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02/28/1984 - City Council SpecialSpecial City Council Packet SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1984 7:00 P.M. 1. Roll Call & Call Meeting to Order 2. Sperry/Timberline Noise Complaint 3. Discussion & Consideration of Performance & Results -Oriented Management 4. Review Work Priorities 5. Other Business 6. Adjournment MEMO TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS FROM: CITY ADMINISTRATOR HEDGES DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 1984 SUBJECT: SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING/WORKSHOP SESSION The City Council has. traditionally held special City Council meetings to discuss and consider a variety of issues. Many of the issues such as review of proposed operating budgets, personnel and other related matters are difficult to discuss at a regular City Council meeting given the long agendas that are normal for this growth community. Therefore, the special City Council meeting is an excellent method for reviewing and either preparing or taking action on certain issues before the City Council which require legistive action. These types of meetings are neces- sary and must continue. However, due to the growing number of issues facing the community as it continues to grow and expand in its community service dimension, it is becoming apparent in this office that a monthly workshop should be scheduled to allow the City Administrator and City Council to collectively address goals and objectives in order to better prioritize administrative and City Council time. The City Administrator would like to share some thoughts regarding a management by objective (MBO) approach to City Council Adminis- trative items with the City Council. To date, the City Administrator has practiced a general. management theory in which all items discussed by the City Council are given equal importance and an effort is made through proper delegation to coordinate results for the City Council. Unfortunately, witht� the growing number of issues before the City, it is no longer j possible to respond and carry out a normal administrative practice; given the number of support staff to work on these issues. Therefore, it is necessary that the City Council and City Adminis- trator review all items and issues in terms of objectives and then collectively determine the City's objective as it relates to each item and then prioritize that objective. A few examples of the items I'm making reference to include: a proposed high school, a proposed horse -racing facility, a proposed public improvement bond refunding, exploration of future ambulance . services, involvement of the Municipal Legislative Lobby Program, park referendum, cable television coordination, and many more. As the City is continuing its growth, the need for daily coordina- tion with Department heads by the City Administrator is growing as well. Currently the City is providing services to approximately 29,000-30,000 people through approximately fourteen departments. Approximately eight of those department heads rely on direction from the City Administrator on a daily basis regarding items that may require up to 15 minutes, and in some cases, considerably more time depending on the item. There are also anywhere from Special City Council Meeting Memo February 27, 1984 Page Two fifteen to thirty phone calls a day to which the City Administrator responds, varying in length from three minutes to thirty minutes. Add these exercises to breakfast and luncheon meetings and it is difficult to address and follow through with all the items that are perceived by either the City Council or City Administrator. Therefore, as City Administrator, I would like to present to the City Council two (2) proposals which I feel would help to increase the productivity of the staff and the efficiency of the use of City Council time. The first proposal is to hold a special workshop meeting of the City Council the second or fourth Tuesday of each month. The purpose of these meetings would be twofold, the first being to discuss in depth administrative issues for which there is not adequate time for complete coverage at the regular City, Council meetings. The second purpose would be to establish and carry out a management by objective method for prioritizing items for City Council consideration and staff research and/or action. With this method, more attention would be given to the more important issues at the proper time. The City Council would work together with the City Administrator to consider and prioritize the various items and issues which need to be acted upon. The City Administrator is drawing up a list of current issues before the Council at present or which they may wish to consider in the future. New issues will be added to the list as they emerge and older issues which have been taken care of will be eliminated. At tomorrow's workshop session, the issues currently under consideration could be prioritized by each Councilmember, then a comparison made between the priority lists and a consensus reached by the Council as to the master priority list. Itwill be 'possible at each workshop session both to discuss issues in depth and to reprioritize the list as needed. What is very important one month could be superceded the next by a more urgent issue. Not only would this method convey to City staff which items shouldl receive immediate and concentrated attention, it will also present !a better overall view of all the, issues confronting the Council at any one time. This would allow more efficient handling of the issues by both the Council and the staff. It also would provide better control of issues introduced by the City Council. The City Administrator is accountable for a monthly work plan to the City Council. It is suggested that the special meetings be truly workshop sessions with no formal action being taken on any items unless such action was formally scheduled and posted prior to the meeting. I have discussed the MBO approach with Mayor Blomquist, and due to her accelerated schedule, she is quite favorable to the concept. 2-28-84 M. B. 0. -1- Previous City Council & C.Council Long Short Administrative Objectives Action Term Term Priority GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE 1. Develop a Risk Management Program for all insurance functions. 2. Activate Health and et.aL. In- surance Commitee to review insurance options. 3. Examine I.R.S. ruling & initiate deduction for all health 12-22-83 insurance contributions. 4. Discuss & review pending & proposed City Code amendments, Example: New ordinances such as solar access. 5. Proceed with finalizing land- scaping plan for Municiple Center. a. Comprehensive Sign Layout Feb.1984 b. Dedication of Bell 6. Consider, plan & hold a ceremonial dedication for thge Fire Adminis- tration/Ambulance Garage 7. Hold Finance Committee meeting to consider proposed housing 2-7-84 bond issue. 8. Consider refunding of certain public improvement bond issues. 9. Coordinate with I.D.S. 196 School Facilities Needs 2-21-84 10. Study other school district facility possibilities -1- rMIM :A M. B. 0. -2- Previous City Council & C.Council Long Short Administrative Objectives Action Term Term Priority 11. Comprehensive needs analysis of microprocessing plans 12-20-83 i 12. Review of new joint purchasing system. 13. Review of new personnel system 14. Review of City-wide organizational chart 15. Prepare policy for City Council Chambers taping of meetings. 16. Prepare comprehensive vehicle study. 17. Preparation & execution of job evaluation study. 12-22-83 18. Finalize history document & coordination of publication 1977/1978 19. Coordinate a volunteer recogni- tion/City tour. 20. Coordination of the Lone Oak Tree removal/Preparation of a 1983/1984 sculpture. 21. Prepare & process development agreements for the horse racing 1983/1984 facility. 22. Preparation & review of capital improvement program. 3.' Preparation of RFP for banking services. -2- 2-28-84 M. B. 0. -3- Previous City Council & C.Council Long Short Administrative Objectives Action Term Term Priority 24. "Star City" Designation 1983 25. Cable Television 1982 LEGISLATIVE 1. City Council participation with Municipal Legislative Comm. 1-17-84 PUBLIC SAFETY & PROTECTION I I 1. Prepare and implement fire administration policy & procedures manual 2. Authorization of comprehensive radio communications plan for entire City. PUBLIC WORKS 1. Develop & Review of 5 -year street improvement plan. PARKS & RECREATION 1. Prepare and proceed with a park referendum to satisfy park systems manual. 2. Hold joint Park & Recreation Commission/C.C. meeting COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING 1. Hold joint Planning Commission/ C.C. meeting OTHER 1. -3- 2-28-84 M. B. 0. City Council & Administrative Objectives Previous C.Council Action Long Term Short Term Priority OTHER 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1984 7:00 P.M. 1. Roll Call & Call Meeting to Order 2. Sperry/Timberline Noise Complaint 3. Discussion & Consideration of Performance & Results -Oriented Management 4. Review Work Priorities 5. Other Business 6. Adjournment 01 MEMO TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS FROM: CITY ADMINISTRATOR HEDGES DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 1984 SUBJECT: SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING/WORKSHOP SESSION The City Council has traditionally held special City Council meetings to discuss and consider a variety of issues. Many of the issues such as review of proposed operating budgets, personnel and other related matters are difficult to discuss at a regular City Council meeting given the long agendas that are normal for this growth community. Therefore, the special City Council meeting is an excellent method for reviewing and either preparing or taking action on certain issues before the City Council which require legistive action. These types of meetings are neces- sary and must continue. However, due to the growing number of issues facing the community as it continues to grow and expand in its community service dimension, it is becoming apparent in this office that a monthly workshop should be scheduled to allow the City Administrator and City Council to collectively address goals and objectives in order to better prioritize administrative and City Council time. The City Administrator would like to share some thoughts regarding a management by objective (MBO) approach to City Council Adminis- trative items with the City Council. To date, the City Administrator has practiced a general. management theory in which all items discussed by the City Council are given equal importance and an effort is made through proper delegation to coordinate results for the City Council. Unfortunately, with the growing number of issues before the City, it is no longer possible to respond and carry out a normal administrative practice;, given the number of support staff to work on these issues.