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• FALCON HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL MINUTES _2_ May 11, 2005 Proposals for recodification of Falcon Hei hts City Code (continued) Ms. Jones said that recodification involves taking the City code, finding the sections that don't match or are conflicting, doing a comparison review with State statutes, revising the code where necessary, and putting it together in an organized way. The end result will be electronically searchable and much more accessible. Staff sought and received recodification proposals from three companies: American Legal Publishing, consultant for the League of Minnesota Cities; Municipal Code Corporation of Tallahassee, Florida; and Sterling Codifiers, Inc. of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. All three firms have worked with Minnesota cites, all three come highly recommended by City Attorney Roger Knutson, and all three have received positive reviews from Minnesota clients. She gave a brief, oral review of the Comparison of Recodification Proposals chart she had prepared and described the base cost for each firm, as outlined below: ALP/LMC $ 9,125 Municipal 7,350 Sterling 5,960 • Options available at additional cost would be supplemental service, electronic search and retrieval and hosting the code on the Internet. On April 21, staff met with the City Attorney to review the proposals. While it is staff consensus that any of the three companies would provide excellent service, staff is recommending the Municipal Code Corporation for the following reasons: • Comprehensive service includes all the features we need • Base cost includes an on-site conference with our attorney, staff and other interested officials -the on-site conference expense can be costed out separately • Appearance and ease of use of the sample on-line codes for other cities • Flexibility of the Folio BoundVIEWS integrated code service and web options • Quality of the final printed product Council member Lamb asked what the timeframe is. Ms. Jones said that staff would like them to start as soon as possible. A preliminary draft could take anywhere from six weeks to three months. Council member Lamb asked if the City will have an electronic copy and Ms. Jones said that will depend upon what the City asks for. Council member Lamb asked when the Council would entertain that decision. One of the City's goals is to become as electronic as possible. • Council member Lindstrom said the Planning Commission has been looking at this for over a year and they are totally up to speed.