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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION September 4, 2018 <br />DRAFT <br /> 3 <br />hates that the project cost keeps rising but that’s indicative of all construction costs now. 91 <br />He remarked that if it isn’t done now, it probably won’t get done or will cost even more. 92 <br />Council Member Maher said she isn’t comfortable putting in facilities for properties that 93 <br />aren’t there yet. Director Grochala explained that the water looping isn’t about future 94 <br />development but for maintenance and service and would improve the system; the 95 <br />infrastructure would serve one existing house and also be available to the park. 96 <br /> 97 <br />Community Development Director Grochala explained that the LaMotte portion of the 98 <br />project will be on the next council agenda to award the bid. The WSL project will next 99 <br />be considered at the assessment hearing, with more to be worked out. 100 <br /> 101 <br />5. Council Compensation – City Administrator Karlson explained that staff has 102 <br />conducted a salary survey regarding salaries for city council members and mayors (cities 103 <br />of comparable size). Staff has found that Lino Lakes’ elected officials are paid well 104 <br />below the amounts seen in other cities of similar size. Staff has proposed an ordinance 105 <br />changing salaries as of January 2020, and amending language relative to special meeting 106 <br />pay. 107 <br /> 108 <br />Mayor Reinert remarked that he isn’t comfortable getting a larger percentage increase 109 <br />than the council members; perhaps the raise could be an average of the two. In any case, 110 <br />he won’t accept any percentage that is larger than what council members receive. 111 <br /> 112 <br />Mayor Reinert suggested also looking ahead. He realizes that the council cannot legislate 113 <br />raises infinitum but perhaps there could be language that ties future salary to other 114 <br />numbers (i.e. staff compensation). Council Member Stoesz and Rafferty expressed 115 <br />concern about that type of arrangement. 116 <br /> 117 <br />The council and administrator discussed possible ways for future council salary 118 <br />consideration. 119 <br /> 120 <br />Council Member Manthey said he’d like to understand clearly that that the salaries noted 121 <br />for other cities represent a similar amount of duties (i.e. number of meetings per month). 122 <br /> 123 <br />Council Member Rafferty suggested increasing per meeting salary for the Economic 124 <br />Development Authority (EDA) members to $40. The council concurred. 125 <br /> 126 <br />The council concurred that they will consider an increase for the council members and 127 <br />mayor of 39%. 128 <br /> 129 <br />Mayor Reinert asked the administrator to do a recap of the discussion and forward to the 130 <br />council. He wants to make sure everyone is in agreement; if not, he would prefer not to 131 <br />do it. 132 <br /> 133 <br />On the matter of future increases, Council Member Rafferty said he’d be comfortable 134