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<br />Centerville City Council <br />Meeting Minutes <br />March 26, 2003 <br /> <br />V. AWARDS/PRESENTATIONS/APPEARANCES <br /> <br />1. Noble Welding - 21 st Avenue Update <br /> <br />Mayor Sweeney indicated that County Road 14 is scheduled for reconstruction sometime <br />before 2005 and will affect what the City does with 21 st Avenue. <br /> <br />Council Member Capra indicated she had attended the County meeting h~the east side <br />and there is talk of not having an entrance off of 21 st Avenue. <br /> <br />Council Member Broussard Vickers indicated that the project would not be moving <br />forward from this City's perspective until numbers are known and discussed with <br />property owners. <br /> <br />Council Member Capra asked City Engineer Peterson to contact the engineer from Lino <br />Lakes concerning the proj ect. <br /> <br />Mr. Sorgg from Noble Welding thanked Council for its consideration and asked that they <br />continue to keep him informed. <br /> <br />VI. PUBLIC HEARING(S) <br /> <br />1. Police Consolidation <br /> <br />Mayor Sweeney opened the public hearing at 6;33 p.m. <br /> <br />Ms. Moore-Sykes provided a brief overview of the presentation indicating that each of <br />the administrators present would be providing specific information. She then introduced <br />the City Administrators from Lexington, Lino Lakes and Circle Pines. <br /> <br />Mr. Delmont indicated that the Administrators had been meeting for almost two years <br />discussing ordinances and ways of sharing tasks to save taxpayer dollars. He then <br />clarified that the Administrators are not promoting this consolidation as has been reported <br />but bringing it forward to the four Councils for consideration as a way of saving the <br />taxpayers money. <br /> <br />Mr. Delmont corrected erroneous information by clarifying that there are no tentative <br />agreements for the merger and there would not be a savings of $500,000 to each city as <br />the savings would be spread over the four cities. He then cautioned that the figure could <br />and probably would change with any reconfiguration of the funding formula. He also <br />clarified that the staffing would be directly related to how much money the cities agree to <br />spend on the police department budget. <br /> <br />Mr. Keinath discussed the financing of the department and provided information on the <br />proposed funding. He then explained how the Administrators arrived at the yearly <br />payment information. <br /> <br />Page 3 of 19 <br />