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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION <br />January 4, 2016 <br />APPROVED <br />1 CITY OF LINO LAKES <br />2 MINUTES <br />3 <br />4 DATE January 4, 2016 <br />5 TIME STARTED 6900 p.m. <br />6 TIME ENDED 9000 P.M. <br />7 MEMBERS PRESENT Council Member Rafferty, Kusterman, <br />8 Maher, Manthey and Mayor Reinert <br />9 MEMBERS ABSENT None <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; City Clerk Julie Bartell; Finance <br />13 Director Sarah Cotton; City Engineer Diane Hankee; Deputy Director of Public Safety <br />14 Police Kelly McCarthy; Public Safety Director John Swenson; Public Services Director <br />15 Rick DeGardner; Deputy Director of Public Safety Fire Dan D'Allier. <br />16 <br />17 Oath of Office - The Oath of Office was administered by the City Clerk to the following <br />18 elected officials: <br />19 -Jeff Reinert, Mayor; <br />20 - Melissa Maher, Council Member; <br />21 - Michael Manthey, Council Member. <br />22 <br />23 1. Public Safety/Public Services Vehicle Capital Replacement Plan. <br />24 <br />25 Public Safety Director Swenson reviewed his written report, including the current <br />26 equipment inventory for the Public Safety Department - Fire and his recommendation for <br />27 a replacement schedule. Director Swenson discussed his recommendation to use <br />28 Centennial Fire District (CFD) capital replacement fund assets that will be transferred to <br />29 the city for the purchase of two light rescue/mini pumper vehicles. He reviewed the <br />no benefit of adding those vehicles to the city fleet, including less use of the larger used fire <br />31 vehicles thus cutting down on repair costs, a reduction in city's fire vehicle fleet (sell <br />32 grass trucks and possibly a rescue vehicle) and the possibility of improving the city's ISO <br />33 rating. <br />34 <br />35 The council discussed the use of the capital funds coming from the CFD. <br />36 <br />37 Mayor Reinert said he recommends a model where the city is putting money into a fund <br />38 regularly, sets a schedule for projected needs and establishes an annual amount without <br />39 fluctuation; he can't speak in favor of spending all the funds coming from the CFD fund <br />4o right away. The city does have the needed equipment now to provide services to the <br />41 residents. He'd like to see a situation where the city can stand down and look at how <br />42 things go and decide on a spending plan. Since the services will be somewhat less than <br />43 CFD, he thinks the funds needed for equipment should be further analyzed, after the <br />44 department has been in operation for a while. <br />45 <br />