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J e . . ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION MINUTES JANUARY 22, 2002 3 report to make a detennination on the tower's safeness. He indicated American Tower does manage 10,000 towers around the country. The cost estimate could be reduced if the next evaluator can use the existing geotechnical report. The proposed report by American Tower would include ultrasonic testing which has not been done thus far and would give the condition of the existing tower. Scherbel said we have received several reports since 1997 indicating the tower is not up to code but no report as to what to do to fix it. Probst said he suggests we make it clear to Vaughn that we expect reimbursement. Scherbel said his main concern is the tower and public safety and that Vaughn has compounded the problem by adding additional antennas. Parrish noted Vaughn currently has 25 antennas but his SUP allows only 15 antennas. Aplikowsi said we should spend the money up front and have an evaluation and find out ifit is safe as is. Ifit's safe as is then we are done with the issue. If it is unsafe we find out what he needs to do to make it safe and make it happen. We should request him to pay for the report which would include evaluation of the previous report and evaluation of the tower. After the second report is completed we will continue to move forward to close this issue. Finance Department 2002 Budget - Recreation Programming - Three options were presented to amend the adopted 2002 Recreation budget. Option A would involve a 10% price increase and 75/25 Charitable Gambling Fund split. Option B would utilize a portion ofthe General Fund surplus and involve creating the newsletter in-house. Option C would involve an increase in price by 5% and 65135 Charitable Gambling Fund split and a newsletter reduction from three issues to two issues. Council agreed a 70130 Charitable Gambling split, a 5% price increase, and a reduction in the number of newsletter issues. This item was moved to the Consent Calendar for formal action. 2002 Fee Schedule Review - The 2002 Fee Schedule had been adopted without Larson's changes. Grant asked another column be added to reflect the previous year's changes and current year's so it is easily visible what price has changed. Item was moved to the Consent Calendar with Larson's changes noted. Public Works Department Water Restriction and Water Usage Ordinance - The previously requested changes have been made. Probst suggested two more changes (language change from "City Council may override" rather than" City Council has a right to") ($20.00 a day fine for residents versus $25.00) and then item will be moved to Consent Calendar. Administration Department City Hall Use Policy and Fees - Lynch noted he has adjusted the fees as Council has requested. Grant noted he is surprised we are going ahead with renting the rooms after the other cities have advised us against doing so. Lynch noted most the other cities used a Community Center and not their City Hall. Rem indicated we can try it for a year and ifit doesn't work we can stop it. Probst noted he does not want to waive damage deposit