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o REGULAR EMI-MONTHLY MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF ELK RIVER HELD IN THE COUNCI CHAMBERS OF THE CITY OFFICE BLDG. 4, 1975 at 7:30 PM. The Regular Semi-Monthly Meeting f the Elk River City Council was called to order by Mayor Lundberg on August 4, 1 5 at 7:30 PM. in the Council Chambers of the City Office Building. Members present ayor Lundberg, Councilmembers otto, and Syring. The minutes of the July 21, 1975 eeting were reviewed the following corrections were noted the motion pertaining to th Park Board should read ordinance and not resolution and the motion pertaining to Mr. fame Trask the last sentence should read "Payment is being made because it appears it as caused by our bucketing the line on that street". As .there were no other correction or additions the minutes were approved as corrected. The Special minutes of the July 2 h, 1975 11:00 AM. and 12:00 O'clock noon meeting were reviewed as there were no additions or corrections the minutes were approved as printed. Bldg. Inspector Rex Oetinger met with the Council regarding what there feelings were about individual business signs in the new downtown parking lot. The Council stated that they wouldn't object to a community type sign but not individual business tyPe sigr:a. Bob Oster proprietor of the A&W met with the Council requesting there approval to park a mobile unit in the Jackson Place parking lot. The Council had no objections but felt that the Merchants Association should be contacted for their approval. The City Council approves a temporary approval subject to review after a one month period. Moved by Councilmember Syring and seconded by Councilmember otto granting the issuance of a (2) two day non-intoxicating liquor license to the Elk River Lions Club for Orono O Park on August 9th and 10th 1975. Motion unanimously carried by a vote of 3-0. Moved by Councilmember Syring and seconded by Councilmember otto approving Northwestern Bells request to bury cable on 6th Street between Oxford and Pr~toF. Motion unanimously carried by a vote of 3-0. Moved by Councilmember Syring and seconded by Councilmember otto to allocate $10,000. to Capitol Reserve Account for fire truck and $7,137.00 for Public Transportation . Operating Maintenance of the Planned Useage report for 1976 Revenue Sharing. Motion unanimously carried by a vote of 3-0. Moved by Councilmember at to and seconded by Councilmember SYring approving the signing of the Certificate of Substantial completion of the Northbound Liquor Store. Motion unanimously carried by a vote of 3-0. Mayor Lundberg reported on the engineering report for up grading the river bank: from the Elk River Hardware to the old 101 bridge which is called Rip-Rap. The approximate cost to make a cost of construction study would be between 5 and 6 hundred dollars. The Counci;J.. felt that as it would benefit private business and not cities owned -.property it would b,te best to invite the property owners in this area involved to attend our August 18, 1975 meeting at 8:30 pm. The Council discussed the Park Board appointments. Two openings are now open as a re- sult of the amendment to ordinacecreating two. additional positions. The City Council appoi nted Ken Nelson to fill one of the openings to the park Board term being lug. 4, 1975 to July 31, 1977. o The Council reviewed the Chief of Police report. Council had no objections to the action Chief Zerwas took. Moved by 'Councilmember Syring and seconded by~ Otto approving the payment of the General Councilmember .