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Councilor Kelly stated that he had previously submitted corrections to the minutes via email. Mayor <br />Torrey said the corrections had been reviewed and that, without objection, they were deemed approved. <br /> <br /> Roll call vote; the motion to approve Item A from the Consent Calendar passed <br /> unanimously, 8:0. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman related that Councilor Meisner had requested the work session on the airport fire and <br />rescue services be moved to April 21 as there was time available. <br /> <br />Mr. Taylor said the space in the work session was reserved for carryover items from council meetings. He <br />noted that Councilor Meisner had specifically requested the vote on the MUPTE be postponed until he <br />could attend. He recommended that action on MUPTE be held at the April 21 work session. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman pointed out that space was available on May 19. Mr. Taylor responded that this would <br />be preferable to the April 21 date. However, Mr. Taylor said the topic of fire and emergency services was <br />related to a collective bargaining issue which could end up before the Labor Relations Board. As such, he <br />advocated for the latter date as he opined it would be premature to address the item while it was still open <br />at the collective bargaining table. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman averred the topic was a policy question of whether or not to outsource fire and rescue <br />services for the airport. <br /> <br /> Councilor Bettman, seconded by Councilor Taylor, moved that a work session be held on <br /> the proposed privatization of fire and rescue services at the airport on April 21. <br /> <br />Councilor Kelly acknowledged that it was a collective bargaining issue, but suggested council policy <br />direction could change the current impasse. He felt the Franchise Fee Audit issue, currently scheduled for <br />the aforementioned work session might not be as time sensitive as the privatization of fire and emergency <br />services at the airport. <br /> <br />Councilor Solomon commented that the council never seems to finish its agenda and it seemed critical that <br />some time be left open in work sessions to complete unfinished items. She did not see that the fire <br />privatization issue was time-sensitive and indicated she would not support the motion. <br /> <br />Mr. Taylor asked the council to resist the motion. He felt the discussion to be premature and hoped the <br />council would move the discussion to a more appropriate timeframe. <br /> <br /> Councilor Pap~, seconded by Councilor Bettman, moved to amend the motion so that the <br /> fire privatization issue would come to the Work Session on May 19. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman opined the MUPTE issue was not an emergent issue and there would not be a negative <br />impact to the community in not moving forward on it expediently. <br /> <br />Councilor Solomon disagreed. She stated there had been multiple meetings on MUPTE and the council <br />was ready to move on it. She felt it better to resolve MUPTE and be finished with it than to open the fire <br />privatization issue. She reiterated that the latter would not be impacted by waiting until June to bring it to <br />a work session. <br /> <br />Mr. Taylor repeated that the bargaining issue was under the purview of the City Manager. He stressed that <br />the arguments that would come out of the appearance before the Labor Relations Board would not be <br />available by the April session, nor would they likely be available for the May session. <br /> <br /> <br />