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Charter Commission July 25, 2013 Page 1 1 FINAL 2 CITY OF LINO LAKES 3 CHARTER COMMISSION 4 5 6 DATE July 25, 2013 7 TIME STARTED 6:30 p.m. 8 TIME ENDED 9:30 p.m. 9 MEMBERS PRESENT Bretoi (left the meeting at 8:50 p.m.), Dahl, Lyden, 10 Gunderson, Penn, Storberg, Trehus, Turcotte, 11 Aldentaler (left the meeting at 7:50 p.m.), Bartsch, and 12 Timm 13 MEMBERS EXCUSED Helgemoe, Sutherland, Williams, and Zastrow 14 MEMBERS UNEXCUSED None 15 STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT City Clerk Julie Bartell and City Administrator Jeff 16 Karison 17 OTHERS PRESENT: Mayor Jeff Reinert and Council Members Dale Stoesz 18 and Rob Rafferty 19 20 CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL 21 Chair Lyden reconvened the meeting of the Lino Lakes Charter Commission at 6:37 pm on July 22 25,2013. 23 24 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 25 Chair Lyden lead the Pledge of Allegiance. 26 27 SETTING THE AGENDA 28 Chair Lyden moved item 6C to review as item Al. 29 30 Commissioner Penn asked to add an item regarding TimeSaver and minute taking. 31 32 Chair Lyden believed TimeSaver would be included in the discussion for item 6A. 33 34 Agenda was accepted as presented without additions. 35 36 OPEN MIC/PUBLIC COMMENT 37 Councilmember Dale Stoesz, 309 Linda Court, stated that the last time he spoke under open mic 38 was prior to the November election regarding the amendment to the Charter. He offered that the 39 Commission vote on the Charter and pass the amendments. He believed that an agenda could be 40 set for a joint meeting where this issue could be discussed and a solution could be found. He 41 stated that he and Mayor Reinert drafted a response to the letter received from Chair Lyden and 42 presented that letter to the Commission. 43 Commissioner Storberg referenced a Charter proposed in 2007 which did not require votes to 44 complete roadwork and questioned why that was not included in the documentation.