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• • • CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION MARCH 25--27, 2004 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 LEADERSHIP WORK SESSION MINUTES 3 4 5 DATE : March 25 - 27, 2004 6 TIME STARTED : 5:30 P.M., March 25, 2004 7 TIME ENDED : 4:30 P.M., March 27, 2004 8 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmembers Carlson, Dahl, Reinert, Stoltz and 9 Mayor Bergeson 10 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 11 12 Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Finance Director, Al Rolek; Public 13 Services Director, Rick DeGardner; Community Development Director, Michael Grochala; Public 14 Safety Director, Dave Pecchia and Consultant Carl Neu. 15 16 AGENDA 17 18 The work session meeting was called to order on Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 5:30 p.m. All council 19 members were present. 20 21 Carl Neu, workshop facilitator, presented and discussed concepts related to how councils function as 22 teams. The Strength Development Inventory (SDI), previously completed by council members, was 23 reviewed and discussed to assess how individual's strengths are used in relating to others and how 24 they change in different conditions. 25 26 The workshop was recessed at 9:30 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. Friday, March 26, 2004. 27 28 The workshop was reconvened by Acting Mayor Donna Carlson on Friday, March 26, 2004 at 1:10 29 p.m. 30 31 Staff present for the remainder of the workshop included City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Finance 32 Director, Al Rolek, Public Services Director, Rick DeGardner; Director of Administration, Dan 33 Tesch; Community Development Director, Michael Grochala; Public Safety Director, Dave Pecchia. 34 Mayor Bergeson joined the meeting at 1:15 p.m. The remaining Councilmembers were present. 35 36 Workshop facilitator, Carl Neu, continued to present an overview of the concepts and characteristics 37 of highly effective city councils. The council and management team engaged in an exercise to 38 evaluate interpersonal and rational processes utilized in group decision making. 39 40 The concept of the council — staff partnership together with factors and elements contributing to its 41 effectiveness was reviewed. 42 43 Motion by Councilmember Reinert, seconded by Councilmember Stoltz, to recess the workshop at 44 8:00 p.m., to be reconvened Saturday, March 27, 2004 at 8:00 a.m. The motion passed unanimously. 45 46 Mayor Bergeson reconvened the workshop at 8:15 a.m. All of the Councilmembers were present. 47 Discussions continued regarding the roles of council and staff from the perspectives of: function, 48 performance, and wants and needs. Staff and council identified what was desired and expected of 49 each other.