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Special LRRWMO Meeting Minutes September 22, 1992 Page 2 maximum $450 figure, which works out to approximately six hours of Skallman's engineering work. The appropriate LRRWMO member would then go back to the project applicant and get more money for LRRWMO review of said project. Upon discussion of the Meadows of Round Lake project in Andover, Knutson indicated he summarized these costs separately and would bill the City of Andover for said costs for reimbursement to the LRRWMO. Schrantz concurred, indicating that the City of Andover collected money up front from Ms. Sonsteby to cover this expenditure. Knutson concluded that his telephone discussion with Skallman resulted in settling the outstanding Barr Engineering billing concerns. Schultz queried how Skallman explained the charges to the LRRWMO for 0.2 hour when he referred someone to the Coon Creek Watershed. Knutson responded that Skallman's discus- sions with a Mr. Curt Anderson found his concerns related to the Coon Creek watershed. It had nothing to do with this watershed district. Schultz felt that such a situation is just part of Skallman's job, and the LRRWMO should not pay for this 0.2 hour billing. Knutson stated he does not know if Skallman will bill the LRRWMO for the telephone call to get those past bills straightened out. Motion was made by weaver, seconded for discussion by Jankowski, that THE CONSULTING ENGINEER BE INFORMED THAT HE MUST NOTIFY THE DEPUTY TREASURER AT SUCH TIME AS THE ACCUMU- LATED TIME REACHES SIX HOURS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL PROJECT SO AS TO PERMIT THE LRRWMO OR APPROPRIATE MEMBER CITY REPRESENTA- TIVE TO COLLECT AN ADDITIONAL APPLICATION FEE FROM THE PROJECT DEVELOPER. (Motion withdrawn later in discussion.) Upon further discussion of what the Consulting Engineer should do when the time spent reviewing a project reaches or comes close to the $450 figure, Schrantz read the approved LRRWMO policy /operating procedure for the Consulting Engineer. The board concurred it did not wish to completely stop a project just to collect another application review fee. However, Skallman should notify the board when the applica- tion fee is nearing the maximum and let the board make the decision on how to proceed. Ottensman suggested the Consult- ing Engineer notify the LRRWI4O when his review hours for an individual project is up to five hours to allow for some