06-15-2010 Council Work Session Packet

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MEMORANDUM TO: MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM: ORONO MANAGEMENT TEAM SUBJECT: 1NFORMATION UPDATE DATE: MAY 28, 2010 Information Update—5/28/10 • The Comprehensive Plan has been formally submitted to Met Council for review and approval. Mike will be on vacation until June 7. • Please review attached memo regarding the location of an aboveground fuel storage tank located on a residential lakeshore lot. (LO) • Mayor White, Engineer Tom Kellogg and Administrator Loftus met with Long Lake representatives on May 26th to discuss the water capacity issue at the CommonBond site. Mayor White requested the Long Lake Engineer prepare a written report to support their statement that there is no water capacity in the Long Lake water system to accommodate the project. Orono requested the report be submitted by June 4th however Long Lake wants to review the report at a Council meeting prior to its distribution and therefare we will likely see it June 16th. (June meetings for Long Lake are 6/1 and 6/15). • Yesterday 6 officers including myself performed a High Visibility Enfarcement detail along Old Crystal Bay Road between Co. Road 6 and Hwy 12 as the High School was letting out. Purpose was to enforce seatbelt usage. During this time we had an officer in a yellow high visible vest standing along the road as a spotter watching for misuse of seatbelts and not using their seatbelts. The spotter would relay the information to an officer standing in a safety area(coned off area in the road)and the vehicle would be flagged to a parking lot. Contact was made and driver and/or passenger was advised of the reason for stop and all were advised why we were doing this. The message was clear. We want to make sure that you are properly wearing seatbelts, we do not want a fatality or serious injury in our area due to not wearing a seatbelt. My hope was not to write a citation,but I was let down. In twenty minutes, 12 citations were issued and 6 warnings were given. Adults and students were not wearing their seatbelts. This still occurred after all of our warning and educational efforts over the last several weeks. 4 weeks ago we did a joint presentation at the school reminding students to buckle up and pay attention when driving. Several announcements this past week were made during school hours to remind students to buckle up. Media has been making announcements on TV and radio advising them of the extra enfarcement and"Click it ar ticket". Overall very positive and sent a clear message. Will do a survey today to see if compliance is up. (CF) • Additional attachments: o Metro Cities News—May 27, 2010 The City of Orono complies with the Minnesota Data Practices and Open Meeting Law. The recipients of this electronic file are asked not to "Forward"or "Reply to All"concerning information contained in this email.