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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, January 13, 2020 6:00 o'clock p.m. Seals and Walsh stated ten years was a good number. Seals indicated her recall of the work session was that Staff would come back with some options for what it would look like and didn't remember the City Council making a decision to treat each one individually. Crosby stated he did not think the City would need to make a joint dock because then everyone has to be counted upon to take care of it and work together as a group. Rather, each dock should be kept with the property. Walsh said the City does not want to be in the dock business. Seals stated the City is in the dock business; the City is giving people permits for visitors. Walsh asked, if there are joint docks, who is responsible for the docks as far as putting them in/taking them out. Seals stated the property owners would figure it out. Walsh stated Printup was also very clear that the City does not want to be in the dock business. Crosby said he is not on board with that idea. Johnson asked why he was not on board. Crosby stated it would create more hassles and that the City is going to be pulled into them. He would rather have each individual home across take care of their own dock. Walsh said some people might have bigger boats while others might have smaller boats. Crosby stated he is in agreement with no storage on "City land" during the wintertime and to extend the time frame. He referenced his local channel where there are shared walls and said they cannot get five people to agree on anything when it comes to repairing things and costs associated with it and then nothing gets done. If each individual is responsible for their area, they will take care of it. Seals said she is not convinced that would be the right way to handle it. Johnson stated it is City -owned property and other people have a deeded right to this land. By grouping the docks, it makes more land accessible to the people that are already entitled to it. If individual docks are put there, that's when the renting of dock slips occurs, et cetera, and the City would be more in the dock business than having a single, multiple -dock license with a very specific dock plan that has to go in precisely every year. The two people in the middle have a dock and are long-standing owners, but the other two don't currently have dock rights or a dock. It's City land that's going to be further intensified by this, and grouping them together confines the scope of what the City is allowing to a single spot. Walsh said he thought it was very clear that the direction in front of the Council was the direction the Council wanted to go. He suggested tabling the matter until Printup was present so it could be voted upon with five members present. Page 4 of 7