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CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORK SESSION AUGUST 9, 2010 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : August 9, 2010 5 TIME STARTED : 5:33 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 6:30 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: Acting City Administrator Dan Tesch; Community Development 13 Director Michael Grochala; Director of Public Safety Kent Strege, Director of Finance Al 14 Rolek; City Engineer Jim Studenski; City Clerk Julie Bartell 15 16 REVIEW REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS (August 9,2010 Council Meeting) 17 18 1A. Consideration of Expenditures—After requesting additional explanation on 19 several individual expenditures, the council requested that staff should provide the 20 council with more special expenditure information including a budget to expenses 21 comparison. That could be a future work session discussion item if necessary. 22 23 3A. Hiring of City Administrator—Acting Administrator Tesch reported that he had 24 sent out a copy of the proposed employment contract this afternoon to council members 25 and Mr. Karlson. Mr. Tesch briefly reviewed the terms of the proposed contract. He 26 recommends that the council consider a tentative offer of employment at the council 27 meeting tonight and, barring any issues, Mr. Karlson will be able to start on Monday, 28 August 16. 29 30 6A. First reading of Ordinance No. 09-10 Establishing a Storm Water Utility— 31 Community Development Director Grochala noted that a public hearing is scheduled at 32 the council meeting to consider first reading of this ordinance that establishes a storm 33 water utility for the city. He introduced Jeremy Walgrave of SEH, consultant on the 34 project who would provide answers to questions that were posed at the recent 35 informational public meeting and others (how fees will impact taxes, how would funds be 36 used, fees for single family and townhomes, and concerns generally on the cost of storm 37 water management). 38 39 Mr. Walgrave noted that a question about how condos and townhomes should be charted 40 was posed and while those units were originally included in the flat rate with a small 41 reduction, they are now recommending application of a factor based on that type of 42 structure's higher density. 43 44 When the council asked about administrative costs that could be associated with 45 implementing the utility into the billing system, Finance Director Rolek explained that