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COUNCIL MINUTES March 24, 2008 APPROVED S93 94 PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT REPORT, RICK DEGARDNER 95 96 Consideration of 1st Reading of Ordinance No. 06-08, Amending the Lino Lakes City Code, 97 Chapter 400 Water and Sewer, by amending subdivisions 1-4 under Section 401.02, Use of 98 Water Restrictions to Authorized Persons, Jim Studenski 99 100 The city has adopted a Water Emergency and Conservation Plan as required by the Minnesota 101 Department of Natural Resources. The plan establishes the city's conservation goals to meet the 102 required benchmarks in the areas of residential gallons per capital demand, total per capita 103 demand and peak demand. Ordinance No. 06-08 addresses a conservation goal for total per 104 capital demand in its restriction of time of day for lawn watering. 105 106 The council acknowledged that they've discussed the possibility of changing water restrictions at 107 length. The odd/even and hourly restrictions may both be necessary but more discussion is 108 merited. 109 110 Council Member Reinert announced that he would not be supporting the ordinance; it is 111 overburdening of regulations and he hopes that common sense will prevail before second 112 reading. 113 114 Council Member Gallup moved to dispense with full reading of the ordinance. Council Member 15 O'Donnell seconded the motion. Motion carried on a voice vote. W16 117 Council Member Gallup moved to approve the 1st reading of Ordinance No. 06-08 as presented. 118 Council Member O'Donnell seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Motion carried as 119 follows: Yeas, 4; Nays, 0; Absent, 1 (Stoltz) 120 121 Consideration of 1st Reading of Ordinance No. 07-08, Amending the Lino Lakes City Code, 122 Chapter 400 Water and Sewer, by adding Section 401.37 Lawn Sprinkler / Irrigation 123 Systems, Jim Studenski 124 125 The city has adopted a Water Emergency and Conservation Plan as required by the Minnesota 126 Department of Natural Resources. The plan establishes the city's conservation goals to meet the 127 required benchmarks in the areas of residential gallons per capital demand, total per capita 128 demand and peak demand. Ordinance No. 06-08 addresses a conservation goal for reducing per 129 capital demand by requiring the use of rain sensors on all new automatic sprinkler systems. 130 131 Council Member O'Donnell moved to dispense with full reading of the ordinance. Council 132 Member Gallup seconded the motion. Motion carried on a voice vote. 133 134 Council Member O'Donnell moved to approve the 1st reading of Ordinance No. 07-08 as 135 presented. Council Member Gallup seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Motion 136 carried as follows: Yeas, 4; Nays, 0; Absent, 1 (Stoltz) I37 38