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ST. PATRICK’S DAY: Communities host events PAGE 3
City receives update on Main Street Corridor BY MADELINE DOLBY EDITOR
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Runners will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day early Hundreds of local runners, many wearing various shades of green, will participate in pre-St. Patrick’s Day 5K and 7K runs along routes in Centerville during the Minnesota Multisport Races Shake Your Shamrock event. The races will take place on Saturday, March 15. The start and finish line will be at Kelly’s Korner Bar, 7098 Centerville Road.
LINO LAKES — The Main Street Corridor Master Plan and the Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR) continues to be a topic of discussion among members of the Lino Lakes City Council and various board and committees. The corridor, located in the northwestern corner of the city, serves as one of the many “gateways” into the city via Main Street. In total, the area encompasses roughly 980 acres. In August 2024, due to an increased interest in the development of the corridor, the City Council placed a one-year moratorium to allow time for a thorough planning process. The goals of the planning process is to guide development of the area for the future, define potential development scenarios and outline development requirements. City Council members, city staff and multiple advisory board and committee members got together with Kimley Horn representatives Leila Bunge and Brian Adams at a special joint meeting to discuss project updates. SEE MAIN STREET, PAGE 2
Lino Lakes continues search for next city administrator BY MADELINE DOLBY EDITOR
The city of Lino Lakes continues to search for its next city administrator. Currently, David Pecchia serves as the city’s interim city administrator following the resignation of Sarah Cotton, who left the city in November. Cotton served as the city’s finance director for almost five years before being selected as the city administrator in 2020. Meg Sawyer, human resources and communications manager, provided the City Council with a timeline and the next steps in the hiring process at a City Council work session. DDA Human Resources (HR) Inc. is helping the city with its search. Sawyer told council members that
they have from March 16-23 to watch interview videos from the group of semifinalists who were selected by DDA HR. Semifinalists will also complete a work personality index for council members to review. “It (the work personality index) will be an observation of their strengths (and) weaknesses, so that you can take that into consideration when you’re watching their video interview,” Sawyer explained. She added that a summary review, provided by DDA HR Management Consultant Pat Melvin, will also be provided with the interviews. At the March 24 City Council meeting, council members will select four or five candidates for the final round of interviews. Sawyer said that on April 15, there will
be a special meeting where the council interviews the short-listed candidates and extend an offer to one of them for the city administrator position. Mayor Rob Rafferty raised his concerns regarding the timeline and how it lined up with other changes within City Hall, such as the Public Safety Department. “There is a lot of things that have been moving pieces here at City Hall,” he said. “I would hate to see a lot of progress happening within City Hall and things going in a really positive direction, to the point where we’re hiring this individual, and we are expecting them to come in and they drop the ball. I would hate to lose all that time. They’ll spend the first month trying to get themselves up to speed.” Rafferty also brought up changing the resignation notice for city administrators. The former director of public safety
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had to give a two-week notice before their resignation, while the former city administrator had to give a 30-day notice before their resignation. He asked city staff to consider that when a new city administrator is hired, their contract says they must provide a 60-day notice before their resignation. “The timeline could be adjusted depending on the candidate and where they’re at and what notices they need to give,” Sawyer said. “We haven’t reviewed any contracts yet. I don’t see why we couldn’t do that.” No formal action was taken by the City Council. It was discussion only.
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