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MINUTES OF THE <br /> ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br /> Monday,May 11,2020 <br /> 6:00 o'clock p.m. <br /> Printup asked Rief to make sure he hit all of the updates so the Council can see where the City is at and <br /> follow up on things as far as formal Council reports,Friday updates, or City Administrator updates. <br /> Topics could include what triggers a review for when positions are retired or efficiencies,follow-up and <br /> updates on the software platform committee or succession planning. <br /> Rief agreed and said he has the email he sent to Printup and Seals and he was going to formalize and at <br /> least discuss it with the Organizational Committee and then bring to the Council what would trigger the <br /> review of an actual position. It is not something that has ever been formalized as a process.There are a <br /> couple items that would trigger it in the handbook or in a union agreement,but it is not as fully flushed <br /> out as it could be.After the last 4-5 months of working through the process, he has a much clearer idea of <br /> what needs to happen and where. He said he would formalize that as well as things related to budget. <br /> Printup asked, with regard to the budget, if he meant sharpening his pencils. <br /> Rief responded that it would be with regard to sharpening his pencils. He believed by mid-June he would <br /> have a good gauge of where the City is at. The Governor's decision plays into the time frame,but once <br /> the City starts receiving tax payments,they will be able to better gauge and have a pretty good idea where <br /> the City stands, by mid-to late July. <br /> Seals gave a shout out to the Orono Lions for picking up the trash along 15,which they did out of the <br /> kindness of their hearts. <br /> CITY ATTORNEY REPORT <br /> None. <br /> Crosby congratulated the 2020 college graduates, especially Taylor Johnson. <br /> Janie Delaney, 1315 Woodhill Avenue, said she did not think it was fair for her to go into her presentation <br /> and it was a good thing the matter got tabled, because she wanted to talk about the history of what <br /> happened with Woodhill Country Club and Woodhill Avenue. She has most of it prepared and is willing <br /> to email everyone copies of her perspective. She said she has about an 8-inch stack of papers and <br /> documentation from 1998-1999, before pdfs were invented. <br /> Seals asked if Ms. Delaney was related to Printup, because he keeps stuff like that,too. <br /> Printup noted he does not keep it all. <br /> Ms. Delaney said she keeps it all, and thankfully so as this matter comes up. There is a huge history to the <br /> Woodhill Avenue situation that she thinks needs to be considered before any decisions are made. It was <br /> not a pretty year of litigation. Gabriel Jabbour was the Mayor. The Club deliberately opened in the middle <br /> of the night; and there was a lawsuit which everyone in the neighborhood,the City, and the League of <br /> Minnesota Cities spent a lot of money fighting. That is how the resolution came about. She has a lot of <br /> details and she is sure her perspective will be totally different than the Woodhill Country Club's <br /> perspective. She said the facts and how the resolution came about are in the documents, and she thinks <br /> that is what the decision should be based on. She was disappointed to see the item about the CUP and <br /> speed bumps being fulfilled in 1999. It did not make any sense to her, because why put something in a <br /> resolution if it can just be taken out. <br /> Page 19 of 22 <br />