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Charter Commission October 9, 1997 Page 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES CHARTER COMMISSION DATE : October 9, 1997 TIME STARTED : 7:10 P.M. TIME ENDED : 9:30 P.M. MEMBERS PRESENT : Bening,Bernier,Dahl, DeMotts,Dunn,Lane, Montain, Rehbene, Sullivan, Trehus and Turner MEMBERS EXCUSED : Corson, Solfest, Stoulil MEMBERS ABSENT : Scharpen (moved from the City) STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT : City Engineer,David Ahrens CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL Chair Montain called the regular meeting of the Lino Lakes Charter Commission to order on October 9, 1997 at 7:10 p.m. Commissioner Trehus arrived at 7:18 p.m. and Commissioner Dahl arrived at 7:28 p.m. CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES July 10, 1997 Paragraph 5 on Page 3 was corrected as follows: "The Charter Commission does not have authority to fund road reconstruction, and how that fund is spent is controlled by the Charter." MOTION by Rehbein, seconded by Bening,to accept the corrected version of the Charter Commission minutes of July 10, 1997, without filling in omitted information. The motion carried unanimously. APPEARANCES City Engineer David Ahrens explained that one year ago a meeting was held with the City Council to determine which roads the City would reconstruct. One neighborhood was identified as having exceptionally poor streets but already had utilities in place; therefore, utility assessment was not an issue. Following identification of this neighborhood, a detailed report was prepared by SEH which described in more detail the elements of road reconstruction; such as, soil borings, type of street section that should be installed, and a cost estimate which totaled$1.89 million. Along with this report, the following assessment rate was proposed: $2,000 per lot for street improvements, and $1,045 per lot for storm sewer improvements, for a total of$3,045 per lot. Mr. Ahrens pointed out that the street improvement assessment is based upon a base rate, while