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COUNCIL MINUTES MAY 24, 2004 APPROVED 1 Public Services Director DeGardner stated that Staff is recommending that the City Code be amended 2 to include an odd/even water -sprinkling ban through September 15th. He explained the reasons for 3 the request, including fines that DNR imposes on cities for exceeding their annual water approvals. 4 He stated that the city would be enforcing the water -sprinkling ban with fines, although the City 5 would be primarily educating the public this year regarding the ban. 6 7 Acting Mayor Carlson opened the public hearing at 6:47 p.m. 8 9 There were no public comments. 10 11 Councilmember Dahl moved to close the public hearing. Councilmember Reinert seconded the 12 motion. 13 14 Motion carried unanimously. 15 16 Councilmember Dahl moved to approve the FIRST READING of Ordinance 14-04, Amending City 17 Code to Include Sprinkling Ban, as outlined in the staff report. Councilmember Reinert seconded the 18 motion. 19 20 Councilmember Dahl stated that Lino Lakes is one of the last cities to adopt a water -sprinkling ban, 21 and that she thought it was a good idea to be responsible with water use. 22 23 Councilmember Dahl voted yea; Councilmember Reinert voted yea; Councilmember Stoltz voted •24 yea; Acting Mayor Carlson voted yea. 25 26 Motion carried unanimously. 27 28 B. Consider Resolution No. 04-76 Directing Staff to Prepare and Execute Lease Agreement 29 to Farm Property at Centerville Road and Birch Street 30 31 Public Services Director DeGardner stated he had distributed a memo to the Council on new 32 information that had arisen since the Council Work Session last week. He stated Staff was prepared 33 to proceed as directed at last week's Council Work Session unless the Council chose something 34 different. 35 36 Acting Mayor Carlson requested the City Attorney to give his advice on this subject. 37 38 City Attorney Sullivan stated that as he understood it, the City owns the property and had purchased it 39 some time ago, and that there is a proposal to lease it to someone else. He stated there was a lease 40 back provision to the seller that expired on January 1, 2004 and that currently no one has the right to 41 be on the property except the City. He stated the City certainly has authority to lease it, and it is 42 within the City's discretion to go through a bidding process if they wanted to. 43 44 Acting Mayor Carlson asked if there was anyone in the audience who wished to speak regarding this 45 item. 46 ID47 There was no response. 48 3