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COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 22,1996 industrial areas. A proposed middle school, an industrial building at I35E and expansion at the Minnesota Correctional Facility are all proposed for construction in 1996. Mr. Kluegel presented a graph of building activity in Lino Lakes beginning in 1988 and noted that residential building has stabilized near 200 new homes per year. He anticipates this trend to continue. Council Member Bergeson noted that all the institutional construction is exempt and not taxed. Council Member Kuether moved to accept the 1995 Building Officials Report. Council Member Neal seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 96 - 09 AMENDING THE CENTENNIAL FIRE DISTRICT JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT, II, FIRE CHIEF MILO BENNETT Chief Bennett proposed a resolution to modify the Joint Powers Agreement that governs the Centennial Fire District. He explained that the Centennial Fire District operates under a Joint Powers Agreement between the cities of Lino Lakes, Circle Pines and Centerville. A Steering Committee consisting of two (2) members from each city oversee the operation of the Fire District. The proposed modification will have to be approved by all three (3) cities. Chief Bennett said this would be done in the very near future. The proposed changes to the Joint Powers Agreement include Section 2.5, Quorum and deletion of Sections 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 which describes the Balancing Formula. Section 2.5 requires five (5) of the six (6) regular committee members to be present for a quorum to conduct business. Resolution No. 96 - 09 changes this provision tso that four (4) of six (6) committee members be present with the addition that each municipality must be represented at the meeting. Chief Bennett explained that there have been instances when the Steering Committee was unable to conduct business because of a lack of quorum. The second modification involves deleting Sections 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 which defines the balancing formula that affects the funding from each of the cities. The main formula sets up funding requirements based on the five (5) year average of "runs" for a city, the population and the market value which all represents the actual history, the people and the property which the Fire District protects. In addition, there is a balancing formula that attempts to make sure that a home in one city pays about the same in property taxes as a similar home in the other two (2) cities. Chief Bennett would like to remove this section since it does not insure this equity. He outlined the formula for funding noting it is unpredictable and throws the formula out of balance. In fact, the formula does the opposite of what it is intended to do. The formula has been used for the past five (5) years and during four (4) of these years there has been a balancing adjustment paid back and forth between the cities. Chief Bennett said if the cities choose to delete this section PAGE 27