review
and update process for those plans be carefully
reviewed by cities and other concerned local
governments, even before the plans themselves
are considered.
The under - representation on RDC's of the popu-
lation that resides in cities continues to be a pro-
blem. To provide a better balance between urban
and rural interests, the League recommends that
the Regional Development Commission Act be
amended to provide that the largest city in each
county, whatever its size, be represented on the
commissions, in addition to the present member-
ship. Furthermore, the League endorses expli-
cit membership selection procedures and publicity
about them which involve all concerned local units.
In addition, the act should be amended to require
that all substantive powers of a regional develop-
ment commission be exercised by the commission
as a whole, with the board of directors limited to
an advisory role only.
Finally, the League believes that RDC reliance
on the property tax should not be increased and
that the state should continue its support of RDC
operations at the present level, at the minimum.
1 -12. Cable TV Regulation (C)
Approximately 150 Minnesota cities receive
cable TV service, and under present law cities are
responsible for setting rates and can impose fran-
chise fees. The League believes this law has allowed
local communities to provide input into an impor-
tant community service and that it should not be
modified to diminish local control.
1 -13. Election Day Registration (C)
The principal purpose of the Minnesota system
of election day registration is to improve and in-
crease eligible voter access to voting. We support
the new law which requires all persons who vouch
for the residency of election day registrants to be
registered prior to election day. Experience indi-
cates that the following steps would also improve
the system:
rA
.:-
Certain penalties for election day fraud are
so severe that they constitute a barrier to
effective enforcement of the law. We recom-
mend tKe -bt-rev'ieewedvnd-rrrmifie,�e
aacessaLy-so-th,afi-4kre -ia I y
- erfereed-.
3. State- -{aw —siTa i�' ce'd
t h-Fo gkte - Ala -e• s+a+e-
4. Any future state- mandated election or re-
gistration programs should be accompanied
by sufficient state funds to pay local costs.
1 -14. Uniform Local Government Election Day (C)
The 1973 Legislature
ry-' ert��s�givbrrg- �i�ies- tkre -op-
t
Furthermore, the authhorriitty� to choose an election
date is central to the purpose of home rule charter
cities. Consequently, the L d
i t
elect'
However, ' egis ature a ermine i-
fi
a
8- pc�pa� -tenr
2. Home rule charter cities should retain the op-
tion of setting their own election date.
3. The fer -the
et4Gn.
4. The first election under the uniform local
government election day should be held in
fiP1�e i .
1 -15. Special Legislation (C)
The 1958 constitutional amendment on local
government encouraged local responsibility by per-
mitting the legislature to ease requirements for the
adopting and amendment of home rule charters
and by requiring local consent to special legis-
lation. While subsequent legislatures have made
the home rule charter authority easier for cities
to use, the intent of the special law consent pro-
vision has been nullified by a 1967 general law pro-
viding a blanket waiver of that requirement except
where attached to a particular special law.
The League believes that some special legislation
serves an appropriate purpose when creating and
experimenting with innovative ideas.
The League recommends that the legislature es-
tablish an appropriate procedure by which it can
carry out such a policy of limiting special legisla-
tion to cases where there is a compelling need for a
special law. We suggest that the legislature con-
sider the following guidelines when considering
special legislation:
1. A special law should not result in unfairly
discriminating against all other local govern-
ment units of the same type or class.
2. A special law should not modify the juris-
diction, power, or procedure of a state ad-
ministrative agency in a particular case.
3. A special law should not incorporate or
reincorporate a city or create a particular
unit of local government.
4. A special law should not change the form
or internal administrative structure of a local
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government unit without the approval of its
governing body or of the voters.
5. A special law should not direct the governing
body of the local government unit to act in
a particular way.
6. In the circumstances where special legislation
is needed, the legislature should establish a
deadline for the submission of local bills
which is substantially earlier than the last
day on which general bills can be introduced
and which can be waived only in the most
extenuating circumstances.
In addition, the 1967 general law on local con-
sent should be supplanted by a general law which
permits waiver of the approval requirement only
when a special law is of a type for which the con-
sent requirement is impractical. Based on experi-
ence since 1958, the only class of special law to
which local approval should not be required is
special legislation affecting two or more local
units with an aggregate population of more than
one million people.
1 -16. Development of an Improved City Code (C)
Municipal laws have been enacted in a piecemeal
fashion over the years, often to meet a special need
in a particular class of cities with little regard to
the desirability of applying the laws to other
cities or meeting broader needs as well. As a result
of this gradual accretion of miscellaneous statutes,
the statute books have contained a hodge -podge
of municipal laws, many inconsistent or overlapping
with other statutes, and many confined to parti-
cular city classes though addressing a problem
shared by those excluded. The City Code laws
adopted at League request in 1973 and its amend-
ments in 1974 were important steps toward a
more rational and uniform set of laws for Minne-
sota cities, and 1976 League- sponsored legislation
added to the improvement of the statutory frame-
work for cities by repealing numerous obsolete
laws, eliminating inconsistencies, and making
explicit the applicability or non - applicability of
specific laws to statutory and home rule charter
cities.
To continue this ongoing project of develop-
ing a more rational statutory code for cities and
to provide more uniform statutory patterns for
related municipal laws, the League recommends
that the staff, in cooperation with the legislative
research agencies and other interested groups,
prepare legislation revising and making into a con-
sistent whole with as broad applicability as pos-
sible and without controversial changes, the various
statutes relating to certain subject areas most in
need of such revision, including the laws on city
depositories, city support for music and bands,
municipal advertising expenditures, local boards
of health, and use of liquor store funds and muni-
cipal utility establishment and operations. The
League further recommends that when any such
revisions have been approved by the League Board
of Directors, they become part of the League
legislative program.
A study of existing laws indicates that almost
without exception laws confined to cities of the
second, third, or fourth class might more appro-
priately have been broadened when adopted so
as to apply to all three classes. The League there-
fore recommends to the legislature that the prac-
tice of confining legislation to any such class
be discontinued and that, except where very spe-
cial circumstances require use of some more limit-
ing criterion, future laws intended for cities other
than first class cities be drawn to apply to all
such cities.
* II. DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES (A)
The cities of Minnesota play a major role in
development and redevelopment. Despite their
enormous diversity in size and location, cities
throughout the state share common concerns:
adequate housing, a desirable job and economic
climate and provision of appropriate community
services.
Many cities are actively involved in development
strategies which will maintain and foster a desir-
able job and housing climate in the community.
At the same time, the public responsibility for
renewal and rehabilitation activities has fallen
increasingly on cities. These strategies must rest
on a solid partnership of cities, the state and the
federal government working together with busi-
ness, labor, neighborhoods and all parts of the
community. While no single solution will meet all
the diverse needs of municipal development, the
League has identified a number of proposals which
will encourage and assist local efforts.
A state commitment to community conservation.
The legislature passes many laws each year which
have substantial effects on development, redevelop-
ment and the viability of cities whatever their
size and location. Many of these actions end up
working at cross purposes to each other because
the state has not established an identifiable policy
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of community conservation or the framework
for evaluating both the direct and the spin -off
effects of the many legislative and administrative
actions that affect development, redevelopment
and the viability of cities. To facilitate the adop-
tion of a comprehensive community conservation
policy for the state, it is necessary to examine an
assess the climate for private and public invest-
ment and reinvestment in the state and the impact
of this climate upon Minnesota cities. This exami-
nation should include but not be limited to the
following:
1. Personal taxing policy.
2. Corporate taxing policy.
3. Utilization of state's work force.
4. Spending for education including vocational
education.
5. Natural resources.
6. Proximity to market.
7. Environment considerations.
8. Land use limitations.
9. Levy limitations.
10. Transportation network.
11. An examination and understanding of the
role of private developers.
12. An examination and definition of redevelop-
ment.
13. An examination and clarification of the
role of industrial revenue bonds.
Statewide reinvestment fund. The major pro-
blem for municipalities is not the realization that
redevelopment is necessary if cities are to continue
as viable working centers, but to identify the
source of capital to finance the commercial and in-
dustrial redevelopment that must occur. It is ap-
parent that the traditional local approaches to-
ward redevelopment are not sufficient to solve
chronic urban problems. No longer can redevelop-
ment be supported by the tax base of local munici-
palities. Also, it has become less attractive and less
economical during the past decade for the private
sector alone, to continue to _renovate and build
in depressed areas. Due to the growing need of
older developed areas to provide incentives that
stimulate private investment and the lack of excess
resources of local governments to earmark for
this cause, the League urges the legislature to es-
tablish an economic reinvestment fund that would
provide redevelopment monies to cities for pro-
jects that would help replenish a lagging tax base.
Tax increment financing. Tax increment financ-
ing has permitted many older cities in various parts
of the state to define and carry out rehabilitation,
redevelopment, housing and economic develop-
ment projects on their own initiative. It repre-
sents the most feasible and effective legal strategy
which is currently available to cities in preserving
and improving the physical and economic environ-
ment in their communities.
Despite the overwhelmingly favorable experience,
the legislature has considered legislation expressly
restricting the use of tax increment financing. The
League has recognized the needs for reasonable
safeguards and to this end proposed legislation
during the past session to make tax increment
a better fiscal tool.
We recommend that the .:.League and .the. legis-
I'ature along with . other affected and interested
parties again proceed to develop legislation that
would provide reasonable controls on the use of
tax increment financing, build in safeguards
as to the limitations, bond duration and con-
tract requirements and other factors as outlined
in past League policies.
Further, any legislation should be workable for
all cities in Minnesota, and the legislation should
not be overly complicated in its procedural re-
quirements.
Housing rehabilitation loans and grants. The
best source of low cost housing is the present
housing stock in Minnesota. Statistics indicate that
200,000 units will need rehabilitation in the next
10 years. The success that has been met to date
with the combination of low interest loans and in
the cases of very low income, outright grants,
should be continued. Also, the use of such funds
to encourage insulation of dwellings to help con-
serve energy is another use of the funds that
should be further encouraged.
The League recommends that the state legis-
lature in the next biennium increase the funding of
rehab loans and grants and further recommends
that the United States Department of Housing and
Urban Development provide increased funding to
Minnesota in order to provide sufficient funding
to meet these needs.
Housing - new construction. With the estimated
needs for new housing units annually at 43,000 per
year statewide and only 20,000 to 25,000 built
over the past three years, it is imperative that ad-
ditional funding for construction of new housing
be provided. Further, to meet the annual needs .
for subsidized housing units, programs must also
be expanded to meet these needs. Since the private
sector reacts mainly to the type of financing avail-
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able, there should be funding that is directed to
help solve the housing needs that have been identi-
fied by state, regional and local agencies.
The League of Minnesota Cities recommends
that increased bonding authority be provided to
the State Housing Finance Agency to help meet
the needs for new housing construction and to
provide for new units for subsidized housing.
The League further recommends that the United
States Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment increase the funding for new housing con-
struction in Minnesota to meet the statewide
housing goals.
III. LAND USE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
III -1. Land'Use and Agricultural Preservation (A)
Those public policies which encourage sub-
stantial development in non -urban areas and
which extend public, services beyond existing
jurisdictions and service areas seem to be largely
exposed as wasteful and counter - productive.
There is also increasing recognition that cities
offer a variety of lifestyles that conserve energy,
and that they are already centers of substantial
public and private investment. Finally, there is
increasing recognition that the prime agricultural
land of Minnesota is a major natural and economic
resource and that a major objective of any land
use strategy is the preservation of this prime agri-
cultural land. We endorse a policy of urban con-
servation based upon these perceptions. There are
several steps that should be taken to: 1) strengthen
the present land use controls exercised by cities
and counties; 2) provide a framework for orderly,
planned growth for cities through the Minnesota
Municipal Board; 3) discourage scattered develop-
ment, especially those developments located on
agricultural land_ or other. land needing protection.;
and 4), provide the, necessary policy direction
concerning `land -use decisions which clearly have
statewide or regional implications. To this end,,
the League has developed several proposals which
address various aspects of the problem.
Agricultural preservation. The state should es-
tablish a policy encouraging the preservation of
prime agricultural, land ` which discourages' the
development of such land outside areas to be
served by a municipal community and encourages
regional agencies and local governments to adopt
agricultural preservation policies and ordinances.
The state should bank and interpret useful data,
including relevant soil -type information, on prime
agricultural land that will assist local governments
in their preservation efforts. The League urges the
legislature to establish a committee representing
local government as well as other interested parties
to propose an agricultural preservation strategy
to the 1979 Legislature.
Local and regional governments should be re-
quired to include an agricultural protection ele-
ment in their comprehensive plans and zoning ordi-
nances.
Interim or fringe area land. The Minnesota law
that provides preferential property assessments for
agricultural property (i.e. the Green Acres Act) is
principally aimed at transitional or fringe area land.
The law should be modified so that it provides
a positive tool for municipalities and counties in
influencing orderly development. Specifically,
land would qualify for Green Acres status only
when it qualifies under a local government's
comprehensive plan or zoning ordinance, or is
approved by the local governing body. Also,
adequate controls should be provided to ensure an
orderly transition to urban uses, including city
determination of when the land no longer qualifies
for tax abatement and /or assessment deferral.
When the land no longer qualifies for tax abate-
ment, then land should be assessed consistent with
its planned use; however, that portion of the Green
Acres law providing for payment of special assess-
ments should be modified to allow an extended
pay -back period, at local option. When any quali-
fying land is sold, the sale would automatically
bring it back to the local government for recon-
sideration of the tax deferment and abatement
status. Finally, there should be no automatic
"roll- back" or recapture of the difference in tax
revenues. Actual roll -back provisions could be
negotiated locally or determined in local ordi-
nances.
County Planning Act. Even when sufficient legal
authority exists and financial resources are available,
there has been a reluctance in some counties to
undertake a land use planning program. In order to
address this situation, the County Planning Act
should be amended to provide that counties would
be required to undertake a land use planning
program if city councils and town boards repre-
senting a majority of the population of the county
pass resolutions requesting such action.
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III -2. Solid Waste Management (A)
The League supports the continuing legislative
efforts to initiate a comprehensive recycling and
resource recovery program in order to conserve
material and energy resources and reduce the
volume of solid waste. We believe the following
could accelerate progress in this area:
Although energy recovery is close to being
economically feasible under certain circum-
stances, it is a high risk venture which pro-
bably cannot attract private capital. Therefore,
the state should provide grants or subsidies to
energy recovery and recycling projects of an
experimental nature.
2. The law should be amended to provide that
elected governmental jurisdictions (cities and
counties) which have adopted a comprehensive
solid waste management and resource reco-
very program, have legal jurisdiction over the
methods of disposal of all solid waste within
their jurisdiction.
3. The present law authorizing the establish-
ment of solid waste management districts
should be amended to make it more work-
able. Specifically, outstate, the law should
allow such districts to be initiated by any
elected public jurisdiction (cities and coun-
ties) and the district itself to include areas
in more than one county.
4. The available evidence suggests that many
cities are exercising their existing authority
to require that enterprises which produce
potentially hazardous waste materials as a
by- product of their activities, also provide
adequate containment or disposal facilities.
The League endorses this approach to hazar-
dous waste disposal. Producers must provide
a disposal plan to the governing body before
a building permit is issued. Since some hazar-
dous wastes must be disposed of in highly
specialized facilities, which may not be econo-
mically feasible in every region, we urge that
no state bar inter -state shipment of hazardous
waste but instead concentrate on adequate
safeguards for public life and property during
such shipments.
III -3. Eminent Domain Law (B)
In recent years, amendments have been made to
the eminent domain law in an effort to safeguard
the interests of the property owners who become
involved in this process. However, taken as a
whole, the present procedure seems to result in
the public paying excessively high prices for land.
Therefore, the League believes the entire process
provided in the law should be critically reviewed
and streamlined. This examination should include:
a re -evaluation of the advisability of making apprai-
sals public information; the advisability of using a
professional referee in lieu of three commissioners
to establish the value of land; and the legality and
feasibility of collecting property taxes on property
for several prior years in instances where the award
is substantially in excess of the market value of
the property for tax purposes. The League Board
should establish a task force to study eminent
domain, its alternatives, and relocation practices
and costs.
111 -4. Energy Conservation (B)
The League and its member cities are seriously
concerned with energy problems and support legis-
lative efforts to develop public programs and poli-
cies that will respond to the complex issues raised
by the need for energy conservation. However,
in developing programs to achieve energy conser-
vation goals, there exists the potential for large,
new public expenditures, and we believe that any
mandated programs to local government should be
accompanied by adequate funding from the state.
Finally, since energy programs and policies that
meet the need of all Minnesotans cannot be created
without widespread participation, a mechanism
should be created for effective coordination bet-
ween the state and cities in the development of
energy programs and policies. The state should pro-
vide technical assistance to local government to
assist local energy conservation efforts.
III -5. Planning Grant Program (B)
The state matching grant program which pro-
vides funds to increase the local planning capa-
city of cities and counties should be continued
by the legislature, recognizing that planning is
an ongoing process. These funds should be avail-
able to cities and counties for establishing and for
continuing existing planning programs. The legis-
lation should reflect a higher priority for agricul-
tural land preservation.
III -6. Certain Transfers of Property (B)
Minnesota law provides a device whereby a
city can prohibit the effective transfer of property
when such a transfer is carried out by means of
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a metes and bounds or unapproved land survey.
The law should be amended to require specific
enforcement procedures. However, in those divi-
sions of land when all parcels sold and remaining
are five acres or greater, the division and transfer
of such parcels can be carried out without city
review or approval and without contributing to
park dedication and other public purposes as
under the subdivision law.
This exception provision should be changed to
include only those parcels over ten acres in size.
Division into such large parcels will not be dis-
ruptive to any planning or public improvement
activity.
111 -7. Shade Tree Disease Control (A)
The legislature in 1977 made a major commit-
ment to control Dutch elm and oak wilt disease
and set a target level for grants to municipalities
of 45 percent for sanitation grants and 50 percent
for reforestation grants. There is no doubt that
the magnitude of the shade tree problem is even
greater than the early estimates and that it will
remain a major problem for cities for the coming
several years.
The League urges that the legislature continue
its commitment to shade tree disease control and
that the grant program be funded to achieve the
target levels for sanitation and reforestation
grants. Furthermore, the local costs of shade tree
disease control should be made a permanent spe-
cial levy.
111 -8. Plat Approval (B)
Under existing law, a city must act on an ap-
plication for a plat within sixty days after the
first public hearing date or it is deemed approved.
This does not allow enough time for adequate
review by the city staff, planning commission and
a city council, especially when environmental judg-
ments must be made. The League recommends
that the law be amended so that the period of
time be lengthened to one hundred twenty days
from first hearing by the council, or its committees
or boards.
III -9. Special Assessments (B)
Special assessments, as a means of financing
property - related improvements, have served as
a local process to identify priorities, since they
permit those who benefit to pay most of the cost.
The legal procedures for assessing these benefits
should be made as clear and simple as possible.
The authority to make sewer assessments based
on capacity rights, as an additional alternative to
present assessment authority, would strengthen
local land use controls as well as giving local
governments an equitable alternative for making
sewer assessments. The League believes that local
governments already have sufficient legal authority
to base sewer assessments on capacity rights, which
could be transferred among land owners, provided
any proposed development met local government
zoning and subdivision criteria. However, in the
event that future court decisions limit or restrict
this authority, the legislature should grant specific
authority to local government to make sewer
assessments in this manner.
III -10. Lake Improvement and Restoration (C)
Cities, towns and counties now have consider-
able authority to establish lake restoration and
improvement programs and projects. However,
funding is available only for implementing pro-
jects and not for planning and data collection.
The League urges the legislature to establish
a unified program for the funding of lake restora-
tion and improvement planning and program
implementation.
III -11. Minnesota Municipal Board (C)
Since its organization, the Minnesota Municipal
Board has strengthened municipal government
by providing a means for the orderly and intelli-
gent evaluation of proposed incorporations, con-
solidations, and annexations throughout the state.
Recent additions and changes in the Board's
authority in annexation areas will encourage and
foster an assessment of the consequences for
governmental framework of certain kinds of
development and services in urbanizing fringe
areas around cities. The League commends the
legislature for making this change and recommends
that no further changes be made in the annexation
laws until the current system has been evaluated
through its application by the Municipal Board
to annexation situations.
The Municipal Board should be given the author-
ity to control the creation of urban towns in the
future. Any township which needs municipal
powers should be required to request that authori-
ty of the Board, and the request should automati-
cally confer continuing jurisdiction on the Board
to initiate annexation, incorporations or consoli-
dations of the township territory.
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(B) Consolidation of cities. An alternative to
the existing law concerning consolidation of cit-
ies should be developed in order to encourage
city councils and city residents to consolidate
cities when it is in the public interest to do so.
Accordingly, the League recommends that the
following optional method of consolidation be
enacted. The alternative procedure for the gra-
dual, orderly consolidation of two or more exist-
ing cities would be as follows:
The procedure for orderly consolidations would
be initiated only by 1) the concurrent resolution
of the affected cities or 2) a petition by five per-
cent of those voting in the last general election in
each of the affected areas. Upon petition, the
Municipal Board would establish a consolidation
commission composed of residents of all affected
cities.
The concurrent resolutions of the affected
cities or the report of the consolidation commis-
sion would make recommendations concerning:
the boundaries of the proposed consolidated city,
which could include unincorporated areas adja-
cent to the affected cities; the contents of any
city charter for the proposed consolidated city
or the form of government of the proposed con-
solidated city, and the procedures for the order-
ly consolidation of the affected cities and any
affected unincorporated areas.
