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MOulvns VfE—W City of Mounds View Staff R Item No: 8D Meeting Date: May 14, 2018 Type of Business: CB Administrator Review: _4X To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Nyle Zikmund, Mounds View City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Ordinance 944 Title 200 Updates to City Code Introduction: The City originally adopted a City Code in the early 1970's and does periodic updates. As part of the entire data/records management project, we are endeavoring to update the code with ordinances adopted since 2015 and also doing a review of the entire code starting with Title/Chapter 1 (100) —Administration. Council provided feedback to changes at the April 16th meeting as well as further feedback at their May 7th Workshop. This is the first reading of Ordinance 944 with the second reading scheduled for May 29tH A short article on the entire code update and eventual codification has been published in our web page and submitted to the Sun Focus for a potential article. That publication is included as an attachment to this agenda item. Discussion: Upon review and obtaining input from the council the following changes are summarized with an attempt to detail by technical or substantive. If in doubt, I listed under substantive. Technical Changes 1. Publication of proposal for bids in excess no longer needs to be published in city of first class newspaper; city newspaper and trade journal sufficient (cost of first class newspaper high and bidders all use trade journals). 2. Elimination of Contract Day Labor provisions — do not use and never have used. 3. Renaming of Mounds View Home Rule Charter, Chapter 202, Improvement Bond Redemption Fund to Debt Service Fund Substantive Changes 1. Senior Citizen Deferral on Assessments and Guidelines published — Could be considered substantive but given our lack of assessments and issues related to publishing guidelines for granting invoke some level of intrusion into applicants personal issues, better to rescind and if hardship is sought, council can deal with on case by case basis.