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Charter Commission April 17, 2008 Page 6 APPROVED 223 Task Force amendment, which was brought in as an ordinance the prior year but was no longer 224 valid as it did not have a second reading. 225 226 Commissioner Carlson advised that they had deleted subdivision five, section three from the 227 amendment that the Charter Commission had approved which he thought was a significant 228 paragraph. 229 230 Chair Duffy advised that the Council had eliminated the one year moratorium for improvement 231 projects that are not approved by the citizens. She advised that under the new timeline, the 232 Commission has until May 24th to make their decision and submit it back to the City Council. 233 She advised that the Council is ademant about getting this completed before September 1 lth 234 which is the date that they would have to have their proposed language submitted to Anoka 235 County, so that it could appear on the November ballot. 236 237 Chair Duffy advised that the Council had requested a grid to easliy compare the tax excempt 238 bond status information. She advised that existing Charter Commission bonds are taxable but 239 the Task Force bonds would be tax excempt. 240 241 Commissioner Trehus advised that the premis is that those Charter excempt zones are causing 242 problems with the rate and attractiveness for lending in Lino Lakes. He advised that when they 243 had previously asked questions regarding this issue they had been told that it had been taken care 244 of and to drop the issue. He stated that they did not care previously but now are coming back to 245 this and stating that it is an issue. He stated that he would like to have them come in front of the 246 Charter Commission to explain it again and answer questions. 247 248 Chair Duffy thought that if they asked them to come and explain the issue again they would be 249 denied access. 250 251 Commissioner Trehus advised that the Commission had been denied access to staff in the past 252 but did not think it was a good policy to try to impeed the questions of a govenerment agency. 253 He advised that they had asked for the Community Development Director and the City Engineer 254 to be present at their meeting in the past and the Council denied the request with the rational that 255 they were going to form a Task Force to review the Charter proposal. 256 257 Commissioner Gunderson did not think that their request would be denied as all parties had 258 made their recomendations for the amendment at this point. 259 260 Commissioner Trehus thought that it might be worth it to hear the rational for the need to change 261 the Charter exempt zones. 262 263 Chair Duffy advised that it may be an option to ask staff to come and explain and stated that 264 another option would be to propose some questions and send them to staff to see what kind of 265 response they get first. 266 6