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Sorne stations will have a parka nd ride. The. public hearing: closed at 7:45 %p.m, C.ounciImember Lindner made a motion to support Resolution 2017=05, transmitting the City of Gem lake support for the.LocpIly Preferred Alternative for the Rush line Corridor to the Rush Line Corridor Task Force, the Rarrisey County Reginal Railroad Authority and the Metropolitan Council. Councilmernber Artig-Swomle.y seconded the.. motion, motion passed. Audit Findings, Chris Knopik, CliftonCarsonAlien Chris Knopik. presented the results of the City of'Gem Lake 2016 audit. Because the City of Gem Lake now has an employee, the City will need to adopt an out-of=state travel. policy. Mr. Knopik will provide samples for the city to adopt. Claims. for the month of June, 2017 A motion was made by Counciime.mber Lindner, seconded by CounciImemberArtig-Swomley to approve the claims for June, 2017, Motion passed,. C:I.aims approved. Monthly Financial Reports Approved. A motion was made by.Councilmernber Artig-5wornley, seconded by Councilmemher Lindner to make a $2,000 donation with funds received from the charitable gambling account to the White Bear Lake: Food Shelf during the.month of July, 2017. Motion passed, Purchase. of Tom Hansen's Field — Public Hearing The Mayor provided an overview of the public hearing. The proposal is .to buy 18 acres, sell off part of the land .to a developer, thereby the city controls the land and the. development. Part of the land.would be paid for with a Cq with:a 5 year term and part would be. sold to:the developer at.$.5.2,000 an acre. ❑ver the years citizens have asked for a development of villa homes so they can stay in Gem Lake.but not necessarily in their current home, 20 -25 villa harries projected tc .meet that need. In additional the villa homes would increase the'tax revenue which will pay for all or most of the bond. The City of Gem Lake must respond to the Metropolitan Council with their requirements.some'of which include parks,. growth, sewer, water for cities. Council.member Bosa.k.spoke, He has been on the council. for over 20 years, he thanked the audience for attending and said we ne.ed your continued input every month, we need more involvement, said his:agenda.has always been towards keeping takes as low as he can, he attended the. Planning Commission meeting: and felt ttiat much misinformation has been circulated, for instance that the council has been denying developers, said that hasn't happened, no. applications have been denied. Bosak cited. developments voted -in in Gem Lake, Hillary Farm, New Trax, water in the Hoffman's Corners area to spur development and White Bear Montessori. Developers have come in floating ideas to put in something the land isn't..zone.d for..Bosak:said an ice. arena waso ne example, another example was Landmark Development's first concept sketch that was well.like by the council and at 29 homes. with a park, it wag only a few homes:over the density for the zone. They were encouraged to sirh ply meet the:zoning requirement and come.bwk. But Landmark came back with a new plan that had 39 homes. Bosa.k said that he favored traits.or a. park because it. had been asked for in citizen surveys but alaviously a park or trails could only go on undeveloped. property and. geographically could never be.adjacent to every home. CounciImerriber Artig-SwomIey spoke; mirroring what Commissioner Bosak said, we want to preserve GO Lake, we do. have. mandates frorh the state and federal government and`ifs a balancing act. She has received feedback from citizens. In addition she. reminded attendees that we are your neighbors and swear words and obscenities are not appropriate. City of Gern Lake City Council Meeting rnJnutes,. June 200 2017 Page.2