HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-23-2019 Council Special Budget Work Session MinutesCITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION
APPROVED
1 CITY OF LINO LAKES
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4 DATE :September 23, 2019
s TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m.
6 TIME ENDED 5:50 p.m.
7 MEMBERS PRESENT :Council Member Maher, Manthey, Stoesz
8 and Mayor Reinert
9 MEMBERS ABSENT :Council Member Rafferty
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11 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Public Safety Director John
12 Swenson; Community Development Director Michael Grochala; Finance Director Sarah
13 Cotton; City Clerk Julie Bartell
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15 2020 Budget Consideration —City Finance Director Cotton explained that the
16 resolutions prepared for the budget and included in the council packet are based on the
17 last council discussion. She announced that employee health care costs to the City will be
18 decreasing by 5%resulting in a monetary savings of $39,000. How would the council
19 like to reflect that change? Mayor Reinert suggested that the budget should be decreased
20 by the amount rather than considering an increase to expenditures. Mayor Reinert said
21 he'd prefer to have the funds used to reduce taxes to the residents. Ms. Cotton said that
22 would result in a levy of $10,551,518 or a 4.93%increase and a tax rate of 39.944
23 percent, or a 2.56% increase. She explained that the 2.56%increase is mostly
24 representative of personnel salary and street maintenance. Administrator Karlson
25 explained that the council could adopt the levy minus a certain amount with staff directed
26 to decrease the budget by that amount. It was clarified that with a reduction of $60,000
27 the tax rate would become 39.680 percent.
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29 Administrator Karlson said that it will be very difficult to cut an additional $60,000 and it
3o will probably have to involve personnel. Mayor Reinert explained that the valuation
31 numbers aren't final and they could push the rate past 40 percent again; that happened the
32 previous year. He's hopeful that there will be savings or other funding identified through
33 the rest of the year.
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35 The meeting was adjourned at 5:50 p.m.
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37 These minutes were considered, corrected and approved at the regular Council meeting held on
38 October 14, 2019.
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43 Julianr,)� Bartell, City�Clerk�
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