% Therefore, it is necessary that the City Council and City Adminis- trator review all items and issues in terms of objectives and then collectively determine the City's objective as it relates to each item and then prioritize that objective. A few examples of the items I'm making reference to include: a proposed high school, a proposed horse -racing facility, a proposed public improvement bond refunding, exploration of future ambulance services, involvement of the Municipal Legislative Lobby Program, park referendum, cable television coordination, and many more. As the City is continuing its growth, the need for daily coordina- tion with Department heads by the City Administrator is growing as well. Currently the City is providing services to approximately 29,000-30,000 people through approximately fourteen departments. Approximately eight of those department heads rely on direction from the City Administrator on a daily basis regarding items that may require up to 15 minutes, and in some cases, considerably more time depending on the item. There are also anywhere from Special City Council Meeting Memo February 27, 1984 Page Two fifteen to thirty phone calls a day to which the City Administrator responds, varying in length from three minutes to thirty minutes., Add these exercises to breakfast and luncheon meetings and it is difficult to address and follow through with all the items that are perceived by either the City Council or City Administrator. Therefore, as City Administrator, I would like to present to the City Council two (2) proposals which I feel would help to increase the productivity of the staff and the efficiency of the use of City Council time. The first proposal is to hold a special workshop' meeting of the City Council the second or fourth Tuesday of each. month. The purpose of these meetings would be twofold, the first, being to discuss in depth administrative issues for .which there is not adequate time for complete coverage at the regular City Council meetings. The second purpose would be to establish and carry out a; management by objective method for prioritizing items for City; Council consideration and staff research and/or action. With this' method, more attention would be given to the more important issues, at the proper time. The City Council would work together with the City Administrator to. consider and prioritize the various items and issues which need to be acted upon. The City Administrator is drawing up a list of current issues before the Council at present -or which they may wish to consider in the future. New issues will be added to the list as they emerge and older issues which have been taken care of will be eliminated. At tomorrow's workshop session, the issues currently under consideration could be prioritized by each Councilmember, then a comparison made between the priority lists and a consensus reached' by the Council as to the master priority list. It will be possible at each workshop session both to discuss issues in depth and to' reprioritize the list as needed. What is very important one month: could be superceded the next by a more urgent issue. Not only would, this method convey to City staff which items should receive immediate and concentrated attention, it will also present a better overall view of all the, issues confronting the Council at any one, time. This would allow more efficient handling of the issues by, both the Council and the staff. It also would provide better' control of issues introduced by the City Council. The City• Administrator is accountable for a monthly work plan to the City' Council. It is suggested that the special meetings be truly workshop sessions with no formal action being taken on any items unless such action was formally scheduled and posted prior to the meeting. I have discussed the MBO approach with Mayor Blomquist, and due to her accelerated schedule, she is quite favorable to the concept. M. B. O. KEY TO COMPLETING FORM LONG TERM - Three (3) Months to Twelve (12) Months SHORT TERM - Several Days to 90 Days 63[$134 W4A A - Top Priority B - Medium Priority C - Low Priortiy N.I. - Need More Information N.A. - No Action SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1984 7:00 P.M. 1. Roll Call & Call Meeting to Order 2. ,Sperry/Timberline Noise Complaint 3. Discussion & Consideration of Performance & Results -Oriented Management 4. Review Work Priorities S. Other Business 6. Adjournment MEMO TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS FROM: CITY ADMINISTRATOR HEDGES DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 1984 SUBJECT: SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING/WORKSHOP SESSION The City Council has traditionally held special City Council meetings to discuss and consider a variety of issues. Many of the issues such as review of proposed operating budgets, personnel and other related matters are difficult to discuss at a regular City Council meeting given the long agendas that are normal for this growth community. Therefore, the special City Council meeting is an excellent method for reviewing and either preparing or taking action on certain issues before the City Council which require legistive action. These types of meetings are neces- sary and must continue. However, due to the growing number of issues facing the community as it continues to grow and expand inits community service dimension, it is becoming apparent in this office that a monthly workshop should be scheduled to allow the City Administrator and City Council to collectively address goals and objectives in order to better prioritize administrative and City Council time. The City Administrator would like to share some thoughts regarding a management by objective (MBO) approach to City Council Adminis- trative items with the City Council. To date, the City Administrator has practiced a general. management theory in which all items discussed by the City Council are given equal importance and an effort is made through proper delegation to coordinate results for the City Council. Unfortunately, with the growing number of issues before the City, it is no longer possible to respond and carry out a normal administrative practice given the number of support staff to work on these issues. Therefore, it is necessary that the City Council and City Adminis- trator review all items and issues in terms of objectives and then collectively determine the City's objective as it relates to each item and then prioritize that objective. A few examples of the items I'm making reference to include: a proposed high school, a proposed horse -racing facility, a proposed public improvement bond refunding, exploration of future ambulance services, involvement of the Municipal Legislative Lobby Program, park referendum, cable television coordination, and many more. As the City is continuing its growth, the need for daily coordina- tion with Department heads by the City Administrator is growing as well. Currently the City is providing services to approximately 29,000-30,000 people through approximately fourteen departments. Approximately eight of those department heads rely on direction from the City Administrator on a daily basis regarding items that may require up to 15 minutes, and in some cases, considerably more time depending on the item. There are also anywhere from Special City Council Meeting Memo February 27, 1984 Page Two fifteen to thirty phone calls a day to which the City Administrator responds, varying in length from three minutes to thirty minutes. Add these exercises to breakfast and luncheon meetings and it is difficult to address and follow through with all the items that are perceived by either the City Council or City Administrator. Therefore, as City Administrator, I would like to present to the City Council two (2) proposals which I feel would help to increase the productivity of the staff and the efficiency of the use of City Council time. The first proposal 'is to hold a special workshop meeting of the City Council the second or fourth Tuesday of each month. The purpose of these meetings would be twofold, the first being to discuss in depth administrative issues for which there is not adequate time for complete coverage at the regular City Council meetings. The second purpose would be to establish and carry out a management by objective method for prioritizing items for City Council consideration and staff research and/or action. With this method, more attention would be given to the more important issues at the proper time. The City Council would work together with the City Administrator to consider and prioritize the various items and issues which need to be acted upon. The City Administrator is drawing up a list of current issues before the Council at present -or which they may wish to consider in the future. New issues will be added to the list as they emerge and older issues which have been taken care of will be eliminated. At tomorrow's workshop session, the issues currently under consideration could be prioritized by each Councilmember, then a comparison made between the priority lists and a consensus reached by the Council as to the master priority list. It will be possible at each workshop session both to discuss issues in depth and to reprioritize the list as needed. What is very important one month could be superceded the next by a more urgent issue. Not only would this method convey to City staff which items should receive immediate and concentrated attention, it will also present a better overall view of all the, issues confronting the Council at any one time. This would allow more efficient handling of the issues by both the Council and the staff. It also would provide better control of issues introduced by the City Council. The City Administrator is accountable for a monthly work plan to the City Council. It is suggested that the special meetings be truly workshop sessions with no formal action being taken on any items unless such action was formally scheduled and posted prior to the meeting. I have discussed the MBO approach with Mayor Blomquist, and due to her accelerated schedule, she is quite favorable to the concept. Special City Council Meeting Memo February 27,1983 Page Two Other Business City Councilmember Wachter and City Administrator Hedges had an opportunity to meet with Kent Nerberg to discuss a proposed sculp- ture of the Lone Oak Tree. Attached is another copy of Mr. Ner- berg's proposal. We will discuss our meeting and some additional thoughts that City Councilmember Wachter has at the meeting tomorrow evening. City Councilmember Wachter and the City Administrator also had an opportunity to look at the bell owned by Mrs. Sacowitz and visit with her at the High Site Apartments. Unofficially, it appears she is willing to accept $15,000 for the Wescott School bell with the understanding that there would be a small dedication and plaque prepared recognizing the significance of the bell and recognition of her family. A picture of the bell will be shown at the City Council meeting. Paul Hauge will be present at the beginning of the meeting to brief- ly discuss the Sperry/Timberline noise complaint with the City Council. The City is being pressured by the Timberline homeowners, Tom Nikolai and Don Giblin, to prosecute a complaint against Sperry regarding the noise violation. The City Administrator will brief the Council on the MPCA noise monitoring. Summary In summary, the City Administrator will have a list of objectives for review by the City Council and a method by which to prioritize those objectives ready for distribution. There is no preparation needed on the City Council's part for reviewing the list of objec- tives. Therefore, it is more effective that the City Administrator verbalize the background regarding each of the objectives to be analyzed at the special City Council meeting. I appreciate the opportunity to brainstorm for an evening with the City Council and feel it will be beneficial to all of us as we ap- proach the many issues in months to come. City Administrator TLH/hnd PAYMENT PROCEDURE AND SCHEDULE 5500 Upon signature of Contract This is a non-refundable assessment fee which will allow FIGURA to bring the Lone Oak to its studio, clean it, and assess its suitability for a sculptural form. If, after preliminary assessment, the