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Mounds View City Council March 8, 2010 Regular Meeting Page 3 agreement. Assistant City Clerk-Administrator Crane stated the step increases were spelled out 1 to Mr. Peterson and would be based on his performance over the coming year. 2 3 MOTION/SECOND: Gunn/Hull. To Waive the Reading and Adopt Resolution 7586, 4 Approving the Hire of Don Peterson to the Position of Public Works Supervisor. 5 6 Council Member Stigney stated staff has indicated this hire would reduce the overall engineering 7 expenses of the City. He also said that he did not feel now was the time for the City to be hiring 8 new personnel with the reductions in LGA. 9 10 Council Member Mueller explained the private sector has been making numerous changes to 11 restructure staff to meet the current needs given the state of the economy. She trusted that staff 12 was coming forward with this recommendation as Mr. Peterson would meet the current needs of 13 the City. 14 15 Council Member Stigney agreed with the need for engineering staff but felt the department 16 should have been restructured to eliminate the need for two supervisory positions. 17 18 Mayor Flaherty indicated he was in agreement with Council Member Stigney initially. However, 19 staff believes that the City could save over $160,000 in consulting fees through the hiring of Mr. 20 Peterson. He explained that in the long run, the hire would save the community money. 21 22 Council Member Mueller noted in 2009 the City paid out $900,000 in consulting fees. She 23 indicated the hiring of additional staff would ceduce this expense greatly. 24 25 Ayes – 4 Nays – 1 (Stigney) Motion carried. 26 27 C. First Reading of Ordinance 835, an Ordinance Amending Title 500 of the 28 City Code Regarding Lawful Gambling 29 30 Clerk-Administrator Ericson stated Staff had identified many deficiencies in City Code relative 31 to Charitable Gambling and initiated a process to amend Title 500 of the Code. These changes 32 would remove the relevant charitable gambling requirements from the two liquor license chapters 33 and create a new, standalone chapter addressing such issues. Staff has been working with the 34 City Attorney on the matter and at the September 2009 work session, the Council reviewed a 35 draft of the ordinance. While some questions remained unanswered, the ordinance was referred 36 to the September 14, 2009 Council meeting for a first reading. 37 38 Clerk-Administrator Ericson explained that because of questions associated with the proposed 39 “10% Fund,” the ordinance was put on hold and representatives from the two organizations 40 licensed to conduct charitable gambling in the City were invited to attend a Council meeting to 41 provide their input. This occurred at the Council’s December 2009 Work Session. 42 Representatives from Lake Region Hockey Association, the licensed organization conducting 43 charitable Gambling at Moe’s, and Spring Lake Park Lions, the licensed organization conducting 44 charitable gambling at Robert’s, asked the City to reconsider establishing a 10% Fund as there 45