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• <br />• <br />• <br />WS — Item 1 <br />WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />Work Session Item 1 <br />Date: January 30, 2008 <br />To: City Council <br />From: Gordon Heitke, Administrator <br />Re: Substitute Charter Amendment Review <br />Background <br />After receiving the report and recommendations of the Citizen's Task Force to Review <br />Charter Provisions Pertaining to Local Improvements in July 2007, the council acted to <br />refer a proposed amendment to Chapter VIII of the City Charter (Public Improvements <br />and Special Assessments) to the Charter Commission. This referral follows the process <br />established by state statute for amendments proposed by council (Minnesota Statutes, <br />Section 410.12, Subd. 5). The Charter Commission elected to draft a substitute <br />amendment and submitted such to the city clerk on November 30, 2007. The council <br />received the Charter Commission's substitute amendment at a work session on December <br />3 and subsequently officially acknowledged receipt of the document at the council <br />meeting on December 10, 2007. <br />Staff presented a process and timetable to allow for the review of the substitute <br />amendment and to accommodate options to place an amendment on the November, 2008 <br />ballot. The first step, a technical review of the substitute amendment by bond counsel, <br />financial advisor and staff was initiated January 3, 2008 for a report to be presented to <br />Council on February 4, 2008. <br />City staff has no additional comments to those made in the Kennedy and Graven and <br />Springsted reports. <br />Attachments <br />1. Charter Commission Substitute Amendment <br />2. Report of Stephen Bubul, Bond Counsel, January 28, 2007 <br />3. Report of Terri Heaton, Financial Advisor, January 29, 2007 <br />1 <br />