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MAYOR AND COUNCIL COMMUNICATION
DATE: March 15, 2016
CONSENT
ITEM #: 9
MOTION
AGENDA ITEM: Official Newspaper Designation
SUBMITTED BY: Sarah Sonsalla, City Attorney
THROUGH: Clark Schroeder, Interim City Administrator
REVIEWED BY: Sarah Sonsalla/Clark Schroeder
SUGGESTED ORDER OF BUSINESS:
- Introduction of Item .................................................................................................... Staff
- Report/Presentation .................................................................................................... Staff
- Questions from Council to Staff ............................................................ Mayor Facilitates - Public Input, if Appropriate ................................................................... Mayor Facilitates
- Call for Motion .............................................................................. Mayor & City Council
- Discussion ..................................................................................... Mayor & City Council - Action on Motion .................................................................................. Mayor Facilitates
PUBLIC POLICY STATEMENT (IF APPLICABLE)
SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED:
Designate the Oakdale-Lake Elmo Review as the City’s official newspaper.
BACKGROUND AND STAFF REPORT:
Minnesota Statutes require the City Council to annually designate a local newspaper as its official
newspaper for the publication of ordinances and notices and other matters of importance to the City
Council. The City Council had previously designated the Oakdale-Lake Elmo Review as the City’s
official newspaper, but had also designated the St. Paul Pioneer Press as the City’s alternate official
newspaper. It has been brought to the City staff’s attention that the City can only have one official
newspaper. Therefore, City staff is recommending that the City Council designate the Oakdale-Lake
Elmo Review as the City’s official newspaper. The City will no longer publish in the St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
RECOMMENDATION:
Council to adopt the attached Resolution No. 2016-17, A Resolution Designating the Oakdale-Lake Elmo
Review as the City’s official newspaper.
ATTACHMENT(S):
Resolution No. 2016-17
CITY OF LAKE ELMO WASHINGTON COUNTY
STATE OF MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2016-17 A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING THE OAKDALE-LAKE ELMO REVIEW AS THE CITY’S
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER WHEREAS, Minnesota Statutes Section 412.831 states that a city council shall annually
at its first meeting of the year, designate a local newspaper of general circulation in the city as its
official newspaper for the publication of ordinances and other matters that are required by law
and deemed advisable by the council to be published;
WHEREAS, on January 5, 2016, the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo designated
the Oakdale-Lake Elmo Review as the City’s official newspaper and also designated the St. Paul
Pioneer Press as the City’s alternate official newspaper; and
WHEREAS, it has been brought to the City’s attention that the City can only have one official newspaper; and
WHEREAS, the Oakdale-Lake Elmo Review is a newspaper of general circulation in the
City and the City wishes to designate it as its official newspaper; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City Council does hereby approve the following:
1. That the City’s official newspaper is the Oakdale-Lake Elmo Review.
2. That that St. Paul Pioneer Press is no longer designated as the City’s alternate official
newspaper.
This resolution was adopted by the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo on this 15th day of
March, 2016.
_____________________________
Mike Pearson, Mayor
ATTEST: ___________________________
Julie Johnson, City Clerk