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• City Couaal Miautes September 4, 2007 6. Other Business None Cotmcil Updates None 8. Staff Updates Page 3 Ms. Johnson discussed the closing of the 171n Avenue crossing during the week of September 17, 2007, and stated staff had informed the bus company of this so bus routes could be adjusted. She also provided information regazding the new code enforcemart hotline number and e-mail address, and stated staff will publicize these additional ways fox residents to report their concerns regarding code violations. The hotline number is 763.635.1036 and the e-mail address is codeconcems(uZd.elk-river.mn.us u Mayor Klinzing recessed the meeting at 6:56 p.m. and reconvened the meeting in the Uppertown Conference Room at 7:00 p.m. 9. Recess to Upper Town Conference Room fox Budget Discussion Ms. Johnson presented the staff report and began by answering the questions that were raised at the August 24 budget meeting. The first question was the request by the street department fox a front end loader, at a cost of $175,000. Ms. Johnson stated that a copy of last year's Capital Improvement Plan including the loader was attached to the staff memo. Councilmember Farber asked about details including maintenance costs, purchase information, and hours of use for the front end loaders. Ms. Johnson provided information from a memo prepazed by the Public Works Director that stated there were two loaders that were scheduled fox replacement soon; one was a 1985 model with 12,700 hours and the other was a 1994 model with 10,198 hours. Typical replacement is about 6,000 hours. Ms. Johnson was not sure which was purchased in 2003 and that it may have been a used loader. She stated a goal of the Fleet Committee is to develop a policy to base purchases on the cost for the useful life of the piece of equipment so used equipment is not purchased if it is not the most cost effective in the long term. She stated she did not have all of the details on the equipment and requested tune to gather further information from both Street Superintendent Phil Hall and Public Works Dtreaor Terry Maurer. Council decided to re-address this item on when the equipment capital improvement plan is discussed so information could be gathered and staff would be present to answer these questions. • Ms. Johnson continued with the questions on the Energy Expo and the additional staff person that was requested, which was pulled from the budget at the last meeting. She stated that Environmental Administrator Rebecca Haug is scheduled to be at the September 10 Worksession to present the Energy City Commission's three year plan and to present a summary of the 2007 Energy Expo. Ms Haug did indicate the budget fox the Energy Expo could be reduced by $15,000 based on the final analysis of the 2007 Expo. Ms. Johnson suggested the Council continue discussion on this item on September 10 when Ms. Haug and Energy City Commissioners would be present to address questions.