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04/25/2000 - City Council Special 00125 lYlINUTES OF A SPEOAL MEETING OF THE EAGAN CITY COUNCIL Eagan, Minnesota Apri125,2000 A special City Council meeting was held on Tuesday, April 25, 2000, in the City Council Chambers of the Eagan City Hall. The meeting was called to order at 5:00 p.m. Those present were Mayor Awada and City Councilmembers Bakken, Blomquist, Carlson, and Masin. Also present were City Administrat'or Hedges, Assistant City Administrator Duffy, Director of Finance VanOverbeke, Director of Public Works Colbert, City Engineer Matthys and Senior Planner Ridley. AGENDA ADOPTION The agenda was approved as presented. Mayor Awada announced that the City Council would move upstairs to the Community Room at approximately 6:15 p.m. so the Advisory Planning Commission meeting could be telecast live. A tape would be made of the remainder of the Council meeting and played on cable. VISITORS TO BE HEARD There were no visitors wishing to address the City Council regarding items not on the agenda. PRESENTATION BY EHLERS & ASSOCIATES City Administrator Hedges explained that representatives from Ehlers & Associates, Sid Inman and Rusty Fifield, would make a presentation regarding their firm assisting in project management for the Village Plaza Redevelopment Plan. Mr. Fifield gave background on the firm and listed recent redevelopment experience. Mr. Inman described additional projects and mentioned that Ehlers & Associates is the only firm with a department that only handles redevelopment. Mr. Fifield told the Council that redevelopment is complicated and that they bring experience of knowing what worked and what did not work in other communities. He added that they would advise the Council as to what was possible and the Council would then decide what to do. Mr. Fifield then listed keys to redevelopment in the Cedarvale area. Councilmember Blomquist stated that her greatest concern for the area was road access. She requested that Ehlers and Associates look at access and determine what can and cannot be done. Councilmember Masin stated that it is important to work with the businesses and residents. She asked if other communities had working partnerships for visioning. Mr. Inman said that developers would provide input. He added that they would use newsletters and other communication devices to communicate such things as community meetings and updating the progress throughout the project. Councilmember Blomquist said that one of her concerns was that residents did not continue to go to Cedarvale but went to other retail developments. Mr. Inman said that the firm would need to determine what would work in the market and that the Council may not like what the firm will recommend. Councilmember Carlson asked about the firm's policy on reporting back to the Council regarding the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) process. Mr. Inman told her that when their firm created a TIF district, they also created an administrative manual, met at least twice a year with staff and actively worked with the City Council. He added that the firm offers TIF training and 00126 Eagan City Council Spedal Meeting Minutes April 25, 2000 Page Two workshops for new clients. Councilmember Carlson asked if the firm would also handle City- wide TIF projects. City Administrator Hedges said that the Cedarvale area would be the main emphasis but that the firm could also help with other projects. Counci1member Bakken said that there had been a lot of community partidpation to date. He asked for further details on newsletters and the scope of services. Mr. Fifield said that they would sit down with the Council and find out what they wanted the firm to do. He added that there were many techniques to use. Mr. Inman said that, in most cases, people do not know what is happening so they would need to provide a lot of communication. Counci1member Blomquist said she wanted to see the prices for the firm's services. Mayor Awada referred her to the page in the proposal where they were listed. Mr. Fifield said they would sit down with staff and work out a detailed budget. Counci1member Blomquist said that that was what she wanted to see. Counci1member Bakken moved and Counci1member Carlson seconded a motion to retain the firm of Ehlers &. Associates to assist with project management and advise the City Council on the structure required in implementing the Village Plaza Redevelopment Plan. The motion passed unanimously. DISCUSS LOCATIONS FOR ENTRY MONUMENTS City Administrator Hedges stated that the purpose of this agenda item was to discuss possible locations for entry monuments. Senior Planner Ridley displayed a map showing five possible locations located on public rights of way or City owned property. These were at the 1- 35E and Cedar A venue/Highway 77 interchange, Highway 55 at the Inver Grove Heights border, the 1-494/1-35E/Highway 55 interchange, the Cedar Avenue and Highway 13 interchange, and Pilot Knob Road at the Apple Valley /Rosemount border. He informed the Council that MnDOT will not allow entry monuments in interchanges and that the monuments cannot be accessed from an interstate. He asked the Council if they wished staff to look for other locations on private property. Mayor Awada asked him to check on other locations and options. Counci1member Carlson suggested negotiating easements before discussing purchasing land. Senior Planner Ridley asked if the location areas he had mentioned were the ones the Council wanted investigated. Councilmember Carlson said that it was a good place to start and that staff should also look for appropriate locations on private property. Senior Planner Ridley asked if he should