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CITY COUNCIL RETREAT FEBRUARY 20-21, 2006 APPROVED • 1 MINUTES 2 CITY OF LINO LAKES 3 CITY COUNCIL RETREAT 4 5 6 DATE : February 20 and 21, 2006 7 TIME STARTED : 8:30 a.m., February 20, 2006 8 TIME ENDED : 12:00 noon, February 21, 2006 9 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmembers Carlson, O'Donnell, Reinert, Stoltz and 10 Mayor Bergeson 11 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 12 13 Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Finance Director, Al Rolek; Public 14 Services Director, Rick DeGardner; Community Development Director, Michael Grochala; Public 15 Safety Director, Dave Pecchia, Administration Director, Dan Tesch, City Clerk, Julie Bartell; and 16 Consultant Carl Neu. 17 18 AGENDA AND CONCLUSIONS 19 20 The City Leadership Workshop Retreat was called to order on Monday, February 20, 2006, at 8:30 21 a.m. All council members were present. • 22 23 Carl Neu, retreat facilitator, introduced the subject of the workshop. He noted that the general 24 purpose of the workshop is to define more clearly the focused leadership direction and performance 25 priorities of the city council; and to address significant issues on the direction for the city and how the 26 city council and staff will work together in addressing present and future issues. 27 28 The council and staff reviewed goals and management action plans from 2005-2006, identifying 29 accomplishments and items to be carried forward. Goals and objectives for action in 2006-2007 were 30 then identified including but not limited to: complete Town Center project; address needed local 31 regional transportation improvements; update city charter to reflect current and future city needs; 32 complete community visioning process; update city comprehensive plan and adopt a redevelopment 33 and revitalization plan; and recreation improvements. The group identified broad based goals as 34 follows: meet infrastructure needs to comply with Comprehensive Plan requirements; diversification 35 and expansion/enhancement of the city's tax base; and establishment of appropriate revenue and 36 allocation policy. 37 38 City council performance and council/staff partnership was discussed, using information from a pre- 39 workshop survey that had been completed by all workshop participants. 40 41 At approximately 3:00 p.m. staff members (excluding City Administrator Heitke and City Clerk 42 Bartell) were excused and the Council discussed their performance including council meetings and ank 43 work sessions, rules and procedures, minutes and the desire to establish meeting guidelines. 44 45 46 The workshop was recessed at 5:00 p.m. 1