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• <br />• <br />WS -5 <br />WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />Work Session Item No. 5 <br />Date: Council Work Session, Wednesday, April 20, 2005 <br />To: City Council <br />From: Gordon Heitke, City Administrator <br />Re: Charter Commission Request <br />Background <br />At the April 6, 2005 Council Work Session, the Council discussed the requests of the <br />Charter Commission to modify the 2004 financial records to account for staff initiated <br />charter - related expenditures differently and to account for them differently in the future. <br />Since the draft minutes of the Charter Commission infer that there was something <br />"wrong" with the accounting of expenditures, staff requested that the City Council either <br />confirm that there was nothing technically improper with the 2004 accounting of <br />expenses, based on the City Auditor's opinion, or further investigate this issue in order to <br />make a determination. <br />The Council intended to discuss this issue at the April 14 joint Council/Charter <br />Commission meeting. Since the City Attorney suggested to Council members that the <br />meeting should occur after the Charter Commission's meeting with the LMC staff <br />attorney, I am assuming that this issue was not resolved at the April 14 meeting and will <br />require further Council direction. <br />Requested Council Direction <br />Staff is requesting that the City Council: <br />1 <br />