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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC April 2, 2002 Clnw~ CITY OF ANDOVER LJ.-/(P-ör 1685 CROSSTOWN BOULEY ARD N.W. . ANDOVER, MINNESOTA 55304. (763) 755-5100 FAX (763) 755-8923. WWW.Cl.ANDOYER.MN.US Regular City Council Meeting - Tuesday, April 2, 2002 Call to Order - 7 :00 PM I. Resident Forum 2. Agenda Approval 3. Approval of Minutes (3/19/02) Consent Items 4. Award Bid/02-3/2002 Crack Sealing/2002 ClP - Engineering 5. Award Bid/02-4/2002 Seal Coating/2002 CIP - Engineering 6. Accept FireWise Grant!02-21 -Engineering 7. Infonnation on Speed Limits in Rural Areas - Engineering 8. Ratify Appointment Recommendation/Assistant Finance Director - Administration 9. Approve Variance to Ordinance 8IReduceFront Yard Setback/2820-135th Avenue NW/Dallman- -- Planning 10. Approve 200 I Audit Transfer - Finance Discussion Items II. Anoka-Hennepin School District! Student Transportation Update - Administration Staff Items 12. Frattallone Hardware/Garden Center SUP/Staff Update - Planning 13. Dave Harris Sketch Plan (Kensington Outlot) - Planning 14. Legislative Redistricting/City Update - Clerk Mayor/Council Payment of Claims Adjournment O.f)\JIr~ 4-lk6;).. , . REGULAR ANDOVER CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES -APRIL 1, 1002 TABLE OF CONTENTS RESIDENT FORUM ................................................................................................................. 1 AGENDA APPROV AL............................................................................................................. 1 APPROVAL OF MINUTES...................................................................................................... 1 CONSENT ITEMS Resolution R052-02 award Bidl02-3/2002 Crack Sealing/2002 CIP .................................. 2 Resolution R053-02 award Bidl02-4/2002 Seal Coating/2002 CIP .................................... 2 Accept Fire Wise Grant/02-21............................................................................................. 2 Ratify Appointment Recommendation/Assistant Finance Director..................................... 2 Approve 2001 Audit Transfer .............................................................................................. 2 Frattallone Hardware/Garden Center SUP/Staff Update ..................................................... 2 ANOKA-HENNEPIN SCHOOL DISTRICT/STUDENT TRANSPORTATION UPDATE... 2 INFORMATION ON SPEED LIMITS IN RURAL AREAS .................................................... 5 RESOLUTION NUMBER R054-02, VARIANCE TO ORDINANCE 8/REDUCE FRONT YARD SETBACK/2820-135 TH AVENUE NW /DALLMAN Motion to Approve...................... .................. .... ... ... ............ ....................... ................ ...... 6 DAVE HARRIS SKETCH PLAN (KENSINGTON OUTLOT)............................................... 7 LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING/CITY UPDATE ................................................................ 10 MAYOR/COUNCIL INPUT Flooding .. ..... ................. .... ............ ... ........ ................................ ............. ... ... ................... ....... 10 Dogs Running at Large ......................................................................................................... 11 Transportation Plan............................................................................................................... 11 APPROVAL OF CLAIMS ........................................................................................................ 11 ADJOURNMENT...................................................................................................................... 11 - CITY of ANDOVER REGULAR ANDOVER CITY COUNCIL MEETING - APRIL 2, 2002 MINUTES The Regular Bi-Monthly Meeting of the Andover City Council was called to order by Mayor Mike Gamache, April 2, 2002, 7:00 p.m., at the Andover City Hall, 1685 Crosstown Boulevard NW, Andover, Minnesota. Councilmembers present: Don Jacobson, Mike Knight, and Julie Trude CounciImember absent: Ken Orttel Also present: City Attorney, Barry Sullivan City Engineer, Scott Erickson City Finance Director, Jim Dickinson Community Development Director, Will Neumeister Others RESIDENT FORUM No one wished to address the Council. AGENDA APPROVAL Remove from Consent Items for discussion Item 7, (Information on Speed Limits in Rural Areas; Item 9, (Approve Variance to Ordinance 8/Reduce Front Yard Setback/2820-135Jh Avenue NW/Dallman); and Add to Consent Items 12, (Frattallone Hardware/Garden Center SUP/Staff Update). MOTION by Trude, Seconded by Jacobson, to approve the Agenda as amended above. Motion carried unanimously. APPROVAL OF MINUTES March 19, 2002, Regular Meeting: Correct as amended. Councilmember Trude noted on page three, under the sprinkling fee schedule, the ordinance was a progressive ¡¡rogress