continue to look at the City owned property at Cedar Avenue and Highway 13 where there were a lot of trees. Councilmember Masin she had heard complaints about the billboards in the river bottom and that she was concerned about removing trees. She stated she would like to see something that would blend in and not look like billboards. Mayor Awada said her idea was to place the monuments on high ground but with a good design. Counci1member Carlson suggested that the Council let staff advise them whether placement was possible in various locations and then determine a design. Councilmember Blomquist suggested that staff also look at costs. City Administrator Hedges asked the Council if they wanted staff to look at private property and also at costs but not at dimensions or designs at this point. The Council indicated approval. OH1.27 Eagan City Council Special Meeting Minutes April 25, 2000 Page Three Councilmember Masin stated she thought the Council should seek public input as to what they thought would be appropriate. Mayor Awada stated they would do that after they found out if it was possible to find appropriate locations. Councilmember Blomquist suggested a contest. Councilmember Bakken suggested staff look at easement costs. At this point in the meeting, Mayor Awada informed the public watching the meeting on cable television that the City Council meeting would be moved up to the Community Room so that the Advisory Planning Commission meeting could be telecast live beginning at 6:30 p.m. The remainder of the special City Council meeting would be taped and replayed on cable. The Council took a brief recess and reconvened in the Community Room. STREET REHABILITATION/OVERLAY FINANCING POLICY City Administrator Hedges explained that the City Council had directed a study during 1999 of the City's Special Assessment Policy regarding the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the City's street infrastructure. He stated that Director of Public Works Colbert had been working with an independent attorney and appraiser team to make an objective analysis of the policy. He stated that the consultants would make the presentation. Director of Public Works Colbert introduced the consultants who had performed the independent study to analyze the policy from a legal perspective, attorney Bruce Malkerson and appraiser Steven Hosch. Their report was distributed to the Council on April 9. He asked each to provide an oral executive summary of the report. Mr. Malkerson stated that he reviewed the City's written policies regarding the reconstruction of local streets. He stated it was his opinion that the policy was well written and that he had suggested only a few language changes. He said that he had included summaries of various legal cases in his report. He said he had reviewed the City's Pavement Management Plan and that he was impressed by the plan. He stated that there was legal authority to assess for maintenance of streets. He added that he did have some suggestions for the process when addressing assessments. Mayor Awada said that there had been some controversy regarding the policy and asked Mr. Malkerson his legal opinion of the City policy. Mr. Malkerson stated that it was an excellent policy, but he added that it was a City Council decision to have such a policy. Councilmember Blomquist said that the controversy was really regarding the benefit to property value. She asked if the City could levy assessments and meet the benefit rule. Mr. Malkerson answered that normally 90%-95% of the time the City could assess and there was a benefit. He added that a city must follow good uniform procedures and the City of Eagan did that. Mr. Malkerson said that the City of Eagan did not assess 100% of the costs. He added that the value of the property must go up at least to the value of the special assessment and that in most cases it does. Director of Public Works Colbert then introduced Steven Hosch, the appraiser. Mr. Hosch said that he had researched property values for five projects and compared sale prices prior to the projects' starts and after the projects were completed. He said he looked at sale and resale prices within a three-year period with prices adjusted for time and generally found a significant price adjustment between sales. He stated that he had then looked at just straight 00128 Eagan City Council Special Meeting Minutes April 25, 2000 Page Four market data and had found increases in prices over the assessment amount. Councilmember Blomquist asked if he had taken into consideration anything besides the actual prices. Mr. Hosch replied that he had looked at just prices and the run of market activity. Mr. Hosch added that he had provided the Council with a second memo that addre~sed what was required to perform a market value appraisal. Director of Public Works Colbert said that the Council had also asked for an opinion whether there was any assessment benefit from overlays and patches. Mr. Hosch stated it was his opinion that they generally do create value. Councilmember Blomquist stated that one of the most highly criticized techniques of the City was to let streets deteriorate and then come in and do a total reconstruction. She stated that the City did not charge for sealcoats. She said she believed that homeowners were charged more because the streets had not been maintained. Councilmember Bakken asked her which streets she thought the City had purposely let go. Councilmember Blomquist answered Woodgate and Keefe. She said she was not criticizing the City. She said the criticism comes from residents who believed the streets were not maintained and therefore they had to pay more. Mayor Awada asked staff to respond. Director of Public Works