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MEMO December 12, 1997 • To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: December 15, 1997 City Council Meeting For our last City Council meeting of 1997, we have a number of items the Council has been working towards for some time. Here's what's on the agenda: Item Fl - Ordinance 609 re: 1998 Water Rates: At last week's meeting, the Council had its first reading on this ordinance. Some confusion existed over the process of approving this resolution. The public hearing and second reading was set for January 12, but unbeknownst to those of us at the Council meeting, a hearing had been set for Monday night. The item is on the agenda to reflect that, but the action of last Monday's meeting will be the meeting the item is proposed to be adopted. Item F2 -Resolution 5196 re: 1998 Levy and General Fund Budget: This resolution is the final action to be taken for approving the 1998 general fund budget and levy. This is also the last opportunity the Council has to act on the 1998 budget unless it chooses to meet again before the end of the month. Item F3 -Resolution 5197 re: Other 1998 Budgets: This resolution is to adopt the non-general fund budgets as laid out by the Bruce Kessel. Item F4 - Community Center Specifications Approval: Cathy Bennett's report covers the situation for approving the final plans and specifications for Phase II of the community center bidding. Item F5 -Resolution 5203 re: 1998 City Council Meetings: With no Council turnover at the first of the year we are getting a head start on setting up some Council business. This resolution sets the meeting dates and avoids conflicts with legal holidays. In past December's, the meetings have been moved around to avoid Christmas week, but since the Mondays appears to straddle the 25th, it may be best to leave as is until we get closer to next December. Item F6 - Council Team Building/Retreat Facilitator: I have had limited success in finding low cost facilitators, but have come up with a few that may interest the Council. Carl Neu does seem to be the most expensive and he does tend to operate on a national scale. He will, by the way, be the featured presenter at the League of Minnesota Cities Newly Elected Official Workshop this winter, a program which I have copied to all Council members and would recommend. As for college related facilitators, the League referred me to Kent Eklund, who I happen to know over the past few months from my class at Hamline. Eklund is a principal with the Cincinnatus group and has just finished an organizational assessment for the League. He is also a former mayor of Northfield and is a tough instructor at Hamline. 11111 I contacted the Brimeyer Group of which Jim Brimeyer is the principal. He does this type of work and of course did the work for Mounds View's administrator search where you got me. He is currently a St. Louis Park city council member and its former city manager. I don't know his charge for this as of yet.