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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DRAFT 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : April 25, 2022 5 TIME STARTED : 6:00 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 6:25 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Stoesz, Lyden, 8 Cavegn and Mayor Rafferty 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : Councilmember Ruhland 10 Staff members present: City Administrator Sarah Cotton; Human Resources and 11 Communications Manager Meg Sawyer; Community Development Director Michael 12 Grochala; City Engineer Diane Hankee; Director of Public Safety John Swenson; 13 1. Review Regular Agenda 14 Item 3A — Compensation Plan for Part -Time Rookery Activity Center Personnel — 15 Administrator Cotton reviewed the staff report. The salaries presented have differing 16 levels and staff would intend to place people based on their experience and qualifications. 17 18 Councilmember Cavegn said he's concerned that the rates may be too low, especially in 19 comparison to pay being offered for jobs such as restaurant worker. Will the City be able 20 to attract personnel with these rates? Ms. Cotton said staff is concerned as well but plans 21 to use the scale and will adjust as necessary. Mayor Rafferty concurred that the rates 22 may be too low to hold people. Councilmember Stoesz noted Item 3B that indicates that 23 there are individuals who are accepting the rate of pay. Administrator Cotton noted that 24 staff is cognizant of the link between expenditures and revenues for the Rookery finances. 25 Ms. Cotton indicated that she's been doing research on the wage market for these type of 26 jobs and it does vary. Councilmember Cavegn asked about increasing the maximum 27 range to allow for flexibility if needed. Ms. Cotton suggested seeing how the job fair 28 goes and go forward knowing that the wage scale can be amended in the future. 29 30 Regarding Item 3B, Administrator Cotton noted that the City Code requires staff to bring 31 all names forward for council action. She wonders if the council would be comfortable 32 with individuals starting prior, knowing that action will still be required. The council 33 concurred. 34 Item 5A — Parking Lot Improvement (The Rookery) — City Engineer Hankee reviewed 35 the written staff report requesting authorization to contract for improvement of the 36 parking lot at The Rookery. The quote amount was noted. The work would be funded 37 through ARP funds. She added that one parking lot will be done at a time to allow some 38 parking to remain. Councilmember Stoesz asked if infrastructure for outside electrical 39 could be run to the north lot for future event use; staff indicated that type of work would 40 be outside of available funding. 41 42 Item 6A — West Shadow Lake Drive — City Engineer Hankee noted the two requested 1