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MINUTES OF THE REGULAR ORONO COUNCIL MEETING — SEPTEMBER 9, 1991 t LAK9 MINNETONKA CONSERVATION DISTRICT JoEllen Hurr, City representative, explained that the LMCD has two committees active. The first committee is in charge of fees and they are proposing to raise fees to users by about $50.000. They are hoping that this will keep the LMCD from asking cities for any additional monies. Also, the late fee will be changed to reflect a percentage of the fee owed and will go up every month, as opposed to one flat late fee. She went on to explain the other committee is an ethics committee, which is working on the issue of interest or conflict of interest by members of the board. She is concerned that members of organizations on the board can vote on issues that specifically help that organization. Jabbour asked if this could pose a quorum problem. Hurr noted that there are only three members who belong to a specific organization. Hurr mentioned the next meeting of Orono's Lake Use Committee will be held on September 12th, and she will not be in attendance. She submitted a redraft of three sections -of the LMCD's plan, and explained a fourth section on implementation has been redrafted but is not for public release yet. Jabbour asked if these drafts have been adopted yet. He explained that the Council was unable to attend the LMCD's last meeting, but they were under the impression that language was to be changed in the plan and a draft was to be sent to Orono which was not yet received. Callahan explained that there was a draft up for consideration on August 21st and the Council was unable to attend at that time because of a conflicting meeting. At that meeting, at the request of.Callahan and Jabbour, the LMCD did make some changes, and there was to be a redraft of the whole proposal. On August 28th, the LMCD had another meeting and the Council was again unable to attend, but Representative Hurr went and was able to get the draft changed back to the way it was previously and suggested that the LMCD was out of line to change it in the first place. Callahan explained this was due to lack of communication with Hurr. He noted that there is now another draft of another section which will be submitted on September 12th. He felt it was important to have Council represented at that meeting. Jabbour did not concur that the Metropolitan Council was drafting the plan as a committee of 40 edited the draft word by word. He critized the Metropolitan Council for handing a draft to the Council on a Monday with a scheduled meeting on Wednesday to adopt that draft. 2