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MINUTES OF THE REGULAR ORONO COUNCIL MEETING HELD AUGUST 25, 1986 <br />BIG ISLAND BOARD OF GOVERNORS CONTINUED <br />2) City requiring them to have a conditional use <br />permit merely to allow volunteer workers to stay <br />overnight to do necessary clean -up the island, <br />noting that they must appear before the Council and <br />pay a fee for the permit. He stated that they have <br />at least two more scheduled weekends of volunteer <br />work and the conditional use permit expires 8/31/86. <br />3) The Board of Governors received a letter from the <br />City informing them that they need permission to put <br />in hiking trails on their own property. <br />4) Cost involved in requiring individual permits for <br />any work being done to each of the buildings. <br />Mr. Miller stated that the Board of Governors as the new <br />group are experiencing troubles from the City which were <br />not given to the State of Minnesota when they held <br />possession even though the same conditions existed. He <br />stated that if the City expects the Board as volunteers <br />to move mountains on this project, that the City could <br />at least give them some time. The Board asks the <br />following from the City: <br />1) Retract the statement of committing this property <br />to the Hennepin County Park Board. <br />2 ) Give them the chance to operate as a veteran's <br />camp as it has since the late 19201s. <br />3) Discard the Council's policy of favoring taking <br />away the camp from the vets and giving it to the <br />Park board. <br />Without the resolution of theses differences the Board <br />of Governors feels that their only alternative would be <br />to petition for secession from the City of Orono. <br />Councilmember Grabek asked Mr. Miller why they feel the <br />City has singled out them as a new board. He also <br />questioned the Council's position on wanting the <br />property to go to Hennepin Parks. <br />Mr. Miller stated that the City did not want to take on <br />the State of Minnesota by enforcing the violations prior <br />to their ownership. <br />Regarding the Council's position, City Administrator <br />Bernhardson stated that in Orono's comprehensive plan <br />stated that both Deering Island and Big Island would be <br />best in public ownership, noting that this policy has <br />been in the plan for a number of years. He also noted <br />when this was discussed by the Council back in March, <br />statements were made that the City would offer veterans <br />a reasonable opportunity to put the camp together and <br />were granted a conditional use permit for the work but <br />E <br />