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Home My WebLink About08-22-2011 Council Minutes COUNCIL MINUTES August 22,2011 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 5 DATE : August 22,2011 6 TIME STARTED : 6:30 p.m. 7 TIME ENDED : 7:00 p.m. 8 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Gallup, O'Donnell, Rafferty, 9 Roeser, and Mayor Reinert 10 MEMBERS ABSENT : none 11 12 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Community Development Director Michael 13 Grochala; Public Safety Director John Swenson; Economic Development Coordinator Mary Alice 14 Divine; City Engineer Jason Wedel; and City Clerk, Julie Bartell 15 16 PUBLIC COMMENT 17 18 Paul Montain, 6510 Centerville Road, addressed the council regarding property he owns at 8122 80th 19 Street. He received a letter from the city attorney about the use of that property and is requesting the 20 opportunity to discuss that matter with the council at their next regular work session. Two members 21 of the council concurred to add that matter to the work session agenda of September 6, 2011. 22 23 SETTING THE AGENDA 24 25 The agenda was approved as presented. 26 27 CONSENT AGENDA 28 29 Council Member Rafferty moved to approve Consent Agenda Items 1A and 1D. Council Member 30 Gallup seconded the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. 31 32 Council Member O'Donnell moved to approve Consent Agenda Items 1B and 1C. Council Member 33 Rafferty seconded the motion. Motion carried on a voice vote; Council Members Roeser and Gallup 34 abstained from voting. 35 36 ITEM ACTION 37 38 Consideration of Expenditures: 39 40 August 22, 2011 (Check No. 91346 - 41 91450, $332,377.81) Approved 42 43 August 1, 2011 Work Session Minutes Approved 44 ._, 45 August 1, 2011 Closed Session Minutes Approved 1 COUNCIL MINUTES August 22, 2011 APPROVED 46 47 August 8, 2011 Council Meeting Minutes Approved 48 49 FINANCE DEPARTMENT REPORT, AL ROLEK 50 51 There was no report from the Finance Department. 52 53 ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT REPORT, DAN TESCH 54 55 There was no report from the Adminstration Department. 56 57 PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT REPORT,JOHN SWENSON 58 59 4A, Accept Grant Funding from Minnesota Institute of Public Health—Public Safety Director 60 Swenson explained that the department has received this grant money previously and would like to 61 continue to do so to provide the service of compliance checks on liquor establishments in the city. 62 63 Council Member O'Donnell moved to approve acceptance of the grant funds as presented. Council 64 Member Rafferty seconded the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. 65 66 4B, Resolution No. 11-83, Authorizing Joint Powers Agreement with the State of Minnesota for 67 use of criminal data system—Public Safety Director Swenson explained that the department is 68 requesting authorization to execute a joint powers agreement with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal 69 Apprehension for the provision of data. A second joint powers agreement would be executed for the 70 city's criminal prosecutor so they would have access to data also. 71 72 Council Member Roeser moved to approve Resolution No. 11-83 as presented. Council Member 73 Gallup seconded the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. 74 75 PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT REPORT, RICK DEGARDNER 76 77 There was no report from the Public Services Department. 78 79 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REPORT, MICHAEL GROCHALA 80 81 6A, Public Hearing and Resolution No. 11-87, Modifying Development Program for 82 Development District No. 1 and TIF Plan for Tax Increment Financing District No. 1-10- 83 Economic Development Coordinator Divine explained that the resolution is in response to special 84 legislation passed this year that allows the city to extend a tax increment financing district to use 85 increment to pay debt service on bonds issued for the 35W intersection improvement and Legacy 86 development. The new legislation has been approved by Centennial School District and Anoka 87 County. A public hearing before the council is required. 88 2 COUNCIL MINUTES August 22, 2011 APPROVED 89 Mayor Reinert opened the public hearing. There being no one present wishing to speak, Council 90 Member O'Donnell moved to close the public hearing at 6:41 p.m.; Council Member Roeser 91 seconded the motion and the motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. 92 93 Council Member Roeser moved to approve Resolution No. 11-87 as presented. Council Member 94 O'Donnell seconded the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. 