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City CouncdAlinutes Page 9 <br />July 20, 2015 <br />--------------------------------- <br />8.5 Change Order No. 2 for 2015 Street Improvement Project <br />Mr. Femn'te presented his staff report. <br />Moved by Counciltnember Westgaard and seconded by Counciltnember <br />Wagner to approve change order no. 2 for the street improvement project as <br />outlined in the staff report. Motion carried 4-0. <br />8.6 Flushable Wipes Litigation <br />Ms. Fischer presented her staff report. She stated Jason Kilene of Gustafson, Gluek <br />PLLC and Garrett Blanchfield of Reinhardt, Wendorf, and Blanchfield were present <br />to answer any questions. <br />Mayor Dietz questioned if Minneapolis is participating in the lawsuit. Mr. Blanchfield <br />indicated his firm has not spoken to Minneapolis and explained it Is not Imperative <br />that every crq, is contacted because this is a class action suit. He explained the <br />process of the lawsuit noting the lawsuit is aimed at the companies making and <br />marketing these wipes as flushable and not the people using the wipes. <br />Mr. Blanchfield indicated there is no cost for the city to join lawsuit. He explained <br />the goal of the lawsuit is to force the companies to either redesign the wipes or stop <br />advertising them as flushable and to compensate cities for the costs of cleaning and <br />removing these wipes from then' sewer systems. <br />Council consensus was to join the lawsuit. <br />The Council recessed at 8:10 p.m. to go into worksession. The Council reconvened at 8:15 <br />p.m. <br />9.1 2016 Budget <br />Mr. Simon presented the staff report, The Community Operations and <br />Development, Planning, Environmental, Energy City, Landfill, Information <br />Technology, and Building Maintenance budgets were reviewed. The following items <br />were of note: <br />GoiNmunii Operation.f and Development Bud <br />,get <br />Councilinerribet Westgaard would like to see the Fleet Committee look into <br />purchasing an electric car or other gasoline alternative vehicle or piece of equipment <br />if it's a sensible option, <br />Enpiromvewal <br />Mayor Dietz, expressed concern with Ms. Mroz-Risse's allocation of time for the <br />Enerp, City Commission increasing from 8% to 30% in 2016. Ms. Mroz-Risse <br />p 0 W I R [ 1 BT <br />NATURE] <br />