tree proves too unstable to sculpt, FIGURA reserves the right to cancel the commitment and return the tree to the City of Eagan. If, however, the tree is workable, the contract remains in effect and the $500 assessment fee Is subtracted form the initial 33% payment. S4,500 (bal. of 33%) Upon determination that the tree Is workable FIGURA will then produce three sketch models from which the City Council or other relevant authorizing body will choose one. A2,500 (bal. of 50%) Upon acceptance of sketch model x7,500 (remainder) Upon completion of project LANE OAK MEMO PROJECT BUDGET SculDture $10,000 -includes hauling, cleaning, sculpting, finishing, delivery, and erection of completed piece Historical Documentation 2,500 Consultant fees :1,000 -includes interviews, research In historical societies, news- papers, archives, etc., and writing :,I%terlal and Labor costs 1,500 -includes photo documentation, photo enhancement, printing,. mounting, and framing Administrative Coordination 500 Consultant fees 500 -includes scheduling, overseeing subcontract bidding, and publicity Landscape Design and Creation 2,000 Consultant fees 11000 -includes design, research, model creation, and supervision of construction Materials and Labor costs 1.000 TOTAL COST $15,000 FIGURA CREATIVE TEAM FOR LANE OAK MEMORIAL PROJECT Sculpture Kent Nerburn, Ph.D. Paul Rothstein Historical Documentation Chief Sculptor and designer Associate Sculptor Adelheld Fischer, M.A. Writer and Editor Research and Writing Consultant Administrative Coordination Mary Mancuso. M.A. Coordinator of Exhibitions, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Coordinating Consultant Landscape Design and Creation Steven Jahns landscape Consultant, Landscape Designs of Anoka Landscape Consultant REGIONAL-LPERSPECTIVE S The Art of Kent Nerbttrn.- Making Less More "I see men but they look like trees walk- ing„ Mark 8:24 STANDING IN THE 3-D SCULP- ture workshop at the Minneapolis Col- lege of Art and Design is a little like be- ing Alice shrunk to the size of a thumbnail in the gears of a pocketwatch. When things are hopping, you'd betterstand aside. Band saws, electric sanders, drills and grinders buzz and chum up dust. Overhead, the enormous ceil- ing fans rumble; the room vibrates like a ra T- way car. The outcome of all this bustle is the kind of art that subscribes to Ezra Pound's dictum, "Make it new!" Novelty rules here. A saw wheezes as it chews on the leather shoes someone cuts in half for arrangement in acol- ktge. Another machine whines arpeggios as a student slices long planks of wood into blocks of similar size. He fits them into a hive that looks like an endless rowof cityapartments— one door, two windows, end to end in mathe- matical precimon. At the north end of the workshop stands a ten -foot butternut tree trunk The log and its sculptor, Kent Nerburn, are anachronisms that hark back to the Ecole des Beaux Arts when artists wore smocks, peppered their shelves with plaster maquettes and Coveted blocks of Carrara marble. Nerburn "makes it new" by reviving the old. He practices sub- tractive sculpture in wood and uses the hu- man form as his subject. He's devoted to the often arduous, herculean processofshapinga tree into a human form by cutting thousands of half -dollar -size wood chips from a log near- ly twice his size. Nerburn looks at subtractive sculpture as a "philosophical stance—a shap- ing of the universe by removing the unneces- sary and irrelevant until you arrive at a single clear tonality. It produces an astounding in- terior focus." The college's workshop is one of the few rental spaces in the Twin Cities equipped to accommodate his behemoth tree trunks, which can weigh as much ass ton when green Under 28 -foot ceilings, the figure can stretch to its full height and command a power of presenceso characteristic in Nerburn's work. He can gain multiple vantage points by walk- ing what amounts to more than half a football field away from the figure. And while Henry Moore notes that a sculptor should know his piece so well he can turn it over in his hand, the PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF KENT NERBERN Lig four -ton hoist enables Nerbum to do justthat. In Nerburn's aesthetic, size is crucial. Sculpture shares our space and mimics our re- ality. He feels that if a piece is too large or too small, the viewer objectifies it. "1 want to cre- ate beings people can meet, confront, and re- spond to." Nerburn, now 36, picked up his fust chisel as a young graduate student in Marburg, West Germany, where he was studying Ger- man for a Stanford University graduate pro- gram in religion and the humanities. Aca- demic theological speculation paled in con- trast to the crude but powerful madonnas and crucifixes he found in German religious folk art. "This was a time when I was hot-blooded for truth. At Stanford we could talk about the historical precedents for the concept of the idea of God. Not one of us could say 'I believe in God' or at least we couldn't say it out loud." Marburg was the quintessential fairy tale city with streets twisting under the patron- age of a hilltop castle. Nerburn even found work in an antique restoration shop just be. low an apothecary once frequented by Martin MINNESOTA MONTHLY I MAY 198319 Luther. This dream-like setting was the site for a kind of conversion experience which led Nerburn to abandon his full scholarship at S-,anford to pursue religious sculpture. It all began when he was given a task to sand a 300 -year old chest of inlaid wood. Feeling the actual grooves of the maker's fingers in the wood gave him a profound reverence for the honestyof hand labor. "For the first time," he recalls. "1 understood that knowledge and even spirit could reach across time and be communicated through the hands." Inspired by the craftsmen around him, he picked up a chisel himself one day. Each stroke drove him to the next and he worked, without break until early morning. "I had spent my whole life lookingatcocks and won- dering when it wasgoing to be over. Herewas somethingthat eouldn'tever beover. Ithad to keep going. It was me that had to stop." The initiation at Marburg opened a decade of academic and practical trainingthat makes most other artistic careers look predictable by comparison. Nerburn returned to Minneapo- lis for a year as an apprentice to a master wood-carver from whom he learned the ex- acting craftof ornamental relief work. He as- sisted in completing a 40 -foot iconostasis or altar screen used in Greek Orthodox church- es. Although Nerburn was more intrigued by volume than detail, he nonetheless found it a profitable experience and compares it to that of a musician mastering scales. "I wanted the craft to be in my hands, not in my mind." Based on his reading about the training of great masters, he supplemented his study of carving and the use of tools with his own learning schema of life drawing, modeling and anatomy. Nerburn then entered a Ph.D. program at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, a program that combined intensive study in art theory, theology and sculpture. In a Berkeley sculpture seminar, Nerburn soon discovered that his own aesthetic was a dra- matic departure from that of his fellow stu- dents. "I was a profound source of embar- rassment to everyone by saying 1 believed in Truth' and'Beauty' whereas they believed in tearing plywood in half and dropping varnish on it at a certain speed in order to get velocity as a factor of meaning in relation to the ab- straction of a tear. They even tried to protect me because they thought I was so naive." Nerburn, however, continued and deter- mined his own deficiencies as an artist. He found himself at a distinct disadvantage from years of intellectual work; he saw things in outline, not in three -dimensions. He also didn't understand the internal dynamics which gave rise to external movement in the human form. Much to his chagrin, the art de- partment at Berkeley didn't own a skeleton, so Nerburn took his perceptual dilemmas to a professor of anatomy at the adjacent medical school. The professor was a Russian immi- grant with an impenetrable sobriety. This melancholy man took him to the dissection room and Nerburn recalls, "He pulled back the sheet of a cadaver with its head sawed in half and the face removed. He said 'If you're going to work with bodies, you have to touch Neftum: "I [rant m cmft UMP pea* can meet, antrmtt and respond to." them.' He took my hand and shoved it into the head cavity. I swore nothing I couldn't eat with a fork was ever going to pass my lips again." Though Nerburn was not allowed to do the actual dissecting, he worked alongside the medical students drawing the exposed muscle and bone. In an anteroom, he built muscles with day onto his own plastic model skeleton. Once Nerburn completed his Ph. D., he took Matisse's advice to young students upon com- pletion of their studies—he made a long jour- ney by plane. He returned to Europe, this time to Italy, to study the sculptures of the great Italian masters. "Michelangelo stands there like Pablo Casals does for a cellist. You don't have achoice." For months in Florence, Nerburn wandered through the churches and galleries until a particular sculpture arrested his attention. Sometimes he drew the same figure for two weeks at a time. Often he and another American artist hired a model and tried to translate theirsketches into clay mod- els. The most haunting sculptures were Mich- elangelo's series of slave figures intended for the tomb of Pope Julius. Awed, Nerburn de- scribed them as "massive spiritual scaffold- ings that strain to contain emotions at once too grand and too grave for expression." During his stay he was tipped off about Pi- etrasanta, a small village of sculptors tucked between the Appenines and the Mediterrane- an. He stepped from the train to a lapis -col. ored sea and mountains of white marble, one of them II Massimo, the great marble moun- tain first quarried by Michelangelo. Even at a distance he could hear the chink of chisels, and, once inside the village, he found someone doing a sculpture in nearly every workshop. Pietrasanta was a quantum leap from his ex- perience in America, where the tradition of subtractive, figurative sculpture is revived only briefly in the deadpan figures used to commemorate parks and libraries. Here it was the lifeblood of the people and Nerburn muses, "I felt I had died and gone to heaven." In Pietrasanta he studied in a small enclave of sculptors who Nerbum describes as "dedi- cated local communists who believed in shar- ing everything." They took him into the mountains to retrieve a set of hand -forged tools from a retired sculptor and gave him workspace in the open air of the foundry's courtyard. Workdays were often punctuated with spontaneous outbursts of song or quit[ dips into the group's supply of wine. Though allof Nerburn'sacademic and prac- tical raytical forays have contributed to his work, it is the insight gleaned from his studyof anatomy that distinguishes his work. The strength of Nerburn's work is in his ability to locate the life force which animates inert matter and to release it from the wood. This corresponds to a Celtic legend in which the spiritsof the living at death fly into natural forms and wait for some kind of liberation. Based on Matthew's gospel, his fust major piece is a depiction of John the Baptist emerging from adesert hiat- us. The figurealmostseems to gaspfrom both spiritual illumination and uncompromising physical deprivation. Nerburn chose Mat- thew's account because of its portrayal of John as a man driven by "spiritual militarism and ascetic