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City Council Minutes Page 4 January 9, 2012 Attorney Beck will research how the city would fair with the mortgage company in this scenario. A Council majority was in favor of this financing tool and for staff to come back with some suggested parameters incorporating minimums/maximums, definition of an emergency. etc. Councilmember Zerwas stated he would be okay with allowing for picking up some of the ordinance required hookups. Mayor Dietz asked for a list of the number of people are supposed to be on city sewer that are not currently on it. 6.3 Fire Service Task Force Chief Cunningham presented the staff report. Council had the following comments regarding the task force: ^ Have outside fire chief be someone with experience in this process ^ Concern for the direction the task force may take. They asked for an update memo to be provided to Council after each meeting. ^ Concern that too many stakeholders are listed to be on the task force which could make it difficult to agree on a vision and direction. Stakeholder list should be reduced. It was consensus that Mayor Dietz and Councilmember Gumphrey would be stakeholder members. Staff to come back with a list of stakeholders for Council consideration. 6.4 Sidewalk and Trail Snow Removal Mr. Hecker and Mr. Schreifels presented the staff report. Mayor Dietz stated he asked for this item to be on the agenda because he felt that staff should only be plowing sidewalks/trails during business hours and questioned if the Council wanted to spend overtime hours for this type of service. Staff discussed past practice, city ordinance, and the sleet that occurred prior to changing to snow. Mr. Schreifels discussed the extra time, fuel, and salt, it would've taken to remove the snow if they had waited to plow. There was discussion on the difficulty there is in the city meeting the 24 hour notice requirement in city ordinance for residents and businesses. It was noted this would be difficult for the city to follow due to the number of trails and the amount of staffing and equipment available. Council suggested outlining a policy that would be similar to the street snowplow policy. Staff suggested a policy that had a different degree of requirements than the 24 hour ordinance requirement and further expressed concern with the liability exposure in trying to meet this requirement.