Upon receipt of either the concurrent resolu-
tion of the affected cities or the report of the con-
solidation commission, the Municipal Board would
hold hearings and issue a report within three
months on all matters pertaining to the proposed
consolidation.
If approved by the councils of all affected cities,
the consolidation would become final. However,
the councils may and upon petition of twenty -five
percent of those voting in the last general election,
must hold a single referendum on the question
involving all residents in the proposed consoli-
dated city, and the question would require to pass
a majority of those voting on the question as well
as a majority of the votes cast in each city.
III -12. Environmental Impact Statement
Process (C)
The rules and regulations which have been a-
dopted by the Environmental Quality Council
governing the environmental impact statement
process have gone a long way toward integrating
this process into the pre -existing legal procedural
framework in local units of government. The
result has been to reinforce the traditional role
of local government in land use and related de-
cisions which are primarily of local concern. Fur-
thermore, the assignment of a major portion of
the financial responsibility for the preparation of
any necessary environmental impact statement
to the party initiating the new development, re-
lieves local government of what could be a signi-
ficant financial burden. Nonetheless, there may be
circumstances where it would be in the public
interest to have an environmental impact study
conducted which could not or should not be
assumed by the party initiating the new develop-
ment. Therefore, the League recommends that
cities continue to be permitted to undertake
such a study with their own resources. Further-
more, the petition procedure should be revised
to provide that only registered voters who are
residents of the affected area, may sign petitions
requesting the Environmental Quality Council to
require the preparation of an environmental
impact statement.
III -13. Intergovernmental Strategies (C)
During the last several years the Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency has taken several steps
which have markedly improved the working
relationship between its own staff and local govern-
ment officials. The decentralization of its staff
in regional offices, the increasing willingness to
provide technical assistance to local governments
and the appointment of an advisory council com-
posed of local government officials, have each con-
tributed to better communication and cooperation.
The League endorses these efforts and urges the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to continue
to involve local officials in the mutual effort to
improve the effectiveness of our efforts to pre-
serve and improve our environment.
III -14. Flexible Approach to Pollution Control (C)
The present federal and state programs for the
abatement of pollution problems tend to rely
heavily or exclusively upon single solution ap-
proaches which are not necessarily appropriate or
economically feasible in very small communities.
As a result, small cities may be required to install
very costly central collection and treatment sys-
tems without regard to cost /benefit considerations
or their ability to finance the continuing operation
of such systems, and larger cities are discouraged
from using alternative strategies where they might
be appropriate. Consequently, the League re-
commends that both federal and state pollution
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control programs be modified to permit low
interest loans and grants to upgrade alternative
environmentally sound systems and to finance
other means of onsite disposal of domestic and
commercial wastes in small cities. We encourage
mandatory standards for individual onsite dis-
posal systems.
111 -15. State and Federal Wastewater
Treatment Grants (C)
Over the past several years, Congress and the
Minnesota Legislature have made a major commit-
ment to providing cities with funds for wastewater
treatment plants. Cities, too, have made a major
commitment of their resources. However, only
the highest priority communities have received
funds to date. In view of the needs that have been
identified for improved wastewater treatment, and
the substantial commitment that has already been
made in planning for improved treatment facili-
ties, the League urges that Congress and the legis-
lature continue to fund wastewater treatment at
the current level including funds to compensate
for increased costs due to inflation, or to increase
funding to reduce the city's share.
IV. PERSONNEL, PENSIONS AND
LABOR RELATIONS
Preamble
Since city governments are labor- intensive, and
the preponderance of city budgets is spent on
employee costs, we are keenly aware of the effect
of state and federal actions affecting local per-
sonnel management, and employee pay and bene-
fits. While we recognize that there are areas of
public employment in which the state or federal
government has a legitimate interest in establish-
ing programs to insure that an identifiable interest
is protected, the League opposes state or federal
intervention where such an interest is not clearly
manifest, or interference in basic personnel poli-
cies through direct intervention such as mandated
salary schedules.
In addition, subject to laws prohibiting dis-
crimination in employment, neither the state nor
the federal government should become involved
in the hiring, disciplining or dismissal of groups
of employees, such as police officers, or specific
individuals. Finally, the state administration and
the legislature should recognize and specifically
identify the coststo local government of personnel -
related laws such as workers' compensation bene-
fits, minimum wages and unemployment compen-
sation benefits. They should also clearly recognize
that the wage and fringe settlements made with
state employees have a spin -off effect on the ex-
pectations of other employees.
Where there is no compelling federal or state
interest, we believe the public is best served by
the responsible exercise of management authority
for personnel by local governing bodies. We suggest
the following policies to implement this goal.
IV -1. Federal Labor Legislation (B)
In 1971, Minnesota adopted a comprehensive
Public Employment Labor Relations Act, which
covers all public employees within the state. The
scope of the law is sufficiently broad to permit
free and extensive participation in the collective
bargaining process by both the public employee
and employer, including the right to strike for
certain employees. The League of Minnesota
Cities is opposed to federal labor legislation cover-
ing state and local employees on the grounds that
it is unconstitutional and that it is patently unnece-
ssary. If the U.S. Supreme Court determines that
such legislation is constitutional and the Congress
finds it necessary to adopt some sort of national
legislation in this area, we believe the best alterna-
tive would be to extend the provision of the
National Labor Relations Act to cover public
employers and employees in those states that do
not have existing labor legislation, allowing states
the opportunity to establish their own laws as the
need arises.
IV -2. Minnesota Public Employment Labor
Relations ,pct (A)
Experience with the PELRA of 1971, as a-
mended, during the last several years indicates
that several amendments should be made in order
to safeguard the rights of local governing bodies,
to encourage the collective bargaining process,
and to improve the administration of the law.
The League supports the following specific changes,
in order to their importance.
Impasse resolution. The first priority is to
eliminate the distinction between essential
and non - essential employees as it relates to
compulsory, binding arbitration. All em-
ployees should be considered as non -essen -
tial and should have the right to strike. As
a second priority, in the event that elimina-
tion of the distinction is not acceptable to the
legislature, the public employer should
have the option of requesting arbitration.
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If the public employer did not request arbitra-
tion within a specified time, the employees
could legally strike.
Finally, in any case involving interest arbitration
(i.e., terms and conditions of employment), the
governing body should have the option either to
accept the arbitration award or to submit the
award to a referendum of the public for approval
or rejection.
2. Impasse arbitration. In the event the arbitra-
tion alternative is selected, the arbitration
panel should be composed of a tripartite
panel: One member selected by the exclusive
representative, one by the public employer
and one neutral member selected by the
parties, who would serve as chairman. A
procedure should be provided in the law,
possibly modeled after the Missouri plan
for the selection of judges, to assure that the
arbitrators certified by the Public Employ-
ment Relations Board are both highly quali-
fied and neutral. Furthermore, arbitrators
should be required by law to provide a
thorough written rationale for all their
decisions for the future guidance of employ-
ers and unions. The cost of the neutral
members of any arbitration panel should
continue to be borne equally by the parties
involve-1 in the dispute.
3. Supervisors, confidential employees and col-
lective bargaining. The Public Employment
Labor Relations Act of 1971, as amended,
provides full collective bargaining rights to
all supervisory personnel, thereby placing
in jeopardy the concept of "management"
in the public sector. Supervisors of "essential"
employees in most cases are placed in the same
bargaining units as the employees they super-
vise because of current statutory criteria.
Supervisors of other employees are granted
full collective bargaining rights in separate
bargaining units. Confidential employees are
granted similar bargaining rights. This approach
is inconsistent with the National Labor Rela-
tions Act and laws in many other states
where supervisory and confidential employ-
ees are outside the collective bargaining pro-
cess, as they are agents of the employer. The
extension of full collective bargaining rights
to supervisory and confidential employees
seriously impairs the ability of the public
employer to adequately manage in the public
interest. Supervisors of public employees
should be treated in a manner similar to that
for supervisors in the private sector, i.e., their
management role should be acknowledged and
they should not have bargaining rights. In no
event should supervisory employees be re-
presented by an employee organization which
represents non - supervisory employees. Similar
standards should apply to confidential em-
ployees. Appropriate legislative changes should
be made to restore the concept of manage-
ment in government. Furthermore, the term
"supervisory" should be defined and con-
strued consistent with the National Labor
Relations Act.
4. Public Employment Labor Relations Board.
The authority of the PERB should be extend-
ed to include:
a) bargaining unit determination appeals,
b) scope of bargaining issues,
c) representation election appeals, and
d) unfair labor practice charges.
Disciplinary actions against employees and
unions for participation in illegal strikes,
however, should continue to be the responsi-
bility of the public employer and the courts
respectively. Furthermore, all of the decisions
of the Board should be subject to appeal to
district court.
Certification of impasse. Under current law,
following certification of issues to impasse
by the Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Ser-
vices and after fifteen days have elapsed
without the employer having submitted final
positions, the employees involved may strike.
PELRA should be amended so that the em-
ployees must exercise their right to strike
within 15 days following the employer's
refusal of arbitration of forfeit such right.
* IV -3. Local Police and Firefighters
Pension Funds (A)
The financing of local police and firefighters
relief associations continues to be one of the most
serious public pension problems in Minnesota.
Furthermore, while a number of local laws have
been passed phasing out local retirement associa-
tions, it is still highly desirable to establish certain
uniform policies governing all of these relief as-
sociations. Therefore, the League recommends
that the legislature amend the Guidelines Act of
1969 to incorporate the following policies which
should apply to all local relief associations:
I. All newly hired police and firefighters should
become members of PERA Police and Fire
Fund.
2. Adequate assistance should be made to fully
fund the obligations of the local relief as-
sociations which are phased out as a result
of these policies.
Employees' contributions should be in-
creased to at least 8 percent of the current
salary without regard to the base salary upon
which pension benefits are calculated but not
more than 40 percent of the normal cost of
financing the benefits. Furthermore, any
increase in benefits for current employees
including any resulting deficit, should be
financed 50 percent by the employing city
and 50 percent by employees on a current
basis.
4. If possible, some limited form of portability
into the PERA Police and Fire Fund should
be provided to members of local police and
firefighters relief associations if they take a
public safety position in another govern-
mental unit before their pension benefits
are vested. The PERA law should also be
amended to permit a member of the PERA
Police and Fire Fund to continue his PERA
coverage if he takes a public safety position in
a city with a local relief association.
If the legislature determines that the uniform
policies suggested above should not be enacted,
the legislature should act to reduce the escalator
provisions of the funds; should provide more
public involvement in the governance and adminis-
tration of the funds; and enact enabling legislation
permitting any city with a local police or fire-
fighters relief association to place all newly hired
police and fire personnel under the PERA Police
and Fire Fund, provided that adequate measures
are taken to fully fund any deficit in the local
relief association being phased out.
* IV -4. PERA Benefits, Financing and
Administration (A)
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However, there are a number of related
policy issues which have not been dealt with in
the law. Therefore, the League strongly urges the
legislature to adopt the following policies in the
form of amendments to the PERA Law:
44s enacted subsequent to 1973, including
any resulting deficits, s
My
Any increases
in benefits under the PERA Police and Fire
Fund, including any resulting deficits, should
be financed 50 percent by employers and 50
percent by employees, over the same amorti-
zation period.
2. Since the equal, matching employee and em-
ployer contributions to the Coordinated
Plan within PERA are sufficient to finance
the present benefits and liquidate the exist-
ing deficit in less than 30 years, all of the
employer additional contributions (i.e., the
1.5 percent of the salaries of employees
under the Coordinated Plan and the 2.5 per-
cent of the salaries of employees under the
Basic Plan) should be specifically and ex-
clusively earmarked for the reduction of the
actuarial deficit in the PERA Basic Plan.
The employers' additional contributions should
continue until this deficit is liquidated or
until 1997, whichever occurs earlier.
Since a
lRZR,Am-FethTvT is in essence a gratuity, the
resulting cost should not be paid from the
PERA Fund,
from the
mod.
4. The actuarial assumptions concerning the rate
of investment earnings and of salary increases
should be a conservative reflection of actual
experience. The present assumption concern-
ing the rate of investment earnings is consis-
tent with this policy, but is
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5. The League supports the continuation of the
Minnesota Adjustable Fixed Benefit Fund
as a means of providing post- retirement
increases in the pension benefits of retirees
under the statewide pension funds. However,
in the event the legislature determines that
some other mechanism for providing such
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increases is more appropriate, the League
urges that the legislature provide that: (a)
sir
(b)
and (c) the cost
of such increases, including any resulting de-
ficits, be financed as provided in paragraph
1 above.
6. That portion of the PERA law which provides
for a 3 percent per year augmentation of
deferred pension benefits seems to be unre-
lated to its equity. Therefore, the League
urges that the PERA Law be amended to pro-
vide that all funds in the deferred annuitant's
account be transferred to the Minnesota
Adjustable Fixed Benefit Fund, to provide
a money purchase annuity.
7. Further e
e
8. The League recommends reciprocal enabling
legislation to allow the transfer of pension
contributions of individual employees, at
their request, to and from other states with
similar reciprocal legislation.
IV -5. Two Percent Tax - Police Aid (C)
The League recommends that the legislature
amend the present provision on disbursement of
the two percent tax on automobile casualty in-
surance to allow expenditures by the recipient
political subdivision of any excess over the em-
ployer's share of police retirement costs for any
police department purpose.
IV -6. Taxation of PERA Contributions (B)
For several years, litigation has been pending in
federal courts to consider whether employee con-
tributions toward PERA and similar public pension
systems should be subject to federal income tax
laws during the year in which it is contributed to
the system, as opposed to the year in which the
employee actually receives the benefit. To our
knowledge no similar litigation is pending regard-
ing the applicability of the state income tax.
It may be argued that the individual employee
does not have the use of the contributions which
he makes to PERA in the year in which they are
contributed and therefore should not be subject
to either state or federal income taxation, but
should be excluded from the employee's gross
income. Rather, it may be argued that the contri-
butions should not be taxed until the benefits
are actually received. Such a position would be
consistent with the way in which the municipal
contributions to the employees pension are taxed.
Therefore, the League recommends that the
PERA and state income tax laws be amended
as follows:
Employee deductions to PERA and similar
public employee pension systems should be de-
ducted from the employee's gross income and not
subjected to state income taxation during the
year contributed to PERA.
IV -7. Volunteer Firefighters Relief
Associations (C)
Through the some 550 municipal volunteer
fire departments and more than 20 non - profit
firefighting corporations, hundreds of .cities
throughout the state provide fire protection
services to their citizens in a very economical
manner. Most of these departments and non-
profit corporations provide their volunteer mem-
bers with some type of pension as partial com-
pensation for their community service. Tradi-
tionally, the type and level of pension benefits
provided as well as the administration and in-
vestment of the pension funds has been handled
locally in accordance with benefit limits and
financial standards specified by law. Although
this system has worked very well, there is need
to provide cities more flexibility in the use of
state aid funds. To this end, the League recom-
mends the following specific amendments be
enacted:
Cities should receive the state aid rather
than the state aid being paid directly to
local volunteer firefighters relief associa-
tions or to non - profit firefighting corpora-
tions as presently provided by law. Further-
more, when the pensions are fully funded,
cities should be able to use the state aids
for other fire safety - related purposes.
2. In the case of lump sum pension benefits,
specific statutory authority should be enac-
ted to permit payment of a term certain
annuity (i.e. in periodic installments) in-
cluding interest.
3. Each firefighters relief association and non-
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profit firefighting corporation should be
required to file a current copy of its bylaws
with the Commissioner of Insurance and to
file a revised copy of the bylaws upon each
benefit change.
IV -8. Veterans' Preference (B)
In 1975 the legislature adopted a uniform
veterans' preference law for state and local govern-
ment which modified preference in employment
and promotion and in 1977, the legislature ter-
minated .veterans' . preference for, persons who
enter military service after 1976. The League
supports these modifications and believes that
these provisions should not,be amended _further-.
Veterans should continue to be protected against
unjust dismissals, but when a veteran's employ-
ment is terminated and he or she does not request
a hearing within ten days, or when an impartial
hearing body determines that the dismissal was
for just cause, the law should, not require that the
veteran receive compensation for any period
when services were not actually performed. Fur-
ther, the law should make it clear that the peti-
tion procedure is an alternative to local admin-
istrative hearings.
IV -9. Intergovernmental Personnel Act (C)
In Minnesota, personnel management services
for local government initiated with assistance of
Intergovernmental Personnel Act grants have
proven valuable in improving personnel adminis-
tration in cities and counties. The League strongly
supports continued federal funding of IPA pro-
grams at the current level as well as continuing
the matching requirement at the 75/25 basis as
in the original act.
IV -10. Unemployment Compensation (B)
In 1;976, unemployment compensation laws
were substantially improved by the elimination
of eligibility for those individuals who volun-
tarily quit or are dismissed for cause. However,
requalification is provided once the claimant
has earned four times the weekly benefit for which
he would otherwise. be eligible. This requalifica-
tion is too low and should be substantially in-
creased.
In addition, we believe that individuals who
knowingly accept temporary employment of
specific limited durations or provisional employ-
ment not exceeding six months and whose such
employment is thus ended, should be deemed to
have voluntarily ended their such employment
and thus should be disqualified for certain bene-
fits. The employers involved should not be sad-
dled with unemployment compensation costs
for individuals who accept and perhaps even plan
for the termination of their such employment.
The Minnesota Supreme Court is expected to
decide on this matter soon. If the Court does not
so construe the present unemployment compen-
sation law, the law should be appropriately a-
mended. Also, students temporarily employed
as interns, such as urban corps interns, should
not be eligible for unemployment compensa-
tion.
IV -11. Privacy of Municipal Employee
Personnel Records (B)
On June 30, 1977 the State Commissioner of
Administration Richard L. Brubacher promul-
gated a "findings of fact and conclusions" clas-
sifying various personnel data for some 22 muni-
cipal governments, including 8 cities. The findings
concluded that relatively little data within indivi-
dual personnel files may be classified as private
data on individuals, and that most of the informa-
tion commonly found in employee personnel
files is public. It is felt that this administrative
finding is contrary to the best interests and morale
of individual municipal employees and that such
employees have rights of privacy.
Therefore, the League recommends that the
provisions of M.S. 15.162 to 15.1671 be amended
so as to provide that only the following informa-
tion on city employees shall be considered as
public information, and that all other information
in the employee's personnel file shall be con-
sidered to be private, made available only to the
employee, his immediate supervisor, the city's
personnel authority, and the executive adminis-
trator of the city and his or her designee:
a. Name of employee.
b. Position with city.
c. Department in which employed.
d. The length of time the employee has been so
employed.
e. The salary for the position held.
Information on the employee's education
and prior work experience which would
indicate that the employee is qualified to
hold the position.
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IV -12. Group Insurance (A)
M.S. 471.616, which deals with competitive
bidding for employee group insurance, includes
a provision requiring that the aggregate value
of benefits cannot be less than those provided
by the pre- existing contract. The apparent intent
is to prevent the reduction of employee benefits,
but it also effectively prevents the negotiation
of a different total compensation package and has
resulted in the rejection of bids which included
additional benefits because the local government
did not want to be committed to a higher level
of benefits in perpetuity. The League recommends
that this provision be repealed or modified in a
I ay which eliminates the problem.
IV -13. Proposed Federal Pension Legislation (B)
The State of Minnesota through its legislature
has demonstrated a continuing concern over the
past two decades for the security of public em-
ployee retirement funds. Standards have been
adopted requiring full funding and steps have
been taken to strengthen management responsi-
bility and reporting to employees. Moreover, a
permanent commission has been established by
the legislature to study and analyze public retire-
ment funds and advise the legislature on appro-
priate steps. Adequate controls and standards
exist in Minnesota to safeguard the interest of the
participants in public employee retirement funds.
Any proposed national controls and standards
should pertain only to matters of funding and
should be designed to exclude public funds such
as those in Minnesota where adequate safeguards
already are present.
IV -14. Deferred Compensation (B)
Deferred compensation plans have provided
individualized, portable means to supplement
retirement systems for municipal employees.
For the most part, employees at their own expense
defer compensation, making it a less expensive
means of providing retirement benefits than tradi-
tional pension programs. Furthermore, if pro-
posed IRS regulations were put into effect, it
would discriminate against employees of state
and municipal government by denying them oppor-
tunities readily available to many other types of
employees. The League endorses deferred com-
pensation as an option for municipal employees
and urges that appropriate congressional and ad-
ministrative actions be taken to insure that it
continues to be available.
IV -15. Formal Civil Service Systems (B)
Constraints imposed by the police and fire
civil service laws tend to hinder the effectiveness
of personnel management systems and limit home
rule charter options in cities with such commis-
sions. Experience indicates that the present meth-
ods of modifying these systems have not proved
workable. The League supports adoption of a-
nother procedure which would involve three steps:
First, a public hearing would be held with appro-
priate notice; second, the local governing body
would act to abolish the commissions; third, if
the required number of signatures were obtained
on a petition, the question would be the subject
of a referendum. If no valid petition were sub-
mitted, the action of the local governing body
would become final.
IV -16. Social Security (C)
Many public employees in Minnesota are cov-
ered by federal social security (FICA) and parti-
cipate in the plan's benefits including disability,
portability, and modest cost -of- living benefit
increases. The League recommends as a long -
range goal that all public employees in Minnesota,
except volunteers, be covered by FICA, on condi-
tion that the financing of medical and non - pension
related programs are in the future financed from
federal general funds.
