Agenda - Council - 09/04/1991 - Joint with Anoka City Council

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allow anything more than the basic level of service to be offered given the apparent intention of the bulk of the School District #11 service area. Facility Maintenance and Janitorial Services: Currently the City of Anoka has a Facility Maintenance Staff and contracts for janitorial services. The City of Ramsey has one Building Maintenance individual who primarily conducts cleaning activities, light maintenance and light grounds maintenance. Whafs been discussed is whether or not the two communities can trade janitorial for repair services. Property Appraisal: Currently the City of Ramsey has a City Assessor who receives periodic assistance in his work tasks from our Code Enforcement Officer. This Assessor appraises all of our commercial and residential property on a four-year schedule but often is back logged in his calendar. The City of Anoka has two full-time Appraisers and a pan-time Appraiser. Within this staff,.not only appraising services but often assessment and election services are also offered by these staff persons to the City. It appears, however, that there may be opportunities for the Staff at Anoka to shore up some of the Ramsey staffing level deficiencies that occur from time to time. Animal Control: It is a normal policing function of cities to provide for animal control. The last few years this has become more of an issue in that it is becoming more difficult to provide for safe and sanitary holding facilities and operations for animals picked up by the authority. This may be another area in which Anoka and Ramsey can work more closely. There may be other areas as well which the two Councils may be able to suggest. Staff is open to entertaining any options for which efficiencies can be gained and money saved and would like to suggest that Council provide other areas which we can then research and bring back to you. CASE #4 JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY By: Ryan R. Schroeder, City Administrator Background: Recently, the City of Ramsey passed upon an agreement, with two property owners, to construct an extension of McKinley Street from Sunfish Lake Boulevard N.W. east to the Ramsey-Anoka boundary contingent upon the City of Anoka agreeing to complete the extension east to Thurston Avenue. Staff has met a couple of times since then to discuss this further and deterrrfined that rather than looldng at McKinley Street alone, we should look at a planning area much larger than that. The net end result of these discussions is that the staffs of Anoka and Rarnsey have an idea to propose to the Councils of the two communities, which on its face may seem a little bit far-fetched and after additional discussion and research may seem even more far-fetched, but we would like to propose it to you at this time anyway. The City of Anoka has, within its boundaries north of Highway #10 and west of the Mineral Pond Addition (just west of Trunk Highway #47), a fair amount of sparsely developed, industrial property. The City of Ramsey, basically south of County Road #116, north of Highway #10 and east of Armstrong Boulevard N.W., also has a fair amount of industrially-zoned, sparsely developed, property. Currently, all of this property is in a myriad of different ownerships, is in two or three different zones, and has a great disparity of uses. What is proposed by staff, is that the entire area be placed under one planning and marketing arm. We would also like the Councils to consider the possibility of placing all of this property within the operational confines of one Economic Development Authority which would then be responsible for planning, development, infrasumcture improvements, code enforcement and other activities regardless of whether the issue, project or land is found within the City of Anoka or within the City of Ramsey. Staff is of the