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term. It seems necessary to get into Phase II construction to really rectify the problems as well. Another building problem developed last week when a water line froze in the kitchen causing a sprinkler head to discharge. Once the cleanup was done and the problem assessed, it appeared that an air and heat circulation problem had led to the freeze up. The grill fan was removing all the warm air from the room, something that obviously was not intended. . All fine paries have been investigating the issue for the source of the problem. Everything working Finally, apparently we have a wetland existing in the proposed parking area on the east side of the community center property. We didn't know this all this time. What it means is that the parking area cannot be included in any final plans right now. Dean Olson from WAI will be at the meeting on Monday to review this and what needs to be done. The thought is right now that the wetland will have to be delineated, something that will have to happen in the spring. WAI has submitted a letter for a Supplemental Service agreement based on their hourly fee not to exceed $4,650 for this work. Depending on the findings of the report, options down the road may include mitigating with other wetland site creation, evaluation of possible options should potential site developments on the east side of Highway 10 develop or simply reassessing the parking layout options. No matter what, the wetlands delineation would need to be done first. A secondary issue from this is that we may need a variance from City parking codes at some time in order to proceed. This and all questions can be discussed Monday evening. The decisions being asked for Monday are two, first, approving the Phase II specifications and authorizing bidding, and two, agreement to proceed on the supplement service agreement with WAI for the wetland issue. I have placed both of these in the form of resolutions for the Council's consideration after the discussion on Monday. Item 7E - Review of MAC Anoka County-Blaine Airport Plan: Bob Long will be present to update the Council on the issues and legislative options being worked on for this issue. Geri Evans and Steve Novak are carrying the bill enclosed in your packet and perhaps by Monday some idea of its likely success can be reviewed. Item 7F - Review and Approval of Administrative Assistant to d they CityAdministrator options for Position: After the discussion of the last Council meeting, I reviewed likely administrative support. I did discuss options of either combining a position with another community or contracting for services. I talked with the administrators from Blaine, Arden Hills, Shoreview, and New Brighton. Generally, for the larger communities that have personnel type administrators, they did not see any availability of their people's time to use with the City of Mounds View. Arden Hills's city administrator does most of this work right now and thought that possibly in the future some interest in contracting may be considered. I think the basic problem here is budgets have been set, personnel time is already short and the attention needed to personnel matters are cumbersome. Those same concerns would be of this staff as far as contracting with a private service. We already do some of that on an as needed basis such as the Hay study and contract negotiations. Specific aspects can sometimes be dealt out that way, but the whole service still needs almost daily attention internally. For those reasons in part, I would shy away from that option if at all possible.