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Home My WebLink AboutMay 2001 av „ HILLS 901" � ` a4a wal The Official City Newsletter for Arden Hills Residents May 2001 Mark your calendars for Arden Hills' 50th Anniversary Golden Ce - • • Saturday, June 23, 2001, at Tony Schmidt Park on Lake Johanna On Lake Johanna Boulevard ... Elsewhere In the Park ... Street Parade (from County Rd D Strolling Bluegrass Musicians 1:30-5:00 through the Park to Old Snelling) 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Clown 12:30-3:30 Children's Games & Miniature Golf 12:45-6:30 Petting Zoo & Pony Rides 1:00-4:30 On the Lake ... Caricature Artists & Face Painting 12:45-6:30 Canoe/kayak Demonstration 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. The Mad Scientist 1:30-3:30 Swimming & Boating All day Rock Climbing Wall 5:00-9:00 Boat Parade 7:00 Fine Arts & Crafts Display & Sale All Day Arden Hills Historical Display from T-shirts & Souvenirs noon On Stage in the Park ... Community Information Booths until Ramsey County's Grand Opening Ceremony 1:00 "Taste of Arden Hills" Food Court early Science Show 1:30 evening Splatter Sisters 2:00 At Presbyterian Homes ... North Heights Chorus 3:00 Magician 3:45 "Tea In the Tent" for seniors and Ma others interested 2:00-3:45 Singin' Safari 4:45 Vesselrock 6:30 Harpist 2:00-3:45 Twin Cities Unicycle Show 7:30 Hat Display 2:00-3:45 Northern Lights Community Band 8:30 Art Gallery Prize Drawings All Day (Each day from June 15 to July 14) 1:30-5:30 In the Air Over the Lake ... � FIREWORKS! After the band concert At dusk e Still needed: • Prizes for drawings • Volunteers for hourly shifts • 50-year resident historical information • Fine crafts artists • Parade units Please call City Hall for more information or to help at 651-634-5133 f AROUND A r�rl gym! 11�a t�� TOWN Service � � lime� � Directory City Hall Business Briefs 651-634-5120 (http://www.ci.arden- hills.mn.us) Guidant Expands its Arden Hills Campus Fire(non-emergency) �'!uidant Corp.,located on Hamline Avenue just north of Interstate 694,has purchased the 651-633-2404 �J Arden Hills Technology Center,which is adjacent to its current corporate campus.This Parks&Recreation purchase more than doubles the size of its campus,adding 640,000 square feet of office and 651-634-5120 manufacturing space to its currently-owned 500,000 square-foot building.Approximately 2,200 people work at the Guidant Arden Hills facility. Police(non-emergency) Most of the space in Arden Hills Technology Center,built by Control Data during the 1960s,is 651-484-3366 currently leased to tenants,including Syntegra.Guidant,which had been leasing approximately 20 per- Police&Fire Emergency cent of the building,plans to expand its space in the building as lease contracts expire and its business 911 grows.With the purchase of the Arden Hills Technology Center building and the surrounding 37 acres,Guidant now owns 1. 1 million square feet of office and manufacturing space in Arden Hills. Arden Hills City Hall 4364 West Round Lake Rd. Plans for Walgreen's Halted Arden Hills,MN 55112 The Planning Commission and the City Council had been considering a proposed plan by Regular office hours Walgreen's to build a store at the corner of County Road E and Lexington Avenue on the 8 am.to 4:30 pm.,M-F Holiday Inn property.Holiday Inn had planned to subdivide land and sell the comer section to Walgreen's.Further review of this plan indicates that the original agreement with the City for City Council:Mayor Dennis this site required a certain amount of green space on the corner,which the Walgreen's proposal Probst. Aplik wski, a would not accommodate.Consequently,it does not appear that Walgreen's will pursue its plan to Beverly Aplikowski,David Grant,Gregg Larson,Lois Rem build a store at this location. City Administrator: Joe Lynch Council meetings are held at ma 0 n t v 0 09 0 n 0 M Y. C 0 � City Hall,4364 West Round Lake Road,the second and City sump pump review on-going last Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m.The public is Tn order to make the City's sanitary system run more efficiently,the City inspected residential welcome.Please call the City sump pumps to ensure they are in compliance with proper standards.The inspection process Administrator(651-634-5120) took place last year when the new water meters were being installed. if you have topics for the The City is now reviewing the information gathered and is in the process of contacting those resi- agenda. The meetings are dents whose sump pumps are believed to not be in compliance.If a sump pump is not correctly installed, televised,tape delayed,on it can pump water into the sanitary sewer system which carries water to sewage treatment centers.This Cable Channel 16 on the unnecessarily increases processing costs.Sump pump water,which is primarily rain water,groundwater, following Wednesday at or melted snow,is clean water that can be directly added to the storm water system. 