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• MEMO To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: July 28, 1997 City Council Meeting Date: July 25, 1997 Items on the agenda Monday are explained in the memos provided by staff. Council will note that under Council Business,Item D, we will likely need to go into executive session to discussion the golf cqurse mediation situation. Bob Long will take us through that item. I want to address a few issues taking place that are not on the agenda, but that the Council should be made aware of. First, I have talked with each of you about the apparent interest in development on the north side of a new Highway 10 intersection. Cathy and I met with the University of Minnesota Design Center team again and asked them to evaluate possibilities in this area for future Council and community consideration. I expect to hear from them in the next couple of weeks. Second,the personnel consultant hired several weeks ago has completed his assessment of our work • place and the concerns expressed by employees. In general, while stating Mounds View is a good place to work, many concerns regarding communications and direction were aired. A recommendation was made to provide leadership training for management personnel as a next step. I will be in contact with the consultant next week as to the specifics of this recommendation, and would like to discuss this more with the Council at our August 4 workshop. Third, Bruce has been able to generate some year to date budget figures and reports on initial department budgets for 1998. He will be bringing to the Council meeting Monday evening these reports and information for the Council to digest during the week in anticipation of initial budget discussions at the August 4 work shop. I will be looking for the Council to review the reports as initial with the first purpose being to understand our 1998 budget situation, and second to proceed on addressing interests the Council will have in levy amounts, service levels and expenditure amounts. In addition, I will ask the Council to set at least one additional work session meeting for August 21 to work on the budget in preparation for the September preliminary levy. Fourth, Senator Novak has set up a meeting with legislators for Tuesday morning with mayors and administrators invited from the effected communities. We will see how it goes. I have received only a couple of letters from residents regarding the airport plan and have forwarded them to the MAC. Next, another matter we will need to discuss at the August 4 work shop is the likely reality that VB Digs will not be a participant in the community center project. They have not come forward with any resolution to their financing impasse. This means we will have to consider other options such as • building a gym and teen center without them, finding someone else to consider though attempts at that so far have produced little, taking a greater role in assisting VB Digs with financing, or finding some other development which may be able to assist in that new increment district. This final option