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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION February 7,2011 APPROVED CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : February 7,2011 5 TIME STARTED : 5:33 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 8:40 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Gallup, O'Donnell, 8 Rafferty,Roeser and Mayor Reinert 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 10 11 12 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karison; Director of Administration Dan 13 Tesch; Community Development Director Mike Grochala; Director of Public Safety Kent 14 Strege; Environmental Coordinator Marty Asleson; Director of Finance Al Rolek; 15 Economic Development Coordinator Mary Alice Divine; Director of Public Safety Rick 16 DeGardner; City Clerk Julie Bartell 17 18 1. Board Appointments—Administration Director Tesch noted the list before the 19 council of applicants seeking appointment/reappointment to the city advisory boards. He 20 would like to set up a time for the council to interview candidates. 21 22 The council will meet with the new applicants and for those positions where there is a 23 contest. Li 24 25 2. RCWD Water Management District—Community Development Director 26 Grochala introduced Phil Belfiori of the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) and 27 John Kolb who is an attorney with Rinke-Noonan. Mr. Belfiori distributed and reviewed 28 a written presentation (on file) outlining their request for municipal concurrence. The 29 RCWD is requesting that the council give municipal consent for the District to undertake 30 certain ditch improvement proceedings using the statutory Watershed Law rather than the 31 statutory Drainage Code for Anoka County Ditch Project 10-22-32. He explained the 32 implications to the city. 33 34 Mr. Kolb discussed the proposed resolution and the financial implications of the ditch 35 project and explained that municipal concurrence would not represent an endorsement of 36 the project. 37 38 The council discussed the impact of the ditch project on city residents. They heard that 39 the use of the Watershed Law would allow the project to be funded from two sources of 40 money—a drainage charge against those in the area of the project and an ad valorem 41 charge from the whole jurisdiction. The council heard that the project will have to be 42 done and this discussion is more about how it will be charged for. They also heard from 43 Attorney Kolb that the current watershed board is solidly interested in moving in the 44 direction of maintaining the district's system. 45 1