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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION <br />DRAFT <br /> 1 <br />CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 <br />MINUTES 2 <br /> 3 <br />DATE : September 23, 2019 4 <br />TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 5 <br />TIME ENDED : 5:50 p.m. 6 <br />MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Maher, Manthey, Stoesz 7 <br /> and Mayor Reinert 8 <br />MEMBERS ABSENT : Council Member Rafferty 9 <br /> 10 <br />Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Public Safety Director John 11 <br />Swenson; Community Development Director Michael Grochala; Finance Director Sarah 12 <br />Cotton; City Clerk Julie Bartell 13 <br /> 14 <br />2020 Budget Consideration – City Finance Director Cotton explained that the 15 <br />resolutions prepared for the budget and included in the council packet are based on the 16 <br />last council discussion. She announced that employee health care costs to the City will be 17 <br />decreasing by 5% resulting in a monetary savings of $39,000. How would the council 18 <br />like to reflect that change? Mayor Reinert suggested that the budget should be decreased 19 <br />by the amount rather than considering an increase to expenditures. Mayor Reinert said 20 <br />he’d prefer to have the funds used to reduce taxes to the residents. Ms. Cotton said that 21 <br />would result in a levy of $10,551,518 or a 4.93% increase and a tax rate of 39.944 22 <br />percent, or a 2.56% increase. She explained that the 2.56% increase is mostly 23 <br />representative of personnel salary and street maintenance. Administrator Karlson 24 <br />explained that the council could adopt the levy minus a certain amount with staff directed 25 <br />to decrease the budget by that amount. It was clarified that with a reduction of $60,000 26 <br />the tax rate would become 39.680 percent. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Administrator Karlson said that it will be very difficult to cut an additional $60,000 and it 29 <br />will probably have to involve personnel. Mayor Reinert explained that the valuation 30 <br />numbers aren’t final and they could push the rate past 40 percent again; that happened the 31 <br />previous year. He’s hopeful that there will be savings or other funding identified through 32 <br />the rest of the year. 33 <br /> 34 <br />The meeting was adjourned at 5:50 p.m. 35 <br /> 36 <br />These minutes were considered, corrected and approved at the regular Council meeting held on 37 <br />October 14, 2019. 38 <br /> 39 <br /> 40 <br /> 41 <br /> 42 <br />Julianne Bartell, City Clerk Jeff Reinert, Mayor 43