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COUNCIL MINUTES <br />APPROVED <br />1 CITY OF LINO LAKES <br />2 LINO LAKES CITY COUNCIL <br />3 REGULAR MEETING <br />4 MINUTES <br />5 <br />6 DATE April 27, 2020 <br />7 TIME STARTED 6:30 p.m. <br />8 TIME ENDED 8:07 p.m. <br />9 MEMBERS PRESENT Council Member Stoesz, Lyden, <br />10 Ruhland, Cavegn and Mayor Rafferty (via <br />11 Zoom) <br />12 MEMBERS ABSENT <br />13 <br />14 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Finance Director Sarah Cotton; Director of <br />15 Public Safety John Swenson; Public Services Director Rick DeGardner; Community Development <br />16 Director Michael Grochala; City Engineer Diane Hankee; Utilities Supervisor Justin Williams; and <br />17 City Clerk Julie Bartell <br />18 <br />19 The council meeting was held telephonically on the Zoom Meeting platform and as allowed by <br />20 Minnesota Statutes 13D.021. <br />21 <br />22 PUBLIC COMMENT <br />23 Wayne LeBlanc, 1677 Peltier Lake Drive, representative of the environment for many years, <br />24 including working with restoring the Heron colony on Peltier Island. He works with the <br />25 Environmental Board. (He noted that comments were submitted by email to the council.) He has <br />26 concerns with the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) and in particular the citizen advisory <br />27 operation which is supposed to be independent and listening to the public and should be free in their <br />28 discussion. Instead that advisory group is being controlled too much by the RCWD staff, he was <br />29 banned from discussing an issue. The information he wished to discuss was a water quality issue <br />30 and he noted the professional expertise behind it. His suggestion is to ask RCWD some questions <br />31 about the citizens committee (included in Mr. LeBlanc's email to the City). Mayor Rafferty <br />32 thanked Mr. LeBlanc and suggested that the council see what answers can be obtained. <br />33 Mayor Rafferty read a message he'd received. Jamie Jensen, developer of St. Clair Estates in Lino <br />34 Lakes, asked the council for assistance in obtaining funds back from the City. <br />35 SETTING THE AGENDA <br />36 The agenda had been amended to remove Items 8A and 8B. <br />37 CONSENT AGENDA <br />38 Councilmember Stoesz moved to approve the Consent Agenda, Items lA through lE as presented. <br />39 Councilmember Lyden seconded the motion. Motion carried: Yeas, 5; Nays none. <br />40 <br />41 ITEM ACTION <br />42 Consideration of Expenditures. <br />43 A) April 27, 2020 (Check No. 112088 through 112185) in <br />44 the Amount of $637,430.90. Approved <br />1 <br />