ruthlessness, a man who pursued his life with a ruthless vigor, whose entire ex- istence was pared to the bone." PHO1";RAPY RY J. MICHAEL FITZGERALD, COURTESY OFTHE CATHOLIC RULLETIN MINNESOTA MONTHLY I MAY L983111 a "Joseph the Worker," a commission for a Benedictine abbey in British Columbia, stands dramatically separate in tempera- ment It has none of the tensely packed implo- sion of energy. In order to capture the spirit of the Benedictines, Nerburn travelled to Brit- ish Columbia and participated in cloistered life for six months while he made the piece. As before, Nerburn drew on the gospels for inspi- ration. Joseph is an opaque hushed figure be- cause, as Nerburn points out, he never says a word in the gospels. " I wanted him to have the strength of a Laborer, a man who works with his hands. Yet I wanted this strength to be cloaked in the protective gentleness of the father." In the process of completing the sculpture, Nerbum himself lived as a silent worker. He rose each morning with the monks at 4:30. After mass and breakfast, he worked alone in a barn until evening. Follow- ing dinner, he perused art books in the mona- stery's library. Because the monks communi- cated primarily through gestures and nods and spoke only when necessary, days passed before Nerbum spoke a word. At times, he re- calls laughingly, he sat and chatted with the monastery's gregarious and responsive dog. Nerburn's most recent sculpture, "The Healing," is the only piece that does draw di- rectly on a specific biblical reference. It grew from experiences he had with the physically disabled while driving a sib in Minneapolis. It was his desire to heal or make whole that in- spired the massive figure mrkstrewing itself out of thewood. "The Healing" isa testament to the human spirit's abilities to shed inade- quacies and rise up out of the ashes of its own defeat. The male figure is appropriately trun- cated; without arms or head, it relies on the power of the torso to convey a robust resur- gence of health and vitality. Nerburn has found his trunks in such varied places as a farmer's field, a logging operation, even the Hennepin County tree dump. Once the log is transported and shifted into place, Nerburn begins a long gestation period in which ideas for the piece form gradually. He is less inclined to impose a pre-existent idea than to look at the material and allow it to make suggestions. The kind of tree dictates the subject matter. Nerbum, as an example, points to the oak which is noted for its strength in myth and tradition. "If you spend any time with a tree, you get a sense of what kind of life it's had. Some tines are dominated by massive natural forces. Others grow more gently. That's in the tree." Often Nerbum sequesters himself in half - fight and sketches the forms that emerge. In "The Healing" he initially saw a form resem- bling a torso wrapped upside down in a sheet A figure comes out of a block, he notes, in the way you encounter a person at a distance emerging from a fog. First, you see move- ment; then a form. After you recognize the form, you begin to realize the character. UI- timately, "in a period of creative indecision, there's a moment of epiphany." This break- through is followed by a long period where Nerburn clarifies the form with incessant drawing and modeling. Once he begins sculpting, Nerbum uses on - 121 MAY 19M I MINyESMA MO.WHLY ly one or two chisels and a two -pound leather mallet It's a little like David approaching Go- liath with a slingshot But limiting the number of tools gives unity to the piece. And so does using his own strength. He's tried pneumatic tools but doesn't use them. The noise and rhythm are impositions that dominate the natural energy flow from the body. "I've got to fund my final form with tools driven by my own hands because the human has to touch the human if you're going to make a human form." However, as a method of entry into the log, Nerburn occasionally uses a chain saw for the initial cuts. Other artists, like Henry Moore, have their logs squared and then draw the fig- ure directly onto the surface. Michelangelo, on the other hand, entered blocks of marble spontaneously and began punching out the details of the form. Nerbum begins by cutting the major arts or what he adLs the architee- rural scaffoldings of the piece. Ifapparent, he will also cut the spine, the main locus of ener- gy and movement and then hang the body on it In fact, his sculpture is based on lines and arcs. Sketching them with a chain saw allows him to work in his drawing stroke or what he calls a kind of "Walt Disney Zen." It has the immediacy and rhythm that comes with a sin- gle swing of the arm. But he pays a price. "By cutting with a chain saw you take away your psychic relationship to the material and your investment is less than it was." Nerburn never underestimates his self -in- vestment in the piece. There isaciramaticmo- ment he waits for with every piece when the figure suddenly takes on a life of its own But the change is reciprocated. "In my experi- ence, every time I've done a piece, the piece has done me. I've become what it is I make." It has taken Nerbum anywhere from six months to two years to complete a sculpture. Until the final step when the figure is sanded, oiled or buffed with a layer of paste wax, Ner- bum works with a degree of prudence few other artists need ever realize in their work. When Michelangelo observed that subtme- tive sculptors work with death over their shoulders he was talking about the finality of each chisel stroke. Each cut is irrevocable. There are other obstacles, too, such as a whole series of optical illusions. A common one is that the piece seems to grow larger as the figure emerges and as more is cut away. ThisiswhatMic helangeloreferredtoinoneof his poems when he said that he sculpts "until the less becomes the more." Also, the unpre- dictability of the wood can pose problems. Sometimes at an important juncture in the piece, Nerbum encounters a knot These im- penetrable vortices can rarely be anticipated and require ingenuity to work into the piece. And since the tree continues to exert tremen- dous pressure even after it's been cut, it will contract and swell with changes in climate. Checks or splits in the wood are common, but badly checked areas are difficult to incorpor- ate into the overall effect of the piece. Once thepiece iscompleted, itssize andcon- tent defy the exhibition space afforded by most galleries To supplement his income, Nerbum hascompleted smaller commissions, driven a cab, done free-lance editing, an - taught at the Unitarian seminaryin Berkele% He often temporarily houses his sculpture h public places until the right person "claims it He theorizes that his sculptures "are bk children. After they are born they take on life of their own. Eventually they make thei own way." "John the Baptist" is a good e: ample. The Graduate Theological Union . Berkeley intended to buy the sculpture fo their new library, the last building designe by Louis Kahn before his death. When othe priorities intervened, a Greek Orthodo priest, enamored with the figure, contacte Nerburn about placing it as a centerpiece for new retreat center in California "The scull ture had claimed him and, in doing so, he ha claimed it It was his from that day forwan Arranging payment was in some sense on) incidental." Nerbum sums it up when he says he is not coffee table artist—the pieces are public nc private. And because they are public, access bility is important. Too much of centemp, rry art, he feels, speaks only to other artist or a select group of initiates. Where much t contemporary art is conceptual, ironic, c anxious, Nerbum's figures are sincere. quality considered suspect if not downrigl fade. "It's hard to act from the heart i Ameriar. It's hard not to work behind a serit of masks. I'm not interested in glorifying th masks" Thus, one of the comments he valut mosthighlyaune from the driverofa propar truck who stopped while he was working c "John the Baptist" outdoors in a Califon: lumberyard. Having spent a little time wit the piece, the driver remarked, "I don't kno- what art is but at least that ain't bullshit. Nerbum notes, "1 want to teach people spiri wally, not sculpturally. 1 want them to sa 'That tells the truth about something that very important to me that I don't talk to pe ple about' " Telling the truth means mitigating th wholesale importation of styles and themes i art by giving greater credence to regional e: perience. For Nerburn this means"plumbir. the spirit of a place, experiencing the land, & people and the forces that form us." Nerbw points to artists like Faulkner. Michelange'. and Joyce who, far from being provincial c parochial, made enduring statements abot the human situation by focusingon the imTm diate and the particular. For Nerbhrn the immediate and the pan cular are the trees he grew up under in his n, tive Minneapolis. Each time he does a piece he attests to the peculiar vitality Americar inherit as a resultof theirexperienceof plan In America it is still possible to stand in ui claimed wilderness But in Europe, Nerbur notes, to stand in nature isto stand on histor In contemplating his work, Nerburn cot cludes as does Fitzgerald's Nick Carrowa- who gazing at Gatsby's house across the ba; remarks, "For a transitory moment ma must have held his breath in the presence this continent.... face to face for the last tin in history with something commensurate, his capacity for wonder." —Adrlheid Fisch• APC Minutes February 28, 1984 SOBSSf 5TH ADDITION - JOSEPH HOFPMAH - PRELDCMM PLAT The hearing based upon the application of Joseph Hoffman for preliminary plat approval of Sunset 5th Addition, containing 1 acre and platting into two single family lots in part of the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 25, lying south of County Road 30 (Diffley Road), north of Saddlehorn Addition and directly west of Dodd Road, was then reconvened. The Chairman noted that this item had been continued from the January meeting when further investigation by City staff was requested. The City Planner gave a brief introduction as to location of the proposed plat requested to be subdivided into two lots. The Planner also noted that the reason for continuance was that the Planning Commission wanted to look at access to the undeveloped property directly west of this parcel. It was brought forth that the parcel directly north will provide a 60 foot road easement which would be adequate to provide proper access to the property to the west. With this question being answered, there was a motion by McCrea, seconded Wilkins, to approve the preliminary plat of Sunset Fifth Addition, subject to the following conditions: 1. The preliminary plat shall meet all of the R-1 criteria for lot size and width. 2. Adequate right-of-way shall be dedicated for Dodd Road as requested by City Staff. 3. All other City ordinances shall be adhered to. 4. Water and sewer connection permits and roadway excavation permits must be acquired. 5. One access centered over this parcel shall be granted on Dodd Road and turnarounds shall be provided for each lot. 6. Minimum 40 foot half rights-of-way shall be dedicated for Dodd Raod. 7. Utility and drainage easements shall be dedicatd in accordance with recommendations of this report. 8. This development shall be responsible for trunk area storm sewer assessments at the rate in effect at the time of final plat approval. 9. All costs for servicing each lot with sewer and water and driveway construction shall be the sole responsibility of this development. All voted in favor. 45-A- fjc, Yiii�;iJ"I.irq _ "•rQ:!r{9"'ZOI. .