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Charter Commission <br />April 17, 2008 <br />Page 5 <br />DRAFT <br />177 <br />178 Chair Duffy called for further nominations. Hearing none, she called for a motion. <br />179 <br />180 MOTION by Commissioner Vacha, seconded by Commissioner Storberg, to elect Commissioner <br />181 Gunderson to the position of Charter Commission Secretary for 2008. Motion carried <br />182 unanimously. <br />183 <br />184 Commissioner Minar nominated Commissioner Lyden for position of Assistant Secretary. <br />185 <br />186 Chair Duffy called for further nominations. Hearing none, she called for a motion. <br />187 <br />188 MOTION by Commissioner Minar, seconded by Commissioner Bretoi, to elect Commissioner <br />189 Lyden to the position of Charter Commission Assistant Secretary for 2008. Motion carried <br />190 unanimously. <br />191 <br />192 B. Street Maintenance Update <br />193 <br />194 Commissioner Lyden advised that he did not have enough time to get through all of the <br />195 information. He stated that he had been appointed to find information and advised that he <br />196 contacted City Hall but the information was not easy to obtain. He advised that it did <br />197 take a while to get all of the information and that he would have everything prepared for <br />198 the next meeting. He stated that in 1997 the street budget was $514,000 and that in 2006 <br />199 that amount increased to $639,000. He advised that although it may seem adequate the <br />200 overall budget increase from 4.8 million dollars in 1997 to 8 million dollars in 2007. He <br />201 explained that although the overall budget doubled the street maintenance budget was <br />202 only slightly increased. <br />203 <br />204 Commissioner Trehus clarified that the street maintenance budget only increased by <br />205 $100,000 in ten years. He advised that while one budget doubled, the other increased by <br />206 only five percent. <br />207 <br />208 Commissioner Minar questioned where the money was going since the overall budget <br />209 doubled and the other barely increased. <br />210 <br />211 Commissioner Vacha thought that it might be a good idea to include those numbers in a <br />212 newspaper article. <br />213 <br />214 Chair Duffy advised that with the pavement management plan did increase in 2007 but <br />215 did nothing for the ten to 15 years previous to that. <br />216 <br />217 C. Under Charter's Review <br />218 a. Staff's amended amendment approved by City Council <br />219 i. Charter Commission review of amended City amendment <br />220 <br />