schedule. She also noted under Mayor/Council input, under the School Board Meeting heading, the phrase "People are throwing out their passes", this sentence should be removed from the minutes because there are not passes at this point. She stated there was confusion in the letters as to whether it applied to the residents or not. She stated she would like the entire paragraph removed. . · Regular Andover City Council Meeting Minutes - April 2, 2002 Page 2 MOTION by Jacobson, Seconded by Knight, approval of Minutes as indicated above. Motion carried unanimously. CONSENT ITEMS Item 4 Award Bid!02-3/2002 Crack Sealing/2002 CIP (See Resolution R052-02) Item 5 Award Bid!02-4/2002 Seal Coating/2002 CIP (See Resolution R053-02) Item 6 Accept Fire Wise GranV02-21 Item 8 Ratify Appointment Recommendation! Assistant Finance Director Item 1 0 Approve 2001 Audit Transfer Item 12 Frattallone Hardware/Garden Center SUP/Staff Update - MOTION by Jacobson, Seconded by Trude, approval of the Consent Agenda as read. Motion carried unanimously. ANOKA-HENNEPIN SCHOOL DISTRICT/STUDENT TRANSPORTATION UPDATE Captain Dave King stated that in response to student transportation changes being made by the Anoka-Hennepin School District, the Sheriffs Department has made available eight personnel to District 11 Schools to make the transition as smooth as possible. Captain King stated the officers would be located at several different locations within the City to make this work. An officer would be stationed at Verdin and 170th A venue, two times a day for three-hour segments, in the morning and afternoon. Another location will be the Crooked Lake Elementary School crosswalk. The School Resource Officer will be used to monitor traffic and crossing at Crosstown and Hanson and he will also be watching 153'd north of that intersection. The School Liason Officer will be at Hanson Boulevard! Andover Boulevard in the moming and aftemoon and he will be watching the crossings at 147th, 148th crossing over to Andover Elementary School. The CSO will also be brought in at those times to watch the CrosstownlNightingale area. They will have one of the Andover deputies watch County Road 9 and 168th at the Rum River Elementary crossing area. He stated they will also be bringing in the speed trailer and it will be put on Hanson Boulevard. He stated the County Board approved the changes in speed zones during school hours, and the speed zone signs will be up by Monday, April 8, 2002. Captain King stated he spoke to Mr. Fisher briefly about the speed zone issue and they determined they would restrict the speed zone on a time frame issue. He stated County engineers had not decided if they were going to do this on two hour block segments or if they would make it an all day long inclusive thing. He stated his recommendation would be to go all day long inclusive. He stated they would be running this plan for two weeks and then at the end of the two weeks they would be sitting down with Mr. Holden to assess the entire program and see that it is occurring as well as can be expected. The biggest focus ofthe Sheriff's Department is the need for time to educate the public Regular Andover City Council Meeting Minutes - April 2, 2002 Page 3 to the changes in speed. They will be out on the road with radar and enforcing the laws sternly. Councilmember Trude asked if there would be someone across from Oakview Elementary on 153'd A venue or would one officer watch the entire corridor. Captain King stated they will have an officer stationed at Crosstown and Hanson to make sure the crossing would go smoothly. Councilmember Trude stated that she was concerned with more kids crossing in that area with all the new construction going on. Councilmember Knight asked if officers would be pulled if needed elsewhere during those hours and how would this affect the coverage to the rest of the City. Captain King stated that there was still one car that would be maintaining the call load until that becomes too incumbent upon him to get that done efficiently. The other car would break from the detail and assist with the calls until it would get back to a manageable level. He stated they also had the countywide cars that would be instructed to help out if it gets really busy in Andover. He stated he did not foresee it getting any more busy than usual unless there is inclement weather. Councilmember Knight asked Captain King if any of the officers would be pulled in case of an accident or something came up where they would need coverage in an emergency base. Captain King stated that could happen and at that time, they would rely on the crossing guards to make sure the crossing was done safely. Councilmember Jacobson asked if after their assessment in two weeks, would some of the officers be pulled off or would they be ready to continue throughout the rest of the school year. Captain King stated that he was hoping to educate the