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January 14, 1999 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: January 19, 1999 City Council Work Session We have enough items to warrant a work session, but not enough to keep the group too long into the evening. Here's what we have: Item 1- Surplus Items: Staff on occassion will list up several items no longer being used or considered for further use by the city and by code will request permission to dispose of them. The operating policy is to in almost all cases dispose of items at an auction house thereby foregoing the unnecessary concerns that come in attempting to equitably dispense of public property. Finding a particular individual or group is considered to be favoritism, or if bid out under the direction of the city staff can be unnessessarily time consuming and potentially disputable. Hence the auction approach. Council is receiving this item for its review Tuesday, and will be given the list at the January 25 meeting as part of the consent agenda. Item 2 - City Administrator 1999 Salary Adjustment: The Mayor has requested this item be placed on this agenda. Item 3 -Police Chief Recruitment Presentation: Jim Brimeyer of the Brimeyer Group will be present to review with the Council his proposal for conducting the chief recruitment process. Mr. Brimeyer is familiar to Mounds View in that his firm oversaw the process that led to the hiring of Administrator Whiting. He is the former city manager of St. Louis Park and is currently on the city council in St. Louis Park. The Council can review and ask questions and, if possible before the end of the evening, commit enough in a direction for staff to follow through in the coming days with an agreement with Mr. Brimeyer. Item 4 - City Council Retreat: It is a common practice for councils, particularly at this time of year,to put together a retreat with a facilitator and go over priorities and teamwork issues. Cari will give some input on this, but the Council may want to discuss this. If there is interest, the nature, objectives and time of the retreat should be discussed as well. Item 5 -Edgewood Drive "Remnant" Parcel: Lacking a better term,this is a review of the remnant piece of property created by the realignment of Edgewood Drive at Highway 10. There has been interest from developers and Council members will recall recent reviews of drainage options presented by SEH for the area. This past Monday Terry Moses and Bob "Walgreens" Cunningham met with myself, the mayor and Rick Jopke to again review their interest in developing the site. Anthony Properties, Inc. through Wendell Smith has also expressed interest. Here is the issue. The City has never expressly decided what it would want to have happen with this property. It will need to rezoned if anything other than"public facilities" is to be done with the property. Second, there would be a question of fairness in parting with the property. Last