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Home My WebLink About08-09-2010 Council Minutes COUNCIL MINUTES August 9, 2010 APPROVED l CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : August 9, 2010 5 TIME STARTED : 6:30 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 7:18 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Gallup, O'Donnell, Rafferty, 8 Roeser, and Mayor Reinert 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : none 10 11 Staff members present: Acting City Administrator Dan Tesch; City Attorney Joseph Langel; 12 Community Development Director Michael Grochala; Interim Chief of Police Kent Strege; City 13 Engineer Jim Studenski; and City Clerk Julie Bartell 14 15 PUBLIC COMMENT 16 17 No one present wished to address the council regarding a matter not on the agenda. 18 19 SETTING THE AGENDA 20 21 The agenda was approved as amended(to refer Item 6B the special council meeting that will be held 22 on August 11, 2010 at 5:30 p.m.) 23 ■..... 24 SPECIAL PRESENTATION 25 26 Lino Lakes Ambassadors - Caiti Laszewski and Lindsey Weber(2009-2010 Ambassadors)thanked 27 the council for the opportunity to represent the city and presented two awards received for 28 participating in local parades. The 2010-2011 Ambassador candidates introduced themselves: 29 Kathlynn Alm, Alyssa Anderson, Jena Boldt, Megan Culp, Lindsey Oawster, Paige Weiss, Ali White 30 and Elizabeth Williams. 31 32 CONSENT AGENDA 33 34 Council Member Rafferty moved to approve the Consent Agenda. Council Member Gallup seconded 35 the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. 36 37 ITEM ACTION 38 39 Consideration of Expenditures: 40 41 August 9, 2010 (Check No. 88756- 42 88854, $322,696.59) Approved 43 44 Centennial Fire District (Check No. 4412 - 45 4423, $7,342.97) Approved 1 COUNCIL MINUTES August 9, 2010 APPROVED 46 47 July 26, 2010 Council Work Session Minutes Approved 48 49 July 26, 2010 City Council Meeting Minutes Approved 50 51 Resolution No. 10-68, Authorizing a temporary 52 On-sale liquor license for House District 53A 53 Republicans for event on August 12, 2010 Approved 54 55 Resolution No. 10-71, Authorizing a temporary 56 On-sale liquor license for American Legion Post 566 57 for event on August 28-19, 2010 Approved 58 59 Resolution No. 10-72, Approving an application for a 60 temporary on-sale liquor license and lawful gambling 61 exempt permit for the Lino Lakes Lions Pheasant Feed 62 at St. Joseph's Church on September 18, 2010 Approved 63 64 FINANCE DEPARTMENT REPORT,AL ROLEK 65 66 There was no report from the Finance Department. 67 68 ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT REPORT, DAN TESCH 69 70 3A. Hiring of City Administrator—Acting Administrator Tesch reported that the city's search to 71 fill the position of City Administrator resulted in the final interview of three candidates. The council 72 has decided to make a tentative offer of employment to candidate Jeff Karlson. The council has 73 reviewed the terms of an employment contract for Mr. Karlson. 74 75 Council Member O'Donnell moved to approve a tentative offer of employment as city administrator 76 to Jeff Karlson. Council Member Roeser seconded the motion. Motion adopted upon a unanimous 77 voice vote. 78 79 PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT REPORT 80 81 4A. Accept donation from Lexington Firefighters Relief Association for safety camp expenses - 82 Centennial Fire Chief Jerry Streich noted that the Relief Association is again choosing to donate 83 funds to assist with this year's annual safety camp. The camp is a joint effort of the Police and Fire 84 Departments to help teach kids in the community about harmful things. The focus of this year's camp 85 will be on water, electricity, outdoors, personal and fire safety. The camp is growing ever closer to 86 being one hundred percent funded by donations like this one. Since Centennial Fire District does not 87 fix its own budget, it doesn't have statutory authority to accept this check. It would be appropriate for 88 the City, as a member of the joint powers agreement under which the District operates, to accept the 89 funds for transfer to the District. 90 2 COUNCIL MINUTES August 9,2010 APPROVED 91 Council Member Gallup moved to accept the donation of$3,500 from the Lexington Firefighters 92 Relief Association. Council Member Rafferty seconded the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous 93 voice vote. 94 95 PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT REPORT, RICK DEGARDNER 96 97 There was no report from the Public Services Department. 98 99 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REPORT, MICHAEL GROCHALA 100 101 6A. Public Hearing and 1St Reading of Ordinance No. 09-10 Establishing a Storm Water Utility 102 - Community Development Director Grochala explained that the city has been reviewing the 103 possibility of establishing a storm water utility. A public informational meeting was held regarding 104 the idea and thirteen residents attended. Questions were raised in the areas of fees, use of funds, 105 equality for townhomes, storm water management costs, and residential credits. He introduced the 106 consultant to the project, Mr. Jeremy Walgrave of SEH, an engineering firm. 107 108 Mr. Walgrave explained first that the focus of storm water management is runoff and knowledge that 109 certain things increase the amount and impact of the runoff. A goal of storm water management is to 110 reduce the pollutants that end up running off into the community's lakes and rivers. There are federal 111 regulations in place regulating storm water quality. He noted that a storm water utility is a way that 112 city's can use to deal with their storm water management duties and not utilize general funds of the 13 city to do so. The utility concept is to have a fee that reaches more contributors (those not paying `-114 property taxes) and therefore charges more fairly; an incentive program is also included. Generally 115 the funds raised through use of a utility would deal only with costs that the city is already incurring. 