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Mounds View City Council Page Seven "pular Meeting January 25, 1993 Samantha Orduno, City Administrator stated that it is not necessary to hold a public hearing on the establishment of the Environmental Quality Commission. Orduno further stated that ordinances do not generally need a public hearing and if this one did, there would not be enough notice for publication to set the hearing for the 8th. Mayor Linke made a motion to withdraw the above motion regarding the Environmental Quality Commission with permission from the seconder of the motion. Motion withdrawn. Councilmember Rickaby stated that all of the commissions have unclear wording under Removal. The statement that is unclear is that an appointed member may also be removed by the City Council for nonattendance at Commission meetings if a Commissioner is absent from five regularly scheduled meetings per year or from three consecutive meetings without the consent of the Commission. According to this statement it does not clarify or matter whether these are excused absences or not. Mayor Linke stated that no one has ever been removed from any Commission. Councilmember Wuori stated that there is an explanation in the by . laws or each commission-which covers excused and unexcused absences. If a person calls in sick or has another business meeting and cannot be in attendance at the Commission meeting, that person must call in and let the Commissioners know so the meeting would not be delayed. Those are excused absences. Councilmember Blanchard stated that most persons serving on the Commission have dedicated this time to the City. If they find they can't do it, they usually would resign on their own. Blanchard concurred with Mayor Linke in that she remembers no time where a Commissioner has been removed for non-attendance of meetings. Councilmember Rickaby stated that she is not quibbling about the policy but about the clarity of the sentence itself. Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, stated that the Council could approve introduction of Ordinance No. 523 Establishing Chapter 33, Entitled, "Environmental Quality Commission" because changes that would be made are not substantial. Motion/Second: Linke/Wuori to approve introduction of Ordinance No. 523 Establishing Chapter 33, Entitled, "Environmental Quality Commission" and further discuss the composition of the ordinance before its adoption on February 8, 1993 Councilmember Wuori suggested that the Commissioners receive 111 copies of the proposed ordinance prepared by Mayor Linke prior to the Work Session.