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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING October June 25, 2001 (Long Lake /Orono Fire Station, Continued) members in an effort to help resolve some issues between the two cities. Moorse stated the final version approved by the Orono City Council was forwarded to the Long Lake City Administrator on Tuesday, June 19`h. The Long Lake Council met on the 19`h and forwarded their version of the settlement agreement and the contract for joint ownership to Orono Staff, along with a memorandum identifying a number of areas where the language between the two versions do not particular agree. Moorse stated he would like the City Council to review the memorandum. Mayor Peterson stated the Council should formally approve what the Council had preliminarily approved at their work session last Tuesday. Sansevere suggested the Council formally approve Orono's version of the two agreements and then review and discuss the differences outlined in the memorandum from the Long Lake City Administrator and whether they should be incorporated into the agreements. Flint recommended the appropriate way to proceed would be to move and second the version that was preliminarily approved by the Orono City Council on the 19`h, and then take the items listed in the memorandum up as a series of amendments to the two agreements. Michael Bash, Long Lake resident, commented that in his view what the Long Lake City Council approved at their last meeting is not the document that the Orono City Council is considering approving at tonight's meeting. Bash stated it is his belief that they did not have Orono's latest is version in front of them at the time they voted on the agreement and that they approved an earlier version. Bash further indicated that the Long Lake Council had approved what they thought Orono had given preliminarily approval to. Jim Murphy, Orono resident, stated he and former mayor Gabriel Jabbour met with Long Lake's City Administrator on Thursday and verified the information contained in her memorandum. Murphy stated it was Long Lake's understanding at the time they approved the two contracts that they were voting on an agreement that Orono had approved. Murphy stated the memorandum from the Long Lake City Administrator compares the two versions and lists the differences between the two. Murphy suggested the Orono City Council compare the two versions and decide what items should or should not be included in the version that the Orono City Council will be approving tonight. Flint commented part of the confusion has resulted from the two city administrators working on two different documents. Flint inquired when Moorse forwarded the version preliminarily approved by the Orono City Council last Tuesday. Moorse stated he forwarded the two agreements at approximately 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday the 19`h Flint stated Long Lake's City Administrator probably did not have sufficient time to analyze the documents received from Orono prior to their City Council meeting. Flint stated the changes that were done in the work session were relatively minor, but that the two cities have been working on different versions of the agreements for the past month, which has resulted in some confusion. Flint recommended the Orono City Council consider the items listed in the June 20`h memorandum as . possible amendments to the agreement that Orono will be approving tonight. PAGE 13