Colbert replied that the City of Eagan was undergoing a transition. He stated that the older streets were not built to standards and that all the streets that had been reconstructed were not built to standards. He added that the City of Eagan has since implemented a total pavement management program that does not include total reconstruction. Blomquist asked if the way the policy was geared, when the street is not repaired, cost residents more. Mr. Malkerson replied that he saw nothing in the policy that indicates staff lets streets deteriorate so they could come in later and totally reconstruct the streets. He added that the City does much to preserve the streets. Councilmember Masin asked for further information on an extended scope of the study and for clarification on MLS language on using resale information. Mr. Hosch replied that the data showed both sales of new homes and resale information, and that by using the data regarding new home sales, you can evaluate the entire market. Therefore, the best way to look at time and market is to look at specific resales. Councilmember Masin asked which figure was best; was it the time adjusted price differential, given the market. Mr. Hosch replied that at this particular time he would say yes. Councilmember Masin asked about the mistakes in the first report. Mr. Hosch replied that there were some typos but there were no mistakes in the figures. He added the typos have now been corrected. Councilmember Blomquist said her original pre-study questions had not been answered. Mr. Hosch explained that they had performed phase one of the study and would need to go on to a phase two in an expanded study to accomplish more. Mayor A wada stated that Councilmembers Blomquist and Masin had asked for the study and that the Council now needs to come to some resolution on the subject. She stated that she believed it was good the City had done the study, but that the City had just spent $15,000 to have people tell us that we are doing it right. Director of Public Works Colbert explained the process by which the consultants were hired. Councilmember Masin said she had been under the impression that the Council would find out about the study and its cost before it was done. She said it made sense to her to do an evaluation of a process to make sure we were doing a good job. 001.29 Eagan City Council Spedal Meeting Minutes April 25, 2000 Page Five Counci1member Blomquist said she believed it was a good thing that they had done the study. However, she added, the study reconfirms that there are time, inflation and other factors involved which meant that the City could not come to an absolute amount for an assessment. Counci1member Carlson asked how much the study had cost from start to finish and suggested the Council do job costing in the future. Mayor Awada agreed. Counci1member Blomquist asked about overlays. Counci1member Carlson stated that the debate had been about reconstruction. She said that overlays had been discussed as part of the maintenance policy and that, hopefully, will prevent reconstruction in the future. Counci1member Bakken recapped the discussion and stated that from a legal standpoint the City has a solid policy. All members agreed with him. He stated that the study shows that when road improvements are done, the value of property goes up. He said that he did not think it necessary to study more properties. He added that the process is not an exact science but it tended to hold up in the courts. Councilmember Masin said that for the first time in nearly eight years the Council had been able to address the issues and the study should have been done sooner. She asked Mr. Hosch what the differential of the figures would be between a phase one and future phase two study where the Council could receive specific detail. Mr. Hosch replied that he did not think the results would vary but he could not respond without further detail. Councilmember Masin asked if the figures were safe. Mr. Malkerson answered yes and stated that since the figures would not change much, it did not make sense to do phase two of the study. Councilmember Masin said the Council needed a policy of what could be spent without Council overview. Mayor A wada asked if, when the Council directs staff to do a project, does the Council want them to come back with a proposal and what it would cost before proceeding with the project. Councilmember Masin said yes. Director of Public Works Colbert apologized if he had misunderstood. He said he thought he had the Council's direction to proceed with the study and had provided informational memos regarding the status of the project. He said he did not realize that the Council had wanted cost estimates beforehand and noted that he had even been asked several times by the Council when they would see the report. Councilmember Carlson said the Council needed to take responsibility to give clear direction. Councilmember Blomquist said the Council had not received the costs for the project and that was the problem. Councilmember Carlson said the Council needed to ask direct questions. Councilmember Carlson moved and Mayor Awada seconded a motion that the last year and a half be summarized in a memo with the overall conclusions and price included. City Administrator Hedges stated that he wanted to put the cost for the project in perspective. He stated that the City had been reconstructing streets since 1991 and there had been a lot of projects. He added that, if the Council looked back over the number of projects, the cost of the study was insignificant compared to the cost of the projects. He stated that the City had looked for the best and unbiased consultants. City Counci1member Blomquist stated that it cost