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COUNCIL MINUTES January 21, 2014 DRAFT 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 MINUTES 2 3 4 DATE : January 21 , 2014 5 TIME STARTED : 5:35 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 6:21 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council M ember Stoesz , Kusterman, Rafferty , 8 Roeser , and Mayor Reinert 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : none 10 11 St aff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; and City Clerk Julie Bartell 12 13 PUBLIC COMMENT 14 15 No one wa s present to address the council regarding a matter not on the agenda. 16 17 SETTING THE AGENDA 18 19 The agenda was approved as presented. 20 21 ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT REPORT 22 23 3A) Consideration of Resolution No. 14 -05, Approving an Amendment to Section 2.6 of the 24 Centennial Fire District Joint Powers Agreement – Mayor Reinert explained that there has been 25 discussion over the past weeks about the structure of the city’s joint powers agreement with 26 Centennial Fire District (CFD) and rece ntly there was unanimous request of the council to seek an 27 amendment to that agreement. The amendment o riginally proposed was not passed by the other 28 member cities and more disc ussion occurred before the Fire District Steering Committee. The 29 amendment before the council now came forward from that discussion and for it to pass it must also 30 be approved by all CFD member cities (Lino Lakes, Centerville and Circle Pines). He explai ned the 31 amendment as it was forwarded by the Steering Committee. If there is a situation where both 32 delegates from one m ember city vote against a question, that question would fail even if all the other 33 mem bers voted in favor. This power would be limited to four vetoes per year. Mayor Reinert added 34 that he feels it is important to have this power to allow for more discussion when there is that level of 35 concern or question about that issue before the District. 36 37 Council Member Stoesz moved to approve Reso lution No. 14 -05 as presented. Council Member 38 Roeser seconded the motion for the purpose of discussion. 39 40 Council Member Roeser explained that, as a member of the Steering Committee, he voted nay on this 41 amendmen t. His nay vote is not reflective on th e fine service s of the fire fighters but rather 42 represents his concern about governance. He has given the matter of the CFD governance much 43 thought and he is most concerned about the impact on the people that he represents. His issue is that 44 the veto lim it set in the amendment was reached arbitrarily and the way it is now worded allows the 45