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MINUTES Charter Commission of Lino Lakes, MN March 30, 1995 Page 7 of 2 Lino ulcers City gall 1. Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 7:15prn by Ron Solfest, Chair Aall Cali - The following members were present: Marls Benson, William Bohjanon, William Houle, Paul Montain, .Joyce Scharpen, Bart Rehbein, Ronald Solfest, Diana Turner, Hobert Williams 2. Minutes of October 13, 1994 & February 9, 1995 were aw-wved as presented. 3. EDAAB Report - Brian Wessel An Update on the land exchange with Anoka County was given. The Viet Council has denkA the proposal since it would convert public land to private use. Brian will be going back to Met Council with a revised proposal that maintains public ownership of the County land to be acquired by the City. In addition, Brian reviewed the status of development in Apollo Business Park. 4. Fresentalion on street improvements -Torn DeWolfe and Acting City Engineer John and Tout gave an overview of the maintenance status of the existing City Streets that are deteriorating and discussed the problems the City is facing too make the major investment Improvements than are needed. In general` th¢ problem is that the Charter does not allow general funds to be used In reeonstructlon projects and the Charter does not allow assessing for improvements If a majority of property owners do not approve the proposed improvement, lifter mu-,h discussion of this issue among the Commission members it was decided Vial a letter would be written to the City Council from the Commission requesting that they direct the City Engineer to provide a more detailed reportfprespntation on the status of the Lire lakes streets and cost estimates for Improvements_ The letter will request that this information be presented to the Commission at our next meeting scheduled for May 4, 1995. C O N T I N U E D See Next Page