HomeMy WebLinkAbout07-23-195617 6 Record of Official Proceedings of the Common Council
of the City of Rochester, Minn., July 23, 1956 •
Minutes of an adjourned regular meeting of the Common Council of the
City of Rochester, Minnesota, held in the Council Chambers in the City Hall, in
said City, on July 23, 1956.
A motion was made by Moody, second by Schwanke, that Alderman Anderson
act as President pro tem. All voted in favor of the motion.
President pro tem Anderson called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m., the
following members being present: President pro tem Anderson, Aldermen Moody,
Schwanke, Tingley, Whiting. Absent: President Bach and Alderman Schroeder.
A petition signed by George Kerr, Attorney for William W. Dodge, Helen S.
Dodge, Harold E. Whiting and Jessie P. Whiting requesting that the Council approve
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and adopt "Dodge's Replat" of Lots 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 4s of Peck's
Second Addition was read together with a recommendation of the Planning and Zoning
Commission that this replat be approved. A plat of "Dodge's Replat° was also
presented, Upon motion by Moody, second by Schwanke, thepetition and plat were
referred to the Street & Alley Committee, the City Engineer and the Public Utility
Department.
A petition signed by A. J. Osman to have Lot 17,_Northgate Addition
changed from a residential to a commercial zone and a petition signed by Charles R.
Hutchinson to have Lot 16, Northgate Addition changed from a_residential to a
commercial zone were each read and upon motion by Whiting, second by Tingley, the
same were referred to the Board of Zoning.
A petition signed by Edwin A. Rundell Jr. and Virginia M. Rundell to have
the following desctibed property annexed to the City of Rochester was read and upon
motion by Tingley, second by Moody, the same was referred to the Street & Alley
Committee, the City Engineer and the Public Utility Department:
"Beginning at a point on the east line of the northeast quarter of
section three (3) in township one hundred six (106)'north, of
range fourteen (14) west, Olmsted County, Minnesota, which is one
hundred (100) feet north of the southeast corner thereof, thence
west parallel with the south line of said northeast quarter a
distance of one hundred four and five —tenths (104.5 feet, thence
north parallel with the east line of said northeast quarter a
distance of one hundred six and twenty five hundredths (106.25)
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feet, thence east parallel with the south line of said northeast
quarter a, distance of one hundred four and five tenths (104.5) feet,
to the east.line of said northeast quarter, thence south along the
east line of said northeast quarter a distance of one hundred six
and twenty five hundredths (106. 25) feet tothe point of beginning."
A notice of claim of injury signed by Elaine Miller of 1619 - 4th Street
S. E. in the amount of $5,000.00 was read. A motion was made referring the said
claim to the City Attorney, with authorization to settle the claim for $150.00 if
possible. Alderman Schwanke made the motion, Alderman Whiting seconded it and
all voted in favor thereof.
A letter from Irving L. Eckholdt, Judge of Municipal Court, requesting
permission to purchase an electric typewriter sold by the International Business
Machines, Inc. for the amount of $400.00 was read and upon motion by Schwanke, secone,
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by Tingley, the ,same was referred to the Purchasing Committee for recommendation.
The recommendation of the Police Committee and Chief of Police that the
two parking meters in front of the Olmsted County Bank & Trust Company be changed �
from one (1) hour .to twelve (12) minute time limit was read and upon motion by
Schwanke, the recommendation was approved and the City Attorney was instructed 60 .
draft the necessary resolution to make this change.
The following recommendation was read and upon motion by Tingley, second
by the same wa.s
:Moody, . approved;
"To the Honorable Mayor and
Members of the Common Council
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City of Rochester, Minnesota
Gentlemen:
'We, the undersigned members of the License Committee, having
- met with representatives Of the Kahler Corporation in connection
with their request for Council action to make dancing possible on
their; premises even though licensed for the on -sale of intoxicating
liquor, and having met jointly with all on -sale liquor licensees,
do -hereby unanimously recommend to the Common Council -that the pro-
visions in Ordinance No. -645 prohibiting dancing on premises
licensed for on -sale of intoxicating liquor be retained and
c o nt knue d.
Respectfully submitted,
LICENSE CO?MITTEE
Leo C. Anderson -
Thomas A. Moody
Raymond C. Schroeder"
The following resolutions were each introduced and read and President
pro tam Anderson -declared the same duly passed and adopted:
Resolution ordering first hearing -on the construction of =a sanitary
sewer to service the following locations -in S. W.' Rochester -(1) Block 2, Dresbach'
Addition (2) East side. of 15th Avenue 'S. W. from the south 'line of Dresbachl-s
Addition north- tia a point 110 feet north of the north line -of 7th Street S•.- W.
