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Page 9 Furthermore, I believe it would extremely difficult for the City staff to do this given the present political and economic conditions which the City's are know laboring under. Sub. 3: Capital improvements plan I would agree that this is desperately needed by the City of Mounds View. This is required under the Land Use Planning Act of 1976 and is also a good tool for the City to use from the standpoint of fiscal and public improvement planning. I see the major problem in this section being that the Planning Commission is tasked to do this and I do not believe they have either the time or the capabilities to accomplish that task, and the cost determination is being increasingly more difficult every year because of uncontrol economic instability of the country. This is not to say that this should not be maintained in the Charter, however. Sub. 4: This would be extremely difficult to predict because of the continually changing of the funding formulas from the legislator and the issues that continually raised by the demand by the public to change taxation from the property tax. Sub. 5: The first problem is that the Capital budget program should be consistent with the rest of the documents that is five years only. This Capital budget appears to be somewhat redundant with subdivision 2. Sub. 6: Is inconsistent with subdivision 1 . It also is not practical or economical from a public information standpoint. Section 7.06: Given the open meeting law the public already has a right to be heard at any of the meetings and particular in the budget sessions. Also, appears that the City Council would not be authorized to exceed the levy. Thus , two things would have to happen if the City Council asked the public to amend the levy base other than through the administrative remedy. Those two items would be a special ballot or special election on the issue of exceeding the levy and special ballot or election to mend the Charter.