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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday,October 26,2020 6:00 o'clock p.m. Crosby thanked the Citizens that showed up last week to show support for the Police Department, Fire Fighters and Public Works. Seals had nothing to report. Walsh said everyone should remember that the following morning October 27,2020 through the following Monday November 2,2020 at 5:00 p.m.,people can come in, complete their ballot and scan it in the Council Chambers. On Tuesday November 3, people will need to go to their official polling place. He noted Anoka-Hennepin school district has gone to online learning and has cancelled all sports as of November 2, 2020 which is a bad omen and very sad. He is hopeful that Orono districts stay safe and numbers stay low. Walsh noted Hennepin County is at 0%property tax increase but they cut a ton of stuff and will have some issues going forward. CITY ADMINISTRATOR REPORT 9. NAME MAGGIE UNG ACTING FINANCE DIRECTOR Rief noted the Finance Director is out on medical leave and will not be back to a full-time capacity until after the first of the year. Rief recommended appointing Maggie Ung as Acting Finance Director, which is in alignment with the Local 12 agreement. Crosby moved,Johnson seconded,to name Maggie Ung as Acting Finance Director effective October 22,2020. VOTE: Ayes 4,Nays 0. 10. CONSULTING BUILDING SERVICES REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL(RFP) Rief noted this is in response to the recent realignment of the services provided by the City's building official. Currently the building inspection services is provided by West Metro and was not part of Resolution 6586 which puts it on a 5-year rotation and the agreement has been in place since 2014. Because the City already has a relationship with them and needs to continue services,there was a special meeting last week continuing it. This RFP is for proposed long-term services in that capacity. Johnson would like to add himself to the committee and help with the search. He noted in reading the RFP, it is included that this position will also being doing inspections and code enforcement inspections, and they have already been outsourcing some code enforcement inspections. He asked if the current vendor is included or broken out separately. Barnhart said West Metro bills Orono for all of the monthly inspections and he breaks out how many hours of those inspections are related to code enforcement. Johnson would like to go back 12 months and identify how much has already been outsourced for code enforcement as this position doesn't distinguish between what they have already outsourced and what is new. As demand goes up or down,the City should only be paying for what they are using, and they don't want to eliminate vendors as there could be a two-tier approach. Rief asked if Johnson was suggesting an alternate component, such as doing all inspection-type services and then the code enforcement is an alternate. Page 6 of 7