- 7nl'!''C�A _..,<, ._��,� f �U nn I ������`v' L 1N Fo Special City Council Packet SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1984 7:00 P.M. 1. Roll Call & Call Meeting to Order 2. Sperry/Timberline Noise Complaint 3. Discussion & Consideration of Performance & Results -Oriented Management 4. Review Work Priorities 5. Other Business 6. Adjournment MEMO TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS FROM: CITY ADMINISTRATOR HEDGES DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 1984 SUBJECT: SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING/WORKSHOP SESSION The City Council has. traditionally held special City Council meetings to discuss and consider a variety of issues. Many of the issues such as review of proposed operating budgets, personnel and other related matters are difficult to discuss at a regular City Council meeting given the long agendas that are normal for this growth community. Therefore, the special City Council meeting is an excellent method for reviewing and either preparing or taking action on certain issues before the City Council which require legistive action. These types of meetings are neces- sary and must continue. However, due to the growing number of issues facing the community as it continues to grow and expand in its community service dimension, it is becoming apparent in this office that a monthly workshop should be scheduled to allow the City Administrator and City Council to collectively address goals and objectives in order to better prioritize administrative and City Council time. The City Administrator would like to share some thoughts regarding a management by objective (MBO) approach to City Council Adminis- trative items with the City Council. To date, the City Administrator has practiced a general. management theory in which all items discussed by the City Council are given equal importance and an effort is made through proper delegation to coordinate results for the City Council. Unfortunately, witht� the growing number of issues before the City, it is no longer j possible to respond and carry out a normal administrative practice; given the number of support staff to work on these issues. Therefore, it is necessary that the City Council and City Adminis- trator review all items and issues in terms of objectives and then collectively determine the City's objective as it relates to each item and then prioritize that objective. A few examples of the items I'm making reference to include: a proposed high school, a proposed horse -racing facility, a proposed public improvement bond refunding, exploration of future ambulance . services, involvement of the Municipal Legislative Lobby Program, park referendum, cable television coordination, and many more. As the City is continuing its growth, the need for daily coordina- tion with Department heads by the City Administrator is growing as well. Currently the City is providing services to approximately 29,000-30,000 people through approximately fourteen departments. Approximately eight of those department heads rely on direction from the City Administrator on a daily basis regarding items that may require up to 15 minutes, and in some cases, considerably more time depending on the item. There are also anywhere from Special City Council Meeting Memo February 27, 1984 Page Two fifteen to thirty phone calls a day to which the City Administrator responds, varying in length from three minutes to thirty minutes. Add these exercises to breakfast and luncheon meetings and it is difficult to address and follow through with all the items that are perceived by either the City Council or City Administrator. Therefore, as City Administrator, I would like to present to the City Council two (2) proposals which I feel would help to increase the productivity of the staff and the efficiency of the use of City Council time. The first proposal is to hold a special workshop meeting of the City Council the second or fourth Tuesday of each month. The purpose of these meetings would be twofold, the first being to discuss in depth administrative issues for which there is not adequate time for complete coverage at the regular City, Council meetings. The second purpose would be to establish and carry out a management by objective method for prioritizing items for City Council consideration and staff research and/or action. With this method, more attention would be given to the more important issues at the proper time. The City Council would work together with the City Administrator to consider and prioritize the various items and issues which need to be acted upon. The City Administrator is drawing up a list of current issues before the Council at present or which they may wish to consider in the future. New issues will be added to the list as they emerge and older issues which have been taken care of will be eliminated. At tomorrow's workshop session, the issues currently under consideration could be prioritized by each Councilmember, then a comparison made between the priority lists and a consensus reached by the Council as to the master priority list. Itwill be 'possible at each workshop session both to discuss issues in depth and to reprioritize the list as needed. What is very important one month could be superceded the next by a more urgent issue. Not only would this method convey to City staff which items shouldl receive immediate and concentrated attention, it will also present !a better overall view of all the, issues confronting the Council at any one time. This would allow more efficient handling of the issues by both the Council and the staff. It also would provide better control of issues introduced by the City Council. The City Administrator is accountable for a monthly work plan to the City Council. It is suggested that the special meetings be truly workshop sessions with no formal action being taken on any items unless such action was formally scheduled and posted prior to the meeting. I have discussed the MBO approach with Mayor Blomquist, and due to her accelerated schedule, she is quite favorable to the concept. 2-28-84 M. B. 0. -1- Previous City Council & C.Council Long Short Administrative Objectives Action Term Term Priority GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE 1. Develop a Risk Management Program for all insurance functions. 2. Activate Health and et.aL. In- surance Commitee to review insurance options. 3. Examine I.R.S. ruling & initiate deduction for all health 12-22-83 insurance contributions. 4. Discuss & review pending & proposed City Code amendments, Example: New ordinances such as solar access. 5. Proceed with finalizing land- scaping plan for Municiple Center. a. Comprehensive Sign Layout Feb.1984 b. Dedication of Bell 6. Consider, plan & hold a ceremonial dedication for thge Fire Adminis- tration/Ambulance Garage 7. Hold Finance Committee meeting to consider proposed housing 2-7-84 bond issue. 8. Consider refunding of certain public improvement bond issues. 9. Coordinate with I.D.S. 196 School Facilities Needs 2-21-84 10. Study other school district facility possibilities -1- rMIM :A M. B. 0. -2- Previous City Council & C.Council Long Short Administrative Objectives Action Term Term Priority 11. Comprehensive needs analysis of microprocessing plans 12-20-83 i 12. Review of new joint purchasing system. 13. Review of new personnel system 14. Review of City-wide organizational chart 15. Prepare policy for City Council Chambers taping of meetings. 16. Prepare comprehensive vehicle study. 17. Preparation & execution of job evaluation study. 12-22-83 18. Finalize history document & coordination of publication 1977/1978 19. Coordinate a volunteer recogni- tion/City tour. 20. Coordination of the Lone Oak Tree removal/Preparation of a 1983/1984 sculpture. 21. Prepare & process development agreements for the horse racing 1983/1984 facility. 22. Preparation & review of capital improvement program. 3.' Preparation of RFP for banking services. -2- 2-28-84 M. B. 0. -3- Previous City Council & C.Council Long Short Administrative Objectives Action Term Term Priority 24. "Star City" Designation 1983 25. Cable Television 1982 LEGISLATIVE 1. City Council participation with Municipal Legislative Comm. 1-17-84 PUBLIC SAFETY & PROTECTION I I 1. Prepare and implement fire administration policy & procedures manual 2. Authorization of comprehensive radio communications plan for entire City. PUBLIC WORKS 1. Develop & Review of 5 -year street improvement plan. PARKS & RECREATION 1. Prepare and proceed with a park referendum to satisfy park systems manual. 2. Hold joint Park & Recreation Commission/C.C. meeting COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING 1. Hold joint Planning Commission/ C.C. meeting OTHER 1. -3- 2-28-84 M. B. 0. City Council & Administrative Objectives Previous C.Council Action Long Term Short Term Priority OTHER 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1984 7:00 P.M. 1. Roll Call & Call Meeting to Order 2. Sperry/Timberline Noise Complaint 3. Discussion & Consideration of Performance & Results -Oriented Management 4. Review Work Priorities 5. Other Business 6. Adjournment 01 MEMO TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS FROM: CITY ADMINISTRATOR HEDGES DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 1984 SUBJECT: SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING/WORKSHOP SESSION The City Council has traditionally held special City Council meetings to discuss and consider a variety of issues. Many of the issues such as review of proposed operating budgets, personnel and other related matters are difficult to discuss at a regular City Council meeting given the long agendas that are normal for this growth community. Therefore, the special City Council meeting is an excellent method for reviewing and either preparing or taking action on certain issues before the City Council which require legistive action. These types of meetings are neces- sary and must continue. However, due to the growing number of issues facing the community as it continues to grow and expand in its community service dimension, it is becoming apparent in this office that a monthly workshop should be scheduled to allow the City Administrator and City Council to collectively address goals and objectives in order to better prioritize administrative and City Council time. The City Administrator would like to share some thoughts regarding a management by objective (MBO) approach to City Council Adminis- trative items with the City Council. To date, the City Administrator has practiced a general. management theory in which all items discussed by the City Council are given equal importance and an effort is made through proper delegation to coordinate results for the City Council. Unfortunately, with the growing number of issues before the City, it is no longer possible to respond and carry out a normal administrative practice;, given the number of support staff to work on these issues.