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• • • CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION APPROVED DATE TIME STARTED TIME ENDED MEMBERS PRESENT MEMBERS ABSENT CITY OF LINO LAKES MINUTES August 27, 2007 : August 27, 2007 . 5:32 p.m. . 6:00 p.m. : Councilmember Carlson, O'Donnell, Reinert, Stoltz and Mayor Bergeson : None Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Community Development Director, Mike Grochala; Chief of Police, Dave Pecchia ; City Engineer, Jim Studenski; Finance Director, Al Rolek; and City Clerk, Julie Bartell The council first confirmed that they would hold a special work session following this evening's council meeting. The purpose would be to review the preliminary 2008 budget. REVIEW REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS Minutes of the August 6, 2007 Work Session — There was a request to correct the minutes to remove the following language from line 147, "and an article was in place". That correction would reflect that the article was not in place at the time of the work session. Item 4E, Contract with Centennial School District for youth service officer — Chief Pecchia indicated that some of the figures in the staff report would be corrected by the Finance Officer when the necessary information is available. There were no changes to the regular Council agenda. Council Member Reinert requested that the following two items be added to the work session agenda as time allowed: administrator's review and city hall access policy. Council Member Carlson concurred with the request to add the city hall access policy item. Administrator's Review — It was confirmed at all council member and staff responses regarding the review were included in the official file. City Hall Access Policy - There was a request to review the city's policy regarding council member access to the city hall facility and offices. It was suggested that the Lino Lakes' policy of not allowing council member access to city offices is unique. One member noted that city office access isn't allowed for the Circle Pines council members.