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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DRAFT 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 MINUTES 2 3 DATE : October 11, 2021 4 TIME STARTED : 6:00 p.m. 5 TIME ENDED : 6:25 p.m. 6 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Stoesz, Lyden, 7 Cavegn and Mayor Rafferty 8 MEMBERS ABSENT : Councilmember Ruhland 9 Staff members present: City Administrator Sarah Cotton; Human Resources and 10 Communications Manager Meg Sawyer; Communications Specialist Andrea Turner; 11 Community Development Director Michael Grochala; City Engineer Diane Hankee; 12 Director of Public Safety John Swenson; City Clerk Julie Bartell 13 14 1. Polling Locations and Redistricting Update – City Clerk Bartell updated the 15 council on: 16 - the City’s responsibility to designate polling locations for 2022 (prior to the end of 17 2021); 18 - the staff recommendation to change one polling location (remove Rice Lake 19 Elementary and initiate use of Lino Lakes Fire Station No. 2); 20 - the staff recommendation to use the fire station for Precinct Six voters and Living 21 Waters Church for Precinct Seven voters; 22 - redistricting will occur in 2022, prior to fall elections; 23 - cities will be allowed to amend their designated polling locations in 2022; 24 - the City may have to amend precinct lines based on redistricting changes, or may 25 want to take the opportunity to amend precinct lines (i.e. for voter convenience, 26 populations shifts). 27 Councilmember Lyden remarked that the upside of using school facilities is that people 28 are very familiar with them (because their children are or have been there). 29 Mayor Rafferty recalled that there were concerns in the past about how the fire station 30 could accommodate voting as it wasn’t designed for that purpose. Director Swenson 31 explained that there are security requirements that must be met by public safety staff. 32 Administrator Cotton added that staff has met at the building and she feels that plans can 33 be developed and implemented that make the facility usable for voting. The council 34 heard about the necessity to plan for parking and for operations should a large public 35 safety event occur. 36 Councilmember Stoesz asked about other changes to polling locations or precincts that 37 could be sensible, such as combining two smaller precincts. City Clerk Bartell suggested 38 that it would make the most sense for the council to look at more changes after 39 redistricting implications are clear. 40