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CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORK SESSION August 22, 2016 DRAFT 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 MINUTES 2 3 DATE : August 22, 2016 4 TIME STARTED : 6:00 p.m. 5 TIME ENDED : 6:28 p.m. 6 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Rafferty, Kusterman, 7 Maher, Manthey and Mayor Reinert 8 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 9 10 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Public Safety Director John 11 Swenson; Community Development Director Grochala; Finance Director Sarah Cotton; 12 Public Services Director DeGardner; City Clerk Julie Bartell. 13 1. Advisory Board Appointments - Administrator Karlson reviewed his written 14 report regarding the one vacancy on the city’s Planning and Zoning Board. One 15 application has been received and staff is requesting that an interview time be established, 16 perhaps prior to the next work session. Staff is also requesting council discussion on the 17 establishment of a public safety advisory board and if the council wishes to appoint two 18 members to such a group and establish a meeting schedule. 19 Mayor Reinert confirmed that there is only one opening to consider for advisory boards 20 and that there is only one applicant. 21 The council concurred that they will conduct an interview prior to the next work session. 22 Regarding the public safety board, Mayor Reinert suggested that Council Member 23 Rafferty would be a good participant since he is willing to do the necessary drill down. 24 Council Member Manthey asked where the concept of the advisory board came from; 25 there’s very little information in the staff report. 26 Council Member Maher said she’d be more supportive of having a quarterly report by the 27 Public Safety Division management to all council members rather than an advisory group. 28 Mayor Reinert and Council member Kusterman said they are indifferent to the form. 29 Administrator Karlson explained that an advisory board would serve mainly as an 30 administrative review group. 31 The council concurred that they will begin with the quarterly review by the full council. 32 2. Fire Fleet – Light Rescue Quick Attack –Public Safety Director Swenson 33 reviewed the most recent information on the purchase of light rescue equipment. Based 34 on new information, he is recommending the purchase of a different (heavier duty) 35 chassis for those vehicles. 36 Mayor Reinert asked how many cities have been effected by this finding that the lighter 37 chassis is isn’t strong enough for the build-out equipment. A representative of the 38 company who made the original recommendations explained that five vehicles were in 39 the process. He further explained how they discovered that the build-out equipment will 40 run overweight on the lighter vehicle. He is willing to pick up half the cost of the 41