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Item No: 6A <br />Meeting Date: Sept 21, 2016 <br />MOUN-DS VIEW Type of Business: Other Planning Activity <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: Jon Sevald, Planner <br />Item Title/Subject: Planning Commission Quorum <br />Introduction <br />At the September 7t" Planning Commission meeting, there was not a quorum present to <br />approve a Variance. Staff was a little caught off guard, which warrants a review of what <br />is quorum for what actions. <br />Discussion <br />City Code, Title 400 establishes Boards and Commissions, including: <br />• Planning and Zoning Commission <br />• Board of Adjustment and Appeals <br />• Human Rights Commission <br />• Police Civil Service Commission <br />• Parks and Recreation and Forestry Commission <br />• Mounds View Festivities Commission <br />• Economic Development Commission <br />The Board of Adjustments and Appeals consists of the Planning Commission <br />members'. <br />By the Numbers: <br />7 Total members of the Planning Commission 2. The Chair and all members have <br />equal voting privileges. <br />4 Quorum3 needed for the Planning Commission to "recommend" action to the City <br />Council (City Council takes final action for approval/denial), or take any other <br />action on a non -Variance item. <br />1 City Code, Section 402.01 <br />Z City Code, Section 401.02, Subd 1 <br />3 City Code, Section 401.06, Subd 5 <br />