IV -17. Temporary Military Service (C)
When an employee is temporarily absent because
of short -term military service, the public employer
should pay the difference, if any, between the
public pay and the military pay. Pension and other
rights should be protected. Furthermore, the law
should make it clear that the 15 -day period applies
to calendar days.
IV -18. Minnesota Minimum Wage Law (B)
In 1973 the legislature passed the Minnesota
Fair Labor Standards Act which establishes min-
imum wage rates for cities and other local govern-
ments. One of the spin -off effects of this law has
been to significantly reduce the summer employ-
ment opportunities for high school and college
students in cities and other local governments.
It has also forced cities to curtail recreation and
related programs for young people in many cities
in all parts of the state. In order to alleviate this
problem, the League urges that this law be amended
to exclude high school and college students who
work for cities on a part -time or seasonal basis.
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V. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
V -1. Issues in Law Enforcement Personnel (A)
Although the state government has been in-
volved in police training for a number of years,
no coherent policy or strategy has emerged for
improving law enforcement in the markedly dif-
ferent circumstances and social environments
which exist in Minnesota. Following the 1977
legislative session these issues were further clouded
by new laws relating to certification, and to mini-
mum standards for conduct and recruitment,
which significantly impinge on the prerogatives of
local government.
A major effort should be made by cities, the
legislature and other concerned parties to develop
a rational response to this complex situation,
with the League initiating action wherever ap-
propriate. In developing legislation, the following
guidelines are recommended:
Cities increasingly employ specialized law
enforcement personnel including part-time
officers, reservists and paraprofessionals.
Cities should clearly have the authority to
establish their own standards for such per-
sonnel, who may have less than full arrest
powers.
2. There should be consideration of the finan-
cial impact of any state rules and regulations
on the cost of law enforcement to cities.
For example, uniform minimum recruit-
ment standards may lead to minimum wages.
The state should subsidize any extra costs.
Enforcement of standards of conduct and
performance, and any other disciplinary
matters, should not bypass normal city
personnel procedures. Legislation authorizing
the peace officers training board to establish
minimum standards of conduct for police
officers should be repealed. However, sample
standards which could be used as a draft for
local adoption to local situations could be
beneficial.
4. Special attention should be placed upon law
enforcement problems in rural areas and in
small cities where conventional approaches
may not be practical. The state should pro-
vide incentives for interlocal programs in-
cluding contracts with other law enforce-
ment bodies.
5. The employer should have the right to enforce
any minimum employment or certification
requirements throughout the employee's
term of service.
6. Employment at the present standard is in-
tended to apply only to full -time officers
with full arrest powers. Consideration should
be given to different levels of certification,
reflecting different types of police assign-
ments.
7. The composition of the peace officers train-
ing board should be altered to include major-
ity representation from elected city and
county officials, no more than half of which
could be from the seven - county metropoli-
tan area.
8. The opportunity to undertake academic
work at post secondary school is a valuable
pre- service training experience for potential
police officers. We also encourage the de-
velopment of pre - employment certification.
The League urges the peace officers train-
ing board to continue its commitment to
certification of these courses in a variety
of locations throughout the state, as well
as providing the required basic police train-
ing at area vocational technical institutes,
community colleges and universities. The
state should maintain its financial commit-
ment to police training at the present level
at a minimum, or increase it.
* V -2. Building Codes and Fire Codes (A)
One of the more rapidly evolving legal arenas
recently has been the extent to which the public,
via state or local governments, is responsible for
the safety of buildings through inspections and code
enforcement. There seems to be general agreement
that state government should be responsible for
enforcement of the uniform fire code, which
applies to existing buildings, in large facilities
which are open to the public, whether they are
located in cities or townships. The League would
support legislation which clarifies the responsi-
bility of the state to inspect such public facilities
as schools, hotels, lodging houses, hospitals, and
nursing homes, provided that the state is clearly
responsible for enforcement and inspection,
whether or not it contracts with local units of
government to perform the actual inspection.
However, the legislation should permit cities to
enact more stringent fire safety codes for these
facilities, as well as for other buildings.
When a city chooses to enact more stringent
fire safety codes, and to enforce these more
stringent codes by inspection, the city should
realize that it may be liable for any failure to
inspect and to enforce the code.
When a city does not enact more stringent fire
safety codes, the state should be responsible for
inspection and enforcement of the fire code,
unless the city clearly agrees to accept the res-
ponsibility.
It is equally important to focus on preventing
emergencies or potential emergency situations
through incorporating improved protective fea-
tures into new building construction, especially
in high -risk areas or in certain high -risk buildings.
Evidence indicates that if certain protective fea-
tures were incorporated, the lives and property
of occupants would be better protected and
local public safety services would be better able
to cope with emergencies at the present level of
service, without adding to the general property
tax burden. The League recommends that the
uniform state building code be amended to permit
any city to enact ordinances to require fire pro-
tection and building security features that exceed
those set forth in the code.
* V -3. Insurance (A)
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Cities in Minnesota are encountering substan-
tial problems in purchasing insurance, in terms
of both costs and availability. For some lines of
coverage it is becoming questionable whether
commercial insurance will continue to be available
at all; already some municipal gas utilities have
been unable to purchase liability coverage. In
other lines of coverage, premiums have increased
enormously. Some cities have already been able
to realize considerable savings by self- insuring
workers' compensation and employee health
benefits. In lines where commercial coverage be-
comes unavailable, self- insurance is the only al-
ternative.
The League supports legislation which would
clarify the authority of cities to self- insure any of
the risks to which they are exposed. Because many
cities are too small to be able to self- insure in-
dividually, cities should be granted the authority
to jointly self- insure.
The state should also sponsor a study of the
insurance rates charged governmental entities and
their relationship to loss experience.
V -4. Liquor Issues (B)
The League and its members strongly supported
the legislature when it modified liquor laws to
make the number of on -sale liquor licenses issued
a matter for local determination and eliminated
the phase -out requirement when there are muni-
cipal on -sale or, off -sale liquor operations. We
recommend that the legislature build on these
initiatives by taking the following action:
Cities should have the same authority to
establish fees for off -sale liquor licenses
and special club licenses that_ they now have
for., on- sale,. liquor and beer licenses and off -
sale beer licenses. However,. in the event that
the legislature :d'etermines ;there is a .need for
uniformity throughout the state in fees for
special club licenses, the statutory limits
should be keyed to gross sales and should
be substantially increased.
2. In 1977 the legislature amended those por-
tions of the Liquor Civil Damage Act re-
lating to liability for damages and provided
that any action must be commenced within
one year after the injury. The League does
not believe this law should be amended
further until we have had several years ex-
perience with it.
3. Private liquor operations should be required
to post a substantial bond or to secure liquor
liability insurance in amounts reasonably
adequate to cover any anticipated claims
under the Liquor Civil Damage Act. The city
should be permitted to require an amount of
insurance coverage in excess of any amounts
which may be required by state law.
V -5. Emergency Medical Services (B)
Cities as a. group are -the single largest provider
of ambulance services in the state and form a vital
part of the network of emergency services: To
maintain and improve the emergency services net-
work, the League suggests the following guide-
lines:
The current statutory requirements for am-
bulance vehicles, equipment and attendants'
training should remain in the statutes as
minimum requirements. However, appropriate
amendments should allow quick response
vehicles to respond to emergency situations.
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2. With increasing interest in paramedic services,
the League supports general, statewide legis-
lation to provide licensing for paramedic
services, provided that existing municipal
services should be grandfathered in, and
that the enabling legislation should limit
the liability of individuals and cities to acts
or omissions inconsistent with training, or
the result of gross negligence or willful mis-
cond uct.
3. While the. League supports the continuing
development of a systems approach to,emer-
gency medical services, we believe that local
governments should be closely, involved in
their . planning and implementation. "Speci-
fically, any, state grants should be available
only to,,those units where cities are directly
involved, and nothing in any plans, should
limit the ability of cities to make mutual
aid agreements, contracts or any local /,inter-
local arrangements for emergency services.
4. Cities agree that alternative transportation
strategies that are less costly than full am-
bulance services should be developed.
V -6.911 Emergency Telephone System (A)
The 1977 Legislature mandated a 911 emer-
gency telephone system for the state, -with com-
pliance deadlines of 1982 for the Twin Cities
metropolitan area and 1986 for the rest of the
state. Under the financial plan enacted. in. 1978,
only the annual recurring costs of local equip-
ment and personnel would be paid by cities and
other local jurisdictions. e— gas-la -re
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sufficient federal funds are. not available at any
time in the - future to finance" capital .equipment
installation at public safety answering points,
the state should fund these costs. Furthermore,
in view of the fact that this is a mandated program,
the local annual recurring costs should be a special
levy, outside the levy limits, or the state should
provide reimbursement.
V -7. Speed Limits on Residential Streets (C)
The League supports a two -level statutory
speed limit in urban districts, s-a _bDu
. ri- s arr 5-n+4e sip
its.
V -8. Inspection and Health Service (C)
Over the years, a number of cities have devel-
oped health, sanitarian and inspection programs
which are well suited to their diverse sizes and
constituencies. In the event that the legislature
determines that a broader -based approach to these
services is desirable, it should build upon those
services that are available and in any event, cities
should retain the option of providing these ser-
vices in their own jurisdictions.
V -9. Good Samaritan Law (C)
The Good Samaritan Law, a law of interest
to municipal employees in the provision of emer-
gency care, has never really served its purpose
because, unlike similar laws in other states, it
preserved the common law liability of a Good
Samaritan for damages resulting from ordinary
negligence in rendering emergency care. The
League recommends that the law be amended
to limit the liability of a person rendering emer-
gency care at the scene of an emergency to lia-
bility for willful or wanton misconduct.
V -10. Adverse Possession (C)
It seems clear that M.S. 541.01 prohibits adverse
possession of city property; that is, the occupa-
tion or use by other parties of city property.
However, in the event that court decisions do
not concur with this interpretation, the legisla-
ture should make it clear that no adverse posses-
sion can be had against the state and its politi-
cal subdivisions.
V -11. Courts and judicial Administration (C)
Minnesota made a major revision of the lower
court system between 1971 and 1976, creating
a county court system to replace municipal and
justice courts which went into effect through-
out most of the state. The League continues to
support this system and, in view of the limited
experience we have had with the county court
system, we would oppose any further consolida-
tion of the court system in Minnesota until suf-
ficient time has passed during which the opera-
tion of the county court system can be evaluated.
Experience over the past few years has shown
that many cities, especially smaller cities, have
experienced costs for prosecution and associated
activities beyond their ability to support. We
recommend that the law be amended to require
that county attorneys prosecute all cases involving
local or state law, except where the city council
by ordinance has designated that the violation of
certain ordinances or misdemeanors would be
prosecuted locally. The county should retain ap-
proximately two - thirds of the fines when it is the
county attorney's responsibility to prosecute,
and when it is the city's responsibility to prosecute,
the city should retain approximately two - thirds
of the fines.
VI. REVENUE SOURCES
* VI -1. Levy Limits (A)
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The 1977 session of the legislature made signi-
ficant modifications in that section of M.S. Ch. 275
that limits the authority of cities to levy property
taxes. Among the modifications were: (1) a one-
time reverse referendum procedure for increasing
the levy limit base, only for use in 1977 and 1978;
(2) a modest adjustment of the levy limit base
per capita for any city which had a base of less
than 80 percent of the county average; (3) eli-
mination of the declining population provision;
and (4) partial recognition, in the levy limit base,
of levies for new commercial - industrial property.
These changes were made in recognition of the
fact that the levy limit law is too inflexible to
accommodate both the high rate of inflation and
the diverse problems and circumstances faced
by cities throughout the state. The fact that the
legislature finds it necessary to change the levy
limit law every two years is the best single exam-
ple of the inherent difficulty of applying statewide
solutions to diverse local problems. While the 1977
modifications provided temporary relief from
some obvious problems, the levy limit law is
basically inconsistent with our long history of
local self - government. Consequently, the League
remains strongly opposed in principle to such
limitations and advocates their repeal. If repeal
cannot be accomplished, the League supports
the following amendments to the present levy
limit law.
1. The present 6 percent annual increase in the
per capita limitation is unrealistic in view
of rising labor costs and increasing demands
for local services. Therefore, a more accur-
ate index of governmental costs should be
incorporated into the law as a basis for auto-
matically adjusting levy limits when govern-
mental costs increase more than 6 percent.
2. The temporary reverse referendum provision,
which allows the local governing body to
increase the levy limit base up to 10 percent
if the previous year's levy was 98 percent or
more of the allowable levy, should be made
a permanent feature of the law.
3. One of the most serious problems facing
cities is the growth in the number and cost
of federal- and state- mandated programs,
which substitute the judgments of Congress
and the legislature for local budget priori-
ties, since they must be paid for within the
current restrictive limits. Since special bills
to address this problem on an ad hoc basis
will not provide a permanent or statewide
solution to these problems, we. suggest the
following four -step program:
* VI -2. County - Municipal Aid
The Omnibus Tax Act of 1977 incorporated
additional steps in the - direction of a more rational
state -local fiscal policy by increasing the amount
of non - property tax revenue distributed to cities,
and by providing a partial. adjustment of the dis-
tribution formula to reflect more recent popula-
tion figures as well as 1970 population figures.
There. were no substantive modifications in the
major thrust of the distribution formula which
was adopted in 1975 and which seems to - funnel
additional aid into those' 'cities where property
taxes are highest. To ' b'uild' additional .equity
into the formula, the League suggests the fol-
lowing'steps:
a. The special levy for new and increased (A) 1.1he distribution of state - raised revenue
state - mandated program costs should be through the Courity-Municipal Aid Fund
reinstated; and a' special levy for increased should be increased in 1979. and 1980, in
costs caused by other state actions or by amounts at least sufficient to compensate
federally mandated programs should be for inflation.
initiated.
The state should adopt a policy of "de-
liberate restraint" on its mandated pro-
grams, including a mandatory fiscal note
identifying local government costs on any
new mandated programs when they are
introduced in the legislature and a state-
ment of compelling statewide interest
to accompany all state mandates.
c. A special levy for natural disasters and
lawful orders (including the cost of com-
plying with any federal law or regulation
issued after 1971) should be included.
d. As an alternative; to special levies, the
state should provide full or .partial reim-
bursement directly from state_ revenues
Jo carry out state - mandated programs.
4. In both 1973 and 1975 amendments were
passed to the levy Limit law excluding certain
cities from this law on the basis .of popula-
tion, because it became obvious that the nor-
mal political forces at work in smaller cities
made levy limits unnecessary. The League
believes this is a reasonable way to proceed
and that the law should be amended to ex-
clude all cities under 5,000 population from
levy limits.
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(A) 2.The distribution of state aids should re-
cognize that certain cities have special
needs based on such socio -economic
characteristics as older housing, popula-
tion decline, per capita income, incidence
of poverty, and decline or lag in tax base.
(A) 3.The formula should be adjusted to take
account of the fact that the cost of cer-
tain services such as street. maintenance,
trash collection and street lighting are
financed . by special assessments in some
cities and by the general tax levy in others,
and that the cost of providing some ser-
vices is generally independent of popula-
tion.
(B) `4. Transfers of revenue -to the general fund
from municipally owned liquor stores
and utilities should be treated as part of
the local tax effort. .
* VI -3. Assessment Equalization
Unequal property assessment both within and
among the various taxing jurisdictions is becoming
a major problem of property tax equity in the
state because of the increasing use of and reliance
on sales ratio measures as factors in aid formulas
and the complexity of overlapping taxing juris-
dictions including special districts. One of the
primary reasons among several for current assess-
ment equalization problems is the rapid market
value inflation of real property in the past few
years, coupled with the taxable value limits on
agriculture and homestead property imposed by
statutes. This limited market value concept has
further caused confusion among property owners
and increased recordkeeping and cost to local
units of government. The following proposals are
suggested to remedy the inequities created in the
past few years.
(A) 1. To provide the fairest equity of taxable
property valuation and minimize confus-
ion on the part of property owners, the
limited market value concept should be
eliminated and full market value for
these properties used for calculation of
taxable assessed value.
(A) 2. To ensure equity among various over-
lapping- taxing jurisdictions and for state
aid purposes, the legislature should develop
a penalty provision for ad valorem taxing
jurisdictions which do not achieve a rea-
sonable sales ratio. The penalty provision
should apply only to the jurisdiction
responsible for property assessment (i.e.
the county where a county assessor system
has been adopted, the city where responsi-
bility remains at the local level).
(A) 3. To ensure equity among individual tax-
payers within a taxing jurisdiction, the
legislature should develop a penalty provi-
sion that would apply to the local unit
which has the responsibility for assessing.
This penalty should be based on a recog-
nized standard, such as the coefficient of
dispersions measure of assessment quality.
However, no penalty should be levied when
assessments are equal to nationally ac-
cepted standards of "excellent and rea-
sonable." Any penalties should apply only
to the jurisdiction responsible for proper-
ty assessment (i.e. the county where a
county assessor system has been adopted,
the city where responsibility remains at
the local level.)
(C) 4. The legislature should make our assess-
ments system more simple.
VI -4. Distribution of Telephone Gross
Earnings Tax (C)
The taxation of telephone companies on a gross
earnings basis in lieu of ad valorem taxes is well
established in Minnesota. However, all of the re-
sulting revenue goes into the state general fund.
The League urges the legislature to distribute some
of these revenues to those local governments which
contain telephone operating property, and the re-
mainder of the resulting revenue should be used to
increase the local aid distribution to municipali-
ties.
* VI -5. Taxation of Railroads (A)
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In 1974 the Minnesota Constitution wasamended
to permit the legislature to determine how rail-
roads and railroad operating property are to be
taxed, just as in the case with other industries
and property. While a plausible argument can be
made for taxing railroad operating property on
an ad valorem basis in lieu of the present gross
earnings tax, the proposal which has been offered
by the railroads contains some very serious flaws.
Furthermore, after examining the alternatives,
the League believes there are valid administrative
and other reasons for retaining the present gross
earnings tax on railroads. However, some of the
resulting revenue should be distributed on a fair
and equitable basis to local governments which
contain railroad property and the remainder of
the resulting revenue should be used to increase
the local aid distribution to municipalities.
VI -6. Minnesota Cities Economic, Physical
and Social Conditions Study (A)
Each biennium the legislature passes a number
of laws concerning levy limits, municipal state aids,
property taxes, and other factors related to the
fiscal relationship of the various municipalities.
However, because of the extreme variety of muni-
cipalities in Minnesota as to size, age, demogra-
phics, services offered, levels of service, methods
of paying for various activities, etc., these laws
and the resulting implied state policy have a
drastically different impact, both economic and
social, on the various cities depending upon those
cities' existing characteristics. It seems logical
that to develop effective and responsible policy
and law concerning cities, their characteristics
and varying conditions should be well known and
documented for the lawmakers. Therefore, in the
same manner that the legislature initiated an in-
depth objective analysis of the cities of Minnea-
polis and St. Paul by the State Planning Agency,
the study should not have to include a detailed
analysis of all 855 Minnesota cities, but could
include a sample number from each general cate-
gory (i.e., older developed suburb, developing
suburb, metropolitan rural, metropolitan free-
standing, outstate older city, outstate rural city,
outstate newer city, etc.).
The League requests that the State /Local
Fiscal Study currently being carried out by the
State Planning Agency provide a detailed assess-
ment of the economic, physical and social con-
ditions of all Minnesota cities so that effective and
realistic legislation and policies concerning those
cities may be developed. If the present staffing,
funding, and time constraints prevent the comple-
tion of such a report, the legislature should extend
and expand this study so that a comprehensive
analysis can be carried out. In addition, the League
requests that the State Planning Agency establish
an advisory committee for this study composed
of local officials.
* VI -7. Property Tax Administration
In recent years initiatives in state and local fis-
cal policy have focused on avoiding increases in
the tax burden on local property by providing
alternate sources of revenue. However, a number
of reforms in the property tax system itself are
needed to make it a more equitable revenue in-
strument, including the following:
(B) 1 . Homesteads in classification 3CC should
be assessed at the same rate as other
homesteads, and federally or state -sub-
sidized housing units in the un- numbered
classification should be assessed at the
same rates as comparable housing units
that are not subsidized. Additionally,
the state should reimburse the property
owner or renter through an income tax
credit or rebate.
(B) 2. The fact that federally and state -sub-
sidized housing units are assessed differ-
ently in the cities depending on the city's
population creates a disincentive for cities
of less than 10,000 population to ac-
commodate such housing. This assessment
disparity should be eliminated.
(A) 3.One of the glaring inequities in the Minne-
sota tax system involves the free local
services that are provided to tax - exempt
property owned by the state and by cer-
tain non - governmental organizations. It
is widely acknowledged that such proper-
ty benefits directly from governmental
services such as police and fire protection
and street services provided by cities and
counties. However, since there is no legal
basis for claiming reimbursement for the
cost of such services they are borne by the
local taxpayers. Furthermore, such pro-
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perty is concentrated in certain cities and
counties resulting in a heavy cost burden
in certain parts of the state. The League
believes this problem should be corrected
by enacting legislation requiring both the
state and non - governmental owners of tax -
exempt property, except for churches,
houses of worship, and property used
solely for educational purposes by aca-
demies, colleges, universities and semi-
naries of learning to reimburse cities and
counties for the cost of such services.
(C) 4. All property tax laws should be recodified.
(C) 5. The number of classifications of property
for property tax purposes should be re-
duced.
VI -8. Local Government Investment Pool (B)
The League supports creation of a local govern-
ment investment pool through which local govern-
ments at their option may invest temporarily
idle funds. Funds deposited in the pool would
be invested by the State Board of Investment.
