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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION February 2,2009 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 WORK SESSION MINUTES 3 4 DATE : February 2,2009 5 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 8:55 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Conncilmember Gallup,O'Donnell, 8 Reinert,Stoltz and Mayor Bergeson • 9 MEMBERS ABSENT 10 11 12 Staff members present City Administrator,Gordon Heitke;Community Development 13 Director,Mille Grochala;Chief of Police,Dave Pecchia;City Planners,Jeff Smyser and 14 Paul Bengtson;and City Clerk,Julie Bartell 15 16 1. Approval of Invoice for Services to Charter Commission—Administrator 17 Heitke reported that the Charter Commission has submitted an invoice for payment for 18 some 2008 services however their 2008 budget has been overspent. Staff is seeking 19 council direction prior to processing the expenditure since it is outside of the approved 20 budget. 21 22 In response to a council question,Mr.Heitke explained that the funds to make the — 23 requested payment would come from remaining overall fund balance or,if there is none, 24 fund reserves. 25 26 The council identified that the submitted bill was not itemized and requested that staff 27 obtain an itemization of the charges;the council will consider the bill with that additional 28 information at work session on February. 29 2. Fire Department-Lease Agreement with North Ambulance—Centennial Fire 30 Chief Jerry Streich reported that in the course of a liability survey by the League of 31 Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust it was discovered that although a North Memorial 32 ambulance is currently providing services out of Fire Station No.2,there is no contract 33 over that situation. The League identified some potential issues with this uncontracted 34 situation related to potential liability,financial considerations and employee standards. 35 Staff is seeking council direction on the development of a contract 36 37 The council directed the City Administrator to work with Chief Streich to initiate 38 development of an appropriate contract to address the aforementioned issues and to report 39 back to the council with a recommendation. 40 3. Fire Department—Standardization of Burning Permit Fees—Centennial Fire 41 Chief Jerry Streich explained that permits for open burning are issued by the Fire District 42 Since the District includes three municipalities that independently set fees,the fee amount 43 is not consistent He is recommending that the three cities,Lino Lakes,Circle Pines and 44 Centerville,all adopt the same fee amount for this permit His recommendation is$50 to —22—