09-24-2018 Council Work Session Minutes

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Orono City Council Work Session Minutes Monday, September 24, 2018 Council Chambers 5:00 p.m. 2. Enterprise Budget Discussion—Continued Council Member Richard F. Crosby II mentioned that he would like to revisit getting more cable companies in Orono. Olson finished his presentation of the Enterprise Fund Budgets. 3. LMCD—Mark Kroll Walsh welcomed Mark Kroll for coming to the Work Session. Seals also thanked Mark for coming. Seals mentioned that she has an issue with the 58k we pay to the LMCD. Seals noted that she has been looking into the group and does not feel that LMCD makes sense while we could provide our own services instead. Crosby mentioned that he does not agree and feels that we need someone from Orono representing on the inside. Crosby noted that if we pull our representative, we still have to pay LMCD, and we will not have any representation on the inside meaning we have no input. Seals disagrees and wants to reassess and come back. Crosby would like to reappoint Mark Kroll. Mark Kroll mentioned that he admits it was not good that the communication was not there and was upset in finding that he was un-appointed as the LMCD Representative for Orono. Kroll mentioned that he believes that he can make a difference and would like to remain the representative. Walsh noted that he does not think it is foolish in reappointing our representative. Walsh mentioned that the City Council should get an update every month for the next 4-7 months and see where this goes. Walsh noted that after some time we can readdress and then make a decision. Kroll mentioned that if you want to change it then we need to take it to Legislature. Walsh agrees if we can get to that point and have a better understanding, updates, etc. Walsh noted that now we as the City Council have now reached out for more updates from Mark, and now he feels that this would be better with representation and also have someone on the board for Orono.