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• • CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION SEPTEMBER 3, 2003 APPROVED 1 Session minutes be removed from the agenda at the last Council meeting. She indicated 2 City Clerk Blair is present to take notes on possible changes to the minutes. 3 4 Councilmember Carlson requested clarification regarding the statement on the last page 5 of the minutes "The Council did not make a determination or recommendation regarding 6 the Quad Cities Task Force proposal". She stated she listened to the tape from the 7 meeting and she referred to many emails regarding this issue. She stated she was unclear 8 about the Council direction and when a decision was made about the Quad Cities Police 9 Department. 10 11 City Clerk Blair suggested the statement be revised to read " The Council did not make a 12 new recommendation regarding the Quad Cities Task Force proposal". 13 14 Councilmember Carlson indicated she was agreeable to the suggested revision of the 15 statement. 16 17 There were no other changes to the regular agenda. 18 19 DISCUSS SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 SCHEDULE, DECEMBER MEETING 20 SCHEDULE AND SPECIAL MEETING TO DISCUSS COUNCIL'S ROLES AND 21 RESPONSIBILITIES, MAYOR BERGESON 22 23 Mayor Bergeson advised the Council will have a meeting with the County on September 24 17, 2003, 7:00 p.m. A regular Council work session is also scheduled that evening. He 25 asked if the Council would like to schedule another Council work session on September 26 16 or September 18 to ensure the Council completes the meeting. He asked 27 Councilmembers to check their schedules and advise staff on their availability at the 28 regular Council meeting on Monday. 29 30 Mayor Bergeson advised the City typically has an accelerated meeting schedule in the 31 month of December. He asked if the Councilmember's are agreeable to an accelerated 32 meeting schedule. This will also coincide with the Truth in Taxation meetings. 33 34 Council determined the City will have an accelerated meeting schedule in the month of 35 December. 36 37 COUNCIL RULES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, JEFF O'DONNELL 38 39 Councilmember O'Donnell recommended the Council schedule a special meeting to 40 discuss Council Rules and Responsibilities. He distributed draft guidelines and 41 recommendations. He asked the Council to review the information and discuss it further 42 at a special meeting. 43 44 Council directed staff to reschedule the City's regular agenda items and anyone needing 45 to make presentations there from the September 17, 2003 Council work session to 46 Thursday, September 18, 2003. The Council Rules and Responsibilities will be discussed 47 on September 17, 2003, 5:30 p.m., prior to the meeting with the County. The Council 48 will then adjourn to the County meeting. If Council Rules and Responsibilities need