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Charter Commission January 14, 1999 Page 2 significant portion of the $190,000 City surplus be dedicated to the Road Reconstruction Fund. The motion carried with Commissioner Bening voting no. The Charter Commission is interested in the process of how long term road improvements will be handled. This item will be on the agenda for the joint meeting with the City Council. FIVE-YEAR FINANCIAL PLAN Chair Montain stated the five year financial plan was dropped when Finance Director Mary Vaske left the City. Financial Analysis, Daryl Sulander is not aware of a five year financal plan as required by the Charter. He has been asked to give the plan some thought for the year 2000. This item will be on the agenda for the joint meeting with the City Council. The Charter Commission will ask the City Council to identify who is responsible for the five-year financial plan. MOTION by Commissioner Rehbine, seconded by Commissioner Bening, to have Chair Montain wirte a letter to the City Administrator, with copies to the City Council, asking for the status of the five year financial plan. He will request a response by April, 1999. The letter will be reviewed by Commissioner Kenfield, DeMotts, and Sullivan. The motion carried unanimously. A letter on this matter was written to the City Council in June, 1998. This letter will be reviewed to ensure the new letter is consistent with the commitment made at that time. CHARTER LANGUAGE Commissioner Sullivan explained that all word changes to the Charter must be approved by the voters. The purpose of updating the Charter language is to make the Charter easier to read without changing the intent of the Charter. Commissioner Sullivan reviewed the redraft of the Charter. He stated the biggest question is the General Fund. The following items were noted: Section 8.01- Expand on"Therewith" Section 8.02 - Second sentence typo,"improvements" Section 8.03 - Try to get ordinances and include them as a footnote Section 8.04 - Second paragraph typo, delete "o'; second paragraph, page 6, ask if "Failure to give"needs to be included; page 7 , first sentence, delete"a petition". Have lawyer clarify if it refers to a primary and secondary petition and if a note can be added under that item; second paragraph, page 7, adding the word "and"to "at least equal to"; problem with General Fund; first paragraph,page 9, delete "of' from"of the engineer"; " Subdivision 4 is missing Section 8.05 - First paragraph typo, "again" should be "against", question regarding City services being included, page 10, legal descriptions are omitted; page 11, owner or occupant clarified, last sentence typo, "parc" should be "parcel 2