11 a.m.and 7 p.m. Residents who believe they may not be in compliance are asked to contact City Hall to have Arden Hills Communications this issue resolved.The City will schedule a time for the building inspector to come to the resi- Committee:Chairperson Sue dence to check the sump pump system.The City has set an August deadline,after which time Schroeder(651-636-8954), surcharges may be imposed for noncompliance. Elwood Caldwell,Fran Holmes,Mary Nosek.Council Street sweeping and pothole repair •Liaison:Lois Rem.Staff:Joe Lynch,Sheila Stowell. he Public Works Department has been busy cleaning and repairing the streets of Arden Hills T Desktop Publisher:Sharon 1 after our long cold winter.The City's methodology for street sweeping is to start with the Hanzalik. streets nearest the lakes to help keep sand and other accumulated debris from seeping into the Arden Hills Notes is the official lakes.From the lakes,employees fan out and cover all the streets.Along with the sand on the newsletter of the city of Arden streets,the City employees are also working hard to repair the potholes,which are especially Hills,an equal opportunity numerous this year.We are reminded by City Hall that some of the major streets in Arden Hills employer. are not maintained by the City.Lexington Avenue,Highway 96,Snelling Avenue,and New Brighton Road,among others,are maintained by Ramsey County,the government agency to contact for problems with those streets. Benchmarks A review of • actions March 26 Council Meeting April 2 Council Meeting ■ Discussed recommendations of Operations and Finance Committee • Received the 2000 Treasurer's Report. ■ Discussed the city administrator's pro- about city entrance signs. posed reorganization of staff positions. • Approved Pay Application#6 for City ■ Discussed scope of 2001 street seal- Hall construction,through February 28, April 9 Council Meeting coating projects. 2001,to Rochon Corporation. m Approved 2001 I.U.O.E.Local No.49 • Approved Pay Request Invoice#15 for union contract agreement. Full minutes are available at the City Hall construction,through January N Approved replacement of Floral Park Arden Hills Library,City Hall, 26,2001,to Architectural Alliance for and on line at the City's website play structure(2001 Budget Capital professional services. Improvement Plan approved expense). (http://www ciarden-hills mn.us). • Approved Planning Case#01-06, Comprehensive Plan Amendment. a Approved Pay Estimate#3 for Sanitary Sewer rehabilitation project(Lift CITY HALL • Denied Planning Case#00-45,Semper Station#8)to Gridor Construction,Inc. CONSTRUCTION Development(Walgreen's),County m Approved payment to Architectural Road E&Lexington Avenue North for pp p y • • been poured, Site Plan,Special Use Permit(SUP), Alliance for professional services fee interior place, Variance,and Lot Split.City staff only (City Hall construction project). recently learned that zoning of the m Awarded bid for City Hall audio visual and the windows will be Holiday Inn site does not permit the lot - • next. • to be split. equipment. stone and brick facings are • Approved Planning Case#01-05, ■ Discussed disposition of 2000 General being applied. Occupancy Chesapeake Companies,I-35W and Fund surplus. expected I-694,Master Planned Unit Development(PUD.) April 16 Council Worksession • Approved payment of additional City ■ Discussed various aspects of the Hall construction costs as recommend- upcoming 50th Anniversary/Day in the Public Works Director ed by staff. Park event. resigns • Discussed additional City Hall costs ■ Began discussion of 2002 budget relating o technology, After serving the City of Arden g gy,security,mainte- priorities. nance,and furnishings options as rec- Hills for five years as the Public ommended by staff. Works Director,Dwayne Stafford has resigned.We thank Dwayne for his service to the City and wish him the best of luck in the future. (DID A decision to hire a replacement LN will not be made until City Council City Philosoph Photos (especially of historical interest) considers a proposal made by Joe To ; Lynch,City Administrator,to reor- are requested for use in the Arden Hills scope and necessary 50th Anniversary book. ganize the City Hall administrative staff.In the interim,the Public services through the • Also, photos Of city parks, trails, and Works Director's responsibilities are and use of _" recreation activities are requested for divides among Joe Lynch;Terry the cover of the fall Parks and Post,City Treasurer; and Tom � he Guide (deadline is June 1). Moore,Parks and Recreation Director. Arden Hills' former mayors: Where they are now (Part 11) Arden Hills has had ten mayors since due to a job move out of the state.Little sary Golden Celebration this year. its incorporation(then as a village)in else is known about him,but those Henry died in 1983.His memory is 1951.Of our former nine