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July 22, 1999 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: July 26,1999 City Council Meeting We actually have three meetings on Monday, the special work session, the regular meeting and the EDA. There's what we have: Special Work Session, Item 1 - Review of Assistant to the City Administrator Options: Please see my memo. Item 2 - Year 2000 Budget Priorities: With the summer quickly moving along, we are within seven weeks of setting the preliminary levy. For the time devoted to this issue, I suggest the Council talk about the budget in general terms, such as the direction the Council would like to see the organization go, any particular capital outlay or major initiatives, levy and other revenue levels and service levels. Bruce will be there with me Monday for the discussion. Also, the Council will likely want a real budget work session fairly soon, such as August 16. Regular Meeting Agenda, Item 7B on Consent Agenda: In following up on discussion of laptop for council members, this item would provide the funds to do so from the contingency account. Roughly speaking, laptops should run around $2,500 apiece. Item lOD - WMS License Suspension: Mike will cover this and by meeting time it may be taken care of . Apparently WMS has not been submitting the recycling reports they are required to. Naturally, a suspension can create a lot of problems for customers and this will need to be talked about Monday night. Item 10F - Right of Way Ordinance: Bob Long will review this with the Council Monday evening. As of this writing I do not have an improved version for Council packets and this may have to come at the meeting. Item 10G - TIF Parcel Decertification: I received a signed council inquiry from four council members to have the Holiday and Realife parcels prepared for decertification. Since the last time the Council discussed this, the direction was to wait until the city's of use was reviewed. Those meetings have taken place with no conclusion yet. Bruce has prepared a resolution following the request of the council inquiry. Item 10H - Charter Provision Correction: During the three years plus I have been with the city the charter has not had a provision limiting term lengths despite a referendum from 1994 to do so. Charter Chair Julie Olson however did confirm with the Secretary of State's office that the provision was filed there, and therefore all city copies of the charter need to be updated. While