Agenda - Council - 04/27/1982 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I I I I I I I I i I i I I I I I 2) Comprehensive Plan - City Engineer Raatikka and I delivered the Comprehensive Plan to Mr. Robert Ryan of the Metro Council Staff on Wednesday, April 14, 1982. We reviewed the changes with him and he felt that Ramsey had everything in order. Accordingly, I am requesting that all Councilmembers bring in their copies of the Comprehensive Plan so that City Staff can make the appropriate corrections so you all have corrected copies. We still have a number of things to complete in regards to the critical area, etc. but most of these shouldn't be too difficult. I will be reviewing them with Mayor Gamec prior to bringing them to the Council. One thing I know we are going to have to address is going to be the policy in regards to water and sewer and streets in industrial and residential plats and how these costs are going to be financed. Back several years ago Council was thinking about bonding for all public improvements that came in on plats that were in a sewered area. In fact, the City Staff did quite a bit of extensive re- search work on this issue and at that time we dropped it because sanitary sewer seemed to be quite far away and we didn't want to get involved in it until it was at our door- step. Now that sewer is at ou~ doorstep and we have completed our Comprehensive Plan, we should really establish concrete policies by Ordinance as to the approach of financing water and sewer improvements in platted areas. Where sewer is scheduled to go I am sure this question is going to come up at the Economic Development Commission meeting and Council may want them to do research on it. I am very sure this question will come be- fore Council from them. 3) State Aid Legal Case - We have received a copy of the deposition that was taken from Mr. Rich Gardner. Councilmembers desiring to read it should let me know and I will fur- nish a copy. Secondly, I will be going over to the Revenue Department in St, Paul on Tuesday, April 27, 1982 with Mr. Richard Rosow to review a number of other pertinent documents in re- gards to our case. I think our case looks better each day as it appears to me we are building an excellent foundation for our case when we go before the judge. 4) Finance - The following is submitted on this item: a) Audit - The auditors are just about through with their audit of City records and in my discussion with them this week, they seemed'to be extremely satisfied with the City's accounting. b) Quarterly Budgetary Expenditure and Revenue Report for January through March 1982 - This report is forwarded to you under separate cover as Exhibit "B". Page 1 gives you a cash balance report by fund and page 86 gives you the amount of interest earned and distributed to each fund. I think you will find the total report quite interesting to review. LGS:po