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MINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING
<br />Village of Arden Hills
<br />Monday, May 13, 1918.E - 7 0o 30 p. m.
<br />Village Hall
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<br />To bap used for ism ° ie ience . 1.
<br />Call to, Order
<br />Pursuant to due call and notice thereof 1 Mayor Woodburn called the meeting
<br />to order at, 1 I*IYi 3 p.m,.,
<br />R,olll Call.
<br />Present! Mayor Itobeirt Woodburn, Comm ilm mbers Dale Hicks,, Nancy
<br />Hansen, Gary Peck, Tomas Sather
<br />Absent, None
<br />Also Present,* Engineer Donald Christoffersen, Planner orlyn Miller,
<br />Treasurer Donald Laub, Public Works Supervisor Robert Raddatz.
<br />Clerk Administrator Charlotte McN'� esh, Deputy Clark Dorothy
<br />zed
<br />Approval of Minutes
<br />Peck moved, sieco tied by Sather, that the minutes of the April 299th Council
<br />meeting be approved as submitted Motion serried unanimously" 5
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<br />Business from the Floor
<br />None
<br />Lake, Josenhine
<br />Petition 0
<br />piposinit Lake Treatment and, Boat Launcho Rice Creek Watershed,
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<br />sI Ll 3220 N. Hamline Avenue p presented a petition to the City
<br />ry Council, signed about 60 residents of Arden Hills living on p'rolperty
<br />ad j� pining Lake Josephine, opposing the proposed prof ,ram for treatment
<br />of Lake Josephine by the Federal E.P. . , Minnesota P. CI. A e „ Minnesota, D N. R.
<br />Rice Cheek Watershed District, and the Ramsay County Parks and Recreation
<br />Department, inking the following statements
<br />141 Josephine �,s cleaner now, and with less algae than '.n past
<br />years el therleforle, leave the lake bottom alolne,, no calcium nitrate
<br />needed. 9M
<br />2. Let the sunfish, crappies and, northern, pike exist with the carp
<br />in Lake Josephine as they are today. Forego any r�estoicki,n .
<br />3,o Without the restocking of the lake, us, see no reason for a public
<br />boat access with six �) autos parking places with the ongo� g soul
<br />to l i ce, the lake surfaces
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<br />Lynch reported that the D.N.R. proposers to poison the lake, which will
<br />kill alb! the fish, noted that the lee has a lot of carp& and this is
<br />the only way to rid the lake of carp. Lynch noted that they will then
<br />re-stock the lake *.
<br />Lynch said Lake Josephine is 118 acres in area, therefore, according to
<br />D. N'. R,m it has the authority to build a public, access (any lake of 100
<br />acres or more in the metro area)4l Lynch, noted that the only public property
<br />an the lake is at the beach location, which means the boat access will
<br />be adjacent to the beach, area, a vary" dangerous combination of uses Q,
<br />Lynch explained that County Ditch 4 reads upgrading, Federal government
<br />will finance the upgrading only if the public, access on Lake Josephine
<br />goes ice. Lynch explained that their biggest concern is that Lake Josephine
<br />is -goo small for sip additional power, beats next to the public, beach
<br />concern is for safety 4l
<br />Sergeant, Bargarion,, Ramey County Water Patrol, noted the proposed access
<br />point or a map of' the lies Just row th of' the public beach s noted, that
<br />boats pion ' and, drop off skiers; noted that, the boat access beach
<br />UP
<br />ad area where skiers are dropped off, is in a small, congested, ed, areas
<br />Hansen noted that, Lake Johanna has a similar slituationel asked how Lake
<br />Josephine differs from Johanna - both are small lakes,* noted that the
<br />residents of Lake Johanna were opposed to boat access also, but could
<br />not stop i1t; noted that water surface controls were imposed for safety.
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