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CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS
Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting of
the City Council of the City of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, was held on
May 27, 197b.
The following members were present: Mayor Warkentien, Council-
men Black, Ecklund, Steele, and Labalestra, and the following were absent:
None.
Councilman Ecklund introduced the following resolution and moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 76-22
A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING PROCEDURES FOR USA OF A
CONSENT AGENLIA
WHEFtI~;AS, the Council must deliberate many agenda items at its
meetings, and
WHEREAS, the time available to the Council for such deliberation
is severely limited, and
WHEREAS, the Council desires to have as much time as possible
for the deliberation of major agenda items which involve the establishment
of City policy and goals, and
WHEREAS, some agenda items are of such a routine, noncontro-
versial nature that they need minimal Council deliberation, and
WHEREAS, the Council desires to handle these agenda items as
expeditiously as possible, in order to provide more time for major agenda
items,
NOTrd, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of
Falcon Heights hereby directs the Clerk Administrator to prepare a consent
agenda for each regular Council meeting. The consent agenda shall contain
routine, noncontroversial items that require Council action but need little
or no deliberation.
Items such as the following shall be placed on the consent agenda and for-
warded to the Council members prior to each regular meeting:
personnel actions such as appointment of personnel,
appointment of probationary employees to regular status,
approval of sick leave advances;
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routine financial rnanage~ment actions such as bills for
approval, transfers of funds, sale of surplus property,
• app roving specifications and setting bid openings;
property actions such as minor subdivisions where no
` development agreement is involved;
licenses for approval;
setting arty public hearing dates such as for major sub-
divisions, rezoning and special use permit requests,
Revenue Sharing, and budget hearings;
receiving reports of such departments as police, fire,
finance, liquor store, and recreation;
miscellaneous citizen requests, such as street barricading,
tree problems, etc.;
election: judges, temporary employees, and related pro-
cedures.
The following procedures and rules shall govern the use by the Council
of the consent agenda.
1. A motion to approve the consent a enda s
debated, g hall not be
2. The consent agenda shall only be adopted by a unanimous
vote of those Council members present at the meeting.
3. At the request of any individual Council member, an item
shall be removed from the from the consent agenda and
placed upon the regular agenda for debate.
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly
seconded by Councilman Labalestra, and upon a vote being taken, the
following voted in favor thereof: Mayor Warkentien, Councilmen Black,
Ecklund, Steele, and Labalestra, and the following voted against the
same: None.
TnhiEREUPON, the resolution was declared duly passed ,arid a pted.
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WILLIS C. A. WARKENTIEN, Mayor
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ewan B. Barnes, Clerk-Administrator
Regular Meeting of May 27, 1976.