95 96 Mayor Reinert offered thanks to State representatives Chamberlin and Runbeck for sponsoring the 97 legislation allowing the district extension and to Anoka County Board Chair Rhonda Sivarajah for her 98 assistance as well. 99 100 6B, Resolution No. 11-84, Extension of Time for Submittal of the Planning Unit Development 101 Final Plan and Final Plat and Conditional Use Permits, Main Street Village—Planner Smyser 102 noted that the project was approved in 2008 but due to economic conditions the development is not 103 ready to proceed as is called for under city requirements. The project has been extended previously 104 on a six month basis. 105 106 Council Member Rafferty moved to approve Resolution No. 11-84 as presented. Council Member 107 Roeser seconded the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. 108 109 The mayor noted that this and the next item are good projects but with the economy stalled,these 110 extensions become necessary. 111 112 6C,Resolution No. 11-85, Extension of Time for Submittal of the Planning Unit Development 113 Final Plan and Final Plat, The Preserve—Planner Smyser noted that this project was originally 114 approved in 2006 and since the project is not yet ready to proceed, the developer is requesting an 115 extension of time to proceed. 116 117 Council Member Gallup moved to approve Resolution No. 11-85 as presented. Council Member 118 Rafferty seconded the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. 119 120 6D,Resolution No. 11-82, Authorizing Execution of Site Performance Agreement and Storm 121 Water Management Agreement for YMCA—Community Development Director Grochala noted 122 that the YMCA in Lino Lakes is currently proposing an expansion of their parking area to the north of 123 their building. The site plan expansion was administratively approved with conditions requiring these 124 two agreements. Staff is recommending approval. 125 126 The Mayor noted that the expansion of the YMCA is an indication of the great success that the 127 facility is enjoying; the use of the YMCA has exceeded the estimates. 128 129 Council Member O'Donnell moved to approve Resolution 11-82 as presented. Council Member 130 Roeser seconded the motion. Motion carried on a voice vote. 131 132 6E, Resolution No. 11-86, Authorizing Execution of Star System License Agreement with Anoka 133 County—Community Development Director Grochala reported that the agreement would allow city 3 COUNCIL MINUTES August 22,2011 APPROVED 134 staff to utilize on-line access to county recorder documents at Anoka County. This access would 135 save trips by city staff to the county building in Anoka. There is no cost for use of the system. 136 137 Council Member Rafferty moved to approve Resolution No. 11-86 as presented. Council Member 138 O'Donnell seconded the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. 139 140 UNFINISHED BUSINESS 141 142 There was no Unfinished Business. 143 144 NEW BUSINESS 145 146 The Mayor commented on the previous weekend's Blue Heron Days events. 147 This year's event was a great success and overall the event has continued to grow each year. Thank 148 you is in order to the people who make the event happen, including but not limited to, Lynn Bergman 149 with the Ambassador Program, Bill Combs who coordinates the parade, Victoria Hanson of the SMW 150 Credit Union who chaired the event his year, City Economic Development Coordinator Mary Divine 151 who organized the business expo, the CERT, Reserve and Explorer units of the Lino Lakes Police 152 Department for their volunteer service to the event, the Quad Chamber of Commerce and the Chain of 153 Lakes Rotary for sponsoring the event and finally to the Lino Lakes Environmental Board for their 154 clean up efforts. 155 156 COMMUNITY CALENDAR 157 158 Community Calendar—A Look Ahead 159 August 23, 2011 through September 12, 2011 160 ' . Wednesday, August 31 6:30 pm, Council Chambers Environmental Board 161 16. Thursday, September 1 8:00 am, Community Room EDAC 162 Nk Tuesday, September 6 5:30 pm, Community Room Council Work Session 163 °4 Monday, September 12 6:30 pm, Council Chambers City Council Meeting 164 165 ADJOURN 166 167 There being no further business, Council Member Rafferty moved to adjourn at 7:00 p.m. Council 168 Member Gallup seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously. 169 170 Upon adjournment of the regular meeting, the members of the council convened as the Lino Lakes 171 Economic Development Authority (EDA). 172 173 Upon adjournment of the EDA meeting, the council reconvened to a special work session to discuss 174 the 2012 city budget. 175 176 These minutes were considered and approved at the reg ar Council (f-eting, September 12, 2011. 177 17$, = 179 Julia e Bartell, City lerk Jeff ' i e , ayor 4