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MEETING OF RAMSEY TO~! BOARD January ].5~ 1973 meeting{ wes called to order at 8:00 n.mo by the Chairman, [~urDby. Present were }.~.r. Cox~ NiP. Honperstad, NiP. Peterson~ odd }~r. Goodrich~ attoPneyo ['.~r, r,//~rn¼y ?lave a resume of the minutes of the last stated meet- i_n,~,l. .,errant.Ion in naPs. ere. nh two it should be County Co~ission- era ir~stead of City of Anoka and in -oarasraph 8 it should be "town houses" not "tovmship". With these corrections Mr. Cox mow~d the minutes be acceeted. Each member of the board Nas a co~y of the minutes. Mr. HoDperstad seconded the motion, Motion i}~r. 'P,,cimann rea5. the minutes of the last stated meeting of the Planning,' omo Zonin~ Commission. i¥i~. Gary ~nderson of NSP was present. He explained about the i'"~'P transmission line they wish to ~ut across the north end of the To,,mshi~ where the ~resent line exists. Ne asked if tae,.-~ ~e wore nny auostions. Hr. Hurphy asked him if metal posts could be u~:ed instead of wooden nests because then they would only have one line of posts instead of two. UPA also has a line going th~ this s~me area,. Hr. ~.~d. erson replied this was not feasible bocnune of the exeense. Wooden l{ frames cost $85~000 pep mile as compared %O steel posts at $250~000 Der mile. They are going to cross 5'?? miles of Ramsay To,reship. Howe ver~ steel, posts are ~lojn~- to be nut in Grow JPovm. ship un to Highway ~1~ because it is more thick],r modulated in this area. Mr. Cox moved that this Term ]~oord .r[O on record to oppose this new K line PiRh. t of way nad home tbay wi].], consider renlacins these wooden ~.. h ,~Lea] eooto like the ones they ape acing to use "ovmshin un to H~p'hway :/PIS because Ramsey Tovsshie will., soon have aS mn.ny Peai. dee%s ~D this area as Grow has lid to Highway ~'econded by M~. Nopperstad. Hotion carried. Niany wesi. demts . ,. tnz,-, transmission line were present and nrotested nnoZher easement ~oi. mq through their property. T¼o '!,',]k Ri.var Fire Deeartment had two representatives present, one of them was their fire chief. Their reouested a fire ~ontract fo~ t,h~ northwest ~srt of Ramsay Tovmshie which is in their school di nt~i ct ~ ~ d I has E]..lf River nhone numbers. They said they .~et many f-ire cnl.]_.~ i.n this area. The reason we do not have a fire contract with 'them thin year was due to a misunderstanding of their cost o~nt~tion last year. The nronosal was 1 mill rate on standby on tho accessed va]_uation of that area instead of the whole To~,mshi~ which m,~de n xreot deal of difference in the net cost for thJ.$ f~re n~otoction. This area comnriaes only about !9~ of the Tov,m~ ah~n and in more amarse].y settled than the southern nart. They n~lcnd the N]k R~.veP Fire Denartment to erepare a fire conf, ract fo~ t~n Elk R~ver Scboo! District area for our annual meef, img o~ Ma~aN ] 2th. They said they would do this,