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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 27, 2021 4 <br />TIME STARTED : 6:00 p.m. 5 <br />TIME ENDED : 6:25 p.m. 6 <br />MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Stoesz, Lyden, Ruhland, 7 <br /> Cavegn and Mayor Rafferty 8 <br />MEMBERS ABSENT : None 9 <br />Staff members present: City Administrator Sarah Cotton; Finance Director Hannah 10 <br />Lynch; Human Resources Coordinator Meg Sawyer; Communications Specialist Andrea 11 <br />Turner; Community Development Director Michael Grochala; City Planner Katie Larsen; 12 <br />City Engineer Diane Hankee; Director of Public Safety John Swenson; City Clerk Julie 13 <br />Bartell 14 <br /> 15 <br />1. Review Regular Agenda of September 27, 2021 – 16 <br /> 17 <br />Item 2A – 2C – Finance Director Lynch reviewed her written reports noting changes 18 <br />impacted by the tax capacity and health insurance rates. Also added is a part time 19 <br />recreation coordinator and warming houses funding. She noted the tax rate ceiling. The 20 <br />council can certainly meet further and can decrease the number. Actions are also 21 <br />included on the council agenda to set the taxation public hearing and cancel unneeded 22 <br />debt service. 23 <br /> 24 <br />Item 3A – Hiring of Police Officer – HR and Communications Manager Sawyer 25 <br />reviewed the applicant’s education. Public Safety Director Swenson explained that 26 <br />officers that come to the department with no experience will typically receive additional 27 <br />training. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Item 3B – Increasing Pension Benefit to Firefighters – Ms. Sawyer reviewed the 30 <br />proposal noting it would come at no cost to the City. Administrator Cotton noted that this 31 <br />action wouldn’t impact the stability of the City’s position and would in fact help retain 32 <br />personnel. 33 <br /> 34 <br />Item 3C – Allocation of Fire Aid to Pension Contributions – Ms. Sawyer explained 35 <br />that this will start the process for reimbursement. Director Swenson added that this is a 36 <br />separate action to Item 3B. 37 <br /> 38 <br />Item 6A – Moratorium Ordinance on Mini Self Storage Facilities – Planner Larsen 39 <br />explained staff’s recommendation for a one year moratorium to give staff and the council 40 <br />time to review the situation and consider appropriate regulation updates. Councilmember 41 <br />Lyden remarked that he is interested in looking at the whole concept of storage facilities. 42 <br /> 43