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Item 11 - Discussion and Consideration of Revisions to the Assessment Policy: Mike will be • present to go over some adjustments to the City assessment policies. Estimated time: 10 minutes. Item 12-Update of Old Highway 8:Mike will also be present to update the work on Old Highway 8. There have been some discussions and options to consider relative to the mobile home park adjacent to this project, including adding a chain link fence to surround the pond areas. Estimated time: 15 minutes. Discussion of City Hall Sprinkling System and Office Remodeling: The Council will recall discussing these improvements to City Hall. We have sought estimates for the work and naturally it costs a lot, more of course than I was hoping. I feel compelled to do the sprinkling first no matter what because the incongruencies that have appeared between enforcing the rules and following the rules. The estimates in your packet show that cost to be rather high. The City has budgeted funds for building improvement, primarily improvements to the HVAC. I think these funds should be used first for the sprinkling upgrade. The next question then is whether to consider doing the office remodeling. While I would certainly like to for efficiency and managing reasons, I can see that this may be debatable because of the cost. We can review this Monday evening as well. Thirdly, the, HVAC is still a problem in that the units we have now are too small and some just don't work. I am not an expert on this so bear with me on Monday. The practical problem within the building is that the air conditioning and heating is uneven throughout the building. Finally, as if this is not enough, we may need some tuck pointing work done to the building some time as well. What I may push for with the Council is to approach these items as prioritized here, use existing building funds to cover costs as far as they go, and then give separate consideration to using special projects funds or other funds to make the improvements agreed upon. I don't like to vary from budget and I like to consider myself a stickler for planning, so I do not like to undo my own philosophies here, but it may also be more cost effective to make wholesale changes at one time. Estimated time: 15 minutes. Item 14 - Draft Resolution Regarding State Property Tax Reform Legislation: A whole slew of bill updates in enclosed in your packet. The Council did ask for a resolution to be drafted and I will have one for Monday evening. Estimated time: 10 minutes. Item 15 - Review of Fire Department Joint Powers Agreement: Fire Chief Zikmund's memo covers this minor item. Unless there are questions about it, we will have it on the April 14 consent agenda. Estimated time: 1 minute. Item 16-Discussion of City Council/Staff Team Building Session: At the retreat two weeks ago the group discussed having three more team building meetings over the coming months. I have talked with staff about available times and if the Council would like to consider this as well we can make arrangements to meet somewhere for an informal team building session. Naturally these would be open to the public, but I think having it away from City Hall may make the atmosphere more conducive to informal discussions. Estimated time: 10 minutes. • Item 17 - Review of Charter Provisions Regarding Majority Voting: The Mayor asked me to look into the City's provisions for voting where a super majority is called for. Apparently this has come up before and may require some review with the Charter. Bob Long will be present to assist