Laserfiche WebLink
Mounds View City Council June 23, 2003 <br />Regular Meeting Page 20 <br /> <br />MOTION/SECOND: Stigney/Gunn. To Approve the City Council Minutes of June 9, 2003, as 1 <br />Amended. 2 <br /> 3 <br />Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 4 <br /> 5 <br />11. REPORTS 6 <br /> 7 <br />Council Member Stigney indicated he had attended the League of Minnesota Cities conference in 8 <br />St. Cloud and sat in on some fiscal information and health insurance as well as budgeting and 9 <br />how to deal with City cutbacks. He also sat in on a seminar on how to stick together or fall apart, 10 <br />working with other communities to piece together a common goal and he found the sessions to 11 <br />be quite informative. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Council Member Stigney provided handout information on dealing with cutbacks for Council 14 <br />Members. 15 <br /> 16 <br />Council Member Marty thanked Mr. Ericson for the administrator’s report as it is excellent and 17 <br />very helpful to keep Council apprised of what is going on. He then recognized Joe Kinney and 18 <br />Officer Mennard who recently received commendations for performing their jobs in an 19 <br />exceptional manner. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Council Member Marty indicated that the Festival in the Park would be held on August 16, and 22 <br />17, 2003. 23 <br /> 24 <br />Council Member Quick indicated that when Mr. Ericson took on the job of Interim City 25 <br />Administrator he put himself into a position that forced him to lose some vacation that he had 26 <br />coming to him and he thinks now is a good time to bring this up because the City is very close to 27 <br />hiring or coming to an agreement with a new administrator. He then said he feels Council should 28 <br />reinstate the vacation that he was not able to take. 29 <br /> 30 <br />MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Linke. To Direct Staff to Prepare a Resolution Reinstating Mr. 31 <br />Ericson’s Lost Vacation. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 34 <br /> 35 <br />Mayor Linke indicated that he was approached by Mr. Hall wanting to look at the 2:00 a.m. bar 36 <br />closing for the Mermaid. He then said that Mr. Hall was not able to be at this meeting as it was 37 <br />his anniversary and then asked that the matter be added to the work session agenda for 38 <br />discussion. 39 <br /> 40 <br />Mayor Linke indicated that Council needed to spearhead the salary negotiations with Mr. Ulrich 41 <br />rather than New Brighton or the Interim Staff. 42 <br /> 43 <br />Council agreed to set a Council Meeting for Wednesday, June 25, 2003 to discuss the City 44 <br />Administrator’s salary and benefits package. 45