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