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Charter Commission January 11, 2007 Page 10 DRAFT 402 MOTION by Commissioner Trehus, seconded by Commissioner Bening, to approve the 403 Annual Report correcting the misspelled word and inserting the correct information in the 404 date. Motion carried unanimously. 405 406 ON-GOING REPORTS 407 408 A. Five Year Plan 409 410 This item was tabled to the next Charter Commission Meeting. 411 412 NEW BUSINESS 413 414 A. Mounds View Ballot Amendment 415 416 This item was discussed earlier in the meeting. 417 418 B. Annual Report By-laws 419 420 Commissioner Duffy stated she was confused as to when the annual report was due. 421 Commissioner Trehus responded chronologically it was December 31 of the following 422 year. 423 424 Commissioner Duffy indicated she read the by-laws and summarized the actions of the 425 Commission. In practice, it was usually at the first meeting in January. 426 427 Commissioner Trehus commented that the 2006 report would be submitted by October 428 2007. Previously, he had sent the report to the judge late one year and early another. It 429 should be stated, "no later then the October meeting." 430 431 Commissioner Bening inquired if a subcommittee could address the by-laws. 432 433 Commissioner Dahl received the report from Chair Warren to send to the judge in 434 accordance with the by-laws. 435 436 Commissioner Bor requested the Charter and By-laws be addressed at the next meeting. 437 438 C. Chair Comments 439 440 Chair Warren stated she was resigning. She provided some recommendations. First, they 441 needed to dialogue with staff and Council so all will know the benefits of the Charter. 442 Second, to adopt some of the ideas from the visitors, prioritize the items to work on, find 443 points of agreement that Council wants. Then the Commission should address the items 444 of disagreement, but ones that can still be addressed cooperatively. Finally, the items of 445 contention should be tabled until trust is built. The next chair should identify what works 446 and what does not and then find out how the Commission could assist.