1989-09-19151
September 19, 1989
MINIITES
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
SEPTEMBER 19, 1989
Members present: Mayor Smith, Councilmembers Jensen, Johnson, Ahrens.
Absent: Councilmember Jensen. Also present: City Manager, Ed Shukle;
City Engineer, John Cameron; Water and Sewer Superintendent, Greg Skinner;
Street Superintendent, Geno Hoff. The Citizens Task Force on Public
Facilities was present: Pat Meisel, Bill Thal, Bob Tomalka, Bob Morgan.
Others present: Parker Hodges, Sailor Newspaper; Mike Mueller and Paul
Pond.
The landscaping of Lost Lake in relationship to Public Works Outdoor
Storage was reviewed by the City Manager. Discussion focused on that
particular option and whether or not it should be pursued. Several of the
members indicated that they still wanted to see the materials removed from
Lost Lake so that the site could be developed for some type of use. Also
diccussed with regard to the landscaping plan were the dollars involved on
that particular option as well as a variety of the other options that had
been reviewed. After considerable discussion, it was determined that the
item be shelved for another Committee of the Whole meeting.
Pat Meisel, Chair of the Citizens Task Force on Public Facilites, requested
that the Council discuss the proposal to upgrade the City Hall facilities
that had been recommended to the Council by the Citizens Task Force.
Meisel specifically asked for some discussion and direction as to how the
Council was going to proceed. The disucssion focused on the city hall
proposal and then was discussed in relationship to resolving the Lost Lake
storage problem. After considerable discussion with regard to both of
these items, the consensus was to have the City Manager prepare a
resolution that could be considered at the September 26th meeting.
Essentially, the resolution would direct the city engineer to prepare plans
and specifications for the upgrading of city hall per the Citizens Task
Force recommendation and plans and specifications for storage of outdoor
materials on the property surrounding city hall, i.e., east of city hall,
west of city hall and improvement of Maywood Road.
The City Manager then skimmed through the rest of the agenda indicating
that several of these could be continued until the next C.O.W. meeting.
However, he recommended discussing the item dealing with the process to
appoint persons to advisory commission openings. The City Manager
indicated that two persons had recently resigned from advisory commissions.
He wanted to get specific direction on how these vacancies should be
filled. He recommended that a policy be established with regard to filling
vacancies on commissions. The consensus was to have the City Manager draft
a proposed policy for the Council to consider at a future Council meeting.
Discussion was also held on the openings on the Planning Commission and
Economic Development Commission that had recently occurred. The consensus
was to allow the vacancy on the Planning Commission to expire at the end of
the year and to proceed to fill the vacancy that is on the Economic
Development Commission as soon as possible.
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It was the consensus of the Council to advertise the Economic Development
Commission opening immediately and also to contact other persons that had
applied for the commission when it was established to see if they are still
interested. The policy that is to be developed in a draft form by the City
Manager should include the issue of advertising all vacancy openings
whether they be dealing with reappointments or new appointments or
completing unexpired terms. Also discussed was the idea of exploring a
recall provision where the Council, should they desire, could remove
someone from a commission.
It was the consensus to have the Park Commission ordinance amended so that
the language dealing with length of membership be deleted.
Upon motion by Johnson, seconded by Ahrens, and carried unanimously, the
meeting was adjourned at 9:43 PM.
Re ctfully su fitted,
Ed ~ ukle
City Manager
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