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• • • COUNCIL WORK SESSION DECEMBER 7, 2005 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 5 DATE : December 7, 2005 6 TIME STARTED : 5:38 p.m. 7 TIME ENDED : 10:48 p.m. 8 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Carlson, Dahl, Reinert, 9 Stoltz, Mayor Bergeson 10 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 11 12 Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Community Development 13 Director, Mike Grochala; Economic Development Assistant, Mary Alice Divine; City 14 Engineer, Jim Studenski (part); Finance Director, Al Rolek (part); and Chief of Police, Dave 15 Pecchia 16 17 18 REQUESTS FOR RESOLUTION/SUPPORT RELATED TO FOREST LAKE 19 ANNEXATION/TOWN OF COLUMBUS INCORPORATION 20 21 City Administrator Heitke advised in September the City of Lino Lakes received notification 22 from the State of Minnesota Department of Administration that the Town of Columbus had 23 petitioned the State of Minnesota to incorporate as a municipality. Shortly, thereafter, the 24 City was contacted by the City of Forest Lake inquiring as to whether the City of Lino Lakes 25 would oppose the incorporation in favor of possible annexation of portions of the town into 26 Forest Lake and Lino Lakes. Staff responded that due to the lack of municipal water and 27 sewer services in the northern portion of Lino Lakes, current land uses, and comprehensive 28 plan, at this time the annexation of a significant portion of Columbus Township does not 29 meet the statutory criteria for the ordering of an annexation by the Director of the Office of 30 Strategic and Long -Range Planning. 31 32 City Administrator Heitke stated in October the Forest Lake City Council petitioned the State 33 to annex 655 acres of land located east of I-35 and I35E, bordering the northern boundary of 34 Lino Lakes. At the end of November, the Town of Columbus requested the City of Lino 35 Lakes pass a resolution in support of the incorporation of the Town of Columbus. They have 36 submitted a proposed resolution for consideration. 37 38 City Administrator Heitke advised both the requests of the City of Forest Lake and Town of 39 Columbus would result in the City of Lino Lakes supporting one neighboring entity over the 40 other neighboring entity. In addition to currently working with both entities on 41 transportation issues, the City of Lino Lakes may find itself in the position of needing to 42 work with whichever entity has jurisdiction in the future on local road issues, utility 43 connections, etc. The decision on incorporation and annexation by the Director of the Office 44 of Strategic and Long -Range Planning is based on 13 factors in cases of incorporation and 14 45 factors for annexation for the purpose of determining the most appropriate form of 46 government to serve the area in question. The only factor related to staff's opinion is 47 "relationship and effect of the proposed action on adjacent school districts and