more to bond for public improvement reconstruction than to do an overlay and not assess. The earlier motion then passed unanimously. Mayor Awada stated that the earlier debate was whether to raise taxes and pay for the projects with the additional tax money or to continue with the assessment process. Councilmember Carlson stated that Finance Director VanOverbeke had brought the Council 00130 Eagan City Council Spedal Meeting Minutes April 25, 2000 Page Six figures that showed how much each house's taxes increased. Councilmember Blomquist asked to see these figures. Councilmember Bakken stated that the majority of the Council felt this was an equity issue and that a new system would be unfair to those residents who had paid under the old system. The Council then took a brief break. PART III CIP (2001-2005) DISCUSSION (EXCLUDES PARKS & REC. PART III) City Administrator Hedges told the City Council that he has tried to move consideration of the Capital Improvements Program (CIP) to earlier in the year, espedally Part III that concerns construction of infrastructure, in order to allow the City Council to review the proposals and to start the process for construction earlier. Public Works Director Colbert said that a draft was being presented that evening for City Council review, input and discussion and that formal approval of this part of the ClP would occur at the regular May 16 City Council meeting. He explained that there were two major parts to this section of the ClP: 1) Streets and Highways, and 2) Utilities. He stated the draft covered a five-year program with an approximate cost of $46.5 million. Director of Public Works Colbert touched on the highlights of the program that would significantly affect the City of Eagan and asked for Council direction. Mayor Awada asked for Council input regarding South Dodd Road that was scheduled for either 2001 or 2002. Councilmember Masin stated that she remembered previous controversy regarding this project and suggested the Council schedule a neighborhood meeting to receive input. Councilmembers Carlson and Blomquist agreed. Councilmember Carlson stated that the direction for this project needs to come from the people. Director of Public Works Colbert informed the Council that residents are calling with concerns about failing septic systems and development inquiries. Mayor Awada suggested the Council hold another neighborhood meeting on the project. Councilmember Carlson stated that the neighborhood wanted a cuI de sac because of speeding traffic. Director of Public Works Colbert told the Council that the project was now scheduled for 2002 and that it would have to be moved up to 2001 in order for staff to work on it this summer. Mayor Awada moved and Councilmember Carlson seconded a motion to move the project to 2001. There was Council consensus to move the project to 2001. There was also Council consensus to move the Trunk Highway 149 project to 2002. There was Council consensus to move the 120th Street project to "future." Staff was directed to discuss this project with the City of Rosemount and if agreement is reached to bring consideration of a time frame back to the Council. Regarding the North Dodd Road project that was scheduled for 2004, Councilmember Bakken stated the road was currently dangerous and he would like to consider a full urban upgrade. Councilmember Carlson said the road was currently unsafe, espedally for pedestrians and she would like to move the project up as soon as possible. Councilmember Bakken said he would like to see the project done sooner also. Mayor Awada asked if staff could handle the project 00131 Eagan City Council Spedal Meeting Minutes April 25, 2000 Page Seven sooner and Director of Public Works Colbert said yes. There was Council consensus to move the project to 2001. Councilmember Carlson asked why the federal government had not approved financing that the City had requested for Trunk Highway 149. Director of Public Works Colbert replied it was because there were other roads in the metropolitan area with greater need. Councilmember Carlson asked why the Beau D'Rue project was scheduled for 2001 when the City had not yet worked with the consultants on a plan for the Cedarvale area. Director of Public Works Colbert replied that a realignment of the road was not proposed in the plans for this particular project. Councilmember Carlson asked if the City was performing traffic counts for the Lone Oak Road project. Director of Public Works Colbert replied that the County has that project programmed for 2002. Councilmember Masin asked how Yankee Doodle Road could be adjusted to six lanes with the existing retaining walls. Director of Public Works Colbert replied that traffic counts require six lanes and that the walls would have to come down. Director of Public Works Colbert then introduced a new category, Trailways, and described seven proposed segments of trailways. Councilmember Carlson expressed concerns about the planned trailway linking Wescott Woodlands and Wescott Hills Drive in the vicinity of Carriage Hills Golf Course. A resident from the area asked if they would have a chance to see the proposed plan prior to construction. Director of Public Works Colbert said yes and that the trail would be physically separated from the private road. Another resident expressed concerns about golf balls coming at high speeds where the path would be. Director of Public Works Colbert explained that without a trail, there was a traffic danger. He explained that, at this time, they are only programming the schedule for the improvement and the exact design will be done later. A resident asked if the trail would be plowed in winter. Councilmember Carlson said the City might need to