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• CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION JANUARY 4, 2006 APPROVED 1 City Administrator Heitke stated staff would capture from the tape what has been said 2 and send it to Decision Resources, Inc. so they can respond to the concerns about the 3 proposed question. 4 5 Ms. Barbara Bor, resident of Lino Lakes, came forward and read a letter she drafted 6 regarding the library question. She noted the letter would be sent to all of the County 7 Commissioners. The letter outlined the benefits of having a public library within the 8 City. She also indicated her family may donate land for the project. She asked that the 9 library question on the survey not be area specific. 10 11 Council directed staff to take the library question back to the Library Board with 12 comments regarding the question being area specific. 13 14 City Administrator Heitke distributed an email from the Chair of the Environmental 15 Board requesting that they or the Environmental Board's staff review and have input on 16 the survey questions. The Council agreed that other advisory boards were not involved in 17 the survey and that the Council had already approved the survey. 18 19 Community Development Director Grochala advised there are several questions on the 20 survey that relate to environmental issues. 21 22 City Administrator Heitke reiterated the fact that in early discussions, Decision Resources 23 had inquired about whether there were any big issues that might come up that could sway 24 the results of the survey and they like to time surveys to avoid this. He stated that 25 Decision Resources was aware of the guest editorial in the Pioneer Press and he did send 26 articles from the newspaper regarding the survey, growth issues, stadium issue, and the 27 letter to the editor on growth and suggesting how to respond to the survey. Decision 28 Resources knows that the City does not want to delay the survey, so they may add a 29 qualifying statement to the survey report that the results may have been affected by pre - 30 survey publicity. City Administrator Heitke added that people have been requesting 31 copies of the survey and since it is public data, he has to provide it. 32 33 Mayor Bergeson called for a short break at 8:56 p.m. 34 35 Mayor Bergeson reconvened the meeting at 9:14 p.m. 36 37 2006 ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIONS 38 39 Council Appointments — Mayor Bergeson advised the Council needs to finalize the 40 recommended appointments. 41 The Council reviewed the appointments and made the following changes: 42 43 Acting Mayor Councilmember O'Donnell 44 Centennial Fire Steering Councilmember Carlson and Reinert 45 County Corrections Program Councilmember Stoltz