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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION March 25, 2013 DRAFT 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 MINUTES 2 3 DATE : March 25, 2013 4 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 5 TIME ENDED : 6:30 p.m. 6 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council M ember Stoesz , O’Donnell, 7 Rafferty , Roeser and Mayor Reinert 8 MEMBERS ABSENT : N one 9 10 11 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Community Development 12 Director Michael Grochala; Public Safety Director John Swenson; Economic 13 Development Coordi nator Mary Alice Divine; City Planner Katie Larsen; City Engineer 14 Jason Wedel; City Clerk Julie Bartell 15 16 2. Review Regular Council Agenda of March 25, 2013 – The agenda was 17 reviewed and summarized comments follow. 18 19 Item 3A, Two -Year Labor Agreement with IUOE Local 49 – Administrator Karlson 20 reviewed the terms of the proposed agreement covering 2012 and 2013. Council Member 21 O’Donnell urged staff to begin negotiating t he 2014 agreements early so they can be in 22 place at the beginning of the year they cover. When the mayor suggested holding off on 23 this agreement so as to include 2014, Administrator Karlson recommended against 24 holding up this agreement. Council Member Roeser indicated that he still has questions 25 about providing cash for a waiver on health in surance; that is a practice not seen in the 26 private market. Administrator Karlson explained that the waiver amount was awarded as 27 part of the arbitration in this case but it doesn’t necessarily affect the future. 28 29 When the mayor suggested that the coun cil have a conversation about the process for 30 labor agreements with an understanding that they’d like to have them in place for budget 31 consideration, Administrator Karlson stated that he’s like to include a discussion of the 32 Public Employees Labor Relation s Act (PELRA) in an upcoming priority setting session. 33 Council Member Roeser noted that employees should be aware of how their union 34 represents them in negotiations and that delayed agreements can result in less value 35 (inflation) in wage increase. 36 37 Item 6 A, Resolution No. 13 -36, Execution of Anoka County Agreement for 2013 38 Residential Recycling Program – Community Development Director Grochala reviewed 39 the terms of proposed contract and added that staff is hopeful of getting some extra 40 funding based on in creased tonnage (the now monthly recycling day in the city has helped 41 a lot). 42 43 1. Outdoor Storage in Industrial Zones - Mayor Reinert announced that he and 44 Council Member Roeser agreed to add this discussion. There is an industrial property in 45