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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION MINUTES MARCH 14, 2005 6 . Councilmember Grant suggested waiting a year and then replacing three lift stations at once. Ms. Wolfe asked what Council wanted staff to do at this point. Councilmember Larson stated he would like to look at the Capital Improvement Plan. Mayor Aplikowski stated ifby doing three lift stations in one year and not doing something that needed to be done, she would like to not jam everything together. Mr. Brown noted a lift station could cause the most problems ifit went down and that was why they were in the schedule now. He noted the new stations were also more efficient and less maintenance intensive. Mayor Aplikowski suggested they obtain the price of getting three lift stations instead of two lift stations. Mr. Brown stated the real issue was if a pump seized up and the pump was no longer made and therefore parts were not available. Mr. Moore noted if an older pump went down, they could not find the parts and therefore, they had to rig up parts. Ms. Wolfe asked if they wanted to continue this discussion and also look at the lift stations at the same time. She asked if they wanted this presented to them at a work session. Councilmember Larson stated he would like a recommendation come back on the lift stations and then have a . recommendation on the Capital Improvement Plan at a work session. Councilmember Grant stated he would be in agreement to having another work session. Mr. Siddiqui stated there was the opportunity to be more aggressive in putting in more lift stations because of the reserves in the fund balance; assuming that everything else came in at or below projection. Councilmember Larson stated they had a good staff and they should look to their recommendations at the Council meeting. He stated he wanted the lift stations to come to them as recommendations at a Council meeting. He noted unless they had a good reason to not go with the recommendation, they should go with staffs recommendation. Councilmember Holden stated she would like to see additional figures with respect to the fund balances. Councilmember Grant stated if staff came back to Council with options that would be sufficient. Councilmember Larson stated he wanted staff to make a recommendation and not give Council options without recommendations. Mayor Aplikowski stated she did not want to table this again for further discussion and she wanted them to either approve or deny the recommendation at the Council meeting. She noted . they always had the option of calling a staff member with questions. 6