Agenda Packet Cc - regular meeting 11/27/1989

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JOINT MEETING OF COUNCIL AND PLANNING COMMISSION HELD NOVEMBER 8, 1989 of leasing is that you do not have to go for a referendum but that makes me uncomfortable because it sounds like we are trying to slip around the public. Grabek stated we can offset that by giving them information at public meetings. Grabek agreeded this will be one of the most difficult decisions the City has to make. Stating that he had not talked to anyone who doesn't realize the need for a facility. I think if you put it on a referendum and talk about it as a normal course of business and is explained to the public how it is going to be paid for, once we decide, where the building is going to be, and what it will look like and give them enough opportunities to come and talk to us they will come to understand that what we are trying to put here is prudent and it is the responsibility of a city government. I think to make a decision the Council should be given a number of different alternatives for financing along with the direction alreac iven of the kind of a buildinc are looking at. Bernhardson stated that we have a range of quality and staff can put a package together as to what it will cost, take out what additional site costs there are if we go to a different site and what we can save from this site and then plug those numbers into what we are looking for as far as cash, for a cash buy out, general obligation bonds or some combination and a lease purchase. Mayor Grabek stated we have to put the figures together before we debate where to put the facility. This would include the sale price for the Crystal Bav and sewer plant site. Grabek directed staff to make a list of ;.teps that have to be completed in the process and to put estimated completion dates on these. ADJOURNMENT 7:42P.M. Motion by Mayor Grabex, seconded by CounciImember Nettles to adjourn at 7:42 P.M. Motion, Ayes 4, Nays 0, Motion passed. James R. Grabek, Mayor ATTEST: Dorothy M. Hallin, City Clerk