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i:';' y • SiillH' 'ss()( i;tl('s. I IK'. DRAFT DRAFT ( ITV OF ORONO CITY ADMINISTRATOR CommunUv/CUY The City of Orono was incorporated January I. 1955 I ae C ily is located on the ^ northern shore of Lake Minnetonka about 15 miles west of Minneapolis. Of the City s 24.5 square miles of area, 50% is open water or marshland (with a total of 15 square miles in land area). Of Lake Minnetonka, 40% of the shoreline and 33% of the lake area is in Orono. The City of Orono is a third ring suburb in the seven-county metropolitan 1 win Cities area located on Lake Minnetonka, the tenth largest lake in Minnesota. Orono developed primarily because of its aesthetic qualities and because of its proximity to the metropolitan urban core. The City is primarily a residential community with a mixture of several types of housing together with a small comn.ercial district. The City totally surrounds two communities which are part of the original township and substantially surrounds a third community. Orono is home to many of the metropolitan aiea s top executives who have moved here because of the community’s natural amenities. The City provides a variety of municipal sci vices. These include police protection, street maintenance, building inspection, planning and zoning, public improvements, general administrative services, public water and sewer utilities and a municipal golf The City contracts fire protection from the neighboring cities of Long Lake, WayM a. Mound and Maple Plain. The City also contracts for engineering, legal and assessing professional services, and provides police protection and/or building inspection services, and/or animal control services to the Cities of Long Lake. Spring Park, and Minnetonka Beach. The City is in a strong financial position and because of its strong esidential base, Orono continues to have a ta.x capacity rate that is the lowest in the county for communities over 1,000 in population, despite the fact that the City is receiving no local government aid from the state for 1990 and only small amount of homestead credits. The City s credit rating was recently upgraded from Alt- A A The 1990 census for Orono showed a population of 7,213 with a per capita income of $23,5 00. School enrollment totals 2,175 students located in three facilities. The Organization The form of government is the Optional Plan A - Council/Admimstrator with five members, including a Mayor, who are responsible for appointing the City Administrator The City Administrator is responsible for the supervision of 40 full-time employees and 12-15 part-time seasonal employees. Of those employees. 17 are in the police department and ten are in public works. 7 he remainder are devoted to finance, administration and clerical support. {See organizational chart.) I c SUNSFi RtrysF Ri?^M’* m ••.01 ,-■—,.■._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ . 1 M. • (.1 •‘..ll. •I(V> • I AX ‘..1(>h'MO