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Lino Lakes City Council <br />Closed Meeting <br />Minutes <br />DATE: August 18, 2025 <br />TIME STARTED: 5:31P.M. <br />TIME ENDED: 6:30 P.M. <br />LOCATION: Community Room <br />MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Rafferty Councilmembers Ruhland, Lyden and <br />Stoesz <br />MEMBERS EXCUSED ABSENT: Councilmember Cavegn <br />Staff Members Present: City Administrator Karen Anderson, City Clerk Roberta Colotti, and <br />Community Development Director Mike Grochala. <br />Also Attending, Appointed Legal Counsel John Baker. <br />1. Call to Order and Roll Call <br />Mayor Rafferty called the meeting to order at 5:31 p.m. <br />2. Setting the Agenda: Addition or Deletion of Agenda Items <br />The agenda was adopted as presented. <br />3. Announcement <br />Request from the City's appointed legal counsel (John Baker). <br />Litigation is currently pending in a matter entitled Zikar Holdings LLC (and two others) <br />against the City of Lino Lakes (and two others), filed in federal court in September 2024. <br />The Court has entered two orders in that case, and the Plaintiffs and the City have <br />served and responded to significant written discovery requests and are in the deposition <br />stage of discovery. The parties are also required to periodically submit confidential <br />status letters to the Magistrate Judge. The course of that litigation should be informed <br />by a confidential briefing of the City Council by Ms. Swenson and me as the City's <br />counsel in that case, under the attorney -client privilege. So, under Minnesota Statutes <br />Section 13D.05, subdivision 3(b), I respectfully request that a member of the City <br />Council make a motion to close this meeting to the public, after I'm finished reading my <br />request. <br />To more clearly describe the subject of that closed meeting: The Zikar Holdings LLC <br />pending matter arises from several publicly made decisions, including the City's <br />adoption of a one-year moratorium last summer, and the response of the City Council <br />and several boards appointed by the Council to a request by Zikar Holdings LLC for <br />concept plan review. The closed meeting I request would not include a decision by the <br />Council on whether to settle or continue the pending litigation, but would be limited to <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />