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City Council Minutes September 7, 1982 Page Three 7%.. Resolution 82-19, a Resolution Appointing Election Judges; and the Purchase of Voting Booths The City Administrator indicated that Resolution 82-19 is a resolution appointing the election judges for the primary election to be held September 14, 1982, and establishing the rate of pay for hours spent in training and hours worked during the election. Councilman Schuldt questioned where the names of persons to serve as election judges were obtained. The Deputy City Clerk indicated that the names of persons contacted to serve as election judges are obtained from previous elec- tion judge lists and recommendations from previous election judges. COUNCILMAN SCHULDT MOVED TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 82-19, A RESOLUTION APPOINTING ELEC- TION JUDGES FOR THE PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE HELD IN THE CITY OF ELK RIVER SEPTEM- BER, 14, 1982. COUNCILMAN ENGSTROM SECONDED THE MOTION. THE MOTION PASSED 3-0. The City Administrator indicated that twenty voting booths were budgeted in the 1982 budget, but after the first adjustment in March to the 1982 budget, the cost of ten voting booths was taken out and at the second adjustment later in the year 1982, the remaining ten booths were taken out of the budget. The City Admin- istrator further indicated that the City has purchased twenty voting machines and is therefore, in need of twenty voting booths. The City Administrator further in- dicated that the City currently has six wooden booths and five metal collapsible booths and is in need of more voting booths for the voting machines. General discussion was carried on regarding the types of booths necessary for the voting machines, the number of voting booths the School has and the cost for the purchase of ten voting booths. COUNCILMAN DUITSMAN MOVED TO APPROVE THE PURCHASE OF TEN VOTING BOOTHS AT A COST OF $130.00 EACH. COUNCILMAN ENGSTROM SECONDED THE MOTION. THE MOTION PASSED 3-0. 8. Ordinance 82-9, Amending Section 900.16 of.the City Code Regarding Mobile Homes in Agricultural and Residential Zones- Public Hearing Mayor Hinkle asked that the City Administrator review the proposed amendment to the zoning ordinance regarding mobile homes as a conditional use in agricultural and residential zones. Mayor Hinkle reminded the City Council that an ordinance amendment requires a four-fifths vote and suggested to the City Council that should there be a problem with the proposed amendment, it could be delayed for action until a full council was present. The City Administrator indicated that the City Council had been approached by an individual who wanted to place a mobile home on a parcel of property used pre- dominately for agricultural purposes. The City Administrator further indicated that with the City's current zoning ordinance, mobile homes are allowable in mobile home parks only. The City Administrator indicated that it was the Council's con- cern to amend the ordinance to deal with mobile homes in agricultural zones and residential zones in agricultural areas of the City, and further indicated that it was the concern of the Council to aid young families in staying on the family farm by creating a conditional use for mobile homes in agricultural zones and R-1a zones.