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y i CITY Cf CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW Agenda Section REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Report Number: • OrgAIP.VSTAFF REPORT Report Date: 10/10/96 0 � r ,:,h .7 .p, v:.:::,, , CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE — Special Order of Bus. .–es'.Partn¢o°s October 14, 1996 — p Consent Agenda Public Hearings Council Business Item Description: Review of September 23, 1996 City Council Meeting Minutes and Subsequent Consideration of Resolutions 5029 and 5030. Executive Director's Review/Recommendation: -No Comments to supplement this report -Comments attached. Explanation/Summary(attach supplement sheets as necessary) Summary:,Some questions were raised about whether the City Council should have accepted Sue Hankner's resignation and the ensuing declaration of vacancy by resolution instead of by motion. Mounds View City Charter requires that a resolution be passed for this type of action and the Council may want to consider affirming their actions of the last meeting by adopting resolutions 5029 and 5030 as drafted by City Attorney Bob Long. Bob and I discussed the appropriate way in which to do this, either by having the Council amend their minutes of the September 23 actions to reflect the actions as resolutions, or to simply proceed with the normal adoption of the minutes and then readdress the actions with reaffirming resolutions. The reason for this is as much consistency with past practice as with anything else. have also asked Bob to send me a letter outlining the position he stated regarding the Council's appropriate 111 course of action for accepting the resignation and then declaring a vacancy. As the Council is aware by now, much of this is being questioned by the Charter Commission, with the essential concern being that without a special election, voters will be voting for two candidates for three seats. The timing of the resignation, after the notice of filings close, has the most to do with that situation. I expect to have Bob's letter by Monday and will forward copies to the Council as soon as possible. As for Monday evening, I recommend the Council ask Bob to review the option to adopt the two resolutions at the time the Council is reviewing the Council minutes. If the Council chooses, it can approve the minutes with the actions as motions as it happened, then add to the agenda the two resolutions reaffirming the actions. Also, the Council may want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the resolution it received from the Charter Commission last week. C4442.0 -4. Chuck Whiting, Cit Administrator