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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 />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 19 of 22 <br /> <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 /> <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 /> <br />Printup asked, with regard to the budget, if he meant sharpening his pencils. <br /> <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 /> <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 /> <br />CITY ATTORNEY REPORT <br /> <br />None. <br /> <br />Crosby congratulated the 2020 college graduates, especially Taylor Johnson. <br /> <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 /> <br />Seals asked if Ms. Delaney was related to Printup, because he keeps stuff like that, too. <br /> <br />Printup noted he does not keep it all. <br /> <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.