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, ' I I - SAINT PAUL PIONEER PRESS II,TH NOVEMBER 1992 WEDNESDAY ARDEN HILLS '" 'Mayor fails to see why voters 'defeated building referendum BEN CHANCO STAFF WRITER' ~1II!l' said h~ still couldn't ~de':Stand why the ma- . jonty of residents were agamst It. T - "It's absolutely beyond me," he said. "If they had . be mayor of Arden Hills did not see the defeat of taken -the time to come and look at the current a $2.8 million bond referendum as an overwhe1miDg - facility and the conditions, they would have ap- . rejection of a proposed new public works facility. proved it hands down." - -- Voters turned down the bond referendum last He pointed out the city has outgroWn the present week by 169 votes - 2,546' to 2,377. facility at 1450 W. Higbway 96, whicb was built 40 "It was not a mandate to do it or not a mandate years ago when there were only 900 people in the not to do it," Mayor Tbomas Sather said. But Sather, wbo strongly supported the referen- J MAYOR COI'(l1NUED ON 2 '" ~;~~~:~;; . , ; MA YOR/Defeat called surprise : ., CONTINUED FROM I If the 'i'eferendum had been ap- He said tbe defeat of the refer- , . proved, taxes on a typical endum does not change plans for a : community. The populatlon today $125,000 home would have In- new $900,000 City Hall. Money for' : Is e,200. _ creased about $5 a month. the new City Hall already bas , ,_Jlut nobody took the time to ")' d' . ted b t - been set aside by the city and was , _ come and look" Sather said m lsappOID , U now we , "Thel' atte t" th' will have to look at other alterna not part of the bond referendum. t .r n 10D was on e na- . II . , tiona1 and state races." tives, Sather salq. Sather said the city plans to go I : Also, he said voters probably . He .said some of those alterna- ahead with building .a new City 'I ,were influenced by the require- tives lDclude possibly bringing an- Hall on the ~rsenal site proposed : ment to state on the ballot that 'other referendum to a vote in six for the public works facility. He , voting for the referendum will months, adding on to the current said the city currently is negotiat- : ral~ the property tax. public works garage, or building a Ing a 99-year lease with the U.S. , . Unfortunately, there was no new facility through a lease-buy- Army for about 40 acres on the , space to say how much" Sather back program that wouldn't need eastern edge of the twin Cities said. 'taxpayer approval. Army Ammunition Plant. .