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Mounds View City Council March 8, 2004 Regular Meeting Page 19 1 Chief Zikmund reviewed the replacement schedule with Council. 2 3 Chief Zikmund provided an overview of the benefit of the relationship among the residents of the 4 three cities indicating that Blaine pays 72% of the costs and Mounds View pays 16%. 5 6 Chief Zikmund indicated the presentation has been presented to all cities and the next step is to 7 meet with the finance directors and then with the three councils and the fireboard at a joint 8 meeting. 9 10 Council Member Marty said that he was pleased to see the equipment purchases spread out over 11 a longer period of time with this presentation. 12 13 Mayor Linke thanked the Chief for the presentation. 14 15 (2) Finance Director – Long Range Financial Plan 16 17 Finance Director Hansen indicated that Council first looked at capital improvement during the 18 summer of 2002 and it has been presented two or three other times since then. In 2002 when it 19 was looked at it appeared there was about five years of adequate resources for the project but it 20 has come to light that the plan runs out of funds in 2006. If the City changes the interfund loan 21 to a community fund and pays it back from the golf course the fund would make it to 2007. 22 23 Finance Director Hansen indicated that the general fund has a surplus from 2002 that needs to be 24 moved out because the state is criticizing them for having the money and, in two weeks, he will 25 come to Council with Resolutions for transfers. He then said that there is $700,000 that could be 26 transferred to the special projects fund to get through 2008 with the plan. 27 28 Finance Director Hansen indicated that Council needs to take a more proactive role in the capital 29 improvement projects and that is difficult to do because there are a lot of different choices. He 30 then said that it will be necessary for Council to prioritize the projects. 31 32 Mayor Linke suggested setting a work session for March 29, 2004 to discuss the capital 33 improvement plan and asked that all the department heads be at the meeting to defend the 34 projects they feel need to be done. 35 36 Council agreed to set a work session for March 29, 2004 at 5:00 p.m. 37 38 Mayor Linke commented that the top three items have to do with the City Hall and Council has 39 already directed Staff to look at repairs to the existing building only. 40 41 Finance Director Hansen explained that the $627,000 was for things like fixing the roof, fixing 42 the mold and code violations for things that the City would tag any other building owner in the 43 City for if they allowed these types of conditions to exist. 44 45