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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION July 6, 2009 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION 4 5 DATE : July 6, 2009 6 TIME STARTED : 6:08 p.m. 7 TIME ENDED : 7:45p.m. 8 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Members Gallup, O'Donnell 9 Reinert, Stoltz and Mayor Bergeson 10 MEMBERS ABSENT : none 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 1. I-35E/CSAH 14 Interchange Update—The council received an update on the 18 proposed project at the special council meeting that proceeded the work session. 19 2. Pine Street Improvements - Petition to have the City of Lino Lakes research 20 the cost of paving Pine Street—City Engineer Studenski reported that, since this item 21 was discussed at the last work session, staff has sent a survey to the 34 property owners 22 on Pine Street (by certified mail)that explained the proposed project and process. The ..- 23 survey asked for a yes or no response on the question of paving the entire length of Pine 24 Street. Of the 34 surveys sent, 28 have been returned with 14 voting yes and 14 voting 25 no. He reviewed a map indicating the location of the votes. There is a decisive break 26 line with the majority of the votes for repaving west of the street's intersection with 4th 27 Avenue (12 of 13) being"no" and the majority of the votes for repaving east of that 28 intersection (14 of 15)were yes. He provided additional details regarding drainage, 29 utilities and assessment process. 30 31 The council asked if the City of Columbus is still on board for sharing this project. A 32 cost sharing arrangement for the feasibility study would be appropriate. Also Lino Lakes 33 would not want to be faced with funding the entire project if Columbus were to back out. 34 35 Mr. Studenski explained that the City of Columbus is patiently watching Lino Lakes 36 knowing that our process for public improvements is longer; they have already indicated 37 that their residents are in support of the project. There would have to be a joint powers 38 agreement for the project so a detailed discussion between the cities will be necessary. 39 40 The council discussed the possibility of making their approval of proceeding on this 41 process contingent upon the participation of the City of Columbus but staff suggested that 42 may not be possible. 43 1