(3) 14th Avenue ;Southwest from 7.th to 9th Street S. W., (4) Sth Street S. W. *fro-m
14th Avenue S. W. to. the east line of Parkin's Subdivision (5) t-runk line sewer
along the .eas.t side of U. S. Highway #52 from •112 Street S•. W. to 15 h Avenue S.W.
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Upon motion by, Moody, second by Sch4nke, resolution adopted. j
-Resolution ordering first -hearing on construction of a sanitary sewer in
5th Avenue N. W.1 from llth Street- Northwest to a point 1-76 feet south of the center,
line of 14th Street Y. W. and a section of the NW -SW 'trunk line relief sewer from
14th Street N. W. to loth Strest N5 W. Upon motion by Schwanke, second 'by Tingley,
resolution 'adopted.,
Resolution appropriating $710-.28 from the General Fund, $634.59 from the
S & A Fund, $516. 29 from the Fire Protection Fund, $957. 96 • from• the Sewer Fund and
$99. 54 from the ,Parking• Meter Fund and ordering payment made to City of, Rochester,
.$2,664.65 and Federated 'Mutual Insurance Company $253.00. Upon motion by Tingley,
second by Whiting, resolution adopted.
Resolution appropriating .$30,000.00 from the- Permanent Improvement Fund
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Land ordering payment made to Rochester Cemetery Association. Upon motion by
lWhiting, second by Moody, resolution adopted.
Resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute
the agreement with the Rochester Baseball Association for lights. Upon motion by
.Moody, second by Schwa.nke, resolution adopted.
The following claims were each read and upon motion by Tingley, second by
Whiting, the same were approved and the Mayor and City Clerk were authorized and
directed to draw warrants upon the City Treasurer and make payments accordingly:
From the General Fund: Louella McGhie, $12.00; Eva E. Wernecke, $13.00;
Sylv-ia Ekman, $12.00; Airs. Walter Stiller, $12.00; Allen A. Haggerty, $11.00; Mrs.
Catherine Buske, $11,00; Mabel C. Bekcer, $11,00; Helena Hall; $11.00; Emma Be
Barden, $12.00; Louise Dedogel, $12.00; Albert F. Pries, $13.00; Margaret B. Robert-
son, $12.00; Augusta McGovern, $12.00; Nellie M. Cook, $12.00; A. H. Witzke, $12.00;
I nary F. Klee, $12.00; Laura E. Parkin, $13.00; Musetta Kleckner, $13.00; Ruth M.
Tauer, $13.00; Hubert J. Harvey, $13.00; Florence Campbell, $11.00; Alice M. McFar-
land, $11.00; Ruth L. Kottke, $11.00; Marjorie A. Strauss, $12.00; Hester Smith,
$12.50; F. A. McGovern, $12.50; Lydia Disney, $12.50; Be J. Mulvihill, $12.50;
Helen Nachreiner, $11.00; Laurette. Mickleson, $11.00; Dorothy L. Schmidt, $11.00;
John Nigon, $12- 50; Esther Spring, $12. 50; Mildred Gray, $12.50; Alice Burgan,
$12.50; Emma Lundquist, $12.00; Helen Duncanson, $12,00; Don Hilne, $12,00; Alma
M. Sessing, $12.00; Grace E. Smith, $12.00; Nesabeth Forsyth, $12,00; Mrs. Fred
Rolstad, $12.00; Jennie C. Wegman, $12.00; Lura P. Stoffer, $12o00; Arthur Cordes,
$11.50; Walter Be Fratzke, $11.50;. Mary Be Ellis, $11.50; Agnes Duncan, $11050;
Mary Be Naeseth, $11, 50; Merle A. Schel],in,. $11.50; Carrie E. Gross, $11.50;
Amanda J. Sperling, $11.50; Ella Brown, $11,00; Martha Tewes, $11.00; Irene Shea,
$11,00; Harriet Kern, $11.00;_ Ida E. Crandall, $12.00; Elsie A. Marsh, $12.00;
David Fanning, $12.00; Ida Be Hilker, $12,00; Florence M. Buss, $12.0.0; Idabel Ann
Chapman, $12,00; Olive L. Tiede, $12.00; Helen E. Corf it s,. $12.00; Wm. A. Johnson,
$12.00; The Samitaran Hotel, $5.00; Rochester Linoleum & Carpe.t Shop, $5.00;
National Guard Armory, $5.0.0; The Mayo Clinic, $15.00; League of Minnesota Munici-
1palities, $3.00; Tom Moore, Register of Deeds, $6.75; Gladys E. Danfor.d, $50.00;
Burroughs Corporation, $15.10; Lester Christopherson, $134.59.; Clerk of Municipal
Court, $26.29; Rochester Transfer & Storage, $33,75; Gateway Transportation Company,
$26. 52; Wm, H. Ziegler Company, $105, 70; No Pee Trading Company,_ $19.13; Monte l s,
$71.62; Osco Drug Company, $1.75; Lorentz 0. Ness, $60.00; C. A. Armstrong, $6.00;
{Theodore Wellner, M.D., $10.00; N. W. Bell Telephone Company, $44.70; So -cony Mobil
JOil Company, $6,20; and the Cooperative Oil Company, $41.25.
