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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION January 25, 2010 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : January 25, 2010 5 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 6:05 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Members Gallup, O'Donnell 8 (arrived at 5:40),Rafferty, Roeser and Mayor 9 Reinert 10 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 11 12 13 Staff members present: Acting City Administrator and Director of Administration Dan 14 Tesch; Community Development Director Mike Grochala; Director of Public Safety Dave 15 Pecchia; Director of Finance Al Rolek; City Engineer Jim Studenski; Environmental 16 Coordinator Marty Asleson 17 18 REVIEW REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS 19 20 Item 3A), Consider Pay Equity Report—Acting Administrator Tesch noted that a report 21 on the city's pay equity must be submitted to the State of Minnesota as required by the Pay 22 Equity Act. A report prepared with assistance from the city's labor consultant, Springsted, 23 is before the council for approval. 24 When a council member asked staff for an explanation of the vast range of compliance- 25 some salaries seem very far under and some over—Mr. Tesch explained that the data base 26 for positions is state wide and the formula used very complex and the result can be a wide 27 range. He is comfortable with submission of the report unless the council questions the 28 state requirement. 29 Item 3B) and Item 3C), Consider Memorandum of Understanding regarding L.E.L.S. 30 Local 299 (police officers) current labor agreement (Postponed 1/11/2010), and 31 Consider Memorandum of Understanding regarding L.E.L.S. Local 260 (police 32 sergeants) current labor agreement (Postponed 1/11/2010) - Acting Administrator 33 Tesch noted that these two unions have agreed remove the language concerning no layoffs 34 in 2010. 35 Item 6A), Consider Resolution No. 10-06, Approving Anoka County Agreement for 36 Residential Recycling Program —Environmental Coordinator Asleson noted that this 37 item relates to the annual agreement the city enters with Anoka County to receive funding 38 and to run a recycling program in the city. The council confirmed that the amount of funds 39 received mostly covers the city's recycling program costs including some staff time. The 40 council suggested that they are interested in expanding the "recycle day" program from just 41 one day per year and they'd like to see the cost of such an expansion discussed at budget 42 time. The council was also informed that a dumpster is made available at the recycling 1