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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 40 41 42 43 44 45 CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DATE TIME STARTED TIME ENDED MEMBERS PRESENT MEMBERS ABSENT DRAFT CITY OF LINO LAKES MINUTES SPECIAL WORK SESSION May 14, 2009 : May 14, 2009 . 1:00 p.m. . 4:20 p.m. : Council Member Gallup, O'Donnell, Stoltz and Mayor Bergeson : Council Member Reinert Also Present: Acting Administrator, Dan Tesch; Community Development Director, Michael Grochala; Public Safety Director, Dave Pecchia; Public Services Director, Rick DeGardner, Finance Director, Al Rolek Others present Facilitator Lisa Lynn of Lynn and Associates STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION Ms. Lynn recalled that the council had met the previous Saturday in a special work session on the matter of strategic planning. A document outlining the strategic profile discussion of the council was distributed (on file). The document is intended to guide the city as budget and other policy decisions are made. The council would now like to discuss the profile with key staff and coordinate ideas to move ahead The council's views on the city's core culture and value proposition were reviewed. The three core values identified by the council are operational excellence, program/service leader and customer intimacy. These are values that should drive future decisions. Ms. Lynn pointed out some of the desired outcomes from these strategy sessions including: how to deal with the economic crisis, values as leaders, collaborative relationship with staff and how to manage spending, and desired city administrator characteristics. The vision statements developed by the council will also be reviewed. It was noted that the statement "Lino Lakes — a city with a vision" is on the city's Web site but what vision does that represent? Staff responded to the draft vision statements of the council: life cycle housing is not a reality right now the idea that Lino Lakes is rural isn't really accurate anymore; rural isn't accurate but perhaps the idea is more toward conservation of amenities; have to walk the talk about development of different types of housing. Those present broke up into small groups (staff with a council member) to talk further about vision statement ideas. Groups reported that they discussed how housing variety could be achieved — adopt the comp plan, bring in amenities that would help bring in affordable but not necessarily subsidized housing, can a vision statement be too specific because there are a lot of words that trigger bad feelings, generally the idea is "a great place to live ", safety should be an aspect also. "Lino Lakes — a safe place to live, work and play - for life" was the generally accepted vision statement.