From the Street & Alley Fund: Twin City Testing & Engineering Laboratory,
$4. S0; Socony Mobil Oil Company, $33. 44; General Trading Company, $13.02; Public
iWorks Equipment Company, $47.99; Witte Transportation Company, $54.19;
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From the Fire Protection Fund; Monte's, $6.85; Witte Transportation Co.,
$3.31; C. F. Massey Company, $46.62; Cooperative Oil Company, $95.60; Fire &
Safety, Inc., $139.24; United Chemical Company, $123.90; S. M. Supply Company,
$13.4T; Marti Motors, Inc., $1, 53; Leef BrothersInc.
, $5.00; :Golden Hill Machine
Company, $1.55 and Woodhouse Brothers, $31.65.
From the Sewer Fund; Monte's, $4.15; Witte Transportation Company, $5.15
Merchants Chemical Company, $154- 50; Walker Hardware, $1.70;; Zep Manufacturing
Company, $96.95;'Green Bay Foundry & Machine Works, $154.50; City of Rochester,
P. U., $76.00;- Peoples Natural Gas- Company, $3.53; and Woodhouse Brothers, $1.80.
From the :Park Improvement Fund; City of Rochester, P. U. , $60.56.
From the Lighting Fund; City of Rochester, P. U. $33.21.
From the Police Protection Fund: Monte's, $18.20; H. M. Fitzpatrick,
$16- 52 and Woodhouse Brothers, $2, 55,
From the Parking Meter Fund; Jahns.Auto Repair, $10.15; The Rochester
Visitor, $8.00.
The application of C. C. Pagenhart for license to construct sidewalk,
curb, gutter a'ndldriveways was read and upon motion by Schwanke, second by Tingley,
the license was granted.
The applications of Robert Clark for "on" and "off" sale non- intoxicatine
malt liquors at the corner of 3rd Avenue and hth Street Southeast were each read
and upon motion by Whiting, second by Sch.wanke, the same were :referred to the
License Committee and the Chief of Police.
President pro tem Anderson stated this as being the time and place set
fora hearing on'the condemnation of easements through certain lands in the
Southeast Quarter (SEX) of Section Twenty -Seven (27), Township One Hundred Seven
(107) North, Range Fourteen (14) West in Olmsted County, Minnesota. There was no
one present wishing to be heard.
The City Attorney then read the following report:
To the Common Council of the City of Rochester, Minnesota
City Hall.
Rochester, Minnesota
REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS ON CONDEMNATION OF EASEMENTS
THROUGH CERTAIN LANDS IN THE SOLTTHEAST QLTARTER (SEX)
OF SECTION TTTENTY-SEVEN (27) , TOWNSHIP ONE HUNDRED -
SEVEN (107)NORTH, RANGE FOTJRTEE2Y (14-) WEST IN OLMSTED
COUNTY, MINNESOTA
We, Theodore Franke, of the First Ward of the City of Rochester, Minnesota,
Lynn Duncanson of the Second Ward of said City and Maitland Little of the
Third Ward of said City, the Commissioners appointed by resolution of the
Common Council adopted on.June 29th, 1956 to view the -property described in
the resolution and to assess any damages occasioned by the condemning and
taking of the easements herein after described, do hereby report to the
Common Council our actions and conclusions in said condemnation proceedings.
The easements condemned and taken pursuant to the aforesaid resolution
are described as follows:
(a) A permanent trunk line watermain easement over and through: a strip
of land Eight (g) feet wide in the Southeast Quarter (SEX) of Section
Twenty Seven (27), Township One Hundred Seven (107) north, Range
Fourteen (14) West in Olmsted County, Minnesota, lying Four (4) feet
on each side of a line which is Eleven (11) feet West of and parallel
with the following described line:
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Commending at the Northwest corner of the Southeast Quarter (SEI) of
Section Twenty -Seven (27), Township One Hundred Seven (107) North,
Range Fourteen (14) West, thence due east along the north line of
said Quarter (I) section for a distance of Five Hundred Thirty -Nine
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and one tenth: ( 539.1) feet to the centerline of Seventeenth,Avenue
Northwest as platted in Elton Hills First Subdivision for a point of
beginning: thence.deflect to the right 89 degrees and 40 minutes
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for a distance of Your Hundred Twenty -Two and Forty -One Hundredths
(422,41) feet, thence deflect -to the right in a southwesterly dir-
ection on a 57 degree, 18-minute curve (arc definition, central
angle of 68 degrees - 2 minutes) southwesterly for a distance of
One Hundred Eighteen and Seventy -Three Hundredths (118.13) feet,
more or less; to the northerly right-of-way line ,of County Aid
Road "U;' and there terminatisig.