students mainly in the crossing issues and they are mainly focusing on these areas. He stated the crosswalk people would not be pulled off oftheÌT stations. He stated they would be putting in 120 hours of overtime to get this two-week period of timeframe through to help that education and he did not think their budget could assume more than that. He stated they would worry about the budget issues later but right now they needed to get this done safely. Councilmember Jacobson asked Mr. Holden how they stood on the issue of crossing guards. Mr. Holden stated to date they had hired 36 part-time crossing guards. They have ordered all their safety equipment and have set up a training session before next week. They have hired individuals to be located at Andover Boulevard and Hanson Boulevard for Andover Elementary School. He also stated they would be located at Crosstown and Hanson Boulevard at the trail on Crosstown and Nightingale. He stated they had hired and moved people around at Crooked Lake Elementary School and Rum River. He stated one thing they need to evaluate with the assistance of the City and law enforcement was the families who had not cornmitted to bus service. He estimated that about one- third of the families had continued with the bus ride. Councilmember Jacobson asked how many families have not committed to ride. Mr. Holden stated they had 17,000 families district wide and approximately 5,500 families have paid at this point to ride the bus. · Regular Andover City Council Meeting Minutes - April 2, 2002 Page 4 Councilmember Trude asked about the families east of the double railroad track crossing, where the trains actually stop to switch cars. She stated she had heard from some families that were concerned with their children having to cross the tracks to get to school. She asked if amhi2f¡ had been <tone,CiS t: 0"- regarding that. She stated that families that live in the C¡vwu Pôin.t D,,\.r¿¡v;sl~.~,J'jfa~1:~1:iVeå'-r'Y'e (Ùí/f'ðL letters that they were within the two-mile area. Mr. Holden stated they had addressed the issue and -tldCl<.$ . if there were a concern, they would station adults at the crossing to help. ()J1î.uWtd Lj -11.>-0:;' Mayor Gamache asked if there was a place to cal1 before this goes into effect if someone has questions. Mr. Holden stated they could call his office and get information or they could go to their website. Mr. Holden stated he was encouraging parents to make the decision to ride the bus and if they could not afford to pay for the service, please call his office and they would make arrangements. Councilmember Trude stated that parents at Andover Elementary contacted her stating they would need to park their cars at the school and go into the school to pick their child up. She stated that the parking lot at the school was not adequate for every parent to do this twice a day. She stated this would be the worst traffic nightmare if they could not get the parking situation under control and it would not be feasible. She asked if Mr. Holden had looked over the situation for a solution to this problem. Mr. Holden stated he had not looked at that problem. He had left the individual parking lot up to the individual school principal. Councilmember Trude stated she had been told of this problem at Andover Elementary for a few years and she was wondering ifhe could do something about this. Mr. Holden stated that no matter what they do, there would still be congestion and it would still be grid locked. His suggestion would be for parents to consider the bus as an option. Mayor Gamache asked if the crossing guards would be given any training on how often they would be stopping traffic to al10w children to cross. Mr. Holden stated they would be training the crossing guards on keeping the traffic flowing and still getting the kids to their destinations safely. Mayor Gamache asked ifbefore spring break were the children given maps of schools and preferred walking routes. Mr. Holden stated they were given maps and they could also look on the web site for the preferred walking routes. Councilmember Knight asked ifthere was information on school opening times so parents would know when they could drop their children off and pick them up. Mr. Holden stated this was an individual decision made by each school and the parents should check with the individual school on the times. Mayor Gamache asked ifhe had a copy ofthe map in case anyone would like to pick up a map in the next few days at the City Hall. Mr. Holden stated he could get them some maps. Councilmember Trude asked Mr. Holden ifhe could discuss the in-district transfer because there was some confusion regarding it. Mr. Holden stated the transportation changes were multifaceted and they had been talking about only one aspect of it. He stated there is four million dol1ars in cuts and an expectation next year of raising one million in fees so there is a