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COUNCIL MINUTES — SPECIAL MEETING JULY 23, 2007 <br />APPROVED <br />•1 CITY OF LINO LAKES <br />2 SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br />3 MINUTES <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 DATE : July 23, 2007 <br />7 TIME STARTED : 5:20 p.m. <br />8 TIME ENDED : 6:00 p.m. <br />9 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Carlson, O'Donnell, Reinert, <br />10 and Mayor Bergeson <br />11 MEMBERS ABSENT : Councilmember Stoltz <br />12 <br />13 Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Economic Development Coordinator, <br />14 Mary Alice Divine; Director of Public Safety, Dave Pecchia; City Engineer, Jim Studenski; and City <br />15 Clerk, Julie Bartell <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 LINO LAKES CHARTER COMMISSION <br />19 <br />20 Meet with Charter Commission Chair, Ms. Cori Duffy — Ms. Duffy presented a letter to the <br />21 council from the Charter Commission requesting additional funding for commission expenses related <br />22 to publishing and legal expenses. She asked that the matter be voted upon at the council meeting later <br />•23 in the evening. <br />24 <br />25 The council learned that the commission has an annual city budget and the amount provided in 2007 <br />26 is $1,500, with $939 remaining. The council recognizes that the commission may need additional <br />27 funding related to study of the proposed charter amendment but asked that the commission put <br />28 together more specifics including the amount requested. The commission should have enough funds <br />29 remaining to provide for one additional meeting. The council would consider a more specific request <br />30 at their next work session on August 6. <br />31 <br />32 The council discussed the amount of funds that the city has provided and may continue to provide to <br />33 the Citizen's Task Force to Review Charter Provisons for Local Improvements and expressed the <br />34 desire to review future expenses related to that group. <br />35 <br />36 Request for use of City newsletter — Administrator Heitke explained that the city received an article <br />37 from Ms. Cori Duffy, Charter Commission Chair, with her request that the article be included in the <br />38 city's fall newsletter. The request is brought to the council because there is no precedent on this type <br />39 of information and staff needs council direction as to whether or not it should be included. <br />40 <br />41 The council determined that the article is editorial in nature and they have not included that type of <br />42 information in the newsletter in the past. There was no council action to change that policy. <br />43 <br />• <br />1 <br />