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Mounds View City Council Page Ten ~egular Meeting July 26, 1993 Also, to be added would be seasonal and part time staff. If a full time staff person would be added it would be a 10 month individual. The City will manage this course locally.. Orduno stated that at the last meeting of the Golf Course Task Force their charge was to cut $500,000 from the golf course. The Task Force cut $300,000 in primary costs and $200,000 in additional costs. None of the essentials of the course were cut. -The cost of the club house was cut to $110,000 which will provide for an aesthetically pleasing, but smaller club house. The Task Force worked diligently to create a fun and fast course but challenging and of high quality. The Task Force did not cut anything that related to the quality of the course. Orduno stressed that the golf course revenues will go back into the golf course and that the revenues from this course will not help subsidize any other general fund expenditure. Orduno stated that the Council's direction from the very beginning was that this course would be self sustaining or the City could not consider it. B. Tim Cruikshank, Assistant to the City Administrator, reviewed Staff Report No. 93-564C regarding Ordinance No. 527, An Ordinance Amending Chapter 2.09 of the Municipal Code of the City of Mounds View Entitled, "Compensation of the Mayor and Council". Cruikshank reported that Ordinance No. 527 would repeal Ordinance No. 450, which set the Council's salaries at their existing rate, and-would also amend Chapter 2.09 of the Mounds View Municipal Code entitled, "Compensation for Mayor and Council". Cruikshank reported that this compensation increase for Mayor and Council is proposed to bring Mounds View's City Council salaries in line with that of other municipalities in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. The current annual salary for the Mayor is $3600 and the proposed increase would make this salary $5100 per year. The Councill's salary is $3,300 per year and the proposed increase would make Council's salary $4,500. Cruikshank reported that state law and municipal code both state that a "salary increase cannot become effective until after the next municipal election." This ordinance could become effective following the special election to fill the vacant Council seat scheduled for August 24. This would allow for the salary increases to become effective August 27, 1993 which is 30 days after the ordinance is published. Orduno reported that this anticipated increase had been discussed at last year's budget hearing and amounts were placed in the budget. This ordinance is implementing increases that had been placed in the budget. •