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COUNCIL MINUTES July 9, 2007 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES . 2 MINUTES 3 4 5 DATE : July 9, 2007 6 TIME STARTED : 6:35 p.m. 7 TIME ENDED : 11:45 p.m. 8 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Carlson, O'Donnell, Reinert, 9 Stoltz and Mayor Bergeson 10 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 11 12 Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; City Attorney, William Hawkins; 13 Community Development Director, Michael Grochala; City Engineer, Jim Studenski; and City Clerk, 14 Julie Bartell 15 16 PUBLIC COMMENT 17 18 Katy Allen, Allure Salon/Spa, Spirit Hills Center, asked if the council will be working on parking 19 issues at Spirit Hills Center and, if so, can the tenants get something in writing that she can share with 20 other tenants. Clarification and communication is needed that the parking is a city versus property 21 owner issue and not a tenant issue. 22 • 23 Mayor Bergeson promised that anything that staff prepares on the matter will be shared with the 24 tenants; he is not aware that there is any new information since the council last saw Ms. Allen. 25 26 SETTING THE AGENDA 27 28 The agenda was approved as presented. 29 30 SPECIAL GUESTS 31 32 The council received a state legislative update from Senator Sandra Rummel and Representative Paul 33 Gardner. Senator Rummel provided a written update. Representative Gardner reviewed his work in 34 the area of transportation and the new Anoka County library. He will continue his efforts to get more 35 transportation funding to cities as well as some form of property tax relief. He has introduced and/or 36 worked on bills to support area trail funding, library bond funding and a proposal to address the 37 problem with theft of metal from housing. 38 39 CONSENT AGENDA 40 41 Council Member Carlson moved to approve the Consent Agenda. Council Member Stoltz seconded 42 the motion. Motion carried unanimously. 43 44 ITEM ACTION • 45 1