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C‘f, V k.74 cKanaaa MAYOR Bill Blesener COUNCIL Jim LaValle Rick Montour Barbara Allan John Keis 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117-1600 ADMINISTRATOR (651) 766 -4029 / FAX: (651) 766 -4048 Joel R. Hanson www.ci.little-canada.mn.us MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Biesener and Members of the City Council FROM: Joel Hanson, City Administrator DATE: April 3, 2006 RE: 2006 Action Plans and Commentary on Balance of Goal Listing Action plans have been prepared for the top nine goals from our 2006 Planning Session per Council Direction and are included with this memo. This memo attempts to provide a short background and commentary on the other goals developed at our planning session. They are as follows: Seek RFP's for Professional Services — With no disrespect intended to our current providers, staff believes this should be done periodically to ensure we are controlling costs and obtaining the desired service levels. Recently, we achieved significant savings by the changeover in City Engineers. In the past, it has helped us control costs with our Auditors (we should do this again for 2007). City Attorney and Planner are other possibilities. Resolve Sewer Billing Issue with Vadnais Heights — Last year, staff discovered that Little Canada has been charged for sewage treatment costs for some Vadnais Heights apartment complexes located along County Road D. The basis for this was a letter sent from Vadnais to Met Council Environmental Services stating that Little Canada would be billing these accounts. We have never billed those properties, but Vadnais has. Therefore, we will be seeking a refund of the sewage costs we paid. Presently, the City Attorney is working with us to delineate our legal options. A recommendation on the proposed course of action will be forthcoming shortly. Please keep this confidential at this point so as not to jeopardize any negotiations we will have with Vadnais Heights. Develop Long -term Plan to Complete City's Water System — Over the years, we have been installing water to areas previously unserved. We have been doing so in conjunction with street reconstruction to minimize restoration costs. A few areas remained unserved (Lakeside Court west of Keller Parkway, Australian Avenue east of Lakeshore Avenue, Racine Avenue west of Centerville Road, and Beam Avenue including a significant portion of Maplewood).