five million dol1ar impact. Several things are changing. One aspect of this fee for service has always been in-district transfers . Regular Andover City Council Meeting Minutes - April 2, 2002 Page 5 and open enrollment families and the letter stated that. If a family were attending a school a year early because of a boundary change, they would be attending that school this spring because that is a non-mandated service. Everything that is not mandated by State law is either being discontinued or has a fee attached to it now. The only good news for the families is the $50.00 fee this spring is a one time deal and next year they would not be affected by that. Anyone who has a child in open enrollment or whose child is attending a school not in their area is being charged that fee. Mayor Gamache asked Captain King when the reduced speed zone signs would be posted. Captain King stated he was told the signs would be up by April 8,2002. Mayor Gamache asked if there would be traffic change flags in the areas that had the speed changes. Captain King stated he hoped there would be change flags and if not he would talk to the County Highway people to make sure there would be flags up by Tuesday, April 9, 2002 so people would be aware of the speed change. In response to Councilmember Trude's inquiry about the Andover Elementary parking lot problem, Captain King stated he did talk to J effMueller and Mr. Mueller indicated he would be checking into that. Councilmember Trude stated that the principal requires the child to be picked up inside the school and people stated they would be parking on Hanson Boulevard to pick up their child. Captain King stated that people would not be allowed to park on Hanson Boulevard because that would bring up another issue of safety. Mr. Holden stated he believed the parent pick up and drop off would be on the north side of the school, not on the Hanson side ofthe building. Captain King stated they did recommend there be a right turn only from the parking lot onto Hanson Boulevard to satisfy some of the safety concerns and six officers would be informed there would be a no tolerance for traffic infractions. Mayor Gamache reminded the public that according to the Minnesota Statute there is no passing on the shoulder of the road and this would be enforced. Mr. Tony Copalowski asked what the plans were for putting a sidewalk in from Bunker Boulevard all the way up Hanson Boulevard going north by the new high school. He stated he lived on 14151 and there were a lot of children that go to Andover Elementary and the middle school. Mayor Gamache stated there is a trail on the west side of Hanson, not on the east side right now and there are no plans in the works to put a trail along the east side. That is why they were putting the crossing guard at Andover Boulevard so kids could get across from the east side to the west side and then take the trail to the elementary school and to Oakview. He stated at this point the school district has set up some plans to funnel the kids out to the trails and to the schools. INFORMATION ON SPEED LIMITS IN RURAL AREAS Councilmember Jacobson stated he brought this up so Staff could briefly explain this to the Council and residents. Mr. Erickson stated State law controls traffic speeds. In the urban area where the population is denser, the speed limits are typically 30 mph. In the rural area where there are less people and bigger lots, the speed limits by State law, are 55 mph. He stated at the present time they . Regular Andover City Council Meeting Minutes - April 2, 2002 Page 6 did not have the ability to lower the speed limits in the rural areas. He stated there was a State law change in 1999 that allowed townships to reduce the speed limits in their rural areas. He stated there was some interest in trying to modify the State law and to try to get that to also include cities in the rural areas. Mayor Gamache asked if they had the ability to post advisory speed signs. Mr. Erickson stated they could do this but it would not be enforceable. He stated this was usually done on roads with curves. He stated the best way to approach this would be to try to change the State law to include cities. Councilrnember Trude stated the advisory sign would be perfect for the neighborhood in Flintwood. Mayor Gamache asked if the staff could check on this. Mr. Erickson stated they could look at the curves and put up advisory signs on that street. Councilmember Jacobson stated he had the opportunity to meet with a candidate for State Legislature who would be running this fall and he addressed this issue withllim and he stated he would be willing, if elected, to carry a bill to look at this issue and see if something could get changed. VARIANCE TO ORDINANCE 8/REDUCE FRONT YARD SETBACK/2810-13STH AVENUE NW/DALLMAN Councilmember Jacobson questioned whether the easement belongs to the county or the city. Mr. Erickson