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Mounds View City Council September 27, 2004 <br />Regular Meeting Page 12 <br /> <br />Council Member Marty stated if there is a state of emergency, then the mayor would need to 1 <br />convene a quorum. 2 <br /> 3 <br />Council Member Quick stated there is also an emergency plan that was adopted by the Council, 4 <br />and their power was transferred to the Mayor, the Administrator, and the Police Chief. 5 <br /> 6 <br />City Attorney Riggs stated that Chapter 12 is going to preempt the Charter anyway, so it doesn’t 7 <br />matter. 8 <br /> 9 <br />MOTION/SECOND. Stigney/Linke. To waive the reading and adopt Ordinance 742, Amending 10 <br />Section 2.06 of the City Charter regarding Mayor’s Powers and Duties, to say that the mayor has 11 <br />no administrative authority. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Council Member Stigney stated that this very specifically points out to the entire staff that the 14 <br />mayor has no additional authority over any individual Council member, and that the Council acts 15 <br />as a whole on all of these issues. 16 <br /> 17 <br />ROLL CALL: Linke/Quick/Marty/Stigney/Gunn. 18 <br /> 19 <br /> Ayes-5 Nays-0 Motion carried. 20 <br /> 21 <br />C. Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance 748, Amending Section 4.05 of 22 <br />the City Charter regarding Vacancy of Municipal Elected Office (Roll Call 23 <br />Vote). 24 <br /> 25 <br />Mayor Linke stated that personally he would like to see an appointment rather than a new 26 <br />election, but that is not what is in the Charter. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Barbara Thomas stated that they weren’t making drastic changes. She stated that should the 29 <br />Council at any time wish the Charter to look at making a more significant change to the Charter, 30 <br />they would be more than willing to do so. She stated that this change was merely to clarify time 31 <br />lines. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Mayor Linke stated he would like them to look at a process to eliminate the Charter, but that was 34 <br />his opinion. 35 <br /> 36 <br />Council Member Stigney stated that these changes resulted from questions that City Staff had 37 <br />directed to the Charter Commission, and that this was the response back from the Charter 38 <br />Commission. 39 <br /> 40 <br />MOTION/SECOND. Stigney/Marty. To waive the reading and adopt Ordinance 748, Amending 41 <br />Section 4.05 of the City Charter regarding Vacancy of Municipal Elected Office 42 <br /> 43 <br />ROLL CALL: Linke/Quick/Marty/Stigney/Gunn. 44 <br /> 45