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HomeMy WebLinkAbout12/18/1974CITY OF APPLE VALLEY Dakota County, Minnesota December 18, 1974 Minutes of the duly called special meeting of the City Council of the City of Apple Valley, Dakota County, Minnesota; said meeting date having Been set by the City Council at its regular meeting of December 11th, 1974. PRESENT.: Mayor Largen, Councilmen Branning Holton and Cozine; Clerk Asleson. ABSENT: Councilman Garrison. . Mayor Largen Called the meeting to order at 6:30 o'clock p.m. Mr. James E. Olsen of Juran & Moody, Inc., was present to discuss with the Council the sale of bonds related to the ice arena, said bonds having been approved by the voters on September 10th, 1974, and for the fire hall, pathway, sirens and Gelaxie guardrail improvements, said bonds having been approved by the voters on November 5th, 1974. Mr. Olsen advised that he saw no difficulty in combining the sale of the gross revenue general obligation bonds (ice arena) and the general obligation bonds.(fire halls, etc.). He further stated that a possibility did exist that no bids would be received on the sale of such bonds in as much as the bond buyers index as of this date stood at 7.15 pergent and the legal limit in Minnesota is 7.0 pergent, but felt it may improve some after the first of the year, at which time Apple Valleys sale would be occurring and the Apple Valley sale would be the first sale he knew of in the metropolitan area after January 1st. MOTION: of Branning, seconded by Holton, to adopt Resolution 1974-205 setting RES. 1974-20~' a bid receipt date of January 8th, 1975, at 7:30 p.m. for $571,000 SET BOND SALE of sports facility gross revenue general obligation bonds, as approv- BID OPENING ed bY the voters on September 10th, 1974, and for the sale of $204,000 of public safety general obligation bonds, approved by the voters ~ November 5th, 1974. Ayes - 4 - Nays - O. The Council was then presented with a memorandum from the City Clerk dated December 18th 1974 concerning award of bids for a fire truck pursuant to bids duly advertised for re- ceipt on Novemb er 22nd, 1974. The Fire Chief was present end explained to the Council the procedure used in formulating specifications for the truck and stated that even though only one bid was received, he felt the specifications were competitive and were similar to recent specifications for similar equiperment used by the City of Minneapolis and the City of Bloomington. The Fire Chief recommended award to the bidder, General Safety Equipment Corporation of North Branch, Minnesota, and stated the bid price was in line with the recent bids of Minneapolis, and Bloomington. MOTION: of Branning, seconded by Holton, that the bid for the fire truck, as FIRE TRUCK received November 22nd, 1974, be awarded to General Safety Equipment BID AWARD Corporation of North Branch, Minnesota, in the amount of $66,940.00 for delivery not later than 400 working days from December 27th, 1974, that the Mayor and Clerk be authorized to execute a contract for the delivery of said fire truck, subject to review of the contract prior to execution by the City Attorney, and that said truck ~ill be paid for with Federal Revenue Sharing Funds. Ayes - 4 - Nays - 0. MOTION: of Cozine, seconded by Holton, that the following persons be hired HIRE RINK as rink attendants at $2.00 per hour, as recommended by the Park ATTENDANTS Director; Anne M. Tompkins Keith A. Hewes and David M. Dashow. Ayes - 4 - Nays - O. CITY OF APPLE VALLEY Dakota County Minnesota December 18, 1974 Page - 2 MOTION: of Branning seconded by Cozine, that Richard G. Asleson City Administrator, be named as thC. City's Diregtor and Fred L. Prom Finance Director be named as the Alternate Director for the City's articipation in the LOGIS program for City record processing and financial acounting, as approved by the Council December 11th. Ayes - 4 - Nays - O. APPOINT DIRECTOR AND ALTERNATE FOR LOGIS Councilman Cozine noted that this would be his last City Council meeting in as much as he will be out of town for the December 30th, 1974, meeting and requested that the Council designate a person to attend the January 8th, 1974, meeting of the Capital Improvements Committee. Councilman Branning agreed to attend this meeting and the Council will later appoint a new Chairman of this committee. John Gretz and Richard Tuthill presented the Council with a revised sketch of the layout for the fire hall at County Road 42 and Hayes Road and requested it be approved. They noted the Council, on December 11th, had approved a site layout showing the only access from the fire hall as being onto Hayes Road w{th the fire station facing Hayes Road with a normal building setback. The revised layout shows the fire,hall setback considerably more from Hayes Road with the doors of the fire hall still facing Hayes Road but the additional setback allows access from the fire station to County Road 42 for emergency. purposes also. The site layout shows two accesses to County Road 42 which would be used only for firemen when responding to an emergency or by. the fire trucks. MOTION: of Cozine seconded by Holton, to Secept the revised layout for the FIRE STATION fire hall, noting that it is an improvement over any sketch previous- REVISED LAYOUT ly proposed and further the bids for the fire station set forth the hose tower as a bid alternate. Ayes -.4 - Nays - O. MOTION: of Branning, seconded by Holton to pay the claims and bills, checks CLAIMS & BILLS numbered 12370 through 12392, in the amount of $135,507.49. Ayes - 4 -Nays - 0. MOTION: of Branning, seconded by Holton to adjourn. Ayes - 4' - Nays - 0. The meeting was adjourned at 7:20 o'clock p.m.