mayors,five are active in village affairs recall later preserved in the naming of still living.This is the second of two arti- reading of his death. Crepeau Nature Preserve on cles,the first of which(April issue of Bob Nethercut,now a resi- Benton Way,off Harriet Arden Hills Notes)was primarily about dent of Shoreview,was a Avenue west of Lexington. Bob Woodburn(1981-1988)as the only Councilmember appointed to Charles Crichton was former mayor still an Arden Hills resident. complete Kennedy's term as elected to succeed Crepeau in Walter Cummings was one of the group mayor,following which he was reelected to 1981,but served only five months before that organized the incorporation of Arden a regular term that would have been for the resigning due to moving out of Arden Hills as a village that took place officially on years 1967 and 1968.However,he Hills.He now resides in Burnsville and is February 14,1951,and was the first mayor. resigned at the end of 1967 due to his active in public affairs there as a member He took office on March 15 of that year,was appointment to the planning staff of the of the city council. reelected once,and served until his death in Metropolitan Council,which he felt might This brings us to Bob Woodburn, February 1954 while in office.His memory represent a conflict of interest.Nethercut subject of the previous article,who was is preserved in the name of one of our most retired from the Met Council in 1989 but first appointed to Crichton's unexpired popular parks.Cummings Park,between has remained active in local public affairs, term and was subsequently elected three Wyncrest Court and Lexington Avenue,is serving for several years as president of the times,the last of which followed the may- second only to Peny Park in size,and Metropolitan Senior Federation,being oral term being changed to four years. accommodates a wide variety of sports and president of the 100-member Kiwanis Club However,this was interrupted by his other recreational activities. of North Suburban Golden K St.Paul for looming retirement from medical practice Appointed to replace Cummings as 1994-95,and now president of the Ramsey and his 1987 purchase of a business in mayor on March 30, 1954,was then- County Parks&Trails Association. Plymouth,Minnesota,prompting his res- Council-member Bob Ashbach.He was Dr.Robert Bjorndahl was appointed ignation on December 12, 1988. subsequently reelected to regular two-year to complete Nethercut's term and was sub- Tom Sather was appointed to succeed terms four times and served until January sequently elected to a regular two-year Woodburn as of January 3, 1989.He was 2, 1963.His son Dan and daughter-in-law term.However,he resigned after one year reelected for the regular term of 1991- Laurie still live on Oak Avenue.Dan is due to moving to Grant,Minnesota,where 1994,but resigned in mid-1994 upon mov- cochair of the Events Task Force that's he still resides.He continues to have a den- ing to Victoria,Minnesota,near Chaska. planning Arden Hills' anniversary Golden tal practice on Como Avenue in St.Paul. He still lives there and is a self-employed Celebration this year,and Laurie owns Henry Crepeau,Arden Hills' longest business consultant.It was while he was the Vine and Branches art gallery/store in serving mayor thus far,was appointed to mayor that a plan to locate a new city hall Arden Plaza.Mayor Ashbach was also replace Dr.Bjorndahl on January 12,1970, on a portion of the TCAAP(Arsenal) well known later as a state representative and was subsequently elected or reelected property first surfaced in explicit terms. (1963-66) and state senator(1967-1982) five times,serving until January 2, 1981. Sather's appointed successor for the and as founder and president of the He was also a founding member of the remainder of 1994 was our present Roseville State Bank(first located in Har Lake Johanna Improvement Society and of mayor,Dennis Probst,who had been a Mar Mall and now part of the Firstar-U.S. the Arden Hills Island Beach Club,and Councilmember since 1992.Probst was Bank merger).He died in 1990. was active in the Arden Hills Sportsman's subsequently reelected for the regular D.F.Kennedy,attorney for an insur- Club.His daughter LoAnn still resides four-year terms of 1995-98 and 1999- ance company in the Twin Cities,was with her family in the home on Siems 2002.The next mayoral election will thus elected to succeed Ashbach and reelected Court,and is cochair of the Events Task be in the fall of 2002,for the four years once,but resigned as of January 3, 1966, Force planning Arden Hills 50th anniver- beginning in January 2003. It ECR— WSS PRST STD ` zEEN HILLS U.S.Postage Paid St.Paul,MN Permit#1962 City of Arden Hills•4364 West Round Lake Road Arden Hills,MN• 55112-5794 I •A Golden Celebration n •Business Briefs S •Maintenance in the City POSTAL CUSTOMER t •Recent Council Actions d •Arden Hills'Former Mayors (Part II) e • Stafford Resigns