HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008.05.20 CC Minutes - Housing Issues and Admin Performance ReviewMINUTES FOR THE HUGO CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP OF MAY 20, 2008
(Housing Issues and City Administrator Performance Review)
Mayor Fran Miron called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m.
PRESENT: Granger, Haas, Petryk, Puleo, Miron
ALSO PRESENT: City Administrator Mike Ericson, Community Development Director Bryan Bear,
Associate Planner Rachel Simone, Community Development Assistant Dennis Fields
This special meeting was called to discuss housing issues in the City of Hugo and conduct the City
Administrator's Annual Performance Review
Presentation of Housing Issues in the City of Hugo
Dennis Fields, Community Development Assistant and Rachel Simone, Associate Planner provided a
presentation to the City Council regarding foreclosures or vacant homes and rental housing. The
foreclosure presentation provided the Council with and update on the number of foreclosures in the
City and what City staff has been doing to keep track of them. The rental housing portion of the
presentation provided the City Council with information on what other cities are doing regarding rental
housing.
Direction to Staff
The City Council directed Staff to continue checking up on the foreclosed and vacant homes by doing
monthly inspections. They also directed staff to draft a rental licensing ordinance to keep track of
rental properties in the City. The rental program will not include a license fee or inspections of
properties.
City Administrator Annual Performance Review)
City Attorney Dave Snyder recapped for Council and the audience the Minnesota statute under which the
Council can go into executive session, including the performance review of the City Administrator.
Miron made motion, Granger seconded, to go into executive session for this purpose. Council conducted the
annual performance review of the City Administrator Mike Ericson.