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Case #6: Law Enforcement Transport Program Police Chief Auspos stated that he received a Joint Powers Agreement from the Anoka County Sheriff's office which is asking the City of Ramsey to share transport duties on a monthly basis with regard to a transport system. He explained that the plan is to try this out for awhile and then try to get Anoka County, as a member of the JLEC, to allow it to be budgeted for completely, including staff. For this trial period, each community will supply the officers for the duty. He stated that initially he and Sergeant Gustafson concurred to opt out of the deal since it would be expensive for Ramsey to man this vehicle for our scheduled weekends using our sworn personnel since we have no reserve unit. Chief Deputy Beberg would like Ramsey to still sign the agreement since we are listed, probably for the sake of unanimity when the County Board is asked for their approval of a future budget request for this through the JLEC. Chief Auspos felt that the Police Department can supply a man one or two of the nights and Mr. Beberg has indicated that he would supply a reserve person to accompany Ramsey's officer. He (Auspos) felt Ramsey would have little use of the transport vehicle being so close to the jail; however, there may be a future time when we would benefit from this. He cautioned that this program may require some overtime, as much as 16 hours, but that he would try to do it with on-duty personnel if at all possible. City Administrator Schroeder commented that staff is recommending this in the spirit of cooperation throughout the county. Motion by Councilmember Beahen and seconded by Councilmember Beyer to authorize the City Administrator and Police Chief to sign the Law Enforcement Transport Program Joint Powers Agreement. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Hardin, Councilmembers Beahen, Beyer, Peterson and Zimmerman. Voting No: None. Case g7: Covenants for Industrial Park City Administrator $chroeder stated that the City has completed the acquisition of the industrial property located between Sunfish Lake Boulevard (east) to the boundary of the City of Anoka. At the joint meeting of the Anoka and Ramsey City Council's, it was discussed briefly that Anoka City Council had passed covenants in order to have more control of the aesthetics of their business park. He suggested that Ramsey may wish to consider the adoption of covenants to ensure that buildings constructed are suitable for its park. He presented proposed covenants that were similar to Anoka's but had been amended to conform with the Ramsey City Code. He explained that it basically states that within the Business Park 95 and any expansion thereof - aesthetics are restricted pursuant to these covenants. He informed the Council that the covenants have been adjusted from the City of Anoka's requirements to allow for an Architectural Review Board, comprised of the Economic Development Commission and two property owners from the Industrial Park. This will allow for a better tracking of the Board and its decisions. Generally, the greatest difficulty for a subdivision with enforcement of covenants is that after the development has been built out, the future enforcement is generally nonexistent. This is due in large part to the developer being the sole member of the Board and no rules existing for the election and future Board development. This problem is solved by having a currently existing Commission function as the Board. In addition, the enactment of the covenants will allow the City control over remodeling and other changes that may not be covered by the site plan review process. City Council/August 8, 1995 Page 7 of 15