VI -9. Clarification of the Prohibition
Against Local Sales and
Income Taxes (B)
The provision in the Omnibus Tax Act of
1971 which prohibits an increase in or the im-
position of a new local sales or income tax should
be amended to make clear that the prohibition
applies only to a general sales or income tax.
VI -10. Municipal Bonds (C)
The traditional way of financing most local
public improvements and facilities has been through
the issuance of bonds and this is likely to con-
tinue for the foreseeable future. Consequently,
if the needs for local improvements are to be met
at reasonable cost, it is imperative that a broad
market be maintained for municipal bonds at
the most favorable interest rates possible. Since
both federal and state legislation can affect the
municipal bond market, the League believes the
following proposals warrant serious consideration.
Federal legislation. The exemption from federal
income taxes of the interest on municipal bonds
has been and continues to be the key factor in
maintaining a healthy market for municipal bonds.
This tax - exempt status of state and local issues
not only maintains a separate market for them but
also recognizes the right of state and local govern-
ments to manage their fiscal affairs independently.
However, in recent years some knowledgeable
people have become concerned because of their
belief that the traditional market for state and
local bonds will not be able to satisfy the rapidly
growing need for capital for public improvements.
Concerns have also been raised about existing
methods of tax avoidance, including the tax - exempt
interest on state and local bonds. These two con-
cerns have resulted in several bills in Congress to
establish programs to lend money to municipali-
ties by purchasing their bonds and /or make inter-
est on state and local bonds taxable. While the
motives behind these proposals may be laudable,
we do not believe a convincing case has been made
for such a radical change which could damage the
independence and viability of state and local
government. Therefore, the League strongly urges
that the tax - exempt status of state and local
bonds be maintained. Also, the League is opposed
to any federal legislation which would regulate
the issuance and sale of municipal bonds including
registration or filing with the Securities and Ex-
change Commission.
Bond interest ceiling. Because interest rates in
the bond market fluctuate in response to econo-
mic forces, it seems unrealistic that a maximum
interest rate be imposed upon all local governments.
The League recommends that the 7 percent ceiling
be repealed, which would allow interest rates to
be determined in the market or that a floating
interest ceiling be established tied to the current
interest on federal obligations. The League also
recommends-that the 8 percent ceiling and any
present application of the usury statutes to the
rate of interest that can be charged on special
assessments be removed.
Bond Code amendments. The League sup-
ports amendments to the Bond Code and tax
laws that will clarify the authority of local gov-
ernments and assist them in obtaining credit.
VI -11. General Revenue Sharing (C)
The federal general revenue sharing program
provides vitally needed funds to cities in Minne-
sota. Continuation of this program is essential for
fiscal stability of our communities.
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In considering legislation to re -enact the pro-
gram, the Administraton and the Congress should
take account of the fact that although inflation
has continued to expand the demands upon hard -
pressed local budgets, revenue sharing funds have
received no significant increase since the inception
of the program. Re- enactment of the revenue
sharing law should remedy this shortfall by provid-
ing sufficient funds to restore the program to its
1972 level and project an appropriate inflationary
factor for future years of funding.
Continued multi -year funding of the program
is essential to sound fiscal planning and manage-
ment at the local level and should be a part of the
re- enactment legislation.
Congress and the Administration should resist
the temptation to use the revenue sharing pro-
gram as a lever to governmental and other reforms
at the local level. Revenue sharing should be a
flexible, decentralized program free of bureau-
cratic entanglements. The dangerous tendency
of the imposition of difficult procedural and other
requirements is apparent in the Revenue Sharing
Amendments of 1976.
Significant questions concerning the continued
participation of state government in the revenue
sharing program have been raised. An across -the-
board answer is not appropriate to this question.
State participation might be gauged on a level
of fiscal efforts basis. Those states with the highest
tax effort should be continued at full funding
while those with only minimal effort might be
considered for a change in status.
VI -12. Electric Utility Gross Revenues Tax (C)
A gross earnings tax should be levied on all
private electric utilities (excluding municipally
owned) with gross revenues in excess of $5 million
annually, in lieu of property taxes on electric
utility facilities. The gross revenues tax should
be established at a percentage rate which will
yield no less than the total property taxes paid
by all affected utility companies in the most re-
cent year for which such figures are available.
The resulting revenues should be distributed as
follows: (1) any city or town could decide to
receive as its share an amount equal to its pro-
perty tax receipts from electric utilities for the
most recent year such figures are available; and
(2) the remainder should be distributed on the
basis of the electric utility revenues collected
within each municipality. Within each affected
city and town, all local governments levying
a property tax should share in the distribution
of such revenues in proportion to the taxes levied.
The municipalities electing to receive the proper-
ty tax equivalent should receive this amount only
so long. as the specific property is used for util-
ity purposes. Any municipality which is the site
of a future major utility generating facility or other
installation should receive additional compensa-
tion to reflect additional municipal costs result-
ing from the installation.
Also, wholesale purchases of electricity by
municipal electric utilities should be taxed, and
those cities should receive a share of the distri-
bution on the same basis as other cities.
If the Board of Directors of the League deter-
mines that there is a better means of capturing a
significant amount of revenue from electric utility
property for distribution to local units of govern-
ment, the Board may, by majority vote, commit
the League to support such a proposal in lieu of
the electric utility gross revenues tax described
above.
1977 -1979 Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs
Development Strategies
George Latimer, Mayor, St. Paul, Chair
Vaughn Thorfinson, Mayor, Red Lake Falls,
Vice Chair
Government Structure and General Legislation
William Jokela, Mayor Sandstone, Chair
Helen Schendel, City Clerk, Milaca, Vice Chair
Land Use and the Environment
Marianne Curry,Council Member, Lakeville,Chair
Jon Elam, Administrator, Walnut Grove, Vice
Chair
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Personnel, Pensions, and Labor Relations
Robert Larson, Mayor, Faribault, Chair
John Fischbach, City Manager, Robbinsdale,
Vice Chair
Public Health and Safety
Richard Wedell, Mayor, Shoreview, Chair
Mary Page, Mayor, Olivia, Vice Chair
Revenue Sources
Richard Asleson, City Administrator, Apple
Valley, Chair
, , , r PROGRRAEM ON
', EMPLOYER-
EMPLOYEE
RELATIONS
NATIONAL LEAGUE of CITIES /1620 EYE STREET N.W., WASHINGTON D.C. 20006/(202) 293-7858
Vol. 1 No. 6 May 1978
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION FOR RESOLVING MUNICIPAL
EMPLOYEE LABOR DISPUTES? Rocky Road for Municipal Employers
by Eugene F. Berrodin
Director, Municipal Personnel Services Labor Relations Hearing Scheduled for
Michigan Municipal League NLC's Indianapolis Regional Conference
A police officer - firefighter compulsory arbitra-
tion statute was adopted by the Michigan Legis-
lature on an experimental basis in 1969. This statute
was amended in 1973 to provide for a "last best
offer" procedure which has been continued since
that time. Proponents of the "last best offer"
amendments speculated that they would create an
inducement for the parties to reach agreement
without having to resort to binding arbitration.
However, in the legislative maneuvering to secure
continuation of the police -fire compulsory arbitra-
tion act, the result was rejection of the concept of
last best offer on the total package in favor of last
best offer on each issue brought before the arbi-
trator having to choose between the total offer of the
employer or the total demand of the union, each
issue is reviewed and the arbitrator may pick and
choose either of the last offerson each issue. In
effect, this permits the arbitrators to do what had
been done previously, which is to "split the differ-
ences" between the parties.
Municipal managers in Michigan have noted little
change and no improvement in compulsory arbitra-
tion as a result of the 1973 amendments providing
for a'last offer procedure. The Michigan Municipal
League monitors and summarizes each police -fire
compulsory award as they are reported. The record
to date is 111 awards under the last offer procedure.
On the common issue of wage increases, 62% of the
awards have gone to the union last offer and 38% of
the awards to the employer last offer. It is obvious
from this data whose ox is being gored!
Evaluation of the pandemic effort of compulsory
arbitration awards is a slippery matter. That is,
proponents of the process are quick to defend it by
saying that it has minimized or eliminated strikes,
and therefore the public interest has been served.
Credible questions are, how many strikes would
otherwise have occurred, and at what cost have
strikes been avoided?
In the Michigan experience, there were more
police -fire strikes in the two years following pas-
sage of compulsory arbitration in 1969 than were
continued on p. 6
City and state league officials will have an
opportunity to testify on state and local labor
relations trends and developments and NLC policy
or program priorities at a hearing being called by
the Co- Chairpersons of the NLC Labor Relations
Advisory Committee. The hearing will be held from
1:30 to 3:00 p.m. on July 6 at the Hyatt Regency
Hotel in Indianapolis in conjunction with the
National League of Cities Regional Conference
July 6 -8.
Mayor Edward McNamara of Livonia, Michigan,
and Council President George Forbes of Cleve-
land, Ohio, serving as Co- Chairperso of the
Committee said the hearing is being that
the Committee members can get a n
what's haDDenina with labor relation of he
states and to receive recommend ti hat
NLC ought to be doing in the p i ervice
on p. 4
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
• Meany's Reply to Ca
Anti - Inflation Plan P. 2
• Representation Stat
of Supervisors 5
• Implications of
Bias in Pension ® P. 8
• Supervisors a ds
Satisfiers ® P. 4
• Public Emp Le s E v
than Priv a ers? P. 8
• Major St pments P. 2
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LETTER, see page 7 of this newsletter.
NLC -SPEER /News about Employer - Employee Relations from the National League of Cities
Meany's Reply to
Carter Anti - Inflation Plan
George Meany, President of AFL -CIO, is not
quite ready to accept President Carter's strong
recommendation to state and local governments
and the private sector to limit pay raises to a 5.5%
ceiling. Until the federal - private sector salary
comparability study in complete, Meany suggests
that President Carter not pursue this issue.
Because the comparability figure will not be
known until sometime mid - summer, the Presi-
dent's federal pay ceiling should be announced in
September. ❑
Fire Fighters Union to Help
1,700 Minorities Pass Tests In 14 Cities
The International Association of Fire Fighters,
AFL -CIO, will prepare 1,700 minority group
members to pass examinations for fire - fighting
jobs in 14 localities under a one -year $750,650
contract renewal from the U.S. Department of
Labor. Special tutoring programs lasting up to 16
weeks will be developed in each locality to help
recruits pass local civil service tests. The trainees
will also receive conditioning for any physical tests
called for, such as rope climbing.
Funded under Title III of the Comprehensive
Employment and Training Act (CETA), the
contract is administered by the Department of
Labor's Employment and Training Administration.
The 14 localities where the program will operate
are:
Kansas City, MO Oakland, CA
Los Angeles, CA St. Louis, MO
Los Angeles County, CA Baltimore, MD
Fairfax County, VA Multicity Project —
Austin, TX Yonkers, White
St. Paul, MN Plains, Mt. Vernon,
Yakima, WA and New Rochelle,
N.Y.
Under six previous contracts, the association
helped more than 4,800 person qualify for civil
service registers. Of those qualified, approximately
1,350 have been employed as firefighters.
For further information contact Roscoe Hamby,
International Association of Fire Fighters, 1750
New York Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. 20006, Tel:
(202) 872 -0460. ❑
NLC -SPEER
Irvine W. Marsters— Director
Sharon Walters— Senior Staff Assistant, Editor
Sheila Nettle— Senior Office Assistant
Eileen Wilson— Intern
The NLC -SPEER newsletter is a service of the
National League of Cities to local officials and
State Municipal League subscribers. Readers
and editors may use any of the material circu-
lated provided they credit the National League of
Cities — Service Program on Employer - Employee
Relations (NLC - SPEER).
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Major State Developments
CALIFORNIA: Police Use of
Deadly Force Not Bargainable
According to a state appellate court, the con-
ditions under which a police officer may kill are not
bargainable subjects within the present scope of
representation of the San Jose police contract.
The city had unilaterally implemented a new
firearms policy that justified the use of deadly force
only as a means of preserving life and prohibited
the discharge of firearms solely for the purpose of
apprehension. The police union objected to this
action, contending that the employer was under a
duty to meet and confer with the union since the
policy change affected the safety of the policemen
and was, therefore, a condition of employment.
Although the trial court agreed that the policy
change was a mandatory subject of bargaining, the
appellate court reversed on the grounds that the
use of firearms was primarily a matter of public
safety and only indirectly impinged on the the
policemen's working conditions since they were
still free to defend themselves. Under California
law, unless a decision primarily involves working
conditions, it is not subject to the meet and confer
obligation.
(From "Public Employee Bargaining" #12, Com-
merce Clearinghouse, Inc.)
COLORADO: Police Officer's and
Firefighter's Pension Reform Act
Governor signed into law a bill which changes
existing standards of police and pension systems.
One provision in the bill restricts new employees
from vesting rights in existing pension benefits.
The bill also mandates an acturial study of pension
funds to be completed by September 1, 1978. The
study will identify financial conditions of pensions
and determine the amount of contributions needed
in the 1979 pension fund.
CONNECTICUT: Supervisory Bargaining
Bill Passes
A bill extending collective bargaining .rights to
municipal supervisory personnel passed, am-
mended from its original form, in the state legisla-
ture by one vote. This bill allows supervisors below
the level of department head to form a separate
bargaining unit. The bill does not allow for agency
shop. The Governor has not yet signed the bill.
IOWA: Fire Captains and Lieutenants
In Bargaining Units
Iowa Supreme Court decided to uphold the
State's Public Employee Relations Board decision
to place line captains and lieutenants in the same
bargaining units or rank & file firefighters. Because
these job classifications did not fall within the
Public Employment Relations Act definition of
supervisory employees, these employees could be
included.
The PERB ruled that line captains and lieuten-
ants were not supervisors, but "leadmen" who
served to direct employees in routine tasks.
IOWA: Increase in Retirement Benefits
The State legislature sent a bill increasing retire-
State developments continued from p. 2
ment benefits for most past and present public
employees to the governor for signature.
The measure increases benefits under the Iowa
Public Employees' Retirement System ( IPERS) for
25,000 state employees who retired before January
1, 1976, and for employees who retire after this July
1. Approximately 135,000 state employees are
covered by IPERS and will be eligible for the higher
payments.
MISSOURI: A Collective Bargaining Law:
To Be Or Not To Be?
Although municipal officials and labor repre-
sentatives participating in a seminar in St. Louis
agreed that the state needs a law recognizing the
rights of public employees to bargain collectively,
they could not agree on specific provisions to be
included in such a law.
For example, labor union representatives at the
seminar said if such a law contained a provision
allowing parties to settle their differences through
binding arbitration, it would preclude strikes by
public employees. Former St. Louis Mayor John
Poelker said he favored a collective bargaining law
for public employees but did not address the
arbitration question.
Recent attempts to pass a state bargaining
statute in Missouri have all failed.
NEBRASKA: Civil Service vs Collective Bargaining
The general purpose of collective bargaining is
certainly to establish employment "ground rules"
for employer and employee alike. However, civil
service laws often cover much of the same ground.
A recurring problem, then, is how much collective
bargaining should be permitted where civil service
statutes also apply. What happens when an em-
ployer refuses:to bargain because bargaining sub-
jects are covered by a civil service act?
The Nebraska Supreme Court has answered this
question by ruling that a county civil service act
excluded subjects from bargaining only to the
extent that it contained specific and mandatory
provisions relating to the particular subjects. All
other subjects were negotiable (AFSCME v.
County of Lancaster).
The county employer had no right to refuse to
bargain on all the subjects in the proposed bar-
gaining agreement which were mentioned in the
civil service law, even though it may not have had
to bargain upon certain of them, said the court. For
instance, topics included in a union proposal, such
as work hours, holidays, sick leave, wages, and
work rules, were not barred from bargaining by the
civil service law, even though the board of county
commissioners could make rules dealing with
them. However, the civil service act did provide that
all appointments and promotions were to be based
on merit and fitness. Therefore, said the court,
these subjects were not bargainable.
(From "Public Employee Bargaining" #10, Com-
merce Clearing House, Inc.)
NEW JERSEY: Court Upholds Arbitration
A unanimous decision by the New Jersey Su-
preme Court upheld the constitutionality of a state
law that requires a governmental agency to engage
continued on p. 7
Illegal Firefighters Strike Ended in
Normal, Illinois
NLC Legal Intervention Considered
Strikes by firefighters are Increasing. Fire-
fighters, city and labor officials and researchers
agree that militancy among firefighters is increas-
ing, even more so than militancy among other
increasingly assertive employee groups.
The town of Normal, Illinois, has just exper-
ienced militancy among its firefighters. On March
21, 1978, the firefighter's local and the Interna-
tional Association of Firefighters (IAFF) began an
unlawful strike in direct violation of state law. The
principal issue was the union demand for inclusion
of captain and lieutenants (supervisory personnel
into the bargaining unit which the city had refused.
The Circuit Court issued an injunction to enjoin
the strike. The striking employees choose to ignore
it. Accordingly, the Court ordered the negotiating
team and the bargaining unit to be jailed for forty -
two days.
An unusual jail term was enforced when a work
release program was developed in which each
firefighter spent 29 hours in jail and then 24 hours
in release time to operate fire stations.
After a 56-day strike, a two -year contract settle-
ment was reached between the town of Normal and
their Local of the IAFF. The contract language
includes the captain and lieutenants into the
bargaining unit and provides a separate captain's
agreement (which will be respected by the union).
The agreement contains a No- Strike Pledge for
captains, no increase in fringe benefits, and pro-
visions for the town's security case of future job
actions.
The town has agreed to dismiss all legal pro-
ceedings (a $276,000 lawsuit) against the union
and its members. ❑
NLC Legal Intervention Considered
[Editor's Note] The National League of Cities
was requested to consider intervening on behalf
of the Town's suit against the union to recover
damages that resulted from the illegal strike.
Strong consideration was given by NLC toward
filing an "amicus curaie" (friend of the court)
brief dealing with the public policy issue of
illegal strikes. NLC's National Municipal Policy
adopted by the membership reads in part, "Pub-
lic employment relations laws should prohibit
strikes and include adequate provision for en-
forcement, such as, but not limited to, both civil
and criminal penalties, including injunctive rem-
edies." NLC was ready to move subject to a
formal request by the Town and the outcome of
continued negotiations on an agreement. The
Town and the firefighters reached agreement
and the suit was withdrawn.
We hope that the NLC show of support
influenced the outcome and that the NLC pres-
ence had an impact. We have a feeling it did.
Private Sector —First Quarter Wage
Settlements Above 5.5% Carter Request
President Carter may want to limit private sector
wage hikes to 5.5% (see p. 2, SPEER Newsletter,
April 1978), but the trend of increases negotiated
during the first quarter of 1978 in comparison to
settlements agreed upon in 1977 has resulted in
salary increases much greater than Carter's sug-
gested limit.
Collective Bargaining Settlements —Wages Up.
Major collective bargaining settlements reached
during the first three months of 1978 generally
provided larger wage increases than those nego-
tiated during 1977. This is the conclusion of
preliminary estimates issued by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. Wage -rate adjustments negotiated dur-
ing the first quarter of the year average 9.9% for the
first contract year and 7.3 %annually over the life of
the contract. This is compared to 7.8% and 5.8 %,
respectively, for 1977. These measures exclude
gains accrued from cost of living clauses.
Other key features of the contracts agreed upon
during the first quarter are: wage and benefit gains
combined, in contracts covering 5,000 or more
workers, averaged 14.6% for the first year and 8.5%
annually over the life of the contract. This is
compared to 9.6% and 6.2 %, respectively, for 1977.
Also, contacts agreed upon during the first three
months of 1978 average 33.8 months duration as
compared with 33.3 months negotiated in the last
agreement between the parties.
The size of these first quarter settlements were
influenced by the possibility of further increases
gained under escalator provisions. Contracts with
escalator clauses cover 31% of workers included
under agreements made during the first quarter.
They provide for annual wage rate adjustments of
5.5% over the life of the contract. Contracts without
escalator clauses provided for average annual
adjustments fo 8 %. These figures compare respec-
tively with 5% and 6.9% in 1977.
Thirty -three percent of the workers involved in
1978 first quarter agreements are covered by
escalator clauses stipulating 1 -cent adjustments for
each .4 point rise in the CPI. Twenty -eight percent
of the workers are coverd by formulas providing a 1-
cent adjustment for, each .3 point rise. Of the
workers involved, 43% are covered by quarterly
adjustment reviews, while 31% have annual adjust-
ment reviews. About 32% have a "cap" or limit to
the amount which can be received.
Escalator clauses now cover 59% of all workers in
major private sector bargaining units. Such clauses
are not as popular in public sector agreements.
(See p.2, SPEER Newsletter, April 1978.)
Private Sector Higher Wage
Settlements — Productivity Declines
BLS also announced that productivity in the
private business sector declined 3.6% (at a season-
ally- adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of
1978. The decline in productivity, the first since the
second quarter of 1977 and the largest quarterly
drop in four years, reflected a 1.8% decline in
output, coupled with a 1.9% increase in hours of all
persons. In the fourth quarter of 1977, productivity
increased 2.3 %.
In the nonfarm business sector, output per hour of
all persons — productivity — declined 3.3 %, as output
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declined at a 1% annual rate and hours increased
2.4 %. This productivity decline —the first in this
sector since the fourth quarter of 1976 —was the
largest since the third quarter of 1974. In the fourth
quarter of 1977, productivity increased 2.3% in this
sector.