stated it is an Anoka County easement. Councilmember Jacobson stated with that being the case, they were approving the variance request and he assumed that when they approved this, the property owner would think he was free to go ahead with the structure, but he did not think,legally, they could grant anything in that easement area in which the new portion of the building would be built because that was not under their authority. Mr. Neumeister stated the resolution could have a condition to it stating "subject to the approval of the vacation of that portion of the easement by the County." Councilmember Jacobson stated that was what he was thinking. Councilmember Jacobson asked if they had any control over this because it was a drainage easement. He stated the last time they had something like this, they had the resident sign a paper stating if there ever were a flood they would not come back and sue the City. Attorney Sullivan stated they did not have the authority to allow the resident to do anything in regard to a County easement. He stated that was a whole other hurdle they had to go through to get the County's permission to an encroachment agreement or vacation. Councilmember Jacobson stated they could approve the setback in the front but not the back. Mr. Erickson stated he had been talking with the property owners and they had been going through the process with the County to have that vacation. MOTION by Jacobson, Seconded by Trude, to approve Item 9 (Variance to Ordinance 8/Reduce Front Yard Setback/2820-135th Avenue NW/Dallman) with two additions: · Regular Andover City Council Meeting Minutes - April 2, 2002 Page 7 1. Subject to an easement vacation by Anoka County for the ditch maintenance and drainage and utility easement at the back ofthe house. 2. The owners sign and acknowledge that the variance does encroach on a drainage easement area and should flood damage occur in the future, the City would not be liable. Motion passed unanimously. (See Resolution R054-02) DA VE HARRIS SKETCH PLAN (KENSINGTON OUTLOT) Mr. Neumeister stated a neighborhood meeting was held on March 28, 2002, which Courtney Bednarz attended, to discuss the Dave Harris Townhouse proposal. He summarized the neighborhood discussion to the City Council. -- Mr. Neumeister noted that since there were no design plans for the front or back available for review, the neighbors wanted to reserve judgment until they could see the sketch plans. He stated the neighbors would rather see two-unit buildings instead offour. He stated that Staffhad tried to figure ifthere was another way to design this so they could change the fours into the twos and spread them around the site to maintain the same number of units and that was very difficult considering the parameters of the space out there. Councilmember Knight asked what the density per acre was. Mr. Neumeister stated it was eight units per acre. Councilmember Jacobson stated there was a moratorium at this time so they should not even be looking at this. Mr. Neumeister stated he was correct and in the information were the sections of the moratorium ordinance for them and the basic question was did the moratorium need to be lifted. Based on what they had seen so far, should they make a movement towards that or continue with the moratorium. Councilmember Jacobson stated that ITom the Staff notes, Mr. Harris was requesting an exemption on this particular parcel from the moratorium, not the lifting of the entire moratorium. He asked why Mr. Harris felt he needed an exemption. Mr. Neumeister stated it was so Mr. Harris could move ahead and not wait for the complete study to be done. Councilmember Trude stated this would need to be rezoned to increase the density. She stated they would be looking at a change to their zoning and an exemption from the moratoriurn and an exemption from the business study. Councilmember Knight stated he was not in favor of this much density in one area. Councilmember Jacobson stated that when Mr. Harris was here before he had a deadline and asked if the deadline had gone by. Mr. Harris stated the deadline was May 30,2002. He stated there were five issues brought up to him at the meeting. One was the density, and they went from 39 units to 32 units. The other issue was the distance between the homes backing up to the east and the townhome project. He moved all of the four unit buildings out of that area and moved each of them further to · Regular Andover City Council Meeting Minutes - April 2, 2002 Page 8 the west anywhere from 35 feet to 50 feet from the property line. He stated they had fourteen people who showed up for the meeting and they sent out 61 notices. He stated he had to make the assumption that the people who did not show up had no real concerns regarding the project. He stated he wanted to work with the City to make this a good project and he had hoped he had addressed all ofthe