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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION January 6, 2014 DRAFT 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 MINUTES 2 3 DATE : January 6, 2014 4 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 5 TIME ENDED : 6:30 p.m. 6 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Stoesz , Kusterman, 7 Rafferty , Roeser and Mayor Reinert 8 MEMBERS ABSENT : N one 9 10 11 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Community Development 12 Director Michael Grochala; City Engineer Jason Wedel; Finance Director Al Rolek; 13 Public Ser vices Director Rick DeGardner; Public Safety Director John Swenson; City 14 Clerk Julie Bartell. 15 16 Oath of Office – Jeff Reinert, Rob Rafferty, and William Kusterman – City Clerk 17 Bartell administered the oath to Mayor Reinert; Mayor Reinert administered the oa th to 18 Council Members Rafferty and Kusterman. 19 20 1. Pavement Management Program – Community Development Director Grochala 21 overviewed the city’s pavement management program and funding sources. He explained 22 options if the city is to move forward and fund fu ture reconstruction improvements : one -23 hundred percent special assessment; a combination of special assessments and property 24 taxes (using improvement bonds); one -hundred percent street reconstruction bonding. 25 26 Cou ncil Member Kusterman asked if only the r esidents of a re con s truction area are 27 allowed to petition against a project under opti on two? Mr. Grochala confirmed th at is 28 the case adding that, under the city charter, if the project doesn’t fail due to that petition it 29 goes to the ballot for referendu m. Council Member Rafferty asked how soon a project 30 that is turned down by the voters can it be brought back again and Mr. Grochala 31 explained that it cannot be reconsidered for a year. Council Member Roeser wondered 32 about the possibility of approaching the Charter Commission right away wi th a proposal 33 (such as the task force proposal ) to start a dialogue. Mr. Grochala indicated that the task 34 force proposal was basically the amendment considered in 2012. The Mayor noted that 35 providing informatio n to the Charter Commission (with its new members) is a good idea. 36 He further suggests that working with the Charter and moving to get a pro ject done are 37 both good ideas since it is important to get some improvement done because roads 38 continue to deteriorate (he mentioned the Shenandoah neighborhood as a possibility). 39 40 A resident of Hokah Drive, in the Shenandoah neighborhood, addressed the council. He 41 noted that the last time a reconstruction project was proposed for his neighborhood , there 42 were individual pr operty a ssessments proposed of approximately $18,000 and that caused 43 much concern. The Mayor noted that th os e assessment s included utilities though and 44 that is somethi ng that the city may rethink; if a neighborhood has wells in place and 45