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City of Lake Elmo DRAFT City Council Emergency Meeting Minutes of January 24, 2006 Mayor Johnston called to order the Emergency Meeting of the Lake Elmo City Council at 6:00 p.m. COUNCILMEMBERS PRESENT: Smith, Johnson, DeLapp, and Conlin (6:10 p.m.). STAFF PRESENT: Administrator Rafferty, Planner Dillerud, and Recording Secretary Schaffel. ALSO PRESENT: City Attorney Filla (6:06 p.m.) Planning Commissioners Van Zandt and Roth. Agenda Councilmember DeLapp expressed concern about the method of disseminating information regarding this Emergency Meeting. He said he did not receive meeting information in a timely manner. The mayor said an e-mail was sent at 9:51 a.m. on January 23, 2006 with regard to the proposed Agenda for tonight's meeting. Administrator Rafferty explained his communications with regard to the anticipated letter from Met Council. Staff was asked to post the notice on the web and to e-mail the Council. Arrangements were made to televise this meeting. The mayor said he received a telephone message from Peter Bell and relayed the information to staff. Councilmember Smith asked to begin discussion because Councilmember DeLapp, has to leave for his meeting of the Washington County Planning Commission. Councilmember Conlin asked to go through the items in the letter and to discontinue other discussions because we have a deadline of February 1. The Planner said we submitted a Comprehensive Plan to Metropolitan Council on September 6. We received a letter later in September where Metropolitan Council said our submission was incomplete. On November 18 administrative staff and Councilmember Smith and Mayor Johnston met with Metropolitan Council. They were advised at that time that there would be a review letter. After the meeting the Planner said we stalled submitting items from that September review letter. On January 6, 2006, eight copies of everything were submitted to the Metropolitan Council. We thought we were done except for a couple of items. We did not even receive confirmation it was received. Staff started phoning to find out what was going on. Blair Tremere called on Thursday and said we would have confirmation Friday. It did not come. The letter carve on Monday. The three page enclosure from the Metropolitan Council letter was discussed. The Aviation Paragraphs relate to the Village Plan that Metropolitan Council still does not have. The Planner will resubmit items where the Met Council says they haven't received it yet. The text has been changed to reflect the household and population discrepancies indicated in their letter. All four bullets on page E-2 have already been fixed within the Comp Plan text. In the area of Land Use — Alternative Densities, the numbers are reflective of the remedial measures the Metropolitan Council has imposed on the City through their ResolutionNo.2005-20. Lake Elmo City Council Emergency Meeting Minutes of January 24, 2006