05-28-1974 Council Meeting Minutes

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"lNr•�._ Council meeting of May 28, 1974 Page 2 The fourth item in your information packet is thc Notice of Assessments which will be held on Monday, ,7une 3, 1974 at thc City Hall. All Council members are asked to be present, our City Assessor will be present as well as representatives of the Hennenin County Assessment Department. The time of the meeting will be 7 : 30 P.M. in the Council Chambers. The next item of information in your packet is a letter from Mr. Edward Hamm addressing himself to the Scott property and house. This is a mute issue at the time, with my understanding that the Scott property has been sold to a Mrs . Moe. You should also know that I have had a call from an attorney representing Mrs , Moe wanting to know what the possibilities would be oE :sLbdivi.ding that propert�� into five or eight lots. I told the attorney that I felt that the Council would be very upset to hear that and would certainly express their dis- pleasure at the possibility of losing all of that open space to a residential development. We may be hearinq morc� from this party in the future. The next item in your information packet is the annua] report from the Public Health Nursing Service , and fi_nally the latest issue of Paradigm, which contains an ar.ticle or� paqe 4 that I wr_ote concerninq Citizen Involvement in Local Covernment. AGF'NDA ITI�MS 2 . Mr. Van Nest will be appeaririq beforc the Council meetinq to request that the Council call a Public Hcarinq for the purpose of rezoning the public utility districts , which c�ime i.nto existence after the public hearings on the Coraprehensive Reszoning proposals which were held in the Orono School. Due to the f�jct that the Council meeting is being held on Tuesday, I am requestinq ttzat the public hearing be called for June 25 , so that sufficient time will be allowed to advertise properly in the newspaper and get the mailing donc�. 3. Mr. Van Nest is also going to report to the Council on the status of the Comprehensive Plan. Hopefully, the plan or major portions of it will be finished and ready for adoption, for we cer.tainly need to have the Comprehensive Plan adopted before we really adopt any rezoning. 5-18 . These items are the Zoning Administxator' s section of the agenda and memos concerning each one are in your. packet. '�- 19. Last week I gave to each of you a copy of the Police Contract which the City of Orono, in conjunction with Cy Smythe , has been able to negotiate with Union Local 320 . This represents the proposed 1974 settlement. On Wednesday of last week, the Mayor, Mary Butler, Cy Smythe, and myself sat down and discussed some of the aspects of the Contract. Mr. Smythe and i feel that this is the best agreement that we can get for this year; it is a good aqreement and I would recommend to the Council that we adopt this as the 1974 settlement.