116 117 The mayor noted that the concept of establishing a storm water utility has been discussed by the 118 council for about five years because they see it as a way to be fair with costs. The concern of course 119 is to ensure that the utility is done correctly and not used as a budget supplement. The council has 120 given staff further direction on providing additional and more specific information on the proposed 121 utility and with that the council will continue its review. The public hearing will be opened tonight 122 and continued. 123 124 Mayor Reinert opened the public hearing. 125 126 John DeHaven, 1612 Birch Street,told the council that the proposed fees will impact a lot of people 127 and he thinks it's a scam to call this a utility. He doesn't feel that staff is being honest about this 128 proposal and he's afraid there will be no resulting reduction in property taxes but the fee will still be 129 charged. He recommends that the council check around and he believes they will find that this isn't 130 such a popular approach. If the council wants to save money, he recommends they reduce city staff 131 132 Mary Ann McDougal, 6116 Baldwin Lake Road. She has lived at that address since 1975. The 133 property was rezoned in 1999 and she was told she could redevelop. She was eventually threatened, 134 however, with eminent domain if she didn't put in a storm water pond. That pond has really caused 35 her lots of problems though. She would like to be offered a credit as certain commercial/industrial 3 COUNCIL MINUTES August 9,2010 APPROVED 136 properties would be, based on the presence of her pond. She distributed a proposal that the city could 37 use to consider exceptions for residential properties. 138 139 Dean Hausladen, 6880 Sunrise Drive. He is concerned about the proposed storm water utility and 140 fears that it is an end-run around the city charter. The city charter was enacted to help with growth 141 issues in the city and he warns that the voters will not be happy if the council tries to go around it. He 142 would like to see a cap on fees overall in the city and to have that included in the city charter. He 143 doesn't sympathize with folks that built homes on low lying lands. 144 145 Mike Trehus, Lino Lakes resident. He asked if the council will be doing first reading tonight and was 146 told the council plans to conduct and continue the public hearing only tonight. He fears the proposed 147 ordinance to be like a blank check as he sees nothing in it that limits spending. At the public 148 informational meeting, the opinion was unanimous that this is setting up a revenue source outside the 149 general fund and concerns were expressed all around about how it would be controlled. While he 150 hears that the funds would be used only for maintenance, the feasibility report itself continually 151 contains the word "construct" so that doesn't concur. It could also overlap into what is governed 152 under the city charter and that question deserves consideration. Also he sees a jump in the 153 engineering budget that is not clearly explained and that says to him that revenue from this utility 154 could be involved. He asked the council to realize that the utility would stay after this council's good 155 intent leaves. 156 157 Council Member Rafferty moved to continue the public hearing to the next regular meeting. Council 158 Member Roeser seconded the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. •--159 160 Council Member O'Donnell moved to postpone 1st Reading of Ordinance No. 09-10 to September 161 (the ordinance will be discussed at the work session). Council Member Gallup seconded the motion. 162 Motion carried upon a unanimous voice vote. 163 164 Item 6B had been removed from the agenda. 165 166 UNFINISHED BUSINESS 167 168 There was no Unfinished Business. 169 170 NEW BUSINESS 171 172 There was no New Business. 173 174 COMMUNITY CALENDAR(DATES): 175 176 August 10, 2010 through August 23, 2010 177 4. Tuesday, August 10 State Primary Election 178 4, Wednesday, August 11 cancelled Planning&Zoning 179 4 Wednesday, August 11 5:30 pm, Community Room Special Council Mtg '80 Wednesday, August 11 following council meeting Council Work Session 4 COUNCIL MINUTES August 9, 2010 APPROVED 181 82 ADJOURN 183 184 There being no further business, Council Member Gallup moved to adjourn at 7:18 p.m. Council 185 Member Roeser seconded the motion. Motion carried on a unanimous voice vote. 186 187 These minutes were considered and approved at the regular Council Meeting, August 23, 2010. 188 189 190 19)� _J 192 Juli Bartell, City lerk e e nert, ayor 193 5