Hourly compensation —which includes wages
and salaries as well as supplements and employer
contributions to Social Security and private em-
ployee benefit plans —rose 14 %, the largest rise in 5
years. Unit labor cost — compensation per unit of
output which reflects changes in hourly compen-
sation and productivity —rose 18.3% in the first
quarter, the largest increase in this measure since
the first quarter of 1951.
These statistics are confined to production and
related workers in manufacturing and to non -
supervisory workers in the non - manufacturing sec-
tor of the economy in collective bargaining units
covering 1, 000 or more workers. It should be further
noted that these figures apply to private and non-
farm business and manufacturing sectors. Very little
comparable data of this nature is available on public
sector trends from BLS. ❑
Indianapolis continued from p. 1
Edward H. McNamara
program areas. During the Committee's meeting it
will review the current NLC National Municipal
Policy on Labor Relations, consider changes, re-
view the NLC /SPEER (Service Program on Em-
ployer- Employee Relations) program, and discuss
new NLC service program recommendations pre-
sented by the NLC staff as a result of priorities
established by the Committee at its March meeting.
Since the NLC Board of Directors will be meeting
the following week to finalize adoption of an NLC
budget for FY 79, the Indianapolis meeting dis-
cussions could provide valuable input to the
Board's subsequent budget actions.
Both McNamara and Forbes encourage city
officials and state league representatives to attend
and assist the Committee with its work.
Those desiring further information or a time
allocation for presentation at the hearing should
contact:
Iry Marsters, Director NLC /SPEER
1620 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D.C. 20006
Tel: (202) 293 -7858 ❑
Supervisors as Needs Satisfiers
"An effective supervisor is a needs satisfier,"
according to a workbook used by the Civil Service
Commission (CSC), Denver Region Training Cen-
ter, for a course, "Employee Counseling for Super-
visors and Managers." The supervisor, by CSC
estimation, is unaccustomed to thinking of himself
as a people - problem solver. He is production -
oriented, and sees inapQropriate or undesirable
work behaviors only as a deterrent to good perfor-
mance and better productivity. Often, this behavior
is not viewed as it should be— symptoms of work -
related problems, of needs not being met. The
supervisor must realize that to function effectively
as a needs satisfier, the ultimate result will be
improved performance and productivity.
The CSC definition of the role of the supervisor
suggests that supervisors may need training to see
themselves in this role.
Here's what the supervisor should do to function
as a people - problem solver:
Identify the need that is not being met. Ob-
serve the employee and record specific actions
or impressions in a log. Analyze the work
environment, and try to discover the cause of
the employee's dissatisfaction.
• Decide what corrective action to take. Base
the decision on the nature and severity of the
problem. Consider all options. Can the prob-
lem be resolved by talking it over with the
employee and arriving at a solution together?
Would the more appropriate action be to
rearrange the work schedule or reassign re-
sponsibilities? Does the problem result from
the work behaviors of the employee's fellow
workers? The answer to these questions deter-
mine the course of the action.
• Determine whether the problem is severe
enough to warrant professional help. If so,
suggest to the employee that he enroll in an
employee assistance program. Emphasize the
benefits of professional counseling. Be sup-
portive. Don't make accusations. Try to per-
suade the employee to accept help, and, if
necessary, demand that he /she does. ❑
CSC Publication Discusses
Representation Status of Supervisors
Are State and local governments justified in
restricting supervisors' rights by prohibiting them
from joining unions? This controversial question
and others on the representation status of super-
visors is the subject of a new publication recently
released by the U.S. Civil Service Commission.
"Representation of Supervisory Employees in State
and Local Governments" is number four in the
Labor Management Ralations Issues series pub-
lished by the Commission's Bureau of Intergovern-
mental Personnel Programs.
The monograph is designed to help State and
local governments formulate policy in this hotly
debated area of employee - employer relations. The
publication discusses this issue and explores how
its resolution can affect the balance of power
between the employer and rank and file employees.
Some argue that the granting of representation
rights to supervisors in the public sector may
hinder them from protecting the employer's inter-
ests faithfully and erode management authority.
Opponents of this viewpoint contend that govern-
ment supervisors have a minimum of authority and
are more closely allied with their subordinates than
5
Copies of the report can be ordered from U.S.
Civil Service Commission regional offices or from
Bureau of Intergovernmental Personnel Programs,
U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C.
20415. Single copies are available at no charge. ❑
California Initiative Threat Forces
Local Officials to Consider
Alternative to Services Delivery
Early next month, California voters will have a
chance to vote for or against an initiative calling for
major reduction in municipal property tax income.
Passage of the Jarvis -Gann Initiative, Proposition
13, as it is known, would reduce local government
property tax revenues by an estimated 57 %. This
would represent a potential comulative loss of $7
billion in 1978 -79.
The threat of passage and subsequent reduction
in government funds has spurred many cities to
consider ways of cutting government expenses to
the level that would be mandated by passage of the
initiative. While effects of passage would vary from
city to city, all municipalities would be affected by
the loss of this major source of revenue to local
governments.
The League of California Cities notes that it is
important to keep in mind that final decision of
local priorities, including public safety as well as
other public services, will not be possible until
legislative and judicial interpretations have an-
swered many of the questions connected with the
Jarvis -Gann Initiative if it passes.
Alternatives For Public Safety
Should property tax revenues decrease at the
projected rate, the impact on police and fire
services would probably be drastic and curtail-
ments severe. The Institute of Local Self- Govern-
ment (ILSG), has recommended alternative pro-
posals in the delivery of public safety services
using cost reduction methods.
One recommendation includes public safety
contractual systems involving the hiring of per-
sonnel for fixed periods with a fixed benefit
package. Civilianization of public safety functions
using para - professionals for secondary and sup-
port services is another proposal. There is also a
plan to consolidate municipal fire insurance and
public safety inspections within the fire service
which could increase productivity and better utilize
the non - emergency time of firefighters. Also, by
assuming fire insurance services, cities could gain
financial advantage of controlling the cost of fire
protection insurance.
NLC Nation's Cities Magazine featured an insert
to the September 1977 issue outlining an ILSG
Report "Six Bold New Public Safety Ideas in
Search of a City." It was written with the premise
that you cannot solve public safety problems
merely by throwing dollars at them. In their report
new methods of service delivery are considered,
with some innovative changes from standard prac-
tice recommended. ILSG suggests, "These are
bold new ideas that can help local government
carry out its responsibility to its citizens."
To receive copies of the insert, contact: John
Houlihan, Director, ILSG, Claremont Hotel Build-
ing, Berkeley, CA 94705. ❑
Compulsory Arbitration continued from p. 1
experienced in the two years preceding adoption of
the process. One is quick to point out that the
causes of public employee strikes are numerous
and there is not necessarily cause and effect related
only to the presence or absence of a compulsory
arbitration statute. That is, one may have strikes
without compulsory arbitration or with it. In Michi-
gan, since 1971 there have been very few work
stoppages by police officers and firefighters. The
reason seems quite simple. Look at the success of
the police and fire unions as a result of the
compulsory arbitration awards. They have won the
lions share, 62% as against 38% for the employers.
Why' should a union engage in a costly and
disruptive strike if it is able to substantially achieve
its objectives through compulsory arbitration? To
make matters more interesting, if a compulsory
arbitration award is thoroughly repugnant to a
union (as in the case in Montreal and elsewhere on
occasion) the union may engage in a strike in
violation of the law. There are no cases on record in
which the public employer has locked out em-
ployees in rejection of a compulsory arbitration
award. Therefore the process falls unequally upon
the parties. This is not to say that a public employer
or union may not present a proper legal challenge to
an award where there is justification to do so.
Compulsory Arbitration Inflationary
In the process of collective bargaining, it is the
union representatives who initiate most of the
demands. In entering arbitration, most of the risk is
assumed by the employer, who is subject to a costly
award. It is rare for a union to risk any decrease in
current wages, or in the level of employee benefits.
While there may be some trading off among wages
and benefits, it is inherently anticipated that each
contract and each arbitration award will result in
significant improvements of wages and working
conditions. Otherwise the union leadership is in
jeopardy.
Experience in Michigan and elsewhere indicates
that police and fire unions consider compulsory
arbitration to be a no risk or low risk venture.
Employers may urgently seek to arrive at settle-
ments in order to minimize their risk in arbitration.
This combination of forces under Michigan labor
law leads to the conclusion that there has been
inflationary bias in compulsory arbitration which
has led some public employers to grant wage
increases and benefits in excess of what would have
been granted in the absence of compulsory arbitra-
tion. This is a "spill over" effect of compulsory
arbitration on costly police and fire contract settle-
ments made in avoidance of arbitration. Data
tabulated by the Michigan League reveals that the
average of wage increases imposed by police -fire
compulsory arbitration has been significantly
higher than the general average of negotiated wage
increases for police and fire officers during the
same period.
Compulsory Arbitration Process Is Costly
Both municipal employers and employee unions
have discovered that the "overhead" in compulsory
arbitration is quite costly. That is, the process is
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quite time consuming and frequently involves the
expertise of outside consultants and attorneys. It is
not uncommon for a single compulsory arbitration
case to cost one of the parties $25,000 to w50,000 in
these special fees, including the cost of the arbi-
trator, transcripts, etc. This does not take into
consideration the lost time of regular staff persons
away from their normal jobs. While the larger public
employee unions have been able to absorb these
cotst associated with compulsory arbitration, many
of the smaller, local unions have objected to these
high costs.
Some union officials have opposed compulsory
arbitration, and the AFL -CIO at its last convention
took an official position in opposition to the process
for settlement of general employee disputes. Com-
pulsory arbitration has been used in Australia to
settle labor disputes since 1904. Mr. Gordon Cole,
writing in the AFL -CIO American Federationist
(June, 1972, p 19) has said "Arbitration has taken
away the initiative of trade unions. It has made it
easy for union officials to escape responsibility.
Arbitration has been a crutch and ascapegoat. With
it, union and management have avoided responsi-
bility. They are able to avoid new approaches. In
compulsory arbitration, labor disputes become
cases to be argued in legal form in a courtroom
atmosphere and there are long delays to ascertain
the facts ... It has failed to achieve its primary
prupose to promote good will in industry."
It is the overwhelming view of experienced
municipal officials in Michigan and elsewhere that a
free bargaining process, with or without the occur-
rence of occasional strikes by public employees, is
preferable to the imposition of compulsory binding
arbitration.
Compulsory arbitration removes responsibility
from the parties and places it in the hands of a
private person (arbitrator) who is not accountable to
the public. ❑
Conferences
"Costing of Labor Demands and Settlements" —
International City Management Association, June
14 -16— Ramada Inn - Airport, Denver, Colorado
This workshop is intended for local government
officials involved in costing labor demands and
settlements. It is designed to increase technical
skills in contract cost calculations. The course
should also be extremely valualbe to those who
have primary responsibility for conducting collec-
tive bargaining sessions and administering labor
contracts. This program will increase understand-
ing of cost implications and possibly generate new
management options.
The instruction approach features minimal lec-
turing. Participants are involved heavily in indi-
vidual and group exercises designed to encourage
discussion and participation to maximize the learn-
ing experience.
Registration Fee: $175
Contact: ICMA, 1140 Connecticut Ave., N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20036
TEL: (202) 293 -2200. ❑
State developments continued from p. 3
in binding arbitration with its employees. Although
the decision directly affects one county's improve-
ment authority and its public transportation work-
ers, attorneys involved in the case said the ruling
gives general approval to the binding arbitration
concept in the public sector.
The Court rejected a contention that binding
arbitration in the public sector constitutes an
unlawful delegation of authority to a private person
or persons. The decision noted that the widening
use of arbitration in public sector labor disputes
has resulted in the creation of proper standards
and criteria to govern the arbitrator in the exercise
of his power. The Court went on to say the judiciary
must have the power to review an arbitrator's award
to insure that it is not arbitrary or capricious. This
judicial oversight should be more extensive than
the limited judicial review used when parties volun-
tarily submit their disputes to binding arbitration.
Currently there are only two New Jersey laws
which require compulsory binding arbitration in
the public sector. One law deals with the county
improvement authorities and another involves dis-
putes between municipal bodies and their police
and firemen. Other laws involving the public sector
merely enable the parties to enter into an agree-
ment to submit the labor dispute to binding
arbitration. But in such cases there must be mutual
agreement.
NEW JERSEY: Priority on Civil Service Reform
At a conference on Civil Service, New Jersey
Governor Byrne called on the state legislative
leaders to make civil service reform a top legislative
priority during their Fall session.
The governor said he would support a broad
reform of the Civil Service to eliminate what he
described as unnecessary paperwork, overly re-
strictive procedures and widespread dissatisfac-
tion among Civil Service workers, as well as among
taxpayers who footed the bills.
The State Civil Service Commission has recently
completed a comprehensive study of New Jersey's
Civil Service system after holding numerous public
hearings around the state to gather recomrr enda-
tions for changes. Byrne said the state needed a
"streamlined and updated" Civil Service law to
replace the version New Jersey has been following
since Civil Service was adopted in 1908. He further
urged consideration of a modification in the ab-
solute preference in Civil Service hiring which the
state now gives to war veterans.
PENNSYLVANIA: Partisan Political Activity Vetoed
Governor Shapp vetoed a Pennsylvania legisla-
tive bill that would have opened the state's Civil
Service work force and offices to partisan political
activity. The governor said the union - supported
measure would result in "the abuses of the past."
This bill would have eased the political restric-
tions on more than 77,000 Civil Service employees,
permitting them to hold appointive and elective
political party offices, to solicit voluntary political
contributions (even during working hours) and to
participate in political conventions and the man-
agement of political campaigns.
RHODE ISLAND: Reduction in Over -time Costs
A bill designed to save the state millions of
dollars by reducing overtime payments to state
employees who abuse sick leave was passed by the
Rhode Island House of Representatives and sent to
the State Senate. The legislation would prohibit
state employees from working overtime during pay
periods in which they missed some days because
of illness.
A Million Member Union
As a result of an affiliation agreement late last
month, AFSCME merged with the New York State
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) mak-
ing AFSCME the largest union within the AFL -CIO.
This merger follows three years of discussion
between the two groups.
CSEA's 260,000 members puts AFSCME mem-
bership at one million. Under their agreement,
CSEA will keep its own constitution, bylaws and
dues structure.
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Low Wages for Nurses
Is Not Sex Discrimination
After a four -year battle for a federal court ruling,
the nurses of Denver General Hospital lost their
suit that the City and County of Denver underpays
and discriminates against nurses because most of
them are women. The class action suit filed by
seven nurses in 1974 challenged the City's job
classification system and pay structure.
The suit charged that the present classification
system locks women into separate classification
groups with pay scales lower than that of males
with similar levels of education, training and
responsibility.
Viewed as a potential landmark case in civil
rights, the Chief U.S. District Judge hearing the
case questioned whether the issue of complaint
was sex discrimination or occupational discrimina-
tion. The Judge also said the nurses' lawsuit failed
because it attempted to win its argument by
comparing nursing jobs with other city jobs in
unrelated fields. ❑
Public Employers Less Effective
than Private Employers?
In a recent study conducted by the National
Center for Productivity and Quality of Working
Life, results confirmed that public sector employ-
ees tend to have lower opinions of the effectiveness
of their organization than do private sector employ-
ees. In the private sector, 52.5% of managers
agreed that their organizations were well- organ-
ized and effective as compared to 45.2% of public
sector managers. Among employees, the differ-
ence was even greater -43.5% as compared to
28.2 %.
To account for such a significant difference of
opinion, it is important to.note differences in the
organizational structures of private and public
systems. Private sector structures possess greater
flexibility than the public sector system. Governed
by a traditional departmentalized system, in a
political environment, the public sector is limited in
Service Program on
Employer- Employee Relations
National League of Cities
1620 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
the number of possible methods of reorganization.
In addition to the inquiry on organizational
effectiveness, the study questioned employees on
the quality of supervision. Public sector employees
had a lower regard for the performance of immedi-
ate supervisors and upper management. These
findings highlight, the need for more advanced
training programs of supervisory personnel in the
public sector. Improvement in training programs
could result in a more effective organization and an
increase in positive attitudes of employees. ❑
Implications of Ban
on Sex Bias in Pension Plans
New litigation to determine implictions of the
Supreme Court's April 25 ruling on equality for the
sexes in pension plan payments is expected by
insurance consultants. In the view of some benefits
consulting firms, it could cost millions to modify
pension funds that now require unequal contribu-
tions from men and women and thus violate the
Civil Rights Act provision making it unlawful for an
employer to discriminate against any individual
because of sex.
Not directly affected by the high court's decision
are those private pension plans that are entirely
employer -paid. Also, those known as defined ben-
efit plans (in which an employee gets a pension
based on earnings and years of service) usually do
not discriminate between males and females. But,
all such pension plans —under the 1974 Employee
Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) —must
provide a married new retiree with a pension that
continues some payment to spouse after retiree's
death (unless retiree formally rejects survivorship
coverage). To pay for this coverage, the primary
pension amount is reduced on an actuarial basis
that considers sex of spouse. Some feel this
practice may be banned by the Supreme Court's
decision — leading to future litigation over the is-
sue. ❑
(Reprinted from Fair Employment Practices, May
1, 1978, Business Publishers, Inc.)
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L
U league of minnesota cities
July 28, 1978
L Y A G U E R E G I O N A L M E E T I N G S
September 19 through October 12
and November 1
TO: All Member Officials
This letter is to alert you to the 1978 series of regional meetings sponsored
by the League, so that you will be able to make arrangements to attend.
The traditional "dutch treat" dinner will be at 6:30 P.M. followed by a question
and answer session with participation by legislators, candidates, representatives
of several state agencies and the League staff. You are encouraged to attend
the meeting with candidates from your district. (See the attached sheet for
date and location). Nearer the date of your regional meeting, you will receive
an official invitation and dinner reservation card from the host mayor in your
area. It is important that you make a reservation with the host mayor.
In addition to the evening meeting, there will be an informal roundtable discussion
for city clerks and any other interested parties, from 2:30 p.m, to 4:30 p.m. The
purpose of this meeting is to exchange information informally on any topics of
local interest. Of particular interest this year will be an explanation and
workshop on the new financial reporting law. There is no charge for this meeting
and any city or county official is welcome.
A large representation from your city will insure a lively and profitable discussion.
I will look forward to seeing you there.
Sincerely,
Donald A. S ater
Executive Director
DAS: MCA: ch
Encl.
300 hanover building, 4130 cedar street, saint Paul, minnesota 55101 (6121 222 -21361
Date
Tuesday
September 19
Wednesday
September 20
Thursday
September 21
Tuesday
September 26
1978 Regional Meetings
Site
Thief River Falls -
Best Western Inn
Highway 32 South
Contact
Gerald A. Wigness
Clerk - Treasurer
218/681 -2943
Detroit Lakes - Wayne Lance
Holiday Inn Clerk - Treasurer
Highway 10, East City Limits 218/847 -5658
Morris -
Sunwood Inn
Highways 28 and 59 on
Northeast edge of city
Bemidji -
Holiday Inn
Highway 2 at Airport
Thomas M. Melena
City Manager
612/589 -3141
Dorothy V. Boe
Clerk
218/751 -5610
Wednesday Brainerd. Richard M. Johnson
September 27 Brainerd Golf and Country Clerk
Club, Two miles west on 218/829 -6242
Highway 371, then North
1/3 mile
Thursday
September 28
Tuesday
October 3
Wednesday
October 4
Tuesday
October 10
Wednesday
October 11
St. -Cloud - Jeff Baumgartner
Holiday Inn Administrative Aide
West Division St. at 37th Ave. 612/251 -5541
Grand Rapids -
Holiday Inn
South Highway 169
Scanlon -
Municipal Building
Marshall -
Ramada Inn
Mankato
Mankato Mall
Downtown
Thursday
Rochester
October 12
Hoffman House
Midway Motor Lodge
Wednesday
Brooklyn Center
November 1
Holiday Inn
1 Block North of I -94 and
Hwy. 100
0. H. Hollom
Clerk - Administrator
218/326 -3246
Ray Eldien, Jr.
Clerk - Treasurer
218/879 -5941
L.W. Mannion
City Clerk
507/532 -5796
Nancy Girouard
507/625 -3161 ex. 222
Robert W. Freson
City Administrator
5107/288 -2501
Brad Hoffman
612/561 -5440
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011
league of minnesota cities
July 24, 1978
TO: Mayors, Managers and Clerks
FROM: Don Slater
RE: 1978 - 80 Policies and Legislative Program
You are each being sent a copy of the League Polities and Legislative Pro-
gram For reference in the next two years as we work to implement our goals
at the 1978 and 1979 sessions of the legislature.
If you want additional copies for other city officials, please request them
from the League office.
DAS:1 j
300 hanover building, 480 cedar street, saint paul, minnesota 55101 C612) 222 -2e61
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federal office, see urban policy and pro-
grams in terms of people. President
Carter's urban policy, with its emphasis
on neighborhoods, may begin to bridge
the gap between Washington and your
community. Local political leadership is
based on the rela-
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hall to neighbor-
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people in them.
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Pollsters tell us
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People in large
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their lives, and yet
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about it. Small cities, suburban areas,
and rural communities are experiencing
both growth and decline. Political lead-
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serious challenge: to translate public
opinion into public policy.... Cities are
people.
Cities are homes for different kinds of
people. Some have large populations of
the elderly, requiring a disproportion-
ate amount of social services, while for
others the big problem is high teen-
age unemployment. Economic develop-
ment, job opportunities., transportation,
a liveable environ-
ment —all affect
the quality of life
that is important
to our citizens....
Cities are people.