consider this to prevent people from walking on the private drive to slide at the golf course. A resident said the owners of the golf course did not want people sliding there and that plowing the trail would invite them. Mayor A wada asked the residents' preference of no path or an enclosed path so people could not leave the path. A resident answered that they were concerned about keeping people on the path, but the path needed to be plowed for safety reasons. The Council concurred with the time frames listed for trailway improvements. Director of Public Works Colbert then described eight proposed traffic signals. Mayor Awada asked if the City was going to put up temporary stop signs at Lexington Avenue and Northwood Parkway. Director of Public Works Colbert explained that Dakota County does not put up temporary stop signs. Mayor Awada moved and Councilmember Carlson seconded a motion to have staff request that Dakota County put up stop signs at this location. The motion passed unanimously. Councilmember Carlson asked whether signals near the postal facility would be placed at Oubview or Gemini. Director of Public Works Colbert replied that Dakota County was doing a study to see which location would be better for traffic. The Council concurred with the time frames listed for traffic signals. Director of Public Works Colbert told the Council he would present the revised CIP at the May 16, 2000 regular City Council meeting and he would send the Council revised pages before that time. He also informed the Council that the 2000 street rehabilitation overlays would be on that meeting's consent agenda and inquired if there were any concerns. None were mentioned. 001.32 Eagan City Council Spedal Meeting Minutes April 25, 2000 Page Eight LOCAL PRIMARY DISCUSSION City Administrator Hedges informed the Council that the City had received an E-mail from a resident suggesting the possi~ility of a primary election for local candidates and that he had forwarded a copy to the Council in an informative memo. After receiving the copy, Councilmembers Carlson and Bakken had requested that a discussion of holding a primary election be placed on the April 25 agenda. He said that Director of Finance/City Oerk VanOverbeke had researched the possibility of holding a primary election and had provided information to the Council concerning what the City needs to do if they want to consider holding a primary election. Councilmember Carlson said she was for holding a primary and that a number of other dties do so. She said it gave the voter a chance to vote twice. Director of Finance/City Clerk VanOverbeke explained that the Council could create a primary election by either amending the ordinance or by passing a resolution to do so. Councilmember Carlson suggested the Council should receive public comments regarding this issue. Councilmember Masin said she was concerned because campaigning would begin earlier and that would mean more campaign expenses for candidates. She also said the Council should receive input from the public. Councilmember Blomquist asked if Councilmember Carlson was thinking about holding the election this year or two years from now. Councilmember Carlson replied that she was thinking about this year because it would give voters a chance to learn more about fewer candidates. Councilmember Blomquist replied that she did not care when it would start but that the Council did need public input. She added that people feel strongly about elections and she had concerns about making a decision on the matter quickly. Councilmember Carlson said the Council should put the item on a regular meeting agenda and ask the people to provide input. Councilmember Masin said the input would need to be received quickly because a decision needed to be made soon in order to hold a primary this year. She asked if publicizing receiving input for this issue would dilute the publidty for the upcoming referendum. City Administrator Hedges explained that the City would not do anything more on the referendum except appoint election judges. Councilmember Carlson stated she did not think the City would incur a major cost because the primary election was already scheduled for other offices. She suggested calling the dties that hold local primaries to find out the advantages and disadvantages. Mayor Awada suggested that questions should be asked regarding whether the top four candidates had to spend more money. Councilmember Masin suggested also asking how long the dties had been holding primaries and if there had been substantial changes in the number of candidates. Mayor Awada stated that the number of candidates had been increasing in Eagan. Councilmember Bakken said that the more he read about it, the more he was in favor of a primary. He said he saw it as opening up the process. He also agreed that the issue warranted public input. Councilmember Bakken moved and Councilmember Carlson seconded a motion to place consideration of a primary election on the May 16, 2000 regular City Council meeting agenda and to publicize that the Council was seeking public comment regarding the issue. The motion passed unanimously. 