% Therefore, it is necessary that the City Council and City Adminis- trator review all items and issues in terms of objectives and then collectively determine the City's objective as it relates to each item and then prioritize that objective. A few examples of the items I'm making reference to include: a proposed high school, a proposed horse -racing facility, a proposed public improvement bond refunding, exploration of future ambulance services, involvement of the Municipal Legislative Lobby Program, park referendum, cable television coordination, and many more. As the City is continuing its growth, the need for daily coordina- tion with Department heads by the City Administrator is growing as well. Currently the City is providing services to approximately 29,000-30,000 people through approximately fourteen departments. Approximately eight of those department heads rely on direction from the City Administrator on a daily basis regarding items that may require up to 15 minutes, and in some cases, considerably more time depending on the item. There are also anywhere from Special City Council Meeting Memo February 27, 1984 Page Two fifteen to thirty phone calls a day to which the City Administrator responds, varying in length from three minutes to thirty minutes., Add these exercises to breakfast and luncheon meetings and it is difficult to address and follow through with all the items that are perceived by either the City Council or City Administrator. Therefore, as City Administrator, I would like to present to the City Council two (2) proposals which I feel would help to increase the productivity of the staff and the efficiency of the use of City Council time. The first proposal is to hold a special workshop' meeting of the City Council the second or fourth Tuesday of each. month. The purpose of these meetings would be twofold, the first, being to discuss in depth administrative issues for .which there is not adequate time for complete coverage at the regular City Council meetings. The second purpose would be to establish and carry out a; management by objective method for prioritizing items for City; Council consideration and staff research and/or action. With this' method, more attention would be given to the more important issues, at the proper time. The City Council would work together with the City Administrator to. consider and prioritize the various items and issues which need to be acted upon. The City Administrator is drawing up a list of current issues before the Council at present -or which they may wish to consider in the future. New issues will be added to the list as they emerge and older issues which have been taken care of will be eliminated. At tomorrow's workshop session, the issues currently under consideration could be prioritized by each Councilmember, then a comparison made between the priority lists and a consensus reached' by the Council as to the master priority list. It will be possible at each workshop session both to discuss issues in depth and to' reprioritize the list as needed. What is very important one month: could be superceded the next by a more urgent issue. Not only would, this method convey to City staff which items should receive immediate and concentrated attention, it will also present a better overall view of all the, issues confronting the Council at any one, time. This would allow more efficient handling of the issues by, both the Council and the staff. It also would provide better' control of issues introduced by the City Council. The City• Administrator is accountable for a monthly work plan to the City' Council. It is suggested that the special meetings be truly workshop sessions with no formal action being taken on any items unless such action was formally scheduled and posted prior to the meeting. I have discussed the MBO approach with Mayor Blomquist, and due to her accelerated schedule, she is quite favorable to the concept. M. B. O. KEY TO COMPLETING FORM LONG TERM - Three (3) Months to Twelve (12) Months SHORT TERM - Several Days to 90 Days 63[$134 W4A A - Top Priority B - Medium Priority C - Low Priortiy N.I. - Need More Information N.A. - No Action SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1984 7:00 P.M. 1. Roll Call & Call Meeting to Order 2. ,Sperry/Timberline Noise Complaint 3. Discussion & Consideration of Performance & Results -Oriented Management 4. Review Work Priorities S. Other Business 6. Adjournment MEMO TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS FROM: CITY ADMINISTRATOR HEDGES DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 1984 SUBJECT: SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING/WORKSHOP SESSION The City Council has traditionally held special City Council meetings to discuss and consider a variety of issues. Many of the issues such as review of proposed operating budgets, personnel and other related matters are difficult to discuss at a regular City Council meeting given the long agendas that are normal for this growth community. Therefore, the special City Council meeting is an excellent method for reviewing and either preparing or taking action on certain issues before the City Council which require legistive action. These types of meetings are neces- sary and must continue. However, due to the growing number of issues facing the community as it continues to grow and expand inits community service dimension, it is becoming apparent in this office that a monthly workshop should be scheduled to allow the City Administrator and City Council to collectively address goals and objectives in order to better prioritize administrative and City Council time. The City Administrator would like to share some thoughts regarding a management by objective (MBO) approach to City Council Adminis- trative items with the City Council. To date, the City Administrator has practiced a general. management theory in which all items discussed by the City Council are given equal importance and an effort is made through proper delegation to coordinate results for the City Council. Unfortunately, with the growing number of issues before the City, it is no longer possible to respond and carry out a normal administrative practice given the number of support staff to work on these issues. Therefore, it is necessary that the City Council and City Adminis- trator review all items and issues in terms of objectives and then collectively determine the City's objective as it relates to each item and then prioritize that objective. A few examples of the items I'm making reference to include: a proposed high school, a proposed horse -racing facility, a proposed public improvement bond refunding, exploration of future ambulance services, involvement of the Municipal Legislative Lobby Program, park referendum, cable television coordination, and many more. As the City is continuing its growth, the need for daily coordina- tion with Department heads by the City Administrator is growing as well. Currently the City is providing services to approximately 29,000-30,000 people through approximately fourteen departments. Approximately eight of those department heads rely on direction from the City Administrator on a daily basis regarding items that may require up to 15 minutes, and in some cases, considerably more time depending on the item. There are also anywhere from Special City Council Meeting Memo February 27, 1984 Page Two fifteen to thirty phone calls a day to which the City Administrator responds, varying in length from three minutes to thirty minutes. Add these exercises to breakfast and luncheon meetings and it is difficult to address and follow through with all the items that are perceived by either the City Council or City Administrator. Therefore, as City Administrator, I would like to present to the City Council two (2) proposals which I feel would help to increase the productivity of the staff and the efficiency of the use of City Council time. The first proposal 'is to hold a special workshop meeting of the City Council the second or fourth Tuesday of each month. The purpose of these meetings would be twofold, the first being to discuss in depth administrative issues for which there is not adequate time for complete coverage at the regular City Council meetings. The second purpose would be to establish and carry out a management by objective method for prioritizing items for City Council consideration and staff research and/or action. With this method, more attention would be given to the more important issues at the proper time. The City Council would work together with the City Administrator to consider and prioritize the various items and issues which need to be acted upon. The City Administrator is drawing up a list of current issues before the Council at present -or which they may wish to consider in the future. New issues will be added to the list as they emerge and older issues which have been taken care of will be eliminated. At tomorrow's workshop session, the issues currently under consideration could be prioritized by each Councilmember, then a comparison made between the priority lists and a consensus reached by the Council as to the master priority list. It will be possible at each workshop session both to discuss issues in depth and to reprioritize the list as needed. What is very important one month could be superceded the next by a more urgent issue. Not only would this method convey to City staff which items should receive immediate and concentrated attention, it will also present a better overall view of all the, issues confronting the Council at any one time. This would allow more efficient handling of the issues by both the Council and the staff. It also would provide better control of issues introduced by the City Council. The City Administrator is accountable for a monthly work plan to the City Council. It is suggested that the special meetings be truly workshop sessions with no formal action being taken on any items unless such action was formally scheduled and posted prior to the meeting. I have discussed the MBO approach with Mayor Blomquist, and due to her accelerated schedule, she is quite favorable to the concept. Special City Council Meeting Memo February 27,1983 Page Two Other Business City Councilmember Wachter and City Administrator Hedges had an opportunity to meet with Kent Nerberg to discuss a proposed sculp- ture of the Lone Oak Tree. Attached is another copy of Mr. Ner- berg's proposal. We will discuss our meeting and some additional thoughts that City Councilmember Wachter has at the meeting tomorrow evening. City Councilmember Wachter and the City Administrator also had an opportunity to look at the bell owned by Mrs. Sacowitz and visit with her at the High Site Apartments. Unofficially, it appears she is willing to accept $15,000 for the Wescott School bell with the understanding that there would be a small dedication and plaque prepared recognizing the significance of the bell and recognition of her family. A picture of the bell will be shown at the City Council meeting. Paul Hauge will be present at the beginning of the meeting to brief- ly discuss the Sperry/Timberline noise complaint with the City Council. The City is being pressured by the Timberline homeowners, Tom Nikolai and Don Giblin, to prosecute a complaint against Sperry regarding the noise violation. The City Administrator will brief the Council on the MPCA noise monitoring. Summary In summary, the City Administrator will have a list of objectives for review by the City Council and a method by which to prioritize those objectives ready for distribution. There is no preparation needed on the City Council's part for reviewing the list of objec- tives. Therefore, it is more effective that the City Administrator verbalize the background regarding each of the objectives to be analyzed at the special City Council meeting. I appreciate the opportunity to brainstorm for an evening with the City Council and feel it will be beneficial to all of us as we ap- proach the many issues in months to come. City Administrator TLH/hnd PAYMENT PROCEDURE AND SCHEDULE 5500 Upon signature of Contract This is a non-refundable assessment fee which will allow FIGURA to bring the Lone Oak to its studio, clean it, and assess its suitability for a sculptural form. If, after preliminary assessment, the tree proves too unstable to sculpt, FIGURA