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., Minutes of the Arden Hills Council Worksession, 5/6/91 Page 4 . MISCELUINEDUS KEI'I'HSON POND Public Works SUperintendent Winkel reported that the pond level is high, due to recent rain, and requested Courlcil direction relative to pumping the pond. Courlcil =ncurred to direct the Public Works SUperintendent to pump the pond to an acceptable level and =ntact George Reiling to detennine if the water may be ptI11lled onto his property, south of the pending area. Council also directed the Clerk Administrator to proceed with the appraisal of the property nee:ied for an easement, to =ntact the property owner with an offer to p.rrchase the easement area and, if the offer is not accepted, to instruct the city Attorney to begin =ndemnation proceedings. It was further directed that staff schedule a meeting with Engineer Maurer, Attorney Filla, Public Works SUperintendent Winkel, Clerk Administrator Berger and Marcel Eibensteiner to discuss resolution of this matter . . REQUEST; HIRE Council was referred to a memorandLnn from city Accountant PARIWI'IME EMPIDYEE T.J. Wolfe-SWanson, requesting the hire of a part-time enployee for approxiroately 20 hours per week, for a four week span of time, at $7.00 per hour. nIe Administrator advised one enployee is utilizing time-off due to a family emergency situation and another enployee was granted a vacation leave prior to notification of the emergency. Malone moved, seconded by Growe, to auth=ize hiring a tenp::>rary enployee for the finance duties outlined in the 5-6-91 memorandLnn from the city Accountant, at $7.00 per hour, 20 hours per week, for a four week period of time, at a cost not to exceed $500.00. Motion carried. (Malone, Growe, Mahowald and Sather voting in favor; Hansen opposed) (4-1) LEAGUE <XlNFERENCE Council was referred to information on the league of cities Conference, which will be held in June. Councilmember Malone referred Council to state statute 349.217 (d) , which explains the definition of the "trade area" for donations of charitable gambling funds. CHARITABLE GAMBLING Malone suggested an amendment to the ordinance, under the section relating to "trade area", which specifies that any underlying goverrnnent body, such as Ramsey Cormty or state agencies, be included in the language defining Arden Hills trade area. The Clerk Administrator advised the legislators are proposing amendments to the Charitable Gambling laws and the city Accountant is reviewing the Ordinance and may have some suggestions f= amendments. - Council =ncurred to direct the Attorney to prepare a draft Ordinance amendment which :incorporates the language specifying the "trade area", as previously discussed and defer adoption rmtil the legislative session ends in the event further amendments are neceS'S'ary.