1982-03-22 4~
March 22. 1982
JOINT MEETING
OF THE
CITY COUNCIL'S OF
HINNETRISTA AND HOUND
Pursuant to due call and notice thereof a special joint meeting of the City
Council's of Minnetrista and Mound, Hennepin County, Minnesota was held at
5341Maywood Road in the City of Mound on March 22, 1982 at 7:30 P.M.
Those present were from Mound: Mayor Rock Lindlan, Councilmembers Pinky Charon,
Ro6ert Polston, Gordon Swenson, City Manager Jon Elam, and City Clerk Fran Clark;
from Minnetrista: Mayor Gen Olson, Councilmembers Walton Clevenger, Frank
deMonchaux, Alan Fasching, W. G. Gregg and Clerk Administrator Charlotte
Paterson. Councilmember Donald Ulrick from Mound was absent and excused.
Mayor Lindlan opened the meeting, welcomed Minnetrista's representatives
and went over the Agenda for the evening.
CABLE T.V.
The Minnetrista Council asked about Mound pulling out of the Westonka Cable
T.V. Committee and not joining the South Shore as Minnetrista did. Mound
City Manager, Jon Elam, explained that Mound felt that pulling 15 cities
together is a more difficult task than pulling one together and Mound felt
they could put a package together faster alone. After a package is put
together other cities will be contacted to see if they want to join Mound.
Expediency was the cable T.V. question and by the fourth Mound Cable meeting
there will be framework for putting the RFP together. Westonka School
Dist. #277 has a representative, Harold Pellett, on the Mound Cable Committee
so the school district is keeping abreast of all developments. Mr. Pellett
is also a resident of Minnetrista.
L.M.C.D.
Discussion by the two Councils brought up the following points:
1. Seeing if the L.M.C.D. is cost effective.
2. The cities belonging to the L.M.C.D. should have strong input and
look to the L.M.C.D. for responsiveness.
3. Amending legislation for specific improvements in the L.M.C.D.
a. Basing dues on needs rather than assessed valuation of each
city.
DEVELOPMENT ALONG MUTUAL CITY BOUNDARIES - WESTEDGE BLVD
A policy statement should be developed by both cities on sharing utilities,
zoning, etc. and a comparison of comp plans. There should be a joint city
approach on the railroad abandonment. Minnetrista and Mound Councils could
set up an Ad Hoc Committee to study boundary changes to square up each City.
This would have to be done with trade offs on the part of both cities.
IMPROVING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN BOTH CITIES
An annual joint meeting between the Councils of the two cities should be set
up.
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SPRING CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN
Mound is setting up a city wide clean up campaign for downtown, parks,
streets and neighborhoods and asked if Minnetrista would like to
participate in a clean up of their community. Minnetrista replied
that they have not budgeted for this and have no developed parks or
commons lakeshore.
LAKE MINNETONKA BOAT ACCESS
Mayor Olson explained the background of the proposed King's Point Access
that the DNR would like to construct. Minnetrista would like the DNR
to consider alternative sites. Lost Lake came up as an alternative site
and the Mound Council would be willing to discuss, study and consider
this area as a DNR access.
COUNTY ROAD llO BUILDING
The City Manager explained that Mound is currently negotiating for purchase
of a building on County Road 110 near the Minnetrista boundary line for
cold storage by Mound Public Works. It would be more feasible and less
costly to tie into Minnetrista sewer and water because of geographics.
Minnetrista would like the two cities to develop a clear policy on
reciprocity for assessments and user charges before committing themselves.
Also briefly discussed were the following items: 1. Fire false alarms
2. The widening of County Road 15
3. Mound's fight against Continental Telephone's proposed higher rates.
Adjournment came at 10:30 P.M.
Fran Clark, City Clerk
Jon Elam, City Manager