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Charter Commission April 17, 2008 Page 6 DRAFT 221 Chair Duffy advised that everyone should have received information in their packet which 222 included background information on the ordinance for the amended amendment and also 223 included the new ordinance 05-08. She advised that the City Council had decided to amend the 224 Task Force amendment, which was brought in as an ordinance the prior year but was no longer 225 valid as it did not have a second reading. 226 227 Commissioner Carlson advised that they had deleted subdivision five, section three from the 228 amendment that the Charter Commission had approved which he thought was a significant 229 paragraph. 230 231 Chair Duffy advised that the Council had eliminated the one year moratorium for improvement 232 projects that are not approved by the citizens. She advised that under the new timeline, the 233 Commission has until May 24th to make their decision and submit it back to the City Council. 234 She advised that the Council is ademant about getting this completed before September 1 lth 235 which is the date that they would have to have their proposed language submitted to Anoka 236 County, so that it could appear on the November ballot. 237 238 Chair Duffy advised that the Council had requested a grid to easliy compare the tax excempt 239 bond status information. She advised that existing Charter Commission bonds are taxable but 240 the Task Force bonds would be tax excempt. 241 242 Commissioner Trehus advised that the premis is that those Charter excempt zones are causing 243 problems with the rate and attractiveness for lending in Lino Lakes. He advised that when they 244 had previously asked questions regarding this issue they had been told that it had been taken care 245 of and to drop the issue. He stated that they did not care previously but now are coming back to 246 this and stating that it is an issue. He stated that he would like to have them come in front of the 247 Charter Commission to explain it again and answer questions. 248 249 Chair Duffy thought that if they asked them to come and explain the issue again they would be 250 denied access. 251 252 Commissioner Trehus advised that the Commission had been denied access to staff in the past 253 but did not think it was a good policy to try to impeed the questions of a govenerment agency. 254 He advised that they had asked for the Community Development Director and the City Engineer 255 to be present at their meeting in the past and the Council denied the request with the rational that 256 they were going to form a Task Force to review the Charter proposal. 257 258 Commissioner Gunderson did not think that their request would be denied as all parties had made 259 their recomendations for the amendment at this point. 260 261 Commissioner Trehus thought that it might be worth it to hear the rational for the need to change 262 the Charter exempt zones. 263 6