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City Council Minutes October 4, 1982 Page Seven Councilman Engstrom indicated that he felt vacation time is healthy and needed; and therefore, supports the idea that employees should take their vacation time. Further discussion was carried on regarding accumulated vacation time and the cashing in of some of that accumulated time. It was the general consensus of the City Council to allow the City Administrator to cashin two weeks of his vacation time. B. School Street Construction Mr. Terry Maurer of Consulting Engineers Diversified indicated that the curb and gutter should be finished along School Street by the end of the week and that the next process would be pouring of the driveways and the gutters across the intersections of Gates Avenue, Irving Avenue and Holt Avenue. Mr. Maurer indi- cated that the gutters could be poured half at a time and re-route traffic around the construction of each intersection or. fhe whole intersection could be done and traffic could be detoured for the day. It was the general consensus of the City Council to detour traffic and to do the whole intersection at one time. General discussion was carried on regarding the completion of the sidewalk along School Street to the administration building. Councilman Toth indicated that Mr. Brutlag of the School District #728 indicated that the completion of that sidewalk was proposed in their budget. General discussion was also carried on regarding the curb for the downtown parking lot. C. Main Street USA Program Councilman Schuldt indicated that he had attended the Main Street USA Program in St. Paul and further indicated that the program was designed akound generalities rather than specifics. Councilman Schuldt indicated that there were sessions on downtown development, old buildings, proper use of signs, Red,Wing and their downtown. Councilman Schuldt indicated that it was difficult to relate specifics to the City of Elk River. Councilman Schuldt further indicated that he had ob- tained many materials regarding the designation of historic buildings, tax incen- tives, and various other information that could be provided to the downtown de- velopment group. D. Police Chief Conference The City Administrator indicated that the Police Chief, Mr. Tom Zerwas, has re- quested permission to attend the International Police Chief's Conference in At- lanta. The City Administrator further indicated that the out of state conference has been budgeted in the 1982 budget.