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Page 6 City Council Minutes October 20. 1987 e Mr. Dare. of Dare's Funeral Home. stated that the downtown area needs improvements for the benefit of the entire Elk River Community. Mr. Jarmoluk stated that he understands the City has limited resorces. but that the business people also have limited resorces and would like to see the City participate as much as possible financially for the improvements in the CBD. Mr. Lundberg submitted a signed statement from the Chamber of Commerce stating their support for the beautification improvements in the downtown area and requested that the City. as much as possible. finance these improvements in a method other than assessements to the benefited property owners. Mr. Steve Johnson. of Johnson's. stated that he appreciated the Council working as hard as they have in trying to accomplish the beautification improvements in the downtown area. He further indicated that improvements are desperately needed and that the cost of the improvement. as discussed tonight. appear to be reasonable. Mr. Johnson further stated that if there are other financial alternatives or other beautification items that should be included. that these issues should be further evaluated. e Mr. Lundberg requested that the City assume responsiblity for snow removal on the sidewalk in the CBD. He stated that the property owners were willing to accept an assessment for this municipal service. The Council directed the City Staff to evaluated the financial. administrative. and legal ramifications of the City assuming such responsibility. The Administrator recommended to the Downtown Committee that it would be much easier administratively and much cheaper for the Committee to simply hire a young individual or a service to clear the sidewalk of snow during the winter months. Some of the concerns indicated by the Administrator included increase legal liability. the timing of sidewalk snow removal when street snow removal has a much higher priority. the equipment needed to provide such a service. the contracting for an employee to provide this service. plus the constant problem of trying to satisfy so many individuals that have various expectations of the service. Further concerns indicated additional requests from residential property owners for the same services as provided in the CBD. Additional concerns for snow removal in the CBD included property owners that did not want this service and would not accept an assessment for such municipal services. The staff will report back to the City Council on this issue. COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER TRALLE SCHULDT MOVED TO SECONDED ADJOURN THIS MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. THE MOTION. THE MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. e The meeting was adjourned at 8:28 p.m. Respectfully submitted. ,/:zt -L/ ~ v ~O d Patrick Klaers --