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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION June 1, 2009 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION 4 5 DATE : June 1,2009 6 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 7 TIME ENDED : 7:35 p.m. 8 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Gallup, 9 Reinert, Stoltz and Mayor Bergeson 10 MEMBERS ABSENT : Council Member O'Donnell 11 12 13 Also Present: City Administrator Dan Tesch; Community Development Director Michael 14 Grochala; City Engineer Jim Studenski; City Finance Director Al Rolek; Economic 15 Development Coordinator Mary Alice Divine; City Clerk Julie Bartell 16 17 EDAC UPDATE—ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN/ONE-YEAR ACTION 18 PLAN—Economic Development Coordinator Divine reported that the Economic 19 Development Advisory Committee (EDAC)has recently completed an update of their 20 Five-Year Plan and one year action plan as called for in their goals and the city's draft 21 comprehensive plan. A copy of their draft is included in the council's letter. The council 22 has a goal relating to enhancement of economic development that includes holding a 23 meeting with EDAC to discuss the council's economic development goals, EDAC's role `- 24 in meeting those objectives and establishing some communications procedures, etc. 25 EDAC is very interested in proceeding with such a joint meeting. 26 27 The council was informed that the next regular meeting of EDAC is July 16, 2009, at 28 7:00 a.m. All council members present agreed to attend that meeting. It would also be 29 helpful to share the results of the recent value setting sessions with the EDAC group. 30 31 CHARTER COMMISSION AUDIT -Attorney Michael Doherty presented the results 32 of the audit conducted on the practices of the Lino Lakes Charter Commission. He noted 33 that the council received a memorandum that was presented to the city on April 6, 2009 34 outlining the investigation results as well as a summary of the attorney opinions contained 35 in the report. The audit was started as an investigation on the expenditure of public 36 dollars and whether or not the Charter Commission had overextended its authority in that 37 area. Under state law, charter commissions have limited powers that are enumerated in 38 Chapter 410 of the Minnesota Statutes and they have no power past that. Their focus is 39 to be limited to the charter itself and whether it should be amended. The city has an 40 obligation under state law to pay up to $1,500 per year for allowed commission 41 expenditures; additional reasonable expenses can be authorized by the council but not 42 beyond allowed expenditures. In an attempt to gather information about how funds were 43 expended by the commission, Mr. Doherty asked the commission for public data related 44 to communication on the subject. He received a response from their attorney indicating 45 that the data would not be made available and that any data the commission has is 1