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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION December 5,2011 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES • - 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : December 5,2011 5 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 8:45 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Gallup, O'Donnell, 8 Rafferty,Roeser and Mayor Reinert 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 10 11 12 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Director of Public Safety John 13 Swenson; City Engineer Jason Wedel; Finance Director Al Rolek; Community 14 Development Director Michael Grochala; Public Services Director Rick DeGardner, 15 Environmental Coordinator Marty Asleson; City Clerk Julie Bartell 16 17 1. Reconstruction of West Shadow Lake Drive—The Mayor noted that he and 18 another council member placed this item on the agenda because they feel the need to keep 19 the conversation going regarding road reconstruction in the city. The topic of this road 20 and its history is one area but also he is interested in talking about the Charter 21 Commission and the possibility of getting something amenable done in that area. The 22 council asked for information on working within the current charter to get this road 23 project on the ballot in the fall and Community Development Director Grochala then 24 reviewed the process including updating the feasibility study, public hearing in July, and 25 election following in November. It was noted that there is a charter amendment under 26 review by the Charter Commission that deals with a timing issue involved with the date 27 for submission of ballot language and the Charter dictated timeframe for public review. 28 Mr. Grochala added that a feasibility study has been done on the Shenendoah area also 29 and staff has also considered bringing forward the LaMotte area. The Mayor wondered 30 if the council would be interested in putting road project(s) on the ballot or putting a 31 charter amendment on ballot. 32 33 Pat Smith, West Shadow Lake Drive, remarked that perhaps a different tactic is called for 34 to get road projects done. He suggests changing the focus from single projects to 35 changing control of road work to the council level; that question could be put on the 36 ballot. 37 38 The council then discussed the recommendation of the Citizens Task Force to Review 39 Charter Provisions Pertaining to Public Improvements. Council Member Gallup was the 40 chair of that group and she explained that the amendment proposed by that group 41 generally left the road project discussion within the neighborhood with plenty of 42 opportunities for that discussion. Mr. Grochala recalled that the proposed amendment did 43 remove the citywide referendum but left a lot of neighborhood involvement. Mr. 44 Grochala suggested getting all parties together for explanation and information so that 45 everyone has a common understanding of the situation and from that point coming up 1