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• • • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DATE TIME STARTED TIME ENDED MEMBERS PRESENT MEMBERS ABSENT DRAFT CITY OF LINO LAKES WORK SESSION MINUTES February 2, 2009 : February 2, 2009 . 5:30 p.m. . 8:55 p.m. : Councilmember Gallup, O'Donnell, Reinert, Stoltz and Mayor Bergeson Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Community Development Director, Mike Grochala; Chief of Police, Dave Pecchia; City Planners, Jeff Smyser and Paul Bengtson; and City Clerk, Julie Bartell 1. Approval of Invoice for Services to Charter Commission — Administrator Heitke reported that the Charter Commission has submitted an invoice for payment for some 2008 services however their 2008 budget has been overspent. Staff is seeking council direction prior to processing the expenditure since it is outside of the approved budget. In response to a council question, Mr. Heitke explained that the funds to make the requested payment would come from remaining overall fund balance or, if there is none, fund reserves. The council identified that the submitted bill was not itemized and requested that staff obtain an itemization of the charges; the council will consider the bill with that additional information at work session on February. 2. Fire Department - Lease Agreement with North Ambulance — Centennial Fire Chief Jerry Streich reported that in the course of a liability survey by the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust it was discovered that although a North Memorial ambulance is currently providing services out of Fire Station No.2, there is no contract over that situation. The League identified some potential issues with this uncontracted situation related to potential liability, financial considerations and employee standards. Staff is seeking council direction on the development of a contract. The council directed the City Administrator to work with Chief Streich to initiate development of an appropriate contract to address the aforementioned issues and to report back to the council with a recommendation. 40 3. Fire a Department — Standardization of Burning Permit Fees — Centennial Fire 41 Chief Jerry Streich explained that permits for open burning are issued by the Fire District. 42 Since the District includes three municipalities that independently set fees, the fee amount 43 is not consistent. He is recommending that the three cities, Lino Lakes, Circle Pines and 44 Centerville, all adopt the same fee amount for this permit. His recommendation is $50 to 1 -22_