Washington has
given us an urban
policy. We want to
respond with an
urban policy that
recognizes the di-
versity of our cities
and the variety of
solutions local offi-
cials can use to
keep their communities places where
people want to live.... Cities are people.
We'll be formulating urban policy in St.
Louis at the 1978 Congress of Cities &
Exposition. You ought to be there to
make sure that our urban policy repre-
sents your community and your people.
Registration Checklist
1. Fill out a separate Advance Regis-
tration form completely for each dele-
gate. Include family members on the
same form as the delegate registration.
2. Fill out the Hotel Reservation form.
Be sure to indicate at least six hotel
choices on the form and circle the room
rate for the type of accommodation you
prefer for each of the six hotels.
3. List a credit card name and number
to guarantee your room against late
arrival (after 6:00 p.m.).
4. Enclose your check (payable to the
National League of Cities) or city pur-
chase order with your registration, or
check the "bill -me" block on the Ad-
vance Registration form.
5. We'd appreciate it if you would fill
out the Workshop Preference form —
your suggestions will be of great help to
us in planning the 1978 Congress of
Cities.
6. Send the Advance Registration,
Hotel Reservation, and Workshop
Preference forms and your check (pay-
able to the National League of Cities) or
purchase order to:
Conference Registration Center
National League of Cities
1620 Eye Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20006
If you have questions, call:
(202) 293 -6812
If the registration and reservation
blanks have been torn out of this bro-
chure already, call or write the Confer-
ence Registration Center for a new
copy.
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Legend (] 0-1 Mile
❑� 1 -2 Miles
*Convention Center 92-3 Miles
■ Hotels [g 3-4 Miles
• City Hall 9 4 -5 Miles
Hotels 10. Rodeway Inn Downtown
11. Ramada Inn Downtown
1. Sheraton St. Louis 12. Bel Air West
2. Lennox Hotel 13. Forest Park Hotel
3. Mayfair Hotel 14. Chase -Park Plaza
4. St. Louisian 15. Quality Inn— Forest Park
5. Bel Air Hilton
6. Holiday Inn Riverfront
7. Breckenridge Pavillion Hotel There will be shuttle bus trans -
8. Stouffer's Riverfront Towers portation from the hotels to the
9. Holiday Inn Downtown convention center.
- St.Louis
November 26 to 29
1978 Congress of Cities &Exposition
National League of Cities
Program Track I
CITIES - PLACES WHERE
PEOPLE LIVE
In large cities, neighborhoods represent
economic and social demarcations, chang-
ing environments, and areas for revital-
ization. In small cities, the whole city may
be the neighborhood.
Workshops:
1. The City Is the Neighborhood
2. Metro Cities: Working Together in the
Melting. Pot
3. "Neighborhood Power ": Getting Be-
hind the Rhetoric
4. Commercial Strip Development and
Neighborhood Vitality
5. Understanding and Affecting the
Local Housing Market
Program Track II
TRANSLATING A HEALTHY
ECONOMY INTO JOBS
Cities have historically been centers of
commerce and trade. The types of em-
ployment offered in cities are chief attrac-
tions to residents. What are cities offering
now and in the future?
Workshops:
6. Urban Development Action Grants:
The Record and the Promise
7. Humphrey /Hawkins and CETA: To-
ward a Full Employment Economy
8. New Relationships Between City Hall
and Local Business
9. Public Employment: Productivity in
the City's Business
10. The Job - Transportation Link
Program Track III
SAFETY -MORE THAN A
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
With increasing numbers of people, the
city's role as enforcer of laws is not as
simple as it used to be. Crime has takers on
many facets and has social consequences
that affect, us all,.
Workshops:
11. Youth Crime
12. Consolidation of Police and Fire Ser-
vices
13. Police Unions: Cost and Performance
14. LEAA: What the Cities Need Now
15. Fire Protection
Program Track IV"
THE CITY AS A CLASSROOM
Educational systems in all our cities
are often blamed for the declining social
conscience among our youth. The schools
are the one civic institution that all citizens
encounter at some time.
Workshops:
16. CETA and Youth Training
The
1978 Program Track
Workshops
17. Using the Elderly as Volunteer
Teachers
18. Community Schools as a Focal Point
for Neighborhood Revitalization
19. What Can the Local Community Col-
lege Do for your City?
20. Working with the Local School Board
21. Arts in the City
Program Track V
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY "QUALITY
OF LIFE?"
The prospect of a livable environment is
increasingly important to Americans.
What can local officials do to ensure that
their cities are pleasant, places to live in as
well as to 7vork. in?
Workshops:
22. Summer in the Parks and Winter in the
Buildings
23. Getting From Here to There: Urban
Transportation Solutions
24. Silence is Golden: Progress in Noise
Control
25. Blood from Turnips? The City Role in
Paying Costs of a Cleaner Environ-
ment
26. High Technology and Low Technol-
ogy: Alternatives in Solid Waste Dis-
posal
Program Track VI
THE HUMAN ELEMENT
Cities are called "melting pots," and the
unique character of many of our cities -
large and small -is the variety of resi-
dents. With each special group, however,
comae needs. How can they . be accommo-
dated?
Workshops:
27. As Senior Citizens Grow in Numbers,
Do City Services Correspond?
28. Where Do the Children of Working
Mothers Go?
29. Whatever Became of Community Ac-
tion?
30. VETS: Still Looking for Jobs?
31. Health Maintenance Organizations
Program Track VII
THE CHALLENGE OF POLITICAL
LEADERSHIP
People want an efficient, effective, and
responsive government. How can city in-
stitutions be structured to provide this?
How can local officials best work within
the municipal system?
Workshops
32. User Charges as a Method of Financ-
ing Local Services
33. Survival Skills: Coping with Irate
Constituents
34. Towards Equity in Municipal Service
Delivery: Whose Streets Should be
Cleaned First?
35. Contracting out for Municipal Ser-
vices: More or Less?
36. Taxing as a Policy Tool?
37. Financial Accountability
1978 Congress of Cities & Exposition
National League of Cities
1620 Eye Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20006
GREETINGS. . .
As Mayor of the City of Saint Louis, I
would like to officially welcome you to
our City.
Saint Louis is indeed honored that
you have chosen our city as your 1978
meeting place. We will certainly make
every effort to justify your confidence.
You may be sure that the city gov-
ernment, iri cooperation with our
numerous civic agencies, will do every-
thing possible to see that you have the
most enjoyable and successful conven-
tion in the history of the National
League of Cities organization.
Kind personal regards and best
wishes.
Cordially,
4p_�_ &_It_�
James F. Conway
Mayor
City of St. Louis
Seeing
St. Louis
You are going to enjoy St. Louis.
From the view atop the sixty- three-
story Gateway Arch to the unusual
mineral formations far below ground in
the nearby Onondaga Cave and
Meramec Caverns, St. Louis offers
hundreds of fascinating adventures.
Your first impression of the city will
probably be the great Gateway Arch,
set in a peaceful park along the Missis-
sippi River.
Dedicated as a memorial to our coun-
try's gallant pioneers, no other monu-
ment dominates the skyline of an Amer-
ican city as impressively.
Directly beneath the Gateway Arch is
one of the most innovative museums in
the country. The exhibits and displays
in the museum are arranged in a series
of widening circles. Each circle repre-
sents a decade of progress, from the
earliest days of Laclede's settlement to
today.
Close by the Arch are many historic
sites, including the old Courthouse,
built in 1865 and site of the sensational
Dred Scott trial, and the old Cathedral,
dating back to the city's founding in
1764.
Other interesting museums include
the St. Louis Medical Museum and Na-
tional Memorial and the Museum of Sci-
ence and Natural History.
Stargazers will enjoy a visit to
McDonnell Planetarium; nature lovers
will delight in the Missouri Botanical
Garden and everyone will find the St.
Louis Zoo fascinating.
In St. Louis you can attend major -
league sports events, or tour the
Anheuser -Busch brewery, or ... well,
plan to attend the Congress of Cities
and see for yourself.
Official
Visit to Cuba
Mark your calendar: This year NLC will
sponsor an official visit to Cuba, direct
from St. Louis after the convention,
November 30 through December 7. De-
tails will be announced shortly. Watch
for more information on the tour in Na-
tion's Cities and City Weekly or write
to:
Travel Department
National League of Cities
1620 Eye Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20006
Pre - Conference Activities: Special workshops, 2:00 p.m.—
Saturday, November 25 5:00 p.m.
Special- interest group meetings,
1:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m.
Orientation for delegates new to the
Congress of Cities,
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Registration open, 3:00 p.m. -6:00 p.m.
The 1978 Congress of Cities &
Exposition:
Sunday, November 26
Registration and exhibits open,
8:00 a.m. -7:00 p.m.
Policy Committee seminars,
9:00 a.m. —noon
Policy Committee business sessions,
1:30 p.m. -4:30 p.m.
Special workshops, 1:00 p.m.-
3:00 p.m.
Welcoming reception, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, November 27
Registration and exhibits open,
8:30 a.m. -5:00 p.m.
Opening General Session,
9:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m.
Lunch in the exhibit hall,
noon -1:00 p.m.
Resolutions Committee meeting,
1:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m.
PROGRAM TRACK WORKSHOPS,
session one, 1:30 p.m. -3:30 p.m.
PROGRAM TRACK WORKSHOPS,
session two, 3:30 p.m. -5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 28
Registration open, 9:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m.;
exhibits open, 9:00 a.m. —noon
International Breakfast,
7:30 a.m. -9:00 a.m.
PROGRAM TRACK WORKSHOPS,
session three, 9:30 a.m. -11:30 a.m.
Delegates' Luncheons, 11:45 a.m. -
130 p.m.
PROGRAM TRACK WORKSHOPS,
session four, 1:30 p.m. -3:30 p.m.
PROGRAM TRACK WORKSHOPS,
session five, 3:30 p.m. -5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 29
General Session, 9:00 a.m. -9:45 a.m.
Business Meeting, 9:45 a.m. -
11:45 a.m.
Lunch, 11:45 a.m. -1:00 p.m.
Business Meeting continued,
1:00 p.m.--3:00 P.M.
Annual banquet, 7:00 p.m.
i ne International Institute of Municipal Clerks
160 N. ALTADENA DRIVE a PASADENA, CALIF. 91107 • PHONE (213) 795 -61.53
John J. Hunnewel!
Executive Director
Lois Anderson
Office hfanager
THE IIMC ELECTION ADMINISTRATION CO;h%1ITTEE
The IIMC Election Administration Committee, as a separate committee,
'has been in existence for just a few years. During this period, however,
it has provided. the Institute with valuable advice and program ideas. Some
of the assistance we are looking for from committee members is:
1. Ideas for the Annual Conference. While May 20 -24, 1979, seems a long
ways off, the preliminary program is being-prepared for a "Labor Day"
deadline. In the past, the Election Administration Committee has pro -'
vided program topics, advice on program structure, and panel participants.
With the emphasis on track sessions and smaller workshops, we are open to'
innovative ideas which will stimulate full participation at the Conference.
Send your suggestions now to IIMC headquarters.
2. Case Studies. This is an on -going problem. We just don't have enough
examples of how our members go about solving a'problem or setting up a
system. Newer clerks are very anxious for this type of information.
If you recently revised your procedure in administering an election, or
devised a solution to a particular problem in this area (e.g. voter reg-
istration, getting out the vote), let us know in your own words. This
could prove to be vital and lasting information.
3. Reference Materials. Last year we received and reported on several manuals
in preparing for an election. If you have (or received from other sources)'
forms, manuals, samples, etc. which are useful in election administration,.
registration etc. send them. to the IIMC Management Information Center.
The Center receives inquiries for such material, especially from the newer
clerks.
4. Articles for the News Digest. Articles, informational items, and newer
developments are always.welcomed for the News Digest. The response to
this type of information in the News Digest has been good. Send the
material in your own words, or in a draft form, or just the original
material. IIMC will do the editing, and, if need be, will get back to
you for additional details.
The above are just a few suggestions. If there are other areas that,you
think the committee should be involved in, pass your ideas along. Being a
committee that is scattered across the United States and Canada may make it
impossible to get together except at the Annual Conference, but we can com-
municate by letter, memo, and telephone.
Address all your correspondence to IIMC headquarters which in turn will
report back to the committee on the suggestions and items received.
The Inter-triati®nal Institute of Alunicipal Clerks
160 N. ALTADENA DRIVE o PASADENA, CALIF. 91107 o PHONE (213) 795 -6153
FxECUTIVE COMMITTEE —1978 -1979
Rer I•:. i.uyton, r.31C
President
City Clerk, City Hall
Los Angeles, California 90012
l,ovis S. Hudlzins. CMC
1st Vi- President
City Clerk, City Hall
Norfolk, Virginia ;;1510
Robert Pritchard. CAIC
2nd Nice. President
City Clerk, City /(all
Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4G7
Charley rN. CATC
3rd Vicr /'resident
Town Clerk-'
, Town Hall
South Windsnr, Connecticut 06074
Rosemary Pillow, C -11C
4th lice President
City - Parish Clerk, City Hall
Baton Rouge, Lenrisiona RlS31
Tkanms 111. Redananer, C31C
,51h Vice President
Boraugh Clerk, Municipal Building
Barrington, New ,Iersey 08007
DIRECTORS — 1979 Expiration
Crnrst R. Lafond, C91C
City Clerk. City Hull
tVoonsocket, Rhode. Island 02395
Helen A1. Van Heyde
City Clerk, City Hall
Columbus, Ohio 48315
Lyall A. Sch,rcarzkopf. CAIC
City Clerk. City Hall
Alineapolis, Minnesoln 55415
Rirhard H. !rest, C31C
City Clerk, City Hall
San Leandro, California 94577
C. J. McGorigle, C31C
City Clerk. City Hall
Edmonton, Alberta TV 2R7
DIRECTORS —1980 Expiration
No"In B. Sisco, C31C
Township Clerk, Aluniripat Building
Sparta. New Jersey 07871
Donald IV. Schipper. C31C
City Clerk. City Hall
Holland, Michigan 49425
Dorothy Soderblom. CMC
City Clerk. City Hall
Holls, Kansas 67601
Iola S. Stone, CMC
City Clerk, City Hall
Elberton. Georgia 31J635
DIRECTORS -1981 Expiration
Slaranret It'. Rollirus. CaIC
Cily Clerk, City 11,111
Ihr-harn. ,North Carolina 27701
Alary E. Paul
City Clerk, City Hall
Ames. Iowa .50010
Norton Barrett. CMC
City .tier,elurll, City Half
Crn. +hlton. Trras 9322
Viru,iniu S. 7'hnmpsoa, CHIC
City (_Trek. City Hall
Tempe. Ari,ona N5: 11
31ary L,u, Cooper
City t:lerk- lf,vnrdrr, Pity Hall.
AlAugu, n7ue, New .11"xie., S"10.4
I) nnra Cullvrt +ore, C.11C
lounrJ6ih- 1'as' 1'rrsiderd
City Cb'rk, 3luuieip,d Building
Ph,,.,,ir. Arizona n5iur.4
John J. Hunnewell, CAE
�. X.s-c'cutire Director
Lois Anderson
AssistnllI to
the Director
July 11, 1978
Mrs. Florence B. Hallberg
Village Clerk
Village Hall
4801 W. 50th Street
Edina, Minn. 55424 .
Dear Florence,
would.like you to serve as a member of the IIMC Election
Administration Committee.
The committee structure is important in the organization of
the International institute of Municipal Clerks. The
Election Administration Committee, as a separate committee,
is relatively new, and in the short t.ime that it has been in
existence it has become one of'the solid committees that
IIMC has. In the past it has provided programs at the
Annual Conference, articles in the News Digest, and refer-
ence materials for our.Management Information Center.
am enclosing a certificate of appointment, a news release,
and a memorandum of the committee's functions. Please give
your appointment.the widest dissemination possible. If you
wish IIMC to send out a news release, just fill in the
enclosed form and return it to IIMC headquarters with the
names and addresses of your newspaper and tv /radio stations.
If you think it is appropriate, I will also send a personal
letter of your appointment to your mayor upon receipt of his
or her name.
I trust that you will accept this assignment. I am looking
forward to a very exciting and challenging year. Your
assistance and support will make this possible.
Sincerely,
Rex E. Layton, CMC
President, IIMC
REL:clh
Voter registration reopens
QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTER REGISTRATION
To qualify to register to vote, a citizen must:
1. Be over 18 years of age by day after election
2. Be a citizen of the United States
3. Have resided in Minnesota for 20 days
LAW
207.03
201.061
207.03
202A.21
207.03
205.13
205.13
201.061
207.03
205.07
(9/13/78 - Primary Election)
(11/8/78 - General - City Election)
For additional information, please call the Edina City Clerk, 927 -8861.
CITY OF EDINA
1978 ELECTION CALENDAR
DATE
DUTY
July 22
First day to apply for absentee ballots for
Primary Election
August 22
Registration closes until Primary Election Day
September 11
Last day to apply for absentee ballots for
Primary. Election
September 12
State Primary Election Day
Voter registration reopens
September 23
First day to apply for absentee ballots for City -
General Election
September 26
Filings open for City Election - (2)....Council..Seats
,October 10
Filings close for City Council
October 17
Voter registration closes until Election Day
November 6
Last day for application for absentee ballots
for City - General Election
November 7
City - General Election Day
Voter registration reopens
QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTER REGISTRATION
To qualify to register to vote, a citizen must:
1. Be over 18 years of age by day after election
2. Be a citizen of the United States
3. Have resided in Minnesota for 20 days
LAW
207.03
201.061
207.03
202A.21
207.03
205.13
205.13
201.061
207.03
205.07
(9/13/78 - Primary Election)
(11/8/78 - General - City Election)
For additional information, please call the Edina City Clerk, 927 -8861.
Monday, August 7 -
9:00 Golf - Normandale
9:00 Bowling - Southdale
12:00 Cong. Dining
Tuesday, August 8 -
9:30 Christmas Crafts Proj.
9:30 Shuffleboard
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:30 Sr. Club Business Mtg.
Cards
Open until 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 9 -
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:30 Enhancing Your Communi-
cation Skills
Thursday, August 10 -
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:00 -3:00 Blood Pressure
2:00 Bowling - Biltmore
Open until 9:00 p.m.
Friday, August 11 -
9:00 Bowling - Southdale
.9:30 Shuffleboard
11:00 Picnic at Bush Lake
(Refer to Special Events) 11:00
12:00 Cong. Dining
Monday, August 14 -
9:00 Golf - Normandale
9:00 Bowling- Southdale
12:00 Cong. Dining
Tuesday, August 15 -
9:30 Christmas Crafts Project
9:30 Shuffleboard
12:00 Cond. Dining
1:'00 Bridge Exchange at Bloomington
(See Special Events)
Open until 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 16_-
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:30 Bridge & 500
2:00 Bowling - Biltmore
4:30 Dinner at Murphy House
(See Special Events)
Tuesda , August .22 -
9:30 Shuffleboard
9:30 Christmas Crafts Project
12:00 Cong. Dining
1 :30 Sr. Club B - - --
Open until 8:30 p.m.'
Wednesday, August 23 -
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:30 Progressive 500 Tournament
(See Special Events)
Thursday, August 24 -
9:00 Trip to State Fair (See Special
Events)
12:00 Cong. Dining
2:.00 Bowling - Biltmore
Friday, August 25 -
9:00 Bowling - Southdale
9:30 Shuffleboard
11:00 Picnic at Eloise Butler
(See Special Events)
12:00 Cong. Dining
Monday, August 28 -
9:00 Golf at Normandale
9:00 Bowling- Southdale
12:00 Cong. Dining
Tuesday, August 29 -
9:30 Christmas Crafts Project
9:30 Shuffleboard
12:00 Cong. Dining
Open until 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, A�:� ^x`30 -
9:30 Trip to Cedar Lake Farms
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:30 Bridge & 500
Thursday, August 31 -
12:00 Cong. Dining
2:00 Bowling - Biltmore
Open until 9:00 p.m.
AUGUST
Tuesday, August 1
9:30 Christmas Crafts Project
Thursday, August 17 -
9:30 Shuffleboard
12:00 Cong. Dining
12.00 Cong. Dining
1:00 -3:00 Blood Pressure
Open until 8:30 p.m.
Open until 8:30 p.m.
;Wednesday, August 2 -
F_riday, August 18 -
12.00 Cong. Dining
9:00 Bowling at Southdale
1:30 Bridge & 500
9:00 Shuffleboard
.Thursday, August 3 -
12:00 Cong.,.Dining
9.0.0 -12.00 Blood Pressure
1:30 Sr. Club Celebrates All
12.00 Cong. Dining
August Birthdays - Enter-
2:00 Bowling at Biltmore
tainment: Puppet Show
Open until 9:00 p.m.
Friday, August 4 -
Monde, August 21 -
9:00 Bowling at Southdale
9:00 Golf - Normandale
9.30 Shuffleboard
9:30 Shuffleboard
12:00 Cong. Dining
12:00 Cong. Dining
Monday, August 7 -
9:00 Golf - Normandale
9:00 Bowling - Southdale
12:00 Cong. Dining
Tuesday, August 8 -
9:30 Christmas Crafts Proj.
9:30 Shuffleboard
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:30 Sr. Club Business Mtg.
Cards
Open until 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 9 -
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:30 Enhancing Your Communi-
cation Skills
Thursday, August 10 -
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:00 -3:00 Blood Pressure
2:00 Bowling - Biltmore
Open until 9:00 p.m.
