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Gem Lake. City Council Minutes Page Two Surface Water Project Plan: Mayor Uzpen brought to the meeting the permit that expires in 2011. Was supposed to have the inspections done this past month. The timeline will be in July contacting neighborhood cities in regards to what they are doing for inspections. NEW BUSINESS Legistration Allotment: Jessie discussed how the State of Minnesota in balancing the budget was to reduce local government aid and market value. homestead credit by 300 Billion and included Cities, Counties and. Townships. Gem Lake is going to lose everything that it does get in government aid and market value homestead credit in 2009. By the year 2011 everything should go back to status quote. 2008 Audit. Report: Thomas Koop and Michelle Burley from Larson Allen was there to discuss the audit that was done for Gem Lake. The. City Council was given handouts discussing the 2008 audit. The auditors said that Gem Lake is. doing well with the system they are currently using. Mr. Koop touched base on government accounting standards and fund level. Gem Lake is at 90% of one year expenditures for reserve and is very solid. The other funds are more specific related to Levying and/or collecting special assessments to specific bond issues. The e City Hall construction fund is solid. Claims for June: The bills for June were discussed and authorized to pay. Scheuneman Road: The presentation from Justin from SEH that was discussed at the May 19th City Council meeting is about right for the estimate. The proposal is 1.5 million with cleaning the ditch. Need to decide if the citizens want it fixed. and how to asset it. It was suggested that more citizens participate in the project. It was also suggested that maybe the County would help pave the road. Will need to talk to the property owners and find out what the expectations and needs. really are and express what the cost will be to get the road fixed. Sign for Scheuneman Road: Residents are complaining and Mayor Uzpen has witnessed it himself, that when people leave the golf course, they turn right and it's a dead end. They turn around and floor it past the golf course. Suggestions were to buy a sign from Gopher Sign and install or talk to the golf course and place the sign on their property. The sign would say "right turn no outlet"_ Also was suggested that the bushes need to be trimmed in that area on the golf course. There is money in, the budget for a sign. Look for us on the World Wide Web at gemlakentn.arg