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• CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DECEMBER 14, 2005 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 5 DATE : December 14, 2005 6 TIME STARTED : 5:35 p.m. 7 TIME ENDED : 9:17 p.m. 8 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Carlson, Dahl, 9 Reinert (6:00 p.m.), Stoltz and Mayor 10 Bergeson 11 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 12 13 Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Administration Director, Dan 14 Tesch (part); Community Development Director, Michael Grochala; City Engineer, Jim 15 Studenski (part); Chief of Police, Dave Pecchia (part); Finance Director, Al Rolek; 16 Community Development Coordinator, Mary Alice Divine (part); and City Planner, Jeff 17 Smyser (part) 18 19 20 YMCA UPDATE 21 22 Community Development Coordinator Divine introduced the representatives present from 23 the YMCA. She stated an update on the project was given at the last Council work 24 session as well as a review of the proposed site plan. The City Council expressed concern 25 regarding programming and whether or not the project meets the design standards. Staff 26 has since met with the YMCA and had discussions with them. The representatives from 27 the YMCA are present this evening to present options and discuss the costs associated 28 with those options. 29 30 Mr. Tom Brinsco, President of the YMCA Greater St. Paul, stated he would like to 31 provide an update to the Council. He indicated the YMCA wants to move forward with 32 the project with the funds that are currently available. He stated he has two plans to 33 review this evening; one plan that the YMCA would like to move forward with in the 34 spring and an additional plan with added amenities. 35 36 Mr. Brinsco provided the background on three facilities that have been built in the past 37 ten years. He noted all three facilities were originally built smaller and added on to as 38 funding became available. 39 40 Mr. Brinsco reviewed the proposed plan and amenities' noting the building is 41 approximately 36,000 square feet. He advised the pool is a lap pool because they can 42 easily program a lap pool. The cost of the proposed plan is $6.5 million dollars. 43 44 Community Development Director Grochala advised the Planning and Zoning Board has 45 not yet reviewed the current proposed plan.