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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
MEETING DATE: JUNE 12, 2017
AGENDA #: 6A
PREPARED BY: FRANK BOYLES, CITY MANAGER
PRESENTED BY: FRANK BOYLES
AGENDA ITEM: PATTY NAUMAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, METRO CITIES
DISCUSSION: Introduction
One of the City Council’s 42 initiatives from earlier in the year was to examine the
value received from the city’s annual $8,191 dues to Metro Cities
. Patty Nauman, Executive Director to Metro Cities, which is composed of 90
metropolitan area cities, will provide the council with a presentation about the
organization and its many benefits to its member cities and Prior Lake specifically.
Annually Metro Cites seeks city council and staff members to serve on their four
policy making committees. When the work of the four committees is done, Metro
Cities publishes a list of legislative policies which the staff of Metro Cities uses in
their communications with legislators during the session.
Also during the legislative session, Metro Cities will advise member city council
members of the status of new legislation. Council members may also be asked to
testify before various committees, communicate with their legislative delegation or
to serve on advisory committees to look in depth at local government issues.
Metro Cities completes various cooperative surveys which help cities to set fees
and charges appropriately as well as to understand wage levels in other
communities.
Metro Cities interacts regularly with the Metropolitan Council staff in an effort to
translate and mitigate the impacts of the proposed policies of the former on the
latter.
In short we get out of Metro Cities more or less what we put into it.
Ms. Nauman will have about ten minutes of comments and then will respond to
questions the city council may have.