reserves the right to cancel the commitment and return the tree to the City of Eagan. If, however, the tree is workable, the contract remains in effect and the $500 assessment fee Is subtracted form the initial 33% payment. S4,500 (bal. of 33%) Upon determination that the tree Is workable FIGURA will then produce three sketch models from which the City Council or other relevant authorizing body will choose one. A2,500 (bal. of 50%) Upon acceptance of sketch model x7,500 (remainder) Upon completion of project LANE OAK MEMO PROJECT BUDGET SculDture $10,000 -includes hauling, cleaning, sculpting, finishing, delivery, and erection of completed piece Historical Documentation 2,500 Consultant fees :1,000 -includes interviews, research In historical societies, news- papers, archives, etc., and writing :,I%terlal and Labor costs 1,500 -includes photo documentation, photo enhancement, printing,. mounting, and framing Administrative Coordination 500 Consultant fees 500 -includes scheduling, overseeing subcontract bidding, and publicity Landscape Design and Creation 2,000 Consultant fees 11000 -includes design, research, model creation, and supervision of construction Materials and Labor costs 1.000 TOTAL COST $15,000 FIGURA CREATIVE TEAM FOR LANE OAK MEMORIAL PROJECT Sculpture Kent Nerburn, Ph.D. Paul Rothstein Historical Documentation Chief Sculptor and designer Associate Sculptor Adelheld Fischer, M.A. Writer and Editor Research and Writing Consultant Administrative Coordination Mary Mancuso. M.A. Coordinator of Exhibitions, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Coordinating Consultant Landscape Design and Creation Steven Jahns landscape Consultant, Landscape Designs of Anoka Landscape Consultant REGIONAL-LPERSPECTIVE S The Art of Kent Nerbttrn.- Making Less More "I see men but they look like trees walk- ing„ Mark 8:24 STANDING IN THE 3-D SCULP- ture workshop at the Minneapolis Col- lege of Art and Design is a little like be- ing Alice shrunk to the size of a thumbnail in the gears of a pocketwatch. When things are hopping, you'd betterstand aside. Band saws, electric sanders, drills and grinders buzz and chum up dust. Overhead, the enormous ceil- ing fans rumble; the room vibrates like a ra T- way car. The outcome of all this bustle is the kind of art that subscribes to Ezra Pound's dictum, "Make it new!" Novelty rules here. A saw wheezes as it chews on the leather shoes someone cuts in half for arrangement in acol- ktge. Another machine whines arpeggios as a student slices long planks of wood into blocks of similar size. He fits them into a hive that looks like an endless rowof cityapartments— one door, two windows, end to end in mathe- matical precimon. At the north end of the workshop stands a ten -foot butternut tree trunk The log and its sculptor, Kent Nerburn, are anachronisms that hark back to the Ecole des Beaux Arts when artists wore smocks, peppered their shelves with plaster maquettes and Coveted blocks of Carrara marble. Nerburn "makes it new" by reviving the old. He practices sub- tractive sculpture in wood and uses the hu- man form as his subject. He's devoted to the often arduous, herculean processofshapinga tree into a human form by cutting thousands of half -dollar -size wood chips from a log near- ly twice his size. Nerburn looks at subtractive sculpture as a "philosophical stance—a shap- ing of the universe by removing the unneces- sary and irrelevant until you arrive at a single clear tonality. It produces an astounding in- terior focus." The college's workshop is one of the few rental spaces in the Twin Cities equipped to accommodate his behemoth tree trunks, which can weigh as much ass ton when green Under 28 -foot ceilings, the figure can stretch to its full height and command a power of presenceso characteristic in Nerburn's work. He can gain multiple vantage points by walk- ing what amounts to more than half a football field away from the figure. And while Henry Moore notes that a sculptor should know his piece so well he can turn it over in his hand, the PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF KENT NERBERN Lig four -ton hoist enables Nerbum to do justthat. In Nerburn's aesthetic, size is crucial. Sculpture shares our space and mimics our re- ality. He feels that if a piece is too large or too small, the viewer objectifies it. "1 want to cre- ate beings people can meet, confront, and re- spond to." Nerburn, now 36, picked up his fust chisel as a young graduate student in Marburg, West Germany, where he was studying Ger- man for a Stanford University graduate pro- gram in religion and the humanities. Aca- demic theological speculation paled in con- trast to the crude but powerful madonnas and crucifixes he found in German religious folk art. "This was a time when I was hot-blooded for truth. At Stanford we could talk about the historical precedents for the concept of the idea of God. Not one of us could say 'I believe in God' or at least we couldn't say it out loud." Marburg was the quintessential fairy tale city with streets twisting under the patron- age of a hilltop castle. Nerburn even found work in an antique restoration shop just be. low an apothecary once frequented by Martin MINNESOTA MONTHLY I MAY 198319 Luther. This dream-like setting was the site for a kind of conversion experience which led Nerburn to abandon his full scholarship at S-,anford to pursue religious sculpture. It all began when he was given a task to sand a 300 -year old chest of inlaid wood. Feeling the actual grooves of the maker's fingers in the wood gave him a profound reverence for the honestyof hand labor. "For the first time," he recalls. "1 understood that knowledge and even spirit could reach across time and be communicated through the hands." Inspired by the craftsmen around him, he picked up a chisel himself one day. Each stroke drove him to the next and he worked, without break until early morning. "I had spent my whole life lookingatcocks and won- dering when it wasgoing to be over. Herewas somethingthat eouldn'tever beover. Ithad to keep going. It was me that had to stop." The initiation at Marburg opened a decade of academic and practical trainingthat makes most other artistic careers look predictable by comparison. Nerburn returned to Minneapo- lis for a year as an apprentice to a master wood-carver from whom he learned the ex- acting craftof ornamental relief work. He as- sisted in completing a 40 -foot iconostasis or altar screen used in Greek Orthodox church- es. Although Nerburn was more intrigued by volume than detail, he nonetheless found it a profitable experience and compares it to that of a musician mastering scales. "I wanted the craft to be in my hands, not in my mind." Based on his reading about the training of great masters, he supplemented his study of carving and the use of tools with his own learning schema of life drawing, modeling and anatomy. Nerburn then entered a Ph.D. program at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, a program that combined intensive study in art theory, theology and sculpture. In a Berkeley sculpture seminar, Nerburn soon discovered that his own aesthetic was a dra- matic departure from that of his fellow stu- dents. "I was a profound source of embar- rassment to everyone by saying 1 believed in Truth' and'Beauty' whereas they believed in tearing plywood in half and dropping varnish on it at a certain speed in order to get velocity as a factor of meaning in relation to the ab- straction of a tear. They even tried to protect me because they thought I was so naive." Nerburn, however, continued and deter- mined his own deficiencies as an artist. He found himself at a distinct disadvantage from years of intellectual work; he saw things in outline, not in three -dimensions. He also didn't understand the internal dynamics which gave rise to external movement in the human form. Much to his chagrin, the art de- partment at Berkeley didn't own a skeleton, so Nerburn took his perceptual dilemmas to a professor of anatomy at the adjacent medical school. The professor was a Russian immi- grant with an impenetrable sobriety. This melancholy man took him to the dissection room and Nerburn recalls, "He pulled back the sheet of a cadaver with its head sawed in half and the face removed. He said 'If you're going to work with bodies, you have to touch Neftum: "I [rant m cmft UMP pea* can meet, antrmtt and respond to." them.' He took my hand and shoved it into the head cavity. I swore nothing I couldn't eat with a fork was ever going to pass my lips again." Though Nerburn was not allowed to do the actual dissecting, he worked alongside the medical students drawing the exposed muscle and bone. In an anteroom, he built muscles with day onto his own plastic model skeleton. Once Nerburn completed his Ph. D., he took Matisse's advice to young students upon com- pletion of their studies—he made a long jour- ney by plane. He returned to Europe, this time to Italy, to study the sculptures of the great Italian masters. "Michelangelo stands there like Pablo Casals does for a cellist. You don't have achoice." For months in Florence, Nerburn wandered through the churches and galleries until a particular sculpture arrested his attention. Sometimes he drew the same figure for two weeks at a time. Often he and another American artist hired a model and tried to translate theirsketches into clay mod- els. The most haunting sculptures were Mich- elangelo's series of slave figures intended for the tomb of Pope Julius. Awed, Nerburn de- scribed them as "massive spiritual scaffold- ings that strain to contain emotions at once too grand and too grave for expression." During his stay he was tipped off about Pi- etrasanta, a small village of sculptors tucked between the Appenines and the Mediterrane- an. He stepped from the train to a lapis -col. ored sea and mountains of white marble, one of them II Massimo, the great marble moun- tain first quarried by Michelangelo. Even at a distance he could hear the chink of chisels, and, once inside the village, he found someone doing a sculpture in nearly every workshop. Pietrasanta was a quantum leap from his ex- perience in America, where the tradition of subtractive, figurative sculpture is revived only briefly in the deadpan figures used to commemorate parks and libraries. Here it was the lifeblood of the people and Nerburn muses, "I felt I had died and gone to heaven." In Pietrasanta he studied in a small enclave of sculptors who Nerbum describes as "dedi- cated local communists who believed in shar- ing everything." They took him into the mountains to retrieve a set of hand -forged tools from a retired sculptor and gave him workspace in the open air of the foundry's courtyard. Workdays were often punctuated with spontaneous outbursts of song or quit[ dips into the group's supply of wine. Though allof Nerburn'sacademic and prac- tical raytical forays have contributed to his work, it is the insight gleaned from his studyof anatomy that distinguishes his work. The strength of Nerburn's work is in his ability to locate the life force which animates inert matter and to release it from the wood. This corresponds to a Celtic legend in which the spiritsof the living at death fly into natural forms and wait for some kind of liberation. Based on Matthew's gospel, his fust major piece is a depiction of John the Baptist emerging from adesert hiat- us. The figurealmostseems to gaspfrom both spiritual illumination and uncompromising physical deprivation. Nerburn chose Mat- thew's account because of its portrayal of John as a man driven by "spiritual militarism and ascetic ruthlessness, a man who pursued his life with