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To: Bill Doty, Chairman Charter Commission From: City Administrator Subject: Comments on Plan B Date: August 28, 1979 A comment was made concerning Plan B Government, which was out of context and I feel that I should respond. I would hope that the Commission wants to review data that is relivant and more closely related to the City situation. Herefore, I have reviewed the League of Cities Directory of Cities. To be sure, the majority of the 855 Cities are standard Plan A, however, the vast majority of the Cities are below 5,000 population and mostly below 2,500. Therefore, to compare Mounds View with them would not give a very accurate comparison. A better comparison would be to the Cities in the Metro Area of over 10,000 population. I have done so and attached a list of Cities with their: Name, Population, Type of Government, Title of Administration Offices. I have also done this for all outstate cities, except Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth. The net result of this information is as follows for the 39 Cities over 10,000: 1 . 19 of these Cities are Home Rule (48%) . 2. 16 of the 19 Cities have Council-Manager (84% of the 19 cities or 41% of the 39) . 3. 28 of the 39 Cities have Council-Manager form of government (71%). 4. 2 Cities are Home Rule with Manager. 5. 9 Cities of the 39 are Statutory A (23%) . 6. Of these 9 Cities , 4 have established the position of Administrator (44%) . 7. The 5 remaining have combined the position of Clerk with the Administrator (including Mounds View) (56%) . Outstate Cities over 10,000 are as follows: 1 . 12 total Cities over 10,000 2. 4 Home Charter - Plan B (33%) 3. 3 Clerk or Clerk-Treasurer (25%) 4. 5 City Administrator or Coordinator (42%) From this information, a different conclusion should be drawn. First of the 51 Cities of 10,000 within the State 62% have the Council-Manager form of government, 17.6% have established the position of Administrator; .098% have just Clerk or Clerk-Treasurer and the remainder is the type Mounds View has. It appears that the more common form for similiar Cities are Council-Manager.