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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION May 14, 2009 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 SPECIAL WORK SESSION 4 5 DATE : May 14, 2009 6 TIME STARTED : 1:00 p.m. 7 TIME ENDED : 4:20 p.m. 8 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Gallup, O'Donnell, 9 Stoltz and Mayor Bergeson 10 MEMBERS ABSENT : Council Member Reinert 11 12 Also Present: Acting Administrator, Dan Tesch; Community Development Director, 13 Michael Grochala; Public Safety Director, Dave Pecchia; Public Services Director, Rick 14 DeGardner, Finance Director, Al Rolek 15 Others present: Facilitator Lisa Lynn of Lynn and Associates 16 17 STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION 18 Ms. Lynn recalled that the council had met the previous Saturday in a special work session 19 on the matter of strategic planning. A document outlining the strategic profile discussion 20 of the council was distributed (on file). The document is intended to guide the city as 21 budget and other policy decisions are made. The council would now like to discuss the 22 profile with key staff and coordinate ideas to move ahead. 23 The council's views on the city's core culture and value proposition were reviewed. The 24 three core values identified by the council are operational excellence,program/service 25 leader and customer intimacy. These are values that should drive future decisions. Ms. 26 Lynn pointed out some of the desired outcomes from these strategy sessions including: 27 how to deal with the economic crisis, values as leaders, collaborative relationship with 28 staff, and how to manage spending, and desired city administrator characteristics. The 29 vision statements developed by the council will also be reviewed. It was noted that the 30 statement"Lino Lakes—a city with a vision" is on the city's Web site but what vision does 31 that represent? Staff responded to the draft vision statements of the council: life cycle 32 housing is not a reality right now; the idea that Lino Lakes is rural isn't really accurate 33 anymore; rural isn't accurate but perhaps the idea is more toward conservation of 34 amenities; have to walk the talk about development of different types of housing. Those 35 present broke up into small groups (staff with a council member) to talk further about 36 vision statement ideas. Groups reported that they discussed how housing variety could be 37 achieved—adopt the comp plan, bring in amenities that would help bring in affordable but 38 not necessarily subsidized housing, can a vision statement be too specific because there are 39 a lot of words that trigger bad feelings, generally the idea is "a great place to live", safety 40 should be an aspect also. "Lino Lakes—a safe place to live, work and play-for life" was 41 the generally accepted vision statement. 42 The group discussed organizational values and staff was asked if there were any values 43 missing from the list that the council developed. A staff member suggested that leadership 44 is of great importance in reaching goals; also teamwork is vital. Staff and council 1