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By Joel Stottrup Princeton City Council members dealt with various requests last Thursday, including for a donation from the city, to give gifts to the city and to apply for grants. The council rejected the one request for the city to donate from its Princeton Wine & Spirits fund. Money was requested in a “whatever you can give” amount for the John P. Olson benefit in Cambridge. Mary Olson was the applicant and stated on the form it would be to help with existing and future medical bills. The council agreed with Princeton City Administrator Mark Karnowski’s recommendation not to approve the request. Karnowski noted that the rules for the fund is that it be to benefit the local community. Also the council had not approved requests to help pay medical bills even for local individuals, Karnowski said. In other business the council gave approval to: • Go for a grant through the University of Minnesota to pay for a grad student from the university to assist the city for two to three months this year. The assistant will be used to do base-line research on how by-products from one industry in Princeton can be used by another local industry. • Apply for a yet-unspecified grant through the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority to help offset the cost of expanding the city’s wastewater treatment plant. The city could apply for up to 50 percent of eligible costs, to not exceed $3 million. • Take advantage of a grant from the Minnesota Department of Transportation aeronautics division that would give the city about $26,668. The money would be two thirds of the approximately $40,000 for buying a new mower deck for the tractor used to mow at the city airport, and to modify the tractor for mounting the deck. The city has $11,000 plus in a fund to pay the city’s one-third share. • Accept a gift of wood chips from Sylva Corporation, which has a plant in the industrial park that makes wood chips. The city has $4,000 in a budget to place wood chips below Mark Park playground equipment, but it would only cover one third the amount needed. Sylva, therefore, agreed to provide all the wood chips needed for the $4,000. Sylva also offered to donate playground mats to place below certain equipment to prevent depressions forming in those areas. • Accept a $100 donation from Trent’s Used Car Network to the city police department. The business had advertised on July 6 that if someone purchased its car special of the week, a 2001 Ford Mustang GT, that Trent’s would then make the $100 donation. • A request from Carol Dalske, owner of Northern Attitudes, to close the portion of Fifth Avenue North between the bar and grill and its east parking lot between 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. It will be for a classic car and motorcycle show and competition. Comments (1)
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written by John Archer , July 17, 2009 $40,000 for a lawn mower? Must be one hell of a machine! Write comment
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