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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION February 24, 2014 DRAFT CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 MINUTES 2 3 DATE : February 24, 2014 4 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 5 TIME ENDED : 6:20 p.m. 6 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Stoesz, Kusterman, 7 Rafferty, Roeser and Mayor Reinert 8 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 9 10 11 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Community Development 12 Director Michael Grochala; Public Safety Director John Swenson. 13 14 1. Dave Unmacht, Springsted – Proposal for Fire Department Analysis (also present, 15 Terri Heaton of Springsted and via phone Mr. Patrick Simpson) – Ms. Heaton noted that 16 she serves as financial advisor for the city and has interest in seeing the best analysis and 17 services involved in a venture of this nature; she reported that she is comfortable that the 18 services of both Mr. Simpson and Mr. Unmacht will be just that. 19 20 Dave Unmacht reviewed the written proposal he has provided. The project would 21 include the involvement of Mr. Simpson who has extensive experience in the area of fire 22 services. He reviewed the list of specific objectives. He explained that he recognizes the 23 importance of credibility in going through a process such as this and in reaching an 24 outcome based on fair and objective information. He reviewed the tasks and deliverables 25 that would be expected through this process. Fees and expenses are also estimated in the 26 report. Mayor Reinert asked about the timeline and Mr. Unmacht indicated the two to 27 three month estimate but that they will work for a shorter time frame. Council Member 28 Rafferty asked Mr. Simpson about his work with the City of Roseville where they 29 consolidated to one station. Mr. Simpson explained that they started with a goal of 30 reducing from three to two stations which they achieved but then the city did come to a 31 point later (without his involvement) where they consolidated to one station. For Lino 32 Lakes, there are national benchmarks established for response times and they will be the 33 guide. Council Member Roeser asked Mr. Simpson if he has experience in doing 34 public/private partnership and he explained his background that includes some of that 35 work. Mr. Unmacht noted that the City of Chanhassen was inadvertently not mentioned 36 in the experience section of the report and he and Mr. Simpson explained their recent 37 work assisting that city in determining how to meet their needs without building another 38 station. Council Member Roeser asked if they will be able to deal with the areas of the 39 city without water hydrants and Mr. Simpson explained how that situation can be 40 addressed; he has certainly dealt with it before. 41 42 Council Member Kusterman asked if the result of the study will be a document that the 43 council and others can review and Mr. Unmacht said yes. Mayor Reinert said he is 44 comfortable with moving forward with this first phase. 45 1