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City Council Minutes Page 17 August 15, 2005 ----------------------------- Fire Chief Bruce West stated that the legislature has approved that fire inspectors be allowed to change from the PERA Coordinated Plan to the PERA Police and Fire Plan. He reviewed how this would affect the city and the employee financially. MOVED BY COUNCILMEMBER FARBER AND SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER MOTIN TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 05-96 ACCEPTING CLIFF ANDERSON AS A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES POLICE AND FIRE PLAN. MOTION CARRIED 5-0. 7.3. NCDA Update Councilmember Motin provided an update of the Northstar Corridor Development meeting held on August 4, 2005. 7.4. Ice Arena Update-Councilmember Farber Councilmember Farber provided an update of the Ice Arena meeting held on August 2, 2005. Mr. Klaers added that construction of the ice arena manager’s office construction project has been approved with funds to come from the Governmental Buildings Reserve. 8.Other Business City Administrator Pat Klaers stated the city would like to extend the Environmental Intern position another two months in order to assist Environmental Technician Rebecca Haug, who is back from maternity leave on a part time basis. MOVED BY COUNCILMEMBER DIETZ AND SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER GUMPHREY TO EXTEND THE ENVIRONMENTAL INTERN POSITION TO OCTOBER 19, 2005. MOTION CARRIED 5-0. 9. Staff Updates City Administrator Pat Klaers stated the Police Chief distributed parking stickers to downtown businesses today and that parking enforcement would begin tomorrow. ------------------------------- City Administrator Pat Klaers questioned if the preliminary plat for Pinewood Golf Course could have been denied and then rezoned from R1c to R1d by the city in order to get a better plat from the applicant as he is currently not legally bound to do anything other than the minimum lot size of 11,000 sq. ft. City Attorney Peter Beck stated the applicant is not entitled to all the lots that can fit into the plat at 11,000 sq. ft. Mr. Beck also stated the applicant is not entitled to developing a plat that has nonconforming lots. He stated the city has flexibility in determining lot size in order to fit in with the existing neighborhood. He provided the example of the proximity of the very large existing lots being adjacent to the proposed 11,000 sq. ft smaller lots and that the city could make the proposed lots a more compatible size.