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FRON: City Administrator TO: Mayor and City Council SUBJ: Staff Report Enclosure (Dl-a) CAB meeting minutes dated June 11, 1979 (Dl-b) Representative Clawson's letter dated June 19, 1979 (Dl-c) Minnesota League bf Cities Conference.highlights (Dl-d) County Engineer's letter dated June 19, 1979 (Dl-e) Elk Rivers fire contract bill 1978 and 1979 and excerpt of our contract with Elk River 1) CAB MEETING - I attended this meeting on June 11, 1979 at Champlin City Hall. Enclosure (D l-a) contains the subject matter discussed. How- ever, there is one major point not addressed in those minutes that I raised at this meeting. MY question to Mr. Lee Starr, of the Metro Council, was if the City of Ramsey continues to maintain its strict zoning in the Urban Area of residential dwelling per acre and doesn't put a demand on sanitary sewer needs will this retard the City of Ramsey from getting their connection. Now, technically speaking, if we don't have a need for it because we have followed the Metro Planning guidelines there is absolutely no reason to provide it. Down the pike we can get horn swoggled like we are on State Local Aids. Now, we had better start nailing down these two sanitary sewer connections and the.fact that following the Metro guidelines in regards to our Urban Area won't deny us sewer use when we want it in an agreement. Right now I think we're getting a lot Of verbage which means absolutely nothing when dollars get involved down the pike. 2) STATE LOCAL AID - Please refer to enclosure (Dl-b). As you will note Ramsey did very poorly on this matter. However, we should now start get- ting ourselves and the other communities organized on this issue. Mayor Gamec stated when he got back from his business meeting out west he would be meeting with Arnie and myself (.City Legislative' Committee) in regards to this issue. When I was at the League Conference the Governor spoke on Local Aid and the inequities in it. However, after speaking to the Governor's aide on Thursday, Jmue 21, 1979, I do not think they understand the State Local Aid law. They fail to look at the total picture of this goofed up tax law. 3) MINNESOTA T,E&GUE OF CITIES CONFERENCE -.Please refer to enclosure (.Dl-c) for a synoposis of the Conference. Incidently, we did not expend any money as I only took in certain portions of the Conference. However the Ramsey Council should be taking a more active role in these conferences..