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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION November 23,2009 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : November 23, 2009 5 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 6:15 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council members Gallup, Reinert, 8 O'Donnell, and Mayor Bergeson 9 (Council Member Elect Roeser) 10 MEMBERS ABSENT : none 11 12 13 Staff members present: Acting City Administrator Dan Tesch; Director of Public Safety 14 David Pecchia; City Engineer Jim Studenski; Economic Development Coordinator Mary 15 Alice Divine; City Planner Paul Bengtson; Director of Finance Al Rolek; City Clerk Julie 16 Bartell. 17 18 The Mayor announced that he received a notification that the city's current representative 19 on the Centennial Utilities Commission, Mr. Robin Doege, is resigning his assignment 20 due to a change in residence. 21 22 2011 BUDGET UPDATE—The council had received a written report from Finance 23 Officer Rolek that included the proposed budget for 2010 as well as a report on factors 24 for consideration in balancing the 2010 budget. Mr. Rolek reminded the council that the 25 city's 2010 budget must be approved and certified by December 28. With that schedule 26 in mind, staff has scheduled presentation of the final budget for adoption at the December 27 14, 2009 city council meeting. That final budget consideration includes adopting the 28 operating budget, the final levy, the water and sewer fund operating budget and the 29 recreation fund budget. When asked if the city's budget includes any federal stimulus 30 funding, Mr. Rolek noted only some stimulus funds included in the I35E/CSAH 14 31 Interchange Improvement Project(an Anoka County project with city participation). On 32 the question of employee furloughs, all the unions have not yet signed off on a two-week 33 furlough for their members but discussion remains open with all. A council member 34 expressed continued interest in finding some type of council salary reduction that will be 35 meaningful and the council directed the finance officer to report on reduction options in 36 that area at the next budget discussion; the city attorney may need to opine on the current 37 council's ability to impact the incoming council's salary. Council Member Elect Roeser 38 noted that he is open to a change. 39 40 A special work session was scheduled for November 30, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. to continue 41 discussion of the 2010 budget. 42 43 REVIEW REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS 44 45 There were no changes to the regular agenda. 46 1