00133 Eagan City Council Special Meeting Minutes April 25, 2000 Page Nine FORMAL ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST MARSHALL TANIO< Mayor Awada expressed her concern that, in the Michael Vincent lawsuit, there were <:onfidential and privileged documents which had only been given to the Mayor, City Councilmembers and City Administrator that had been turned over to Michael Vincent's lawyer, Marshall Tanick. She said that Mr. Tanick had been asked to reveal the source of these confidential documents and did not. She said she was very concerned about how Mr. Tanick had gotten the documents. Councilmember Blomquist said this matter had been discussed in an executive session and she thought it was confidential information. Mayor Awada said the ethics violation had not been discussed. She referenced a memo from Cliff Greene with a list of issues. Councilmember Carlson said she thought this was a huge problem to not know who is passing out private and confidential documents and the Council needed to find out. Councilmember Bakken said that, speaking as an attorney, he has a duty to police his profession. He explained that, when an attorney receives confidential and privileged documents from the other side of a lawsuit, he needs to properly dispose of them or to notify the other party. He said that Mr. Tanick did neither so he had an obligation to reveal his source. He said the City has a need to know what is going on internally. Councilmember Blomquist stated that the other Councilmembers kept saying documents in the plural and asked the number of documents. Mayor Awada replied that there were numerous documents on file with Cliff Greene and that she would get the number from Mr. Greene. Councilmember Masin said the City had been dragged through the mud during the last year and that the lawsuit was finally settled. She requested that the issue be ended and the Council get on with its business. Mayor Awada replied that the persons who were sued had done nothing wrong and did not bring the lawsuit on themselves. She said she was concerned that the acquisition of the documents by Mr. Tanick could affect the City's insurance and also the City staffs' and Council's trust of others. She said she wanted to be sure that a person in the same room was not handing over private and confidential documents to others. Councilmember Blomquist stated that there was no proof that any of them gave the documents to others. Mayor Awada said she not accusing anybody but they needed to find out who, and Mr. Tanick needed to be faced with his ethics obligation. Councilmember Carlson said the Councilmembers had no protection from frivolous lawsuits and that all they could do was try to defend themselves and the City. She said it did not make sense that someone would want to give documents to a person who was suing the City and that they needed to get to the bottom of it. Councilmember Masin said that this was discussed in an Executive Session, and she thought that one of the attorneys had said something about resolving the issue and she had thought they would do so. Mayor Awada replied that this type of action was not discussed. Councilmember Bakken said that this action was something the Council needed to do in order to insure continuing insurance coverage through the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust (LMCIT) and to protect the City's integrity. Councilmember Masin stated that she had not heard some of this information before and commented that maybe Mayor Awada and Councilmembers Bakken and Carlson had heard it from their attorneys. Councilmember Blomquist stated that she did not know what documents were being referred to and that all she knew was that the five of them and the City Administrator had had them. She said she was not going to agree to spend taxpayer dollars on this. Mayor 00134 Eagan City Council Spedal Meeting Minutes April 25, 2000 Page Ten Awada said it would not cost money to file a complaint. Councilmember Blomquist asked who would file the complaint. Mayor Awada replied that City Attorney Sheldon would. Councilmember Blomquist replied that that would cost money. Councilmember Bakken said that it would not cost much money, and he was concerned that if the City's insurance coverage was dropped, it would cost the City a great deal of money. . Mayor Awada moved and Councilmember Carlson seconded a motion to direct Jim Sheldon to file an ethics complaint regarding the issues that Cliff Greene outlined in his memo with the State Ethics Board. Councilmember Blomquist asked if the Mayor and Councilmembers Bakken and Carlson had discussed this matter. Councilmember Carlson said no and that she had been out of town and had not even known that the item would be on the agenda. Councilmember Carlson said she objected to the implication that Mayor Awada, Councilmember Bakken and she had a set agenda. Councilmember Carlson said the Council needed to get more information about what happened. Councilmember Masin said that Councilmember Carlson and the others had gotten information from the League and their attorneys that she had not received. Councilmember Carlson said she had not asked to be sued. She stated that the reason she had to have an attorney was because she was a victim. She said that the Council had to do something about the leak of information. Councilmember Masin told Councilmember Carlson that she should have done something a year and a half ago when Councilmember Carlson found the person on her doorstep. Councilmember Carlson replied that she had only been a Councilmember for seven days when she received the envelope and did not know what she was supposed to do. She said she had suffered for a year and a half because she had gotten something in an unmarked envelope at her house. Councilmember Masin asked Councilmember Carlson why she had not told everybody. Councilmember Carlson asked why she should have and suggested that Councilmember Masin talk to Councilmember Blomquist because Councilmember Blomquist had told her to get rid of it. Councilmember Carlson announced that she was going home. Councilmember Bakken called for a vote on the previous motion. The motion passed on a three to two vote. (Blomquist and Masin opposed) The meeting was adjourned at approximately 9:00 p.m. HD April 25,2000 D~~~~~ Date