(b)A construction easement until December 31st, 1956 over a strip of land
50' on each side of the watermain easement described above.
Pursuant to notice of our appointment, the undersigned appeared in the
office of the City Clerk in Room 100 *in the City Hall at 4:00 o'clock P. M.
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on June 28th, 1956 and each qualified by taking and subscribing his oath of
office as provided by Charter and entered upon the duties as such Commissioners.
Thereafter, on the afternoon of June 28th, 1956 a survey and plat of
.the proposed -wat-ermain easements was filed in the office of the City Clerk.
We thereupon gave notice that such survey and plat had been filed and that
we, as such Commissioners, would meet at -the-office of the City Clerk at
10:00 o'clock A. Tie on the loth day of July, 1556 and thence proceed to view
the property -hereinbefore described and assess any damages occasioned by
the condemning and taking of the easements described above, and that we
would hear any evidence or proof offered by or in behalf of the- pa•rties
interested in said lands, The aforesaid notice was published in the
Rochester Post Bulletin, the official newspaper of said City on June 29th,
1956, more than ten days prior to the date set for said meeting.
That at 10:00 o'clock A.M. on July loth, 1956 your Commissioners met'
pursuant to said notice and then proceeded to view the premises and property
described above and were available to hear any evidence or proof offered
by interested parties. A discussion was held•with Mr. D; J. Thomas on or
near the premises being condemned.
After viewingthe premises and hearing evidence and proof offered we
have assessed the damages occasioned by the taking of a permanent trunk line
watermain easement and a temporary construction easement until December 31st,
1956 as follows:
To D. J. Thomas and Cecil M. Thomas, husband and wife, who own
as joint tenants the property through which the easements stre
condemned and to the Northwestern National Bank who holds a First
Mortgage an said land;
For'the permanent trunk line watermain easement . . . . . . . $250.00
For the construction easement until December 31st, 1956 . . . . 0.00
Total . . . . . 300.00
The cost of this proceedings is:
Theodore Franke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25.00
Lynn Duncans on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00
Maitland Little . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 25.00
75.00
Dated at Rochester, Minnesota, this loth day of July, 1976.
/s Theodore Franke
/s Lynn Duncanson
/s Maitland Little
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Alderman Whiting introduced a resolution ratifying the condemnation and
taking of the easements on the above described property and that the report of the
Commissioners made and filed as aforesaid and the assessment and award of damages
therein set forth be confirmed and approved, which was read. Upon motion by
Whiting, second by Moody, the resolution was adopted.
Alderman Tingley stated that the Police Department had angated an add-
itional employee as secretary and that they were in need of another desk. which they
could purchase for $50,00, and also an additional chair. He made a verbal recommend-
ation as.Chairman of the Police Committee, that they be authorized to purchase the
said desk and chair. Upon motion by Schwanke, second by Whiting, the recommendation
of the Police Committee was approved,.
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Alderman Schwanke stated that the Survey Committee had received a
request for office equipment needed by the Planning Director, estimated to cost
approximately $514- 50 (for 10 drawer file, cap and base; metal in -out basket and
metal bookcase with glass windows). A motion Haas made by Whiting, second by
Moody, the Survey Committee was authorized to Purchase what equipment they thought
necessary for the Planning Director. All present voted in favor of the motion.
Alderman Moody stated that he had receeved complaints about the dust and
dirt caused by the traffic of trucks to and from.the Leitzen Plant on loth Street
Northeast and recommended that they be ordered'to take care of this. Upon motion
by Whiting, second by Schwanke, Mayor McQuillan and Alderman Moody were authorized
and directed to contact Tor. Leitzen and try to abate this nuisance. All present
voted in favor of the motion.
Mr. Gus Glinke of 907 - 14th Avenue Southwest was present and asked the
Council to consider extending the proposed sewer on loth Avenue Southwest from
9th Street to the Highway. He was informed to report to the City Engineer and
tell him exactly what he wanted, and the Sewer Committee would then consider same.
Upon motion by Schwanke, second by Whiting, the meeting was adjourned..
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