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411 September 5, 1997 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: September 8, 1997 City Council Meeting Here is what is on the agenda for Monday evening: Special Order of Business - Items 7A and B: Park and Recreation Commissioner Wayne Burmeister is leaving the commission and Jennifer Bergman is leaving employment with the City. Plaques have been made up for both recognizing them for their time with the City. We will be having a reception for Wayne fifteen minutes prior to the meeting Monday evening and everyone is invited for cookies in his honor. Consent Agenda-Item 8B-Compensation Study: The Council's approval of the consent agenda is to be considered as authorization to staff to conduct the compensation market study. The agenda title may not clearly reflect this and the Council may wish to pull this item from the consent agenda and move this authorization. Item 8E - Resolution No. 5157 Establishing Compensation for Interim Community Development Director: This is the resolution discussed last Tuesday evening to increase Tim • Ericson's pay by$500 a month during the interim director period. Council Business -Item 11A-Resolution 5154, MSP Development Review: Since Wednesday evening's Planning Commission meeting, I have been in constant dialogue with Council, residents, staff and to a lesser extent MSP regarding this project. The Planning Commission acted to approve the development review on a 4 to 3 margin. The Council chambers were again full, and the Council should expect Monday evening to have a full chamber again. Not decided Monday evening was the minor subdivision due in part to information arriving to staff too late to put together a resolution for the action. The Commission delayed action until the next meeting. MSP has been in contact with staff requesting further review by the Planning Commission be foregone and having the Council instead act on their request. Stas position has been to deny such a request as contrary to both the subdivision code and the understanding of everyone at the meeting last Wednesday. MSP may request this Monday evening, although I tend to think they will not. They may instead seek to forego the subdivision altogether and attempt to design the townhouse layout differently. This however, appears to then require another plan review by the Planning Commission. If they are present this Monday, their intentions may need to be clarified if the Council is to act on the plan review approved at the Planning Commission. As for the resident inquiries, almost all had to do with referendum provisions of the Charter and how they may apply in the questions of this development. An attorney claiming to represent resident interests on this matter has also contacted me. In dealing with this matter, I have asked Attorney dab Long to study the issues so as to be able to inform the groups and residents of actions the City have taken that would be subject to referendum provisions. His initial conclusion was that the zoning of