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JT CITY COUNCIL/CHARTER COMMISSION MEETING July 8, 2010 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 SPECIAL JOINT MEETING 4 WITH THE LINO LAKES CHARTER COMMISSION 5 6 DATE : July 8, 2010 7 TIME STARTED : 6:40 p.m. 8 TIME ENDED : 9:58 p.m. 9 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Members Rafferty, Gallup, 10 O'Donnell, Roeser and Mayor Reinert 11 MEMBERS ABSENT : none 12 CHARTER COMMISSION 13 MEMBERS PRESENT : Commissioners Carlson, Dahl, Drennen, 14 Gunderson, Lyden, Minar, Penn, Storberg, 15 Trehus, Turcotte, Williams 16 CHARTER COMMISSION 17 MEMBERS ABSENT : Commissioners Aldentaler, Bretoi, 18 Sutherland and Zastrow (all excused) 19 20 Staff members present: Acting City Administrator Dan Tesch; Community Development 21 Director Michael Grochala 22 23 The joint meeting of the Lino Lakes City Council and Charter Commission was called to 24 order and roll call was taken and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 25 26 There was no public comment offered during the open mike period. 27 28 Charter Commission Chair Dahl first noted that she would like for the meeting to remain 29 respectful at all times. 30 31 Charter Agenda for Joint Meeting with City Council. 32 33 Old Business 34 35 A. Charter Budget. 36 37 Chair Dahl distributed information (state statute information on charter commission 38 budgets). She noted that the Charter Commission has in the past asked for more funds in 39 their budget to work on charter amendments. The answer that the Commission received 40 was that the council is not allowed to exceed the $1,500 budget allowed by state statute. 41 The statute does state, however, that the council may authorize additional expenses as it 42 deems necessary. Chair Dahl noted that the Commission received an estimate from their 43 attorney of$5,000 to work on three charter amendments and they did submit that to the 44 council 45 1