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MEMO January 30, 1998 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: February 2, 1998 City Council Work Session Staff will be presenting most of the items on the agenda for Monday's meeting. Mary, Mike and Rick will use their appearance to also give their quarterly report to the Council. Since some of their items fit into the quarterly report type information,this seemed like a good time to do that. I do not have much, but will participate in the street maintenance and assessment discussion. Bruce and Mike are working on following up from last Tuesday's meeting and should be ready by Monday to work with the Council and residents on the issues as we left them on Tuesday. The first item,the Western Bank water bill, is an appeal to the Council to forgive a portion of a past water bill the bank feels is too high. Mike and Bruce will address this, but nothing we can find suggests the water wasn't used. The bank has been turned down by staff each step of the way in the absence of anything that suggests an error occurred. While there is no real process for this,the final say is the Council, even though we as staff speculate that possibly the Council may not be able to forgive a bill. Regardless, Western Bank is one of our most prominent businesses and bank director Cindy Carlson is the community's best business leader. While staff cannot recommend forgiving any part of the bill, Council members may want to consider the tact that is sometimes needed in these situations. Council will recall forgiving part of a bill last year for a resident in a different situation. This situation seems to be a simple disagreement over how much water was used. Staff will brief Council at the meeting on particulars. Also, I will report on anything new regarding the airport legislation submitted this week by our legislators. A report from Bob Long is on your voice mail for your review on the status as of Thursday. Mayor McCarty has talked to me about meeting with the other cities' officials involved in this issue and he may want to discuss this with the Council Monday evening. Have a good weekend and see you Monday.