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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-02-1999 CMW CITY OF MAPLEWOOD _ COUNCIL/MANAGER WORKSHOP MEETING MINUTES 5:00 p.m., Monday, August 2, 1999 Maplewood Room, City Hall 5:00 p.m. A. Call To Order The meeting was called to order by Acting Mayor Kittridge at 5:00 p.m. B. Roll Call _ Mayor George Rossbach Absent Councilmember Sherry Allenspach Present Councilmember Dale Carlson Present Councilmember Kevin Kittridge Present Councilmember Marvin ICoppen Present Others Present: City Manager Michael McGuire Assistant to the City Manager Michael Ericson Community Oriented Services Coordinator Colleen Dirksrvager Commmunity Development Director Melinda Coleman Associate Planner Ken Roberts Parks & Recreation Director Bruce Anderson Finance Director Dan Faust Fire Chief Joel Hewitt Fire Marshal Butch Gervais Briggs & Morgan Bond Counsel Mary Ippel C. Annroval of Agenda Acting Mayor Kittridge moved to approve the agenda with the addition of interviews for two positions on the Community Design Review Board and city contribution to Maplewood Historical Society. The motion was seconded by Councilmember Allenspach. Motion passed 4-0. ll. Community Oriented Services Update Community Oriented Services Coordinator Colleen Dirkswager presented the council with an update of the activities and projects she is currently working on. A few of the highlights were that this year's Ramsey County Fair was very successfiil. National Night Out is scheduled for Tuesday, August 3 and all city councilmembers are invited to attend and participate. She reported on the meetings of the Family Service Center Neighborhood Conmuttee and concluded with a reminder xo the council that the September 13 City Council meeting at Carver Gym has been scheduled to discuss the deer management issue. E. Residential Parking Ordinance Associate Planner Ken Roberts presented the report which highlighted problems associated with the parking of vehicles on residential properties. The issue is really about a few residents who continually park on their front yards and spoil it for the rest of their neighbors by making their yards look like used parking lots. The city does not have an ordinance against unlicensed vehicles parking on residential properties. Inoperable vehicles are the only ones which can be ticketed. Council discussed remedies including changing the ordinance and the need for driveways when vehicle parking is on the grass. Council also discussed the percentage of the fiont yard used for parking. This issue will brought back to the September workshop. F. Housing and Redevelopment Authority Community Development Director Melinda Coleman presented the report with Bond Counsel Mary Ippel and they listed the options for use of excess TIF funds. The fiords must be used for low to moderate income housing and the funds must be used within the district. Council agreed that it would be important to have representation from the Housing and Redevelopment Authority at a public hearing in October. Council discussed the two options for rehabilitation of residential properties which would be demolition aiid replacement, affix-up program, or possibly a combination of both. Community Development will bring a top ten list of properties including program options to the next meeting. G. Building/Fire Code Issues Melinda Coleman, Fire Chief Joel Hewitt, and Fire 1Vlarshal Butch Gervais presented the report with background on the current city code requirement for the installation of sprinkler system for commercial constriction jobs, par6cularily remodeling. State Building Code 1306 was adopted by the City of Maplewood and many suburban cities years ago and its effectiveness as a tool for fire control has been questioned by builders and developers as extremely expensive and possibly out of date due to the high cost of remodeling. Melinda presented the pros and the cons of the code and the council agreed to consider the issue at its August 23 City Council meeting. H. Community Center Quarterly Report Finance Director Dan Faust and Parks & Recreation Director presented the Quarterly Report for the Community Center. Dan reported that after six months the operating income is at +$33,994 versus +$4,956 in 1998. These numbers were highlighted in charts and graphs presented by Dan. A variety of questions were asked by council and answered by Dan and Bruce. The council was very pleased with the efforts by the Parks and Recreation Department to make the Community Center abreak-even operation. l I. Report from City's Y2K Task Force Assistant to the City Manager Mike Ericson provided a brief Y2K Taslc Force progress report to the city council. The Task Force has revised the executive summary of the city's Y2K Action Plan with specific attention to individual department staffing needs. Emergency Management will have one UHF and two VHF antermas installed which will allow direct station-to-station communication with all city vehicles. J. Other Business 1. City Goals. Will be on agenda every two to three months. 2. Open Space Acquisitions. Two agreements to pruchase have been reached. 3. Cable TV Show - "Maplewood in Motion". Will start in September. 4. Interview Applicants for Community Design Review Board. Two applicants will be interviewed at the next pre-agenda meeting on August 5. 5. City Contribution to Maplewood Historical Society. Dan Faust reported that a payment of $2,000 was made in December 1998 to the Maplewood Historical Society. K. Future Topics 1. Top Ten List of rehabitable housing properties in the city. 2. Ideas and concepts for a combination grant rehabitable housing program. L. ADJOURNMENT Motion by Allenspach and seconded bLKoppen to adjourn the meeting at 7.02 p m Motion passed 4-0. 2