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MEMO May 29, 1998 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: June 1, 1998 City Council Work Session Most of the items on Monday's agenda are straight forward discussion items so I don't see the meeting lasting too long. Here's what we have: Item 1 -Presentation of Employer Recognition Award: For anyone who has been in City Hall over the lunch hour,you may have noticed a couple of young people doing some work for the city. Ricky Blasiak, a Mounds View resident, and Tammy Dickson are special education students at Irondale High School and have done a great job working for us with their coordinator Sally Wallace. We would like to start the meeting by noting their work for us and thanking them before the City Council. Item 2 -Insurance Renewal Review: Bruce Kessel will introduce Chuck Clysedale who handles our insurance for a short review of our insurance renewal for the coming year. Item 3- Briefing on the 1997 Audit: Bruce will also go over the audit report to be presented. A formal presentation will be made to the City Council at the regular meeting on June 8. Item 4 -Preliminary Budget Parameters for 1999 Budget: As staff begins the internal process of setting up for the 1999 budget,we have interest in any guidelines the Council may want to strive for, such as a levy amount,the franchise fee status, capital projects,personnel, etc. Last year you will recall going into this stage with the idea of eliminating the franchise fee and keeping the levy to around a 3% increase. I am looking for general areas of interest Council may have and we can discuss this more Monday. Item 5- Community Center Staffing Options: We are getting down to crunch time on this issue and I would like to discuss it briefly with the Council. Realistically there are a couple options that seem to stick out to me. Unfortunately,I have not been able to solidify them into particulars for you, so with Mary Saarion and Bruce Kessel's help, I will review them Monday. Item 6 - Community Center Construction Update: We have made some progress since our discussion Tuesday evening. I met with WAI, Flanery, Kennedy and Graven and my staff on Thursday to go over the project and clear up the current and past prevailing wage questions. First, we determined an addendum to existing contracts would be done requiring all contractors comply with Ramsey County prevailing wages. This was followed up on by Mike and Tim Dunwald of Flanery on Friday by confirming the prevailing wages with the county and running past the Department of Education, Children, and Family Learning what their documentation requirements are. Fortunately, they don't require anything except the notation of prevailing wages in the