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The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Elk River Village Council of the Village of .Elk River, WlfS called to order by Mayor Bartelt on Oct. 5, 1970, in the Council Room of the Village Office Building at 7:30 pm. Members were present as follows: Mayor Bartelt, Councilmen Hudson, Syring, Micheau and Konop. - The minutes of the Sept. 21, 1970 meetirigand Sept. 23, 1970 special meeting were (~ read. No corrections or additions. A petition with 25 signatures was presented from residents of the North Terrace Addition requesting traffic control cn"School Street between Irving and Holt Avenues. In attendance were Rex Oetinger, .James BYrd, Robert Lewandowski, Harold Shogren ~ld Kenneth Carr. They reported that some vehicles have been traveling as fast as 50 MPH approaching Holt Avenue from Highway 169. TIle petitioners suggested that a stop sign be placed on School street at Irving Avenue for Eastbound Traffic and a stop sign be placed on School Street at Holt Avenue for Westbound traffic. They also recommended painted crosswalks across School Street at the West side of Irving Avenue, across Irving Avenue at School street ~~d across School Street at the East side of Holt Avenue. Th~ Street Committee will look in to the problem and report back to the CotUlcil with their recommendations. At 8:00 pm, Mayor Bartelt declares the acceptance of bids Mower, be closed. Bids were received as follows: Anoka Int'l Sales & Service, Anoka, Minn. Int'l Arnold Equipment Co., St. Cloud, Minn. Int'l Sternquist Implement Co., Princeton, Minn. Ford for a tractor-loader- Midway Tractor & Equipment, Minneapolis Ford $5,094.87 5,387.58 4,771.39 for 8 Speed 5,093.39 for 10 Speed 5,811.32 for 10 Speed w/Heav.Ldr. 5,162.00 The bids will be checked out by the Council witt Les Derr to learn how they meet the specifications, before making a decision. () Sherman Sachs made application for renewal of his on and offsale 3.2 beer license at Sachs Riverside Store. Referred to the Police Department for their reconunendati.. on. Moved by Councilman Syring and secorn.ed by Councilman Konop, to grant the renewal of the Club License at the American Legion Club. l<lotion unwninously carried. George Adamski was present ando requested an extension of the sanitary sewer li.h!! on Quinn Avenue ap}roximately 127 f~et North along the Earl Cress property and the vacant lot to serve a commercial building to be built on Lot 5 Aud. Subdivision of Lot 6 of Aud. Subdivision No.3. It was reported that the Cress property and the vacant lot has already been assessed for this improvement. YlI'. Adamski was advised that his obligation for the cost cf this project would. be only the line that parralles his property. Jerry Sorenson, }'lanager of Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., was present. He advised that a radio phone in the police car should work as Elk River is within the limits of the 30 mile radius. However Northwestern Bell would come up with a test car to learn whether there would be any communication problems. Calls on a radio phone would be long distance until after the phone conversion in December. Calls would be direct dial" by dialing "111 and then the police number. Installation could be made in 30 days. The telephone company would place inserts in the phone bills of the Elk River residents, advising them of the new police phone number. After the phone conversion, individua.ls would be charged 10~ per call. 14r. Sorenson will check in to the possibility of charging this fee to the Village. Clifford Lundberg, representing the Alfred Brown lawsuit was present. He advised that the sewer line from the Brown house would have to be lowered and a retaining wall would have to be built or the land sloped and sodded. MacGibbon advised that the village could possibly grade a new driveway now and when we have a paving job