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