a ruthless vigor, whose entire ex- istence was pared to the bone." PHO1";RAPY RY J. MICHAEL FITZGERALD, COURTESY OFTHE CATHOLIC RULLETIN MINNESOTA MONTHLY I MAY L983111 a "Joseph the Worker," a commission for a Benedictine abbey in British Columbia, stands dramatically separate in tempera- ment It has none of the tensely packed implo- sion of energy. In order to capture the spirit of the Benedictines, Nerburn travelled to Brit- ish Columbia and participated in cloistered life for six months while he made the piece. As before, Nerburn drew on the gospels for inspi- ration. Joseph is an opaque hushed figure be- cause, as Nerburn points out, he never says a word in the gospels. " I wanted him to have the strength of a Laborer, a man who works with his hands. Yet I wanted this strength to be cloaked in the protective gentleness of the father." In the process of completing the sculpture, Nerbum himself lived as a silent worker. He rose each morning with the monks at 4:30. After mass and breakfast, he worked alone in a barn until evening. Follow- ing dinner, he perused art books in the mona- stery's library. Because the monks communi- cated primarily through gestures and nods and spoke only when necessary, days passed before Nerbum spoke a word. At times, he re- calls laughingly, he sat and chatted with the monastery's gregarious and responsive dog. Nerburn's most recent sculpture, "The Healing," is the only piece that does draw di- rectly on a specific biblical reference. It grew from experiences he had with the physically disabled while driving a sib in Minneapolis. It was his desire to heal or make whole that in- spired the massive figure mrkstrewing itself out of thewood. "The Healing" isa testament to the human spirit's abilities to shed inade- quacies and rise up out of the ashes of its own defeat. The male figure is appropriately trun- cated; without arms or head, it relies on the power of the torso to convey a robust resur- gence of health and vitality. Nerburn has found his trunks in such varied places as a farmer's field, a logging operation, even the Hennepin County tree dump. Once the log is transported and shifted into place, Nerburn begins a long gestation period in which ideas for the piece form gradually. He is less inclined to impose a pre-existent idea than to look at the material and allow it to make suggestions. The kind of tree dictates the subject matter. Nerbum, as an example, points to the oak which is noted for its strength in myth and tradition. "If you spend any time with a tree, you get a sense of what kind of life it's had. Some tines are dominated by massive natural forces. Others grow more gently. That's in the tree." Often Nerbum sequesters himself in half - fight and sketches the forms that emerge. In "The Healing" he initially saw a form resem- bling a torso wrapped upside down in a sheet A figure comes out of a block, he notes, in the way you encounter a person at a distance emerging from a fog. First, you see move- ment; then a form. After you recognize the form, you begin to realize the character. UI- timately, "in a period of creative indecision, there's a moment of epiphany." This break- through is followed by a long period where Nerburn clarifies the form with incessant drawing and modeling. Once he begins sculpting, Nerbum uses on - 121 MAY 19M I MINyESMA MO.WHLY ly one or two chisels and a two -pound leather mallet It's a little like David approaching Go- liath with a slingshot But limiting the number of tools gives unity to the piece. And so does using his own strength. He's tried pneumatic tools but doesn't use them. The noise and rhythm are impositions that dominate the natural energy flow from the body. "I've got to fund my final form with tools driven by my own hands because the human has to touch the human if you're going to make a human form." However, as a method of entry into the log, Nerburn occasionally uses a chain saw for the initial cuts. Other artists, like Henry Moore, have their logs squared and then draw the fig- ure directly onto the surface. Michelangelo, on the other hand, entered blocks of marble spontaneously and began punching out the details of the form. Nerbum begins by cutting the major arts or what he adLs the architee- rural scaffoldings of the piece. Ifapparent, he will also cut the spine, the main locus of ener- gy and movement and then hang the body on it In fact, his sculpture is based on lines and arcs. Sketching them with a chain saw allows him to work in his drawing stroke or what he calls a kind of "Walt Disney Zen." It has the immediacy and rhythm that comes with a sin- gle swing of the arm. But he pays a price. "By cutting with a chain saw you take away your psychic relationship to the material and your investment is less than it was." Nerburn never underestimates his self -in- vestment in the piece. There isaciramaticmo- ment he waits for with every piece when the figure suddenly takes on a life of its own But the change is reciprocated. "In my experi- ence, every time I've done a piece, the piece has done me. I've become what it is I make." It has taken Nerbum anywhere from six months to two years to complete a sculpture. Until the final step when the figure is sanded, oiled or buffed with a layer of paste wax, Ner- bum works with a degree of prudence few other artists need ever realize in their work. When Michelangelo observed that subtme- tive sculptors work with death over their shoulders he was talking about the finality of each chisel stroke. Each cut is irrevocable. There are other obstacles, too, such as a whole series of optical illusions. A common one is that the piece seems to grow larger as the figure emerges and as more is cut away. ThisiswhatMic helangeloreferredtoinoneof his poems when he said that he sculpts "until the less becomes the more." Also, the unpre- dictability of the wood can pose problems. Sometimes at an important juncture in the piece, Nerbum encounters a knot These im- penetrable vortices can rarely be anticipated and require ingenuity to work into the piece. And since the tree continues to exert tremen- dous pressure even after it's been cut, it will contract and swell with changes in climate. Checks or splits in the wood are common, but badly checked areas are difficult to incorpor- ate into the overall effect of the piece. Once thepiece iscompleted, itssize andcon- tent defy the exhibition space afforded by most galleries To supplement his income, Nerbum hascompleted smaller commissions, driven a cab, done free-lance editing, an - taught at the Unitarian seminaryin Berkele% He often temporarily houses his sculpture h public places until the right person "claims it He theorizes that his sculptures "are bk children. After they are born they take on life of their own. Eventually they make thei own way." "John the Baptist" is a good e: ample. The Graduate Theological Union . Berkeley intended to buy the sculpture fo their new library, the last building designe by Louis Kahn before his death. When othe priorities intervened, a Greek Orthodo priest, enamored with the figure, contacte Nerburn about placing it as a centerpiece for new retreat center in California "The scull ture had claimed him and, in doing so, he ha claimed it It was his from that day forwan Arranging payment was in some sense on) incidental." Nerbum sums it up when he says he is not coffee table artist—the pieces are public nc private. And because they are public, access bility is important. Too much of centemp, rry art, he feels, speaks only to other artist or a select group of initiates. Where much t contemporary art is conceptual, ironic, c anxious, Nerbum's figures are sincere. quality considered suspect if not downrigl fade. "It's hard to act from the heart i Ameriar. It's hard not to work behind a serit of masks. I'm not interested in glorifying th masks" Thus, one of the comments he valut mosthighlyaune from the driverofa propar truck who stopped while he was working c "John the Baptist" outdoors in a Califon: lumberyard. Having spent a little time wit the piece, the driver remarked, "I don't kno- what art is but at least that ain't bullshit. Nerbum notes, "1 want to teach people spiri wally, not sculpturally. 1 want them to sa 'That tells the truth about something that very important to me that I don't talk to pe ple about' " Telling the truth means mitigating th wholesale importation of styles and themes i art by giving greater credence to regional e: perience. For Nerburn this means"plumbir. the spirit of a place, experiencing the land, & people and the forces that form us." Nerbw points to artists like Faulkner. Michelange'. and Joyce who, far from being provincial c parochial, made enduring statements abot the human situation by focusingon the imTm diate and the particular. For Nerbhrn the immediate and the pan cular are the trees he grew up under in his n, tive Minneapolis. Each time he does a piece he attests to the peculiar vitality Americar inherit as a resultof theirexperienceof plan In America it is still possible to stand in ui claimed wilderness But in Europe, Nerbur notes, to stand in nature isto stand on histor In contemplating his work, Nerburn cot cludes as does Fitzgerald's Nick Carrowa- who gazing at Gatsby's house across the ba; remarks, "For a transitory moment ma must have held his breath in the presence this continent.... face to face for the last tin in history with something commensurate, his capacity for wonder." —Adrlheid Fisch• APC Minutes February 28, 1984 SOBSSf 5TH ADDITION - JOSEPH HOFPMAH - PRELDCMM PLAT The hearing based upon the application of Joseph Hoffman for preliminary plat approval of Sunset 5th Addition, containing 1 acre and platting into two single family lots in part of the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 25, lying south of County Road 30 (Diffley Road), north of Saddlehorn Addition and directly west of Dodd Road, was then reconvened. The Chairman noted that this item had been continued from the January meeting when further investigation by City staff was requested. The City Planner gave a brief introduction as to location of the proposed plat requested to be subdivided into two lots. The Planner also noted that the reason for continuance was that the Planning Commission wanted to look at access to the undeveloped property directly west of this parcel. It was brought forth that the parcel directly north will provide a 60 foot road easement which would be adequate to provide proper access to the property to the west. With this question being answered, there was a motion by McCrea, seconded Wilkins, to approve the preliminary plat of Sunset Fifth Addition, subject to the following conditions: 1. The preliminary plat shall meet all of the R-1 criteria for lot size and width. 2. Adequate right-of-way shall be dedicated for Dodd Road as requested by City Staff. 3. All other City ordinances shall be adhered to. 4. Water and sewer connection permits and roadway excavation permits must be acquired. 5. One access centered over this parcel shall be granted on Dodd Road and turnarounds shall be provided for each lot. 6. Minimum 40 foot half rights-of-way shall be dedicated for Dodd Raod. 7. Utility and drainage easements shall be dedicatd in accordance with recommendations of this report. 8. This development shall be responsible for trunk area storm sewer assessments at the rate in effect at the time of final plat approval. 9. All costs for servicing each lot with sewer and water and driveway construction shall be the sole responsibility of this development. All voted in favor. 45-A- fjc, Yiii�;iJ"I.irq _ "•rQ:!r{9"'ZOI. .- 7nl'!''C�A _..,<, ._��,� f �U nn I ������`v' L 1N Fo