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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION December 19, 2013 DRAFT 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 MINUTES 2 3 DATE : December 19, 2013 4 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 5 TIME ENDED : 6:2 0 p.m. 6 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council M ember Stoesz (arr @5:40pm), 7 O’Donnell, Rafferty , Roeser (arr @5:41 pm) 8 and Mayor Reinert 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 10 11 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Community Development 12 Director Michael Grochala; Julie Ba rtell, City Clerk. 13 14 1. Update on Amendment to Centennial Fire District (CFD) Joint Powers 15 Agreement (JPA)– Administrator Karlson explained that the CFD Steering Committee 16 has been having discussions about the governance of the District. The steering grou p is 17 made up of two representatives from each of the three member cities (Lino Lakes, 18 Centerville and Circle Pines). A restructure idea was brought forward by Lino Lakes but 19 was voted down by the two other cities. The group has now agreed to the concept of 20 extending the time of discussion by 30 days to allow more time to consider a change. 21 Each council must approve that action in the fo rm of an amendment to the JPA – an 22 amendment that would allow more time to hamme r out an agreement . 23 24 Mayor Reinert comme nted that things seem to be moving in a positive direction with 25 participation of all cities in the discussion. He is committed to having as many meetings 26 as is necessary to review the matter. 27 28 Council Member Rafferty noted that although he is not a memb er of the steering 29 committee, he has attended recent meetings of the group. He could see that there was 30 some misunderstanding or perhaps questions about the change to the JPA proposed by 31 Lino Lakes. More time is appropriate. He also noted that City staf f has done a great job 32 cutting costs and reducing the city’s budget but yet the Fire Department budget isn’t 33 handled through the same process. 34 35 Council Member Roeser spoke to the propos ed amendment that would grant veto power 36 and noted that the powers prop osed would be granted to all three cities. He is aware that 37 there are issues ahead for the Fire District and it is important to have the governance of 38 the district on good ground with a good process to get through those issu es. Mayor 39 Reinert agreed, not ing that it is sensible to have the discussion about a governance change 40 now because it will be inevitable down the line. There must be discussions about the 41 elements of the Fire Department’s budget, understanding that individual city councils do 42 not have line item control over that budget. 43 44