issues. Councilmember Jacobson stated the last time he was here on the other layout, he had indicated because of the price of the property, he would be looking for the City to provide some sort of assistance. He asked ifthis is still his intention with the downsize ofthe units. Mr. Harris stated he was looking to do this on his own and would seJl the units for more money to make up for the shortfall. Mayor Gamache asked what he was looking for price wise for this layout. Mr. Harris stated the for the twin homes they would be in the $190,000 price range. The four unit buildings would be $179,900. Tony Simon, 2161 141st Lane, stated he lives east of the property. He stated he had several concerns, one which is the density level. He stated he did not know why they had to change medium density, which was currently four to seven up to eight units per acre. He stated the people who live in the area are. living in cul-de-sacs. That was the only way in or out ofthe neighborhood and now they want to pile 32 homes in a four acre area and that could be anywhere from forty to sixty more vehicles. He stated this was a big safety issue for him. He stated he has kids and the neighbors have kids who would be walking to school and it was hard enough already to get out onto Crosstown. He would rather see townhomes on the site rather than commercial property but he preferred single unit homes to townhomes. He stated it would be more difficult to resell his home iftownhomes would go in. He stated it could be worked out but 32 units was a lot to put into four acres. Mr. Harris stated the property still has a special use permit attached to it whether it was still functional. He did get some information from Staff regarding traffic and the amount of traffic based on commercial uses versus townhome uses based on the 32 units he had proposed for the area. The study showed three to nine times more traffic for a 6000 square foot commercial unit than it would be for the 32 units. He stated that he did not think anyone would take four acres and build only a 6000 square foot building on it. He stated the three represents a business like a hairdresser and the nine times represents a convenience store according to national surveys. Councilmember Trude asked ifhe was fmding a good market for the townhomes based on the high traffic there. Mr. Harris stated he had not put the other proj ect he was building on the market yet but had a lot of interest in it. He stated he hoped to have them ready in a couple of weeks to show them. Councilmember Trude asked if the project proposed would be similar to the project he was building now and would that be a market for young families or for singles. Mr. Harris stated he leaned towards a very diverse market. Councilmember Trude asked if the proposed townhomes would be one level or two levels. Mr. Harris stated they would be two level townhomes. Councilmember Trude asked if he would be --,- Regular Andover City Council Meeting Minutes - April 2, 2002 Page 9 willing to look at one story townhomes on the east side of the property. Mr. Harris stated that most of the houses along the property were splits. His buildings would not be any taller than those already there so they would be comparable. Councilmember Jacobson stated they did not have a sketch plan so the could not look at the setbacks or how high it was. He noted a moratorium was on and this did have a special use permit on the land. The Council was being asked to allow the sketch plan to proceed and Staff to look at it. Councilmember Jacobson stated he shared the same concerns as Councilmember Knight. He stated he would not like to see cornmercial on the land because it was zoned R-4 single family but he was not convinced the density was appropriate for this. He preferred to keep the land R-4, single family. He stated ifthere were an upgrade he would look at something that was a little denser than an R-4 but not to that level. He stated that he would like to leave things the way they were. Mr. Neumeister stated the neighborhood business study was going back to the Planning Commission onTuesday, April 9, 2002. He stated they could let it run its course and see what came out of the discussion. He asked the Council to allow the discussion to take place and bring it forward once the Planning Commission was done with it. Councilmember Jacobson stated they needed to let the study be done and then make the decision what they would do at that time. Councilmember Knight asked if the picture was drawn to scale. Mr. Harris stated that it was done free hand and it did not show the dimensions on the property. He stated his concern was that before he spent more money, he would like the Council to assure him his money was not being wasted. He was asking the Council for permission to present a sketch plan to the staff for their review and comments. He stated single-family homes in the area would not