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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION JANUARY 4,2006 APPROVED 1 2 CITY OF LINO LAKES 3 MINUTES 4 5 6 DATE : January 4,2006 7 TIME STARTED : 5:35 p.m. 8 TIME ENDED : 10:10 P.M. 9 MEMBERS PRESENT Councilmember Carlson, O'Donnell, 10 Reinert, and Mayor Bergeson 11 MEMBERS ABSENT : Stoltz 12 13 Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Community Development 14 Director,Michael Grochala; City Engineer, Jim Studenski (part); Chief of Police,Dave 15 Pecchia(part); Community Development Coordinator, Mary Alice Divine (part); and City 16 Planner,Jeff Smyser(part); and City Clerk,Julianne Bartell 17 18 19 STORM WATER UTILITY 20 21 Community Development Director Grochala advised incorporated into the Pavement 22 Management Policies, adopted by the City Council in 2005, was the provision to pursue 23 the establishment of a Storm Water Utility. The intent of the Storm Utility is to create a .� 24 dedicated funding source for storm water related components of the street reconstruction 25 program. The utility can also be used,to fund water quality improvement projects and to 26 maintain compliance with mandatory programs such as the National Pollutant Discharge 27 Elimination System(NPDES)programs. 28 29 Community Development Director Grochala stated Short, Elliot, Hedrickson(SEH), Inc., 30 has submitted a proposal to complete the feasibility study not to exceed a cost of$18,000. 31 The report will review the basis behind a Storm Water Utility and its advantages, review 32 of existing storm water utility rates in communities of similar size and propose a utility 33 system methodology and rate structure to meet the City's anticipated storm water 34 program costs. In addition to the written report, the proposal also includes two Public 35 Education/Awareness meetings as well as preparation of an information brochure. 36 37 Community Development Director Grochala stated SEH has an extensive background in 38 working with municipalities to create storm water utilities. Additionally, one of the key 39 components of developing the utility is the use of the City's existing Geographic 40 Information System (GIS) data. SEH has worked extensively with the City's data and 41 this familiarity will stream line the evaluation process and result in a cost savings for the 42 City. 43 44 Mr. Ron Leaf, SEH,reviewed the process for the project noting the key elements of a 45 storm water utility feasibility study. He stated SEH has done many of these studies and is 46 very familiar with them. 1