Friday, August 11 -
9:00 Bowling - Southdale
.9:30 Shuffleboard
11:00 Picnic at Bush Lake
(Refer to Special Events) 11:00
12:00 Cong. Dining
Monday, August 14 -
9:00 Golf - Normandale
9:00 Bowling- Southdale
12:00 Cong. Dining
Tuesday, August 15 -
9:30 Christmas Crafts Project
9:30 Shuffleboard
12:00 Cond. Dining
1:'00 Bridge Exchange at Bloomington
(See Special Events)
Open until 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 16_-
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:30 Bridge & 500
2:00 Bowling - Biltmore
4:30 Dinner at Murphy House
(See Special Events)
Tuesda , August .22 -
9:30 Shuffleboard
9:30 Christmas Crafts Project
12:00 Cong. Dining
1 :30 Sr. Club B - - --
Open until 8:30 p.m.'
Wednesday, August 23 -
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:30 Progressive 500 Tournament
(See Special Events)
Thursday, August 24 -
9:00 Trip to State Fair (See Special
Events)
12:00 Cong. Dining
2:.00 Bowling - Biltmore
Friday, August 25 -
9:00 Bowling - Southdale
9:30 Shuffleboard
11:00 Picnic at Eloise Butler
(See Special Events)
12:00 Cong. Dining
Monday, August 28 -
9:00 Golf at Normandale
9:00 Bowling- Southdale
12:00 Cong. Dining
Tuesday, August 29 -
9:30 Christmas Crafts Project
9:30 Shuffleboard
12:00 Cong. Dining
Open until 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, A�:� ^x`30 -
9:30 Trip to Cedar Lake Farms
12:00 Cong. Dining
1:30 Bridge & 500
Thursday, August 31 -
12:00 Cong. Dining
2:00 Bowling - Biltmore
Open until 9:00 p.m.
card nev"s
500 TOURNAMENT
Wed., August 23 Time 1:30 - 3.:30
Cost 50¢ entry fee
Cards, anyone? We'd like to see a large turnout at our next progressive 500 tourna-
ment. Prizes to the winners. Come and pit your card skill against your friends and
neighbors. Sign up with Sue.
BRIDGE LESSONS
Louise Rosinni, Instructor
Six lessons for only $5.00
'Wednesday, September 13 through October 18
Beginning Bridge: If you know little or nothing about the game but have the
desire to learn, join us Wednesdays 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon.
Continuing Bridge: For those of you who have played and would like to improve
your game, this is for you. Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Sign up with Sue as soon as possible.
BRIDGE EXCHANGE
Tuesday, August 15 1:00 - 4:00 Cost 50J
Bloomington Creekside Center
9801 Penn Ave. So.
This•is our final bridge exchange for the summer - -our first two were a real success
and a great time for everyone. If you are interested in continuing this series, make
sure you attend as we will be discussing future plans. Sign up with Sue.
BRIDGE EXCHANGE WINNERS
Congratulations! Here are the results of the June 20 exchange at Edina:
1st Margaret leyerle
2nd 2nd Benno Michels
3rd Alice Helin
4th Gustie Rezac
5th H. Smith
and the July 18 results from Richfield are:
1st Coral Carey
2nd Neil Van Eyk
4th. Benno Michels
5th Eleanor Kroeschell
Great going! See you August 15th in..Bloomington.
I've talked to some of you about organizing your groups into clubs - -500, bridge,
shuffleboard, bowling, etc. Sue is planning to talk to each group and explain how the
club will operate, but she is so busy the right time hasn't come along. In the mean-
time, please think and talk about it, decide whom you want to head your group and how
you want to handle the finances of your group. Then we can get going more quickly when
we do meet.
Do you remember the young man who came over to our Center last yep�r and gave a puppet
show? We're going to have another puppet.show given by the Hennepin County Library on
August 18, at the August birthday party. Be sure to sign up!
Congregate Dining is a pleasant alternative for some seniors, a blessing to many;
but for others it is virtually essential to their well- being. Since those who need
it most are often unable to help, our volunteers do their part,many times over.
Please show your appreciation to them, and if possible, join in helping. The program
depends on your assistance. (And besides, it's fun! You meet the nicest people in
the kitchen!) Call 835 -5039 for reservations and to volunteer, 2 working days in
advance.
P.S. Join us for a trip to the new Zoo on August 23.
Arthritis
families,
arthritis
in August
Foundation
is a disease which afflicts 400,000 Minnesotans - striking one out of three
and creating an economic loss of $150 million dollars per year. Although
affects all.age groups, it is a special concern of senior citizens, and so
the Division of Public P ealth has asked a representative of the Arthritis
to sneak to us about this crippler of children adults.
NO �� ER
1st Thursday of each month - 9:00 -12:00
Paramedics Blood Pressure Clinic. Cost 25C. If desired, your blooi
pressure reading will be sent to your doctor.. (The 25C covers card;
and mailing cost.)
2nd Thursday of each month - 1:00 -3:00
Public Health Blood Pressure Clinic. No cost.
3rd Thursday of each month - 1:00 -3:00
Public Health Blood Pressure Clinic. No cost.
COMMUNICATING WITH OTHERS
Chick Strawbridge from Project Charlie will be here Wednesday,
August 9, at 1:30 p.m. to present a program on enriching your
communication skills.
The South Branch Office of the American Red
to tench a safety and health cour,,e that iG
nursing' or other health rclated e>:perience,
in.forma t i.on .
l•Je are receivi.nLl more grid
for medical appointments.
volunteers to the limit.
cause there are not enoug
and assist those in need.
Cecelia Smith at 335 -2999
Cross is l.00l:ing for. volunteer instructors
goared for senior citizens. If vn,t hnv(�.
contact Cecclia Smith at-835 -2999 for more
I
more calls from residents in Edina that' need transportation
This increase i.n recuasts is rusliino oiir current group of
There are times when transportation requests are denied bc-
h drivers. You can helm by volunteering to accept requests
If you are interested in helping out by driving, call
for more information. ®__
Would you like.to work with flowers and other plants during the coming winter months?
The City of Edina has a new nree_n house in which flowers that will grace our city's
parks in the spring and summer months will be grown. All you "green thumbs" contact
Cecelia Smith at 835 -2999 if you want a touch of spring in the dead of winter. Trans-
portation can be worked out.
There are seniors in Edina who need your help! They are lonely and in need of someone
to.stop in to chat for a minute, and to invite them to our programs. If you are
interested in bringing a little cheer into someone's life through your caring, please
contact Cecelia Smith at 835 -2999 for further information.
�t
=141t,
If you would like to be a full -time or part -time companion, call Upjohn Health Care
Services, 920 -9667.
rxTT.n CARE
In Edina, 7:15 to 1:00. Girl, kindergarten age, August 28th through school year.
Furnish transportation when possible. Salary open. Mrs. Jerry Weber, 927 -8324.
.�
� a
&e�e joo�_�
CONGRATULATIONS, Jo Wolfe, on winning $50.00 at the Moonlight Bowling on Friday
July 7!
4
SPECIAL PEOPLE
Many thanks to all who worked for the Doc Evans Outdoor Mixer. It was a tremendous
success. Thank to all for your help.
Congratulations, Marge Pitts, Agnes Lindahl, Ruth Allen, Angie Sprung and Irene
Russell. You've each put in over 100 hours of volunteer time. You are very special
people.
Thanks to all who have served as greeter.5 at our register table. If you would like
to help out, please contact Selma Wood.
Johanna Witti is our new "flower lady." Thank you, Johanna, it's a big job and we
appreciate your caring for the plants.
Belated Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson (Apt. 1118 at Yorktown
Continental Apartments) on celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary on June 27.
If you've been wondering who the new face is in the office, it is me, Pam Jansen.
I attend Mankato State University and have majored in therapeutic recreation. I'm
presently doing my internship under Sue Weigle's guidance and want to learn the
basic behind programming good recreation and leisure time experiences for Senior
Centers. Stop in and say Hi!
n "
a "
Minnesota Senior Amateur Golf Championship, Thursday., August 24, 25 at the
Edina Country Club and Wayzata Country Club.
Entrees are open to amateur golfers who have reached their 55th birthday by August 25,
1978. Players should be members of clubs that belong to the Minnesota Golf Associa-
tion. For more information, call Sue at 835 -2999.
GOLF RESULTS
9:00 Normandale Monday Mornings
Everyone Welcome
Last Putts: Win Merchant
Darrell Koss
Low Net: Peg Worthingham
Clarence Olson
Throw Dot Hole: Virginia Connelly
Vern Rogness
Low Uneven Holes (Actual Score):
Blanche Crawford
Darrell Koss
Bingo Bango Bongo
Catherine Cassidy
Dorothy Wroge
I.eo Rogentene
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
The ladies are hard at work creating the beautiful decorations for -the Southdale
Christmas Tree.. Everyone is welcome to come and help. The groin meets each Tuesday
at 9:30 a.m. Please bring a scissors, needle and thimble. If you have any questions,
call Signe Colliander, 831 -5082.
ATTENTION ALL RSVP MEMBERS:
Cost $1.00 Leave Center 9:30 a.m. Return to Center 2:30 p.m.
We are taking a bus to the RSVP Picnic which is being held at Minnehaha Park on
August 2.. The Cost is $1.00. If you plan on attending we encourage you to take
the bus. Sign up with Sue.
VomrrRER BREAKFAST
I£ you have done volunteer work with Ruby 11IcLaughlin.in the past year please join us
for a breakfast get - together at the Original_Pancake House on Friday, August 4 at
10:00 a.m. Call Ruby at 835 -4682 for reservations and rider.
October 28th is the date we've chosen for our Christmas Bazaar. Start planning now...
We welcome all crafts and baked goods. Please remember, if you plan on selling
crafts we ask you to donate $2.00 or some baked goods.
FALL CLASSES
Continuing Education for Women is offering a wonderful series of classes for this coming
fall beginning the week of September 25. All classes will be held at the Edina Senior
Community Center:
Monday
Journal Writing
9:30 -11:30
8
sessions
Tuesday
Roots (Geneology)
9:30 -11:30
6.sessions
Wednesday
Spanish
9:30 -11:00
8
sessions
(Oct.. 18 -Dec. 6)
Thursday
Mystery Fiction
9:30 -11:00
6
sessions
Friday
The Widow
9:30 -11:30
6
sessions
Classes are offered to the entire community. Once expenses are met(for instructors,
etc.) these classes are open to seniors 62 years and older at no cost. For more
information please contact Sue.
On August 8, 1978 the College Center of Normandale Community College will again be
sponsoring an Open House from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Refreshments will be served, a tour of the College Center and Japanese Garden will
be available, as well as free recreation in the form of table tennis, billiards and
card games. We will also have information on Fall Quarter Enrollment.
They hope to have the Edina Seniors join them.
more
S ta,ciai
vents
STATF FATP
Thurs. August 24 Cost: $1.50
Leave Center 9 :00 a.m. Return to Center 4:00 p.m.''
Thursday is Senior Citizens Day at the Minnesota State Fair. Persons 65 and older will
be admitted without charge.
The Senior Citizens Building will be the focal point of senior activities. Free bus
tours of the fair grounds will leave periodically from the building. For "A Day at the
Fair" sign up with Sue. Limit 44.
CEDAR LAKE FARM
Wednesday, August 30
Leave Center 9:15 a.m.
®
Cost .$8.50
Return Center 3:00 p.m.
For a fun day on the farm take a scenic drive to -_he Cedar Lake Farm. 500 acres of
unspoiled natural beauty; wild birds, animals and flowers thrive in this thickly wooded
sanctuary. Enjoy a pontoon ride on the lake or make use of the canoes, row boats and
water bikes. A hayride through the nature trail. will whet your appetite for the
delicious barbecued chicken dinner at 12:00. The dinner includes: potato salad, oven
baked beans, cole slaw, cranberry sauce, pickles, kolachis, potato buns, lemonade,
coffee and ice cream. Come and enjoy a summer happening with your friends. Sign up
with Sue. Limit of 47.
OVERNIGHT TRIP
September 25 & 26 One day overnight to LaCrosse and The House
on the Rock. A cooperative program with
Richfield.
September 25 -
8:00 a.m. Depart.from Center..
Morning coffee break on your own.
12:00 Cruise on Mississippi with lunch on board (ham & turkey buffet)
2:00 p.m. Bus tour of LaCrosse
4:00 p.m. Go to Holiday Inn (dinner on your own)
7:00 p.m. Melodrama
September 26 -
Breakfast on your own
9:00 a.m. Depart for Spring Green.
11:45 a.m. Lunch (turkey sandwiches with potatoes and Gravy)
1:00 p.m. Tour House on.the Rock.
7:00 p.m. Return to Center.
Many new items have been added to the House on the Rock. If you have been there, I
am sure it will still be interesting.
Time may be subject to change.- Cost is.just $55.00. Limit of 24. A second bus will
be provided if cnou,r,h interest is shown. Sign up with Sue.
I
S
events
i
MURPHY HOUSE
DANCE
All seniors are welcome to a free dance
the first Tuesday of every month at the VFW
Hall on-67th and Lyndale.
a,
Wednesday, August 16 Leave 4:30 p.m.
Cost $8.25 (meal and transportation) Return 7:30 p.m.
Another evening out for dinner has been planned and-this one is a real winner. We're
going to the Murphy House in St. Paul. The food is tremendous.
Choose one of the following meals and when you register, please indicate what you
would like:
Filet Mignon
Ribs-(my favorite -they are pork ribs, very lean and delicious)
Chicken Kiev
All meals include:
Excellent salad bar with garlic toast
Baked pototoes
Hot bread I
Beverage l
Tax and tip are included.
Keep this date open and sign up with Sue as soon as possible. Limit 47 persons.
AUGUST PICNIC IN THE PARKS = ='
Two great picnics have been planned for August. If you missed the picnics in June
and July, don't miss these; we really have a great time.
Friday, August 11 - Pot Luck 4t Bush Lake
Cost $3.00 Leave Center 11:00 a.m. ( approx.)
Return to Center: 2:00 p.m.
We will provide assorted cold cuts, cheese and breads. We ask that you bring beverage,
silver, cups, dishes and a plate to pass (which could be cookies, salad, chips, pickles,
etc.) Sign up with Sue as soon as possible!
Friday, August 25 - Eloise Butler Park
Cost $1.50 Leave Center 11:00 a.m. (approx.)
Return to Center: 2:00 p.m.
In June we missed this trip because of bad weather, so here's your chance to see these
beautiful gardens and pathways. Brink, your bag lunch and beverage. Sign up with Sue.
WHERE GOOD TIMES BEGIN
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EDINA, SENIORS
EDINA SENIOR CITIZENS COMMUNITY. CENTER 7181 YORK 835 -2999 927 -8861
Number 11
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
AUGUST BIRTHDAYS!
Frances Larson 3
Vretta V. Eschen 4
Hilda Rousseau 5
Ruth Rossing 5
Evelyn. Jordahl 7
Rose Neudecker 8
Evelyn Gunn 9
Alice Anderson 10
Rushford Krouse 1.2
Hazel Osborne 1 -2
Hazel Hartman 14
Bernice Johnson 14
Hazel Rose 14
Lucille Leger 15
Henrietta Moskoff 15
Ruth Stefferud 15
Hazel Webster 15
Martha Durocher 15
David Chatelaine 16
F. Clifford Johnson 16
Gladys Reiner 17
Bernice Wilburn 17
Bonnard Brenton 18
Olive Crocker 19,
Clifford Dahlgren 20
Olivia Engelhard 20
Loretta Lee 20
Anna Svitak 20
Margaret Fitzenberger 22
Mrs. II. C. Utley 23
Doris Daoust 24.
Pearl Hansen 24
Edna Haugland 24
George Branton 26
Dr. Joe Neal 26
Mildred Wold 26
Arnold Odegard 27
Marion Limond 28
E. P. Engelhard 29
Sylvia Nelson 30
Anna Ringstoff 30
UPCOMI "G DATES.
Sept. 7 - Physical Fitness begins.
Sept. 12- Hearing Screening Tests.
Sept. 13- Bridge Lessons Begin.
Sept. 14- B - - -- with Edina Firs. J.C.s
Sept. 15- Old Guard Chorus entertains.
Sept.-25-26 - Trip to Wisconsin -
House on the Pock
st 1. 1978
MONTHLY REVIEW
Tuesday, August 8.-
Senior Club Monthly Business Meetin
1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 9 -
*Enhancing your communication skills
1:30 p.m.
Friday, August 11 -
*Picnic at Bush Lake 11:00 a.m.
Tuesday, August 15 -
*Bridge Exchange, Bloomington 1:00
Wednesday, August 16 -
*Dinner at Murphy house 4:30 p.m.
Friday, August 18 -
Senior Club - Celebrate all August
Birthdays - Puppet Show - 1:30
Tuesday, August 22 -
Senior Club B - - --
Wednesday, August 23 -
*Progressive 500 Tournament 1:30
Thursday, August 24 -
*Trip to State Fair 9:00 a.m.
Friday, August 25 -
*Picnic at Eloise Butler 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday, August 30 -
*Trip to Cedar Lake Farms- 9:30 a.m.
* For more information, refer to
Special Events.
TWINS NIGHT GAME - Box Seats $2.75
Thursday, Aug. 17th - leave 6:30 p.m.
SIGN UP I4ITH SUE!
George Johnson is looking, for any men that may have served during World War I
in the Black Hawk Artillery Division, 133d Field Artillery. Call 835 -1564.
j
j•
pulation growth.. _
The garbage hasn't been collected
from myneighborhood in the
Morningside section of Edina for; ,
two weeks.
r
We've run out of garbage cans and '
we- have to stack the plastic gar-
bage bags outside. Maggots are ev-
erywhere and neighborhood dogs
.
are tearing the bags apart.
We have called Edina city officials
i
and the garbage collection contrac.
tor, Able Sanitation Inc., 128135
i
• Rhode Island Av. S., Savage,-but.
nothing has been done.
W.K., Edina
WE DUMPED your problem the
same day we called Lee Lunde, ,.•
vice - president of Able. He sent a'
crew out to pick up the trash right
sd
away.
Ihas
y��{{
Lunde said road construction
1
kept the firm from making;its,reg� . .
ular, weekly.pick -ups inyourr
neighborhood and some,otheiareas
of MornInpide•
b, ;
- He said the firm -will start making
pick -ups on Saturdays, if neces-
In
�+
sary. when construction crews
aren't working.
Dave Velde, an assistant city sani i
- -•Ej
tariati, said street construction will -
. continue until the first freeze.-The,.- °.
affected area is roughly bordered .,
ma
,
by W. 40th and 46th Sts. and Nat...,
A�
-
chez and France Avs. S., 'he.said.
toc
.-
"No one thought garbage would
Ong'
such a problem," Veld'e said: In
a "fact, alternative plans for garbage
'�. pick -ups weren't even discussed by
'the
city, he said.
S
Howev..
ee,� major street repairs are, . `
h
Ia
,
beinedone in small sections at a �:
; . to
.
!time to cut down the inconve-
nience to the residents, he said..
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LIQUOR :FUND
BALANCE SHEET
CITY OF EDINA
As at June 30, 1978
CURRENT ASSETS:
Cash:
Demand Deposits
Working Fund
Loan To Other Funds
Inventory:
Liquor
Wine
Beer and Mix
Prepaid Expenses:
Unexpired Insurance
Supplies Inventory
FIXED ASSETS AT COST:
Land
Land Improvements
Buildings
Furniture and Fixtures
Leasehold Improvements
Less Allowance for Depreciation and .
Amortization
Construction in Progress
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
Trade Accounts Payable
Accrued Payroll
Due to Other Funds
SURPLUS:
Invested in Fixed Assets
Unappropriated
ASSETS
$120,207.01
3,500.00 $ 123,707.01
415,000.00
$245,137.96
308,974.53
41,521.72 595,634.21
$ 3,927.53
400.00 4,327.53
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS $1,138,668.75
TOTAL ASSETS $2,125,576.83
LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS
$ 110,844.64
4.643.05
$ 115,487.69
23.396.00
$ 138,883.69
$986,908.08
999,785.06 1,986,693.14
$2,125,576.83
$152,518.85
$ 27,369.87
481,643.80
151,075.01
3,035.55
$663,124.23
261,072.21
4029052.02
$554,570.87
432,337.21. 986,908.08
TOTAL ASSETS $2,125,576.83
LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS
$ 110,844.64
4.643.05
$ 115,487.69
23.396.00
$ 138,883.69
$986,908.08
999,785.06 1,986,693.14
$2,125,576.83
$
21,990.53
.35,700.92
LIQUOR DISPENSARY FUND
87,766.22
22,182.66
33,215.76
29,842.80
85,241.22
192.13*
2,485.16
231.97
2,525.00
122,807 67 $
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSE
17,783.29
15,236.19
43,855.18
6,365.62
16,815.03,
12,832,71
= .
4,470.08
968.26
2,403.48
7,841.82
• CITY OF
EDINA
25 996.35
24 275.69
71,422.34
19 892.13
24,522.05
20 957.32
65 371.50
t
t 474.30
3 318.37
6 050.84
Six Months Ending June 30,
1978 and June
30, 1977
69 586.65 $
203 043.74
$ 48 440.41
74 552.84
INCREASE - DECREASE* '
186 626.08
5,536.12 $
1978
5,953.82
-
50th St.
.1977
�rl :dn1.e - . Grnndview
-.
Total
•'50th St.
36,538.02 $
Yorkdale
Grandview Total
$ 49,774.31
rk-la A
Grandview
' Total.
