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, Minutes of Regular Council Meeting October 14. 1980 Page 2 Status Re p 0 r t - 550 Associates vs. City of Arden Hills Council was re fe rred to Lynden's Ie t te r of 10-10- 80 advising that the ma t te r has been settled; Attorney will prepare S tip ula ti on of Dismissal and Resolution effectuating the assessmen t reduction. Road Eaeemen t - Presbyterian Homes of Minnesota Hanson reported that be met wi th Reverend Hagstrom relative to the road e asemen t and park de di ca tion; advised tha t Presbyterian Homes does not an ti cip a te further development of the Sutton Place p rope rty at this time; noted tha t encroachment by re side n ts on the Presby te r i an Homes property has been eliminated to th e i r sat- isfaction. Af te r discussion it was the gene ral concenaua. of the Council that . the road easement and park dedication are separate issues; park cle di ca ti on to be negotiated at s e con d phase development of Sutton Place, Tab Ie d Motion re Park and Recreation Director Position Hanson read correspondence he re ce i ve d from Ruth Cadwell op p 0 s- ing the motion; noted that Public Works Supervisor Johansen has responded to Council's inquiries relative to supervision of park maintenance by the Pub 1 i c Wo rks De par t me nt, Hanson said that, be caus e of the public response and Mr. Johansen's cooperation exp ressed in his memo of October 9 th, he would like to withdraw the motion on the floor. Seconder Crichton agreed. In discussion, Woodburn said he feels that Council should not make any chan ges at this time. Wingert note d tha t the Park Director position is a very necessary one in the s tate of development we are in Ugh t now; that ..y change some years hence when the parks matu.re; noted that the main tenance function has been considered - sees no reason to change that at this time; the administrative and development functions should probab ly not be changed now but feels that the Council should review these functions in the coming ye ars , espe- cially when our parks are in a mature stage, Crichton s tate d that he has had some concerns J over the years, with certain aspects of the Park Director1s performance relative to business management and budge ting fun c t ions of bis job, but does not feel the difficulties are sufficiently major to make the changes that Council has considered; feels some work on these aspects is necessary; feels that Council should take its manage r- ial responsibility seriously and help to improve the departillent, activities; added that this does not in c lude the programs por tion of the job, which is being handled we 11. , Crepeau reviewed some of the history that b rough t about the motion; noted that a few yea rs ago he and Crichton (then liaison to the parks department) discussed a cooperative program with Bethel Co lIe ge relative to wh at the college could contribute to the ci ty, and the ci ty could contribute to the college; advised that this las t year he and Hanson (curren t liaison to the par ks departmen t) Proceeded along these same lines wi th Be th e 1 College and we re . considering that the parks director work ~ time fo r the ci ty and ~ time wi th the college with college picking up ~ of his ren um- eration. In the in te ri II, the Finance Committee E. Coun ci 1 put ~ of Park Director's salary in the budge t for 1980. anticipa- tiDg the o th e r ~ salary from Be the 1 - th is did not happen, so the city picked up the o th e r l; of the salary for 1980. Crepeau ex- plained that Council, therefore, discussed some economies in the parks maintenance position, thinking that the public works depart- ment could probably maintain the parks much bet te r than the young CETA employees who are not as familiar with. the equipment as public works employees. -2-