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City Council <br /> Workshop Minutes <br /> August 19, 1998 <br /> Present: Wilharber, Brenner, Helmbrecht, Powers <br /> Absent: Buckbee <br /> Staff Jim March, City Administrator <br /> Paul Palzer, PW Director, Building Official <br /> Meeting was called to order at 5:00 by Mayor Wilharber. <br /> Discussion occurred on the status of the Barett home on the senior housing site. Mayor <br /> Wilharber mentioned that he had spoke to Violet Barett and she was not upset about the fact that <br /> the house needs to be removed. Mr. March indicated that Bonine Construction phoned City Hall <br /> on the morning of August 13, 1998 to indicate that they had made an error on their written quote. <br /> The price to demolish the house was supposed to be $5500, not $3500. The Council consensus <br /> was that the price was still half of the next lowest quote and the work should proceed. <br /> Discussion occurred on the Parkview development. The main item of consideration was the <br /> house site formerly owned by Dan Tourville. The Council had indicated at the meeting of August <br /> 13, 1998 that the street and utility assessment for the lot now owned by (Hasaik's) should be <br /> deferred indefinitely, until the property owner decides to split the lot. The same consideration <br /> was also to be granted to the property owned by Sievert's in the Acorn Creek subdivision. City <br /> Attorney Jim Hoeft indicated that the practice of deferring assessment's indefinitely is not an <br /> allowable practice. Council indicated that they would like to defer the assessment for a period of <br /> ten years and then also extend the assessments on the Sievert property for an additional five years. <br /> This item will be officially approved at the next Council meeting. <br /> Mayor Wilharber asked City Attorney Hoeft how the prosecutions would work during the <br /> transition of City Attorneys. City Attorney Hoeft indicated that he did not foresee any problems <br /> and that he would be in contact with former Attorney Hellings to coordinate the transition. City <br /> Attorney Hoeft is going to be making contact with the Circle Pines/Lexington Police Department <br /> to introduce himself Mr. Hoeft indicated that he would be splitting prosecution responsibilities <br /> with another Attorney in their firm (Greg Herrick). <br /> Discussion occurred on the topic of the engineering consultant interviews. Each Council member <br /> relayed their individual point scores on each of the engineering firms based on the firm's answers <br />