9,382.34 $
1,292.40
$ 15,606.83
FEOflT
'
6.26%
.40 %*
7.41%
6.42%
5.76%
S' $196,834.80
$504,669.37
$435,176.78
$1,136,680.95
$181,737.41
$462,605.05
$413,916.79
$1,058,259.25
$
15,097.39
$
42,064.32
$21,259.99
S 78,421.70
87,800:19
225,596.86
189,213.37
502,610.42
54,900.60
189,,337.27
156,735.43
400,973.30
178.59
32,899.59
25.24
36,259.59
32,477:94
101,637.12
e
61,Q94.S7
173,866.79
126,449.55
361,410.91
53, .
416.28
123,817.27
335,893.18
-0-
7,434.94
15,450.51
2,632.28
25,517.73
,
.:z end /.ace ^.oacoy 5,77.1.10
16,665.07
12,936.44
$763,776.14
35,322.61
$2,036,624.89
4,816 85
$295,114,49
15,440 53
$825,799.13
12,715.27
$707,184.76.$1,828,098.38
32,972.65
$.56,336.17
904925
$
1,224.54
94,998.96
221.17
$56,591.38
2,349.96
$207,926.51
$351,450.66
.a: :e 12,165.14
$920,798.09
33,617.06
29,722.74
75,504.94
9,087,02
28,205.81
26,146.17
63,439.00
$ 9 331 11
3,078.12
22 571.63 S
5,411..25
3,576.57
12,065.94
.: nFcnd:
NET SAS 2 $339,285.5
$887,181.03
$734,053.40
$1,960,519.95
$286,027.47
$797,593.32
$681,038.59
$1,764,659.3.8
$
53,258.05
$
89,587.71
$53,014.81
$195,860.57
' :T C= SAL S:
97,456.21
234,430.65
222,573.02
554,459.88
109,208.09
218,953.44
195,512.91
523,674.44
11,751.88*
15,477.21
27,060.11
30,785.44
.y�;oa:orr
743,321.39
610,033 08
1,703,926.63
250,344.42
694,657.81
611,419.00
1,556,421.23
1002227.74
48,663.58
1,385.92* 147,505.40
$448,028.37
$977,752.04
$832,606.10
$2,258,386.51
$359,552.51
$913,611.25
$806,931.91
$2,080.,095.67
$
88,475.86
$
64,140.79
$25,674.19
$178,290.84
rr- dune30 161,748.62
229,208 22
204,677.3 7
595,634.21
11 -6 062.60
240,345:08
224,771.77
581,179.45
45,686.02
ll., ,094.40
136 86* 20
-__ 14 454.76
_ _
5286,279.75
S748,543.82
$243,489.91
$673,266.17
$582,160.14
$1,498,916.22
$
42,789.84
$
75,277.65
$45,768.59
$163,836.08
GROSS - PROFIT$ 53,005.77
$138,637.21
_$627,928.73'$1,662,752.30
$106,124.67
$ 297,767.65
$ 42,537.56
$124,327.15
$ 98,878.45
$ 265,743.16
$
10,468.21
$
14,310.06
$ 7,246.22
$ 32,024.49
$
21,990.53
.35,700.92
30,074.77
87,766.22
22,182.66
33,215.76
29,842.80
85,241.22
192.13*
2,485.16
231.97
2,525.00
122,807 67 $
10,835.70
17,783.29
15,236.19
43,855.18
6,365.62
16,815.03,
12,832,71
36,013.36
4,470.08
968.26
2,403.48
7,841.82
15.06%
21 150.30
25 996.35
24 275.69
71,422.34
19 892.13
24,522.05
20 957.32
65 371.50
1 258.17
t 474.30
3 318.37
6 050.84
TOTAL CP.3ATI,
53 976.53
$ 79 480.56 $
69 586.65 $
203 043.74
$ 48 440.41
74 552.84
$ 63 632.83 $
186 626.08
5,536.12 $
4,927.72 $
5,953.82
$ 16 417.66
�� C'-= :•T�`$G
970.76*
$ 59,156.65 $
36,538.02 $
94,723.91
$ 5,902.85*
$ 49,774.31
$ 35,245.62 $
79,117.08 $
4,932.09 $
9,382.34 $
1,292.40
$ 15,606.83
FEOflT
'
6.26%
.40 %*
7.41%
6.42%
5.76%
-FcA ItiCG`fE:
5,540.03
11,980.95.
27,436.68
3;471.99
9,374.99
8,413.09
21,260.07
1,958.04
2,605.96
1,612.61
6,176.61
under
48.11*
.10,025.70
72.12*
178.59
58.36
25.24
43.88*
61.31
42.67
73.35*
28.24*
117.28
15.69
o'er cr
i- --'.
-0-
-0-
518.75
518.75
518.75*
518.75,
-c:-e o-
588.72
588.72
750.14
750.14
161.42*
161.42
_.
6
4 766 12
$ 9 331 11
$ A-474 40 9
22 571.63 S
1,204.52 $
2,577.72 $
1,729.89
$ 5,512.13
$
5,970 64
$ 11,908.83
$ 10,204.29 $
28,083.7
NET PROFIT $
4,999.88
$ 71,065 48
$ 46,742.31 $
122,807 67 $
1,136.73* $
59,105.42
$ 43,720.02 $
101,688.71
TO NET S
•15:'52%
15.63%
14.46%
15.19%
14.87%
15.59%
14.52%
15.06%
15.91
8.96
• 9.48
10.36
16.94
9.35
9.34
10.58
6.67%
4.98%
4.83%
2.07 %*
6.24%
5.18%
4.48%
„:i :r incc-te
1.76
1.34
1.39
1,43
1.67
1.17
1.24
1.28
NZ:, INCOME
1.47%
.8.01%
6.37%
6.26%
.40 %*
7.41%
6.42%
5.76%
6.136.61 $ 11,960.06 $ 3- ;022.29_$ 21,1_1�?.96
CURRENT ASSETS:
Cash:
Demand Deposits
Working Fund
Loan to Other Funds
Inventory:
Liquor
Wine
Beer and Mix
Prepaid Expenses:
Unexpired Insurance
Supplies Inventory
FIXED ASSETS AT COST:
Land
Land Improvements
Buildings
Furniture and Fixtures
Leasehold Improvements
Less: Allowance for Depreciation
and Amortization
Construction in Progress
CURRENT LIABILITIES :.
Trade accounts Payable
Accrued Payroll
Due to Other Funds
SURPLUS :
Invested in Fixed Assets
Unappropriated
LIQWR FUND
BALANCE SHEET
CITY OF EDINA
As at May 31, 1978
ASSETS
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS
$ 31,821.51
3,500.00
$ .24,211.51
415,000.00
$278,776.38
319,686.06 .
38,138.62 636,601.06
$ 5,715.53
400.00 .6,115.53
$1,093,038.10
TOTAL ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES
988,647.08
.$2,081,685.18
$ 95,734.71
4,448.59
$ 100,183.30
_23,396.00
$ 123,579.30
$988,647.08
969,458.80 1,958,105.88
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS $2,081,685.18
$152,518.85
$ 27,369.87
481,643.80
151,075.01
_ 3,035.55
$663,124.23
258,514.21
404,610.02
$557,128.87
431,518.21
TOTAL ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES
988,647.08
.$2,081,685.18
$ 95,734.71
4,448.59
$ 100,183.30
_23,396.00
$ 123,579.30
$988,647.08
969,458.80 1,958,105.88
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS $2,081,685.18
LIQUOR DISPENSARY FUND
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NCOME AND EXPENSE
CITY OF E )1%
Five Months Ending May 31, 1978 and May 31, 1977
1978 1977 ..��
.��`' tc+rk'inl. Grnndvirw Total 50t:h_ St. Norlydale Grnndv_i.ew ._Total._ .__..._ -50th St...
,LES:
$152,695.44
68,176.57
ccr 43,819.10
Mix end Misceflcn -w 4, 075.60
$268,766.71
Lcss botri: refunds 9,409.48
NET SALES $259,357.23
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)ST OF SALES:
Inventory - lcluor) 97,456.21
Purchases 290,919.39
$388,375.60
In�cntory- May31:' 169,613.83
$218,761.77
ROSS -PROFIT'$ 40,595.46
51RATING EXPENS
Selling $
Orcnccad
Administrotire
TOTAL OFZZAT $
- EXFENS
NET OrEKA, $
PROFIT
18,032.06
7,638.92
18,015.20
43,686.18'
3,090.72*
MCFF. E- 0rCZWE•
.,_Y,orkrirle___(:r�adrie� T ^•a1
$406,621.22. $348,613.56 $ 907,930.22 $148,481.37 $372,781.73 $333,005.44 $ 854,268.54 $ 4,214.07 $ 33,839.49 $15,608.12 $ 53,661.68
188,072.26 157•,969•.96 414•,218.79 • 46,502.58 157,566.46 130,528.33 3349597.37 21. 673.99 '- 30,505.80 27,441.63 79,621.42
133,379.19 95,187,63 272,385.92 42,422.14 123,650.93 95,922.04 261,995.11 1,396.96 9,728.26 734.41* 1.01390.81
12,971.21 9,752.52 26 799.33 3,763.23 12 043.34 9,755.84 25 562.41 312.37 927.87 3.32* 1,236.92
$741,043.88 $611,523.67 $1,621,334.26 $241,169.32 $666,042.46 $569,211.65 $1,476,423.43 $27,597.39 $ 75,001.42 $42,312.02 $144,910.83
27,163.25 23,829.77 60 402.50 7,336.54 22 707.48 20,916.23 50 960.25 2,072.94 4,455.77 2,913.5 9,442.25
$713,880.63 $587,693.90 $1,560,931.76 $233,832.78 $643,334.98 $548,295.42 $1,425,463.18 $25,524.45 $ 70,545.651.$39,39.8.48 $135,468.58
234,430.65 222$73.02 554,459.88 109,208.09 218,953.44 195,512.91. 11,751.88* 15,477.21 27,060.11 30,785.44
610,501.07 502 972.45 1,404,392.91 2.02 130.96 522 694.41 476,510.45 1,201,335.82 88 788.43 87,806.66 26,462.00 203 057.09
$844,931.72 $725,545.47 $1,958.852.79 $311,339.05 $741,647.85 $672,023.36 $1,725,010.26 $77,036.55.$103,283.87 $53,522.11 $233,842.53
243,346:37 223 640.86 '636.601.06 '122,747.73 199,242.36' '.204 083.54 516 073.63 56 866.10 44 104.01 19 557.32 120 527.43
$601,585.35 $501,904.61 $1,322,251.73 .$198 591.32 $542,405.49 •$467,939.82 $1$208,936.63 $20,170.45 $ 59,179.-86-$33$96 .79 $113,315.10
$112,295.28 $ 85,789.29 $ 238,680.03 $ 35,241.46 $100,929.49 $ 80$5.5.60 $ 216,526.55 $ 5,354.00 $ 11,365.79 $ 5,433.69 $ 22,153.48
$ 29,797.81 $ 25,236.96 $ 73,066.83 $ 18,956.14 $ 28,052.51 $ 25,080.16 $ 72,088.81 $ 924..08 *$ 1,745.30 $ 156.80 $ X978.02
13,785.23 12,469.07 33,893.22 5,228.61 13,728.07 10,657.14 29,613.82 2,410.31 57.1.6 1,811.93 4,279,.40
22 069.13 20 460.14 60 544.4 7 17 016.57 20 426.34 17,915.96 55,358.87 998.63 1,642.79 2,544.18 5,185.60
$ 65,652.17 _$_58_166.17 $ 167,504.52 $ 41,201.32 $ 62,206.92 $ 53,653.26 $ 157,061.50 $ 2,484.86 $ 3,445.25 $ 4,512.91 $ 10,443.02
$ 46,643.11 $ 27,623.12 $ 71,175.51 $ 5,959.86* 8 38,722.57 $ 26,702.34 $ 59,465.05 $ 2,869.14 $ 7,920.54 $ 920.78 $ 1.1,710.46
THER INCO:'.E:
Cosh Discount
4,466.70
'9,790.11
8,240.89
22,497.70
2,862.74
7',0.53•.46
6,571.57
16,487.77
1,603.96
2,736:65
1,669.32
6,009.93
Cosh orcr or undc.
35.11*
78.66*
120.20
6.43
19.16
26.48*
80.52
73.20
54.27*
52.18*
39.68
66.77*
Income on inrestm
-0-
-0-
518.75
518.75
518.75*
518.75*
Othcr
540.77
540.77
612.82
61.2.82
72;05*
72.05*
$ 9,711.45
$ 8,361.09 $
23 044.90
4,013.47
$ 7,026.98
$ 6,652.09 $
17 692.54
$ 958.89 $
2,684.47 $
1,709.00 $
5 352.36
NET *,,,,.$1-4,972.36
$�
1,881 64
$ 56,354 56
$ 35,984 21 $
94,220.41 $
1.946.39*
$ 45,749.55
$ 33,354.43 $
77,157.59
$- 3,828.03 $
10,605.01 $
2,629.78 $
17,062.82
PROFIT
=_RCENT TO NET S
15.65/°
15.73%
14,60%
15.29%
15.07%
15.69%
14.66%
15.19%
15.19%
Gross profit
16.84
9.20
9.90
10.73
17.12
9.67
9.79
11.02
Operating c=pcnses
Operating p•ofit
1.19 % *.
6.53 °G
4.70 °1.
4.56%
2.55 %*
6.02% •
4.87%
4.17%
Other income
1.92
1.36
1.42
1.48
1.72
1.09
1.21
1.24
NET PROFIT
.73%
7.89%
6.12%
6.04%
.83%
7.11%
6.08%
5.41%
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REQUEST NUMBER: LD -78 -6
LOCATION: S. of Vernon Ave. & W. of
Gleason Road.
REQUEST:. Division of double bungalow
lot.
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COMMUN I TY DEVELOPMENT
STAFF REPORT
August 2, 1978
LD -78 -6 Lot Division. Lot 3, Block 1, Gleason's Fifth Addition.
Generally located south of Vernon Avenue and west of
Gleason Road.
Refer to: attached graphic.
The proponents are requesting a party wall lot division of an
existing duplex on Vernon Avenue. Individual sewer and water
connections have been installed for each unit.
Recommendation: Staff recommends approval of the lot division.
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401 WLST 79TH STREET
BLOOMINGTON. MINNESOTA 35420
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Minutes of the August 2, 1978, Community Development and Planning Commission:
III. New Business:
LD -78 -6 Lot Division. Lot 3, Block 1, Gleason's Fifth Addition.
Generally located south of Vernon Avenue and west of Gleason
Road.
Mr. G. Hughes explained to the Commission that the
proponents requested a party wall lot division to split their double
bungalow lot into two halves. He added that individual sewer and water
connections had been installed for each unit.
Mr. Dave Runyan moved approval of this division. Ms.
Helen McClelland seconded that- motion. All voted aye, and the motion
carried.
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* Elevations shown are existing 1P
* Proposed garage floor elev. 880.0
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* Proposed front entry a =ev. .881.2 — '•
* Proposed rear entry elev. 872.4 .0 `NW58'12114y 59.62
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct representation of'the
boundaries of:
Lot 3, Dlock 1 GLEASOW S FIFTH ADDITION except the Southwesterly
10.00 feet thereof, and that part of Outlot C; GLEASON'S FIFTH ADDITION lying Westerly of a line described as follows:
Beginning at'the most Easterly corner of Lot 3, (also a point in
the North line of Outlot C) thence Southwesterly 60.80 feet, more
or less, to a point on the South line of Outlot C, a distance of
45.80 feet East of the most I:esterly corner he eof.
It also show) the location of a propose build.inc��T certified by me
this 15th day of September, 1977.
Harr S. f�Anson
• _ Land Sur%)Zyor ( Minn. Reg. IJo. 5065 i
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IRRY S. JOHNSON COMPANIES, INC.
401 WEST 79TH STREET
BLOOMINGTON. MINNESOTA 53420
PHONE 16121 684.5341
CERTIFICATE
OF SURVEY
FOR Me. GrIPs F 106
Parcel A
All that part *of Lot 3, Block 1, and Outlot C,
GLEASON'S FIFTH ADDITION, according to the recorded plat
thereof, Hennepin County, Minnesota, lying westerly of a
line drawn southwesterly from the most easterly corner of
said Lot 3 to a point on the south line of said Outlot C,
distant... ' 45.80 feet East of the 'roost westerly corner
of said Outlot C.; and lying northeasterly of.a line
drawn parallel with the northeasterly line and its
southeasterly extension of said Lot 3, from.a point on the
northwesterly line of said Lot 3, distant 50.00 feet
southwesterly of the most northerly corner,of said Lot 3.
Parcel B
All that part of Lot 3, Block 1, and Outlot C,
GLEASON'S FIFTH ADDITION, according to the recorded plat
thereof, Hennepin County Minnesota, lying westerly of a
line drawn :southwesterly from the most easterly corner of
said Lot 3-to a point on the south line of said Outlot C,
distant 45.80.feet East of the most westerly corner of said
Outlot C; and lying southwesterly of a line drawn parallel
with the northeasterly line and its southeasterly extension
of said Lot 3. from a point on the northwesterly line of
said Lot 3, distant 50.00 feet southwesterly of the most
northerly corner of said Lot 3. Except the southwesterly
10.00 feet of said Lot 3.
I hereby certify that this survey, plan or report was prepared
by me or under my direct supervision and that I am a duly
Registered Land Surveyor under the laws of the state of
Minnesota.
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Harry Si Johns/on Reg. No. 5065
July 20, 1978
5"97 1 OF 2 SAC -CTS
NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby resolved by the City Council of the City of
Edina that the conveyance and ownership of the second above described Parcels
as separate tracts of land is hereby approved and the requirements and
provisions of Ordinanee Nos. 811 and 801 are hereby waived to allow said
division and conveyance thereof as separate tracts of land, but only to
the extent permitted under Ordinance No. 801 and Ordinance No. 811 and
subject to the limitations set out in Ordinance No. 811 and said ordinances
are not waived for any other purpose or as to any other provisions
thereof, and further. subject, however, to the provision that no further
subdivision be made of said Parcels unless made in compliance with the
pertinent ordinances of the City of Edina or with the prior approval of
this Council as may be provided for by those ordinances.
ADOPTED this 7th.day of August, 1978.
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) SS
CITY OF EDINA )
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned, duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of
Edina, do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing resolution was
duly adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of August
7, 1978, and as recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 15th day of August, 1978.
City Clerk
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the following described property is at present a single tract
of land:
Lot 3, Block 1, Gleason's Fifth Addition, except the Southwesterly
10.00 feet thereof, and that part of Outlot C, Gleason's Fifth
Addition, lying Westerly of a line described as follows:
Beginning at the most Easterly corner of Lot 3, (also a point in
the North line of Outlot C) thence Southwesterly 60.80 feet, more
or less, to a point on the South line of Outlot C, a distance of
45.80 feet East of the most Westerly corner thereof; and
WHEREAS, the owner has requested the subdivision of said tract into
separate parcels (herein called "Parcels ") described as follows:
All that part of Lot 3, Block 1, and Outlot C, Gleason's Fifth
Addition, according to the recorded plat thereof, Hennepin County,
Minnesota, lying Westerly of a line drawn Southwesterly from the most
Easterly corner of said Lot 3 to a point on the South line of said
Outlot C, distant 45.80 feet East of the most Westerly corner of said
Outlot C; and lying Northeasterly of a line drawn parallel with the
Northeasterly line and its Southeasterly extension of said Lot 3,
from a point on the Northwesterly line of said Lot 3, distant 50.00
feet Southwesterly of the most Northerly corner of said Lot 3; and
All that part of Lot 3, Block 1, and Outlot C,'except all that part
of said Lot 3, Block 1, and Outlot C, Gleason's Fifth Addition,
lying Westerly of a line drawn Southwesterly from the most Easterly
corner of said Lot 3 to a point on the South line of said Outlot C,
distant 45.80 feet East of the most Westerly corner of said
Outlot C; and lying Northeasterly of a line drawn parallel with the
Northeasterly line and its Southeasterly extension of said Lot 3,
from a point on the Northwesterly line of said Lot 3, distant 50.00
feet Southwesterly of the most Northerly corner of said Lot 3; and
WHEREAS, the requested subdivision is authorized under Ordinance No. 801
and it has been determined that compliance with the Subdivision and Zoning
Regulations of the City of Edina will create an unnecessary hardship and
said Parcels as separate tracts of land do not interfere with the purpose
of the Subdivision and Zoning regulations as contained in the City of Edina
Ordinance Nos. 811 and 801;
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the City of Bloomington is seeking F.A.U. Funds to construct a road-
way which will provide a major connection from the Southdale area to the
Southtown area without accessing the Freeway System; and
WHEREAS, this roadway would be consistent with the Highway 100 - 494 Corridor
Study completed in the early 1970's; and
WHEREAS, the City of Edina has no competing submittals in the roadway construc-
tion category and construction of this roadway would assist the City of Edina
by providing additional primary roadway to the Xerxes Ave. - 494 area, and
would assist the City of Richfield by diverting some of the York Avenue - W.
76th Street - Penn Avenue traffic between the two shopping areas;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Edina City Council does hereby concur
with the request of the City of Bloomington for F.A.U. Funds for construction
of a roadway on W. 80th Street between Xerxes Avenue and Penn Avenue.
ADOPTED this 7th day of August, 1978.
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) SS
CITY OF EDINA )
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina,
do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing resolution was duly adopted
by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of August 7, 1978, and as
recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 15th day of August, 1978.
City Clerk