03-25-2013 Council Work Session Minutes

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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION March 25, 2013 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : March 25, 2013 5 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 6:30 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Stoesz, O'Donnell, 8 Rafferty, Roeser and Mayor Reinert 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 10 11 12 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Community Development 13 Director Michael Grochala; Public Safety Director John Swenson; Economic 14 Development Coordinator Mary Alice Divine; City Planner Katie Larsen; City Engineer 15 Jason Wedel; City Clerk Julie Bartell 16 17 2. Review Regular Council Agenda of March 25, 2013 — The agenda was 18 reviewed and summarized comments follow. 19 20 Item 3A, Two -Year Labor Agreement with IUOE Local 49 — Administrator Karlson 21 reviewed the teens of the proposed agreement covering 2012 and 2013. Council Member 22 O'Donnell urged staff to begin negotiating the 2014 agreements early so they can be in 23 place at the beginning of the year they cover. When the mayor suggested holding off on 24 this agreement so as to include 2014, Administrator Karlson recommended against 25 holding up this agreement. Council Member Roeser indicated that he still has questions 26 about providing cash for a waiver on health insurance; that is a practice not seen in the 27 private market. Administrator Karlson explained that the waiver amount was awarded as 28 part of the arbitration in this case but it doesn't necessarily affect the future. 29 30 When the mayor suggested that the council have a conversation about the process for 31 labor agreements with an understanding that they'd like to have them in place for budget 32 consideration, Administrator Karlson stated that he's like to include a discussion of the 33 Public Employees Labor Relations Act (PELRA) in an upcoming priority setting session. 34 Council Member Roeser noted that employees should be aware of how their union 35 represents them in negotiations and that delayed agreements can result in less value 36 (inflation) in wage increase. 37 38 Item 6A, Resolution No. 13 -36, Execution of Anoka County Agreement for 2013 39 Residential Recycling Program — Community Development Director Grochala reviewed 40 the terms of proposed contract and added that staff is hopeful of getting some extra 41 funding based on increased tonnage (the now monthly recycling day in the city has helped 42 a lot). 43 44 1. Outdoor Storage in Industrial Zones - Mayor Reinert announced that he and 45 Council Member Roeser agreed to add this discussion. There is an industrial property in 1