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Work Session
Minutes
DATE: August 25, 2025
TIME STARTED: 6:00 P.M.
TIME ENDED: 6:26 P.M.
LOCATION: Community Room
MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Rafferty Councilmembers Ruhland, Lyden, Cavegn and Stoesz
MEMBERS ABSENT: None
Staff Members Present: City Administrator Karen Anderson, City Clerk Roberta Colotti, Human
Resources and Communications Manager Meg Sawyer, Community Development Director Mike
Grochala, City Planner Katie Larsen, Public Service Director Rick DeGardner, Chief of Police Curt
Boehme and Fire Chief Dan L'Allier.
1. Call to Order and Roll Call
Mayor Rafferty called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.
2. Setting the Agenda: Addition or Deletion of Agenda Items
The agenda was adopted as presented.
3. Review Order of Business
The City Clerk reported that the order of business for City Council meetings is set by
ordinance. She stated that at the last Work Session it was requested that the order of
business be reviewed for possible amendment.
Council Consensus
It was the consensus of the City Council to direct staff to prepare an Ordinance
Amending City Code Chapter 202.04 Order of Business for consideration at the
September 8, 2025 meeting.
4. Review Regular Agenda
The City Council reviewed the regular agenda.
Mayor Rafferty noted that the current claims list includes the payment of road
construction projects.
The Public Services Director stated that Resolution No. 25-112, Supporting the Long -
Range Plan for the Rice Creek North Regional Trail, was being requested to support the
Rice Creek grant application(s).
The City Clerk stated that the City Code requires a review of City Council salaries every
two years. State law requires that any ordinance amendments must be adopted prior to
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the next scheduled election and that the effective date must be after the next scheduled
election. The proposed amendment is in keeping with past practice of using the current
and past year staff salary percentage increase to determine the proposed council salary.
That the draft ordinance establishes January 1, 2026 as the effective date for the
proposed amendment. The first reading of the ordinance is being presented this
evening, and the second reading is scheduled for September 8th, which would allow for
adoption prior to the next election.
The Human Resources and Communications Manager stated that the two appointments
within the Finance Department are to backfill open positions, due to internal
promotions within the City. One promotion was within the Finance Department, and
one was a promotional transfer to the Community Development Department. The new
hires are for the positions of Accountant and Accounting Clerk II.
The Public Services Director stated that the contract with Verizon LLC for the lease of
space on Water Tower #1 for an antenna was being amended to lower the lease rate.
He noted that improvements in technology have increased the distances between
required sites for telecommunications companies and competition created by the
construction of monopole towers has driven down the market rate for the value of the
lease.
Adjournment
Mayor Rafferty adjourned the meeting at 6:26 p.m.
These minutes were approved at the regular Council Meeting on September 8, 2025.
Roberta Colotti, CMC
City Clerk
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