happen because the price of the lots would be out of character with other lots in the area. Mr. Simon asked who was doing the study on the property. Mayor Gamache stated he had a company come in and look at all the neighborhood business areas throughout the City. Mr. Simon asked who paid for the study. It was stated the City paid for the study to be done. Mayor Gamache stated the Council would like to proceed with the neighborhood business study. They did not want to move ahead at this time and lift the moratorium until they found out a little more about what the plans for all the neighborhood businesses. Mr. Harris stated the study showed the property to be 2.8 acres; it is actually 3.988 acres. He asked when this would come back to the Council again. Mr. Neumeister stated Staff would bring it to the April9'h Planning Cornmission meeting and it would probably be brought back to the City Council by early May. Mr. Neumeister stated in the study, one choice was to move to a medium density residential and change the zoning to allow for some type oftownhome development. The other was to leave the zoning as it was and change the land use designation back to low density residential. He stated those were the two primary choices the Council has. Regular Andover City Council Meeting Minutes - April 2, 2002 Page 10 It was noted that no action would be taken on this item. LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING/CITY UPDATE Mr. Dickinson stated the legislative redistricting was finalized on March 19,2002. He showed a map of the redistricting done to the City. Mr. Dickinson stated Precinct #3 had been split into two legislative districts, 49A and 49B. He stated Kathy Tinglestad would now represent legislative district 49B, which also included the City of Coon Rapids. Mr. Dickinson stated no action was required at this time. The new precinct boundaries would be brought to Council on April 16, 2002 for approval, as the boundaries must be completed by April 30, 2002. Councilmember Trude asked if they needed to come up with a new precinct location to make it easier for voting. Mr. Dickinson stated they were currently proceeding forward with securing a location for the precinct so that would not be a major issue for them. Councilmember Jacobson asked if they would be sending out cards stating the new districts. Mr. Dickinson stated this would be up to the County. MAYOR/COUNCIL INPUT (Flooding) - Councilmember Knight asked if they were all set for the floods if they come considering last year's situation. Mr. Erickson stated they were keeping their fingers crossed it would not flood because no improvements had been done since last fall. But they were always ready for an emergency and could handle that. The long-tenn capital improvement planning for this year was to work with the property owners to do some pennanent improvements and to assist them with that. Councilmember Knight asked what would they do if there was flooding in those locations that flooded last year, because it cost the City a lot of money. Mr. Erickson stated the anticipation was they would not have that problem and if the situation did occur then they would need to address that. Mr. Dickinson stated there was some concern regarding the level of effort that they went to the last few years. The discussion was they would provide bags and sand but not going to the level of manpower. That was the direction of the discussion last fall after the problems they had last year. Mr. Erickson stated the notes in the file indicate that the property owners would be responsible for the cost. Councilmember Knight asked if the property owners had been officially notified. Mr. Erickson stated it was part of the discussions last year that Mr. Carlburg had with them. · Regular Andover City Council Meeting Minutes - April 2, 2002 Page 11 (Dogs running at large) - Councilmember Jacobson stated he received a phone can regarding dogs running at large and barking in the Meadow Creek Church! Ace Hardware area. He wanted to know what could be done besides calling the Community Services Department and how would they enforce this. The problem being the owners did not take responsibility for their own pets. He asked ifthere was anything in the ordinance they could do to get rid of the problem. Mr. Dickinson stated there was a process with declaring a nuisance dog. Mr. Dickinson stated Staff could look into it and get back to the Council regarding this. (Transportation Plan) - Councilmember Trude stated they would need to be real careful driving around the community next week when the kids start back to school. APPRO V AL OF CLAIMS MOTION by Jacobson, Seconded by KIiîght, for approval of the Claims. Motion carried unanimously. MOTION by Trude, Seconded by Jacobson, to adjoum. Motion carried unanimously. The meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Susan Osbeck, Recording Secretary .-- .- -