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MINUTES <br />CHARTER COMMISSION OF LINO LAKES, MINNESOTA <br />MAY 4, 1995 <br />LINO LAKES CITY HALL <br />1. Call to Order <br />The meeting was called to order at 7:12 P.M.. by Chair Ron Solfest <br />Roll Call: Present were Mark Benson, William Bohjanen, Robert Doocy, Joyce Scharpen, <br />Bart Rehbein, Ron Solfest, Robert Williams and Steve Montain. Arriving after roll call were <br />William Houle, Dana Berg and Richard Lafond. <br />2. Minutes of the March 30, 1995 meeting were approved, with the name of John Powell added as <br />Acting City Engineer under item 4. <br />3. A presentation was given by Acting City Engineer John Powell and Public Works Supervisor <br />Tom DeWolf regarding the amount of non -city maintained roadway (45.6 miles) and city maintained <br />roadways (77.9 miles including 9.0 miles of municipal state aid streets), the age of the roadways, <br />amount of local road construction over the past four years, the costs of road maintenance, miles of <br />reconstruction needs and typical reconstruction costs. The city has 5.58 miles of roadways in need of <br />reconstruction, but no way to pay for the projects. The charter doesn't allow an area -wide tax to pay <br />for improvements. Any assessment made to the property owner must be offset by a proven, equal, <br />increase in property values. Discussion centered on ways to amend the charter to allow the city to <br />raise the funds necessary to maintain and/or reconstruct roads in the city. <br />A number of ideas were discussed with the commission members agreeing that more information <br />was needed before any official action was taken. Six options were decided upon. The members <br />agreed to divide up the options among them, define the option, study the pros and cons of the option, <br />present their findings and make specific recommendations at the next meeting. The options and study <br />groups were divided as follows: <br />1. Abandon the Charter entirely - Bohjanen and Houle <br />2. Abandon Section 8 of the charter and substitute it with State Statute 429 - Rehbein and <br />Benson <br />3. Abandon Section 8 but substituting certain provisions and safeguards - Solfest and Doocy <br />4. Amending Section 8, the section regarding assessments and tax revenues - Berg and <br />Scharpen <br />5. Setting up a construction zone, abandon Section 8 only in those areas until the construction <br />work is done. This would be a floating zone - Montain and Solfest <br />6. Do nothing - Williams <br />A motion was made to narrow the options down to one. Motion carried. <br />4. Next meeting - June 1. The July 13 meeting is canceled. <br />5. Adjourned 9:25 P.M. <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />-6110-4ever <br />Bob Doocy <br />