Kiffi Summa, LWV Observer
All councilors were present.
There were three items on this Work Session Agenda; all scheduled for 30 minutes of discussion.
1. Review Draft Land Development Code: Downtown and Highway Commercial Districts
2. Enterprise Revenue Study
3. Review of Information from Budget Forum
Item #1 – This review of the Land development Code draft covered the regulations for [...]
Kiffi Summa, LWV Observer
All Councilors were present except for Erica Zweifel.
Minutes of the August 3rd meeting were approved.
Consent Agenda – There were eight items on the Consent Agenda; the eighth (Resolution 2010-063) being the approval of Tim Madigan (who was in the audience, note-taking) as Interim City Administrator.
Councilor Betsey Buckheit requested that Consent Item #4 [...]
Kiffi Summa, LWV Observer
All Councilors were present; the Agenda was approved.
This was the second Special Council Meeting of the day, the 8 AM version being the interviews for the position of Interim City Administrator, with tonight’s follow-up meeting being the Council’s decision process and selection of their preferred candidate.
The two Agenda items were: 1. Select [...]
Kiffi Summa, LWV Observer
The sole purpose of this early morning Special Council Meeting was to interview the four finalists for the position of Interim City Administrator. With the recent announcement by Joel Walinski, current City Administrator, of his leaving to take a like position In Leavenworth, Washington, the process of hiring an interim administrator has [...]
Kiffi Summa , LWV Observer
All Councilors were present.
Minutes were approved, and the Agenda amended by moving the last two items, #’s 11 & 12, to the Regular Agenda. This Agenda amendment was requested by City Attorney , Chris Hood, who saw the need for these items to be resolutions on the regular agenda, because they [...]
Kiffi Summa, LWV Observer
The Work Session of the Northfield City Council began promptly at 7 PM, with all Councilors present except for C. Kris Vohs.
There were five items on the agenda for discussion; all allotted 20 minutes.
1. 2009 CAFR (City audit/financial report) - Tom Olinger, a partner with the City’s audit firm, Abdo, Eick, and [...]
Kiffi Summa , LWV Observer
All councilors were present, and there were no agenda changes.
A Presentation featured the recycling efforts of two schools, Greenvale and St. Dominic’s. Through Waste Management’s Green Team cardboard/paper recycling program these two school teams managed the containers which collected approximately 80 tons of product, earning the schools a total of $1200.00.
There [...]
Northfield City Hall, Council Chambers
Kiffi Summa, LWV Observer
All of the Northfield councilors were present; Dundas Mayor Glenn Switzer and two councilors, Nate Ryan and John Zander, represented Dundas.
Mayor Mary Rossing opened the meeting by saying that there was no published agenda, however it was understood that there was one subject to be discussed: shared services. [...]
Kiffi Summa, Observer
Special City Council Meeting - All members present, Agenda approved.
There was only one item on the agenda for this special meeting; the reconsideration of “Items Related to Community Events Program”
Councilor Buckheit had asked for this reconsideration, and tonight Councilor Zweifel presented a motion which had 4 bullet points intended to put the council [...]
Kiffi Summa, LWV Observer
At 6:30 PM , the Council convened, and then made a motion to adjourn to a Closed Session, for the purpose of negotiating with the Northfield Union of Youth, The Key, for the sale of their building to the City, with a quorum of 5 of the 7 members.
At 7:15, the council [...]