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f If 1-1 :'V t.';. 1^'” t':—h *' i--r‘' li..! ■i.- ORONO COUNCIL MEETING HELD DECEMBER 10, 1990 LMCD CONTINUED V. i.1 be presented to the LMCD. The December 12th meeting will be tap-5 in the event we wish to r.now what takes place." Peterson asked Callahan if he had received any input from J:»Ellen Hurr regarding the draft resolution. Callahan stated that Ms. Hurr was not at the D>jcember oth meeting. Bernhardson stated that he had a meeting with Ms. Hurr today. He said, "Ms. Hurr asked whether Orono's decision not to attend the December 12th meeting constituted a boycott, or if there were other reasons we were not attending. I informed her that since it seemed that the only purpose of the meeting was to talk about the operation of the LMCD regulations there was no point for Orono attending. The City of Orono intends to work separately with the DNR. I suggested that the draf* -esolution may carry more weight insofar as the LMCD draw..,g future financial support than would our decision not to attend this one meeting." Callahan said, "My point of view is that we are not attending this meeting because it is a useless activity on our part to attend. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss something that we do not favor." Goetten asked whether Ms. Hurr would be attending the December 12th meeting. Callahan stated that as far as he knew, she did not plan to attend. Peterson said, **I received a call from Norm Paurus. Perhaps Mark could contact him. He is quite concerned about what he believes is a boycott on behalf of the City." Gabriel Jabbour said, "I too recently talked to JoEllen. She Indicated that if Orono is not careful, we may end up falling into the hands of those legislators who feel that Lake Minnetonka should be legislated by some entity other than the LMCD. I told her that I thought the LMCD acted in haste adopting the Plan and it was not appropriate for the LMCD to have submitted tne Plan immediately to the Met Council. I initiated so.me discussion about looking into the possibility of having the cities that voted in favor of the Plan talk to their representatives about reopening this issue. Even if that daes not occur, I believe that somebody should talk to the LMCD Board at large and emphasize to them the seriousness of their actions. Tnere are eight major cities that are not in agreement with the Plan. The LHCD should consider what consequences may arise from that. It does bother me to consider what may happen if we end up totally - 12 -