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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION AUGUST 28, 2006 • APPROVED 1 WORK SESSION 2 CITY OF LINO LAKES 3 MINUTES 4 5 6 DATE : August 28, 2006 7 TIME STARTED : 5:31 p.m. 8 TIME ENDED : 10:55 p.m. 9 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Carlson, O'Donnell, 10 Reinert (arrived at 5:33 p.m.), Stoltz and 11 Mayor Bergeson (arrived at 5:45 p.m.) 12 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 13 14 Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Finance Director, Al Rolek 15 (part); Community Development Director, Mike Grochala; Director of Administration, 16 Dan Tesch (part); Public Services Director, Rick DeGardner; Chief of Police, Dave 17 Pecchia; City Attorney, Bill Hawkins (part); City Engineer, Jim Studenski (part); City 18 Planner, Jeff Smyser (part); and City Clerk, Julie Bartell (part) 19 20 21 REVIEW CITY COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA • 22 23 Item 1D, Consider Accepting Donation from Centennial Firefighters Relief Assn. for 2006 24 Safety Camp — this item was moved to Item 3B under the Administration Department 25 Report. 26 27 There were no other changes to the regular City Council agenda. 28 29 The meeting was recessed at 6:30 p.m. for the regular City Council meeting. 30 31 The meeting was reconvened at 9:05 p.m. 32 33 2007 BUDGET REVIEW 34 35 Finance Director Rolek advised he compiled all the Council suggestions regarding the 36 budget cuts as well as staff recommendations for cuts. Staff listed budget cuts within 37 three separate tiers. 38 39 Finance Director Rolek noted there was a personnel expenditure error within the draft 40 budget in the amount of $82,972. 41 42 City Administrator Heitke reviewed the staff budget cut recommendations in terms of 43 priority. He noted the resulting tax rate for the cuts within each of the tiers. • 44 45 Each Council Member reviewed his or her recommendations for budget cuts. After much 46 discussion, the Council indicated agreement on the following budget cuts: