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Page 6 Sub. 2: Believe the title would be more effective if the language were changed from Clerk to City thus the title would be expressed as City Administrator (see Minnestrista resolution). In fact, the remainder of this chapter could be shorten considerably by allowing the City Council to adopt it's own administrative code regarding the position by ordinance. This is suggested by the League found in appendix B, page 20 of their comment section of the Model Charter Book. Sub. 3: Would suggest that in the term City be substituted for Clerk in all subsequent citations to the position of Administrator. Again, the chapter could be significently reduced by noting that the City Administrator shall have or shall include duties of the Clerk as outlined under Minnesota Statutes 412. This would also eliminate all the remaining informatioh found in the chapter with respect to the City Administrator. Subsections 2, 3, 4 are the same comments as previously noted. Sub. 5: Should not be the intent of the Charter to outline how the person will carry out their duties. The second sentence is reduntant since it includes duties of the Clerk in reference to sub. 1 , 2, 3, and 4. The third sentence maybe who Lely in appropriate since the references that you cited are to a Town Clerk and this is a different form of government then a City. Thus , the third sentence should obviously be eliminated or substancially adjusted. The fourth sentence has a contradiction in it in so much as the Administrator appoint a Deputy with Council consent it appears that he may dismiss the Deputy without Council consent. The duties of the Deputy should be taken care of in a seperate subsection and it would be sufficient to say the Deputy may discharge any of the duties of the City Administrator. Sub. 6: The City Administrator should be responsible for the direction of administration and not be a member of a group to make decisions on the operation of the City. Sub 7: The Administrator shall direct,not participate in,the preparation of reports to the City. Sub. 8: The Administrator shall cause the preparation of the annual budget and capital improvements plan to be submitted to the City Council . The last sentence is both unclear and unnecessary in light of chapter 7. Sub. 9: Is unnecessary if previous suggestions have been excepted with respect to combining the position of the City Clerk and Administrator. Sub. 10: Is unnecessary if previous suggestions have been accepted with respect to combining the position of the City Clerk and Administrator. Sub. 11 : Same as above. Sub. 12: The language could be cleaned up by saying the Administrator should participate with the Finance Officer deleting where`"such be" etc. It should also be noted that this is maybe a redundancy since they are included in sub. 8. Sub. 13: Redundant. Same as stated in sub. 1 .