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Mounds View City Council <br />• Regular Meeting <br />Page Seven <br />January 25, 1993 <br />Samantha Orduno, City Administrator stated that it is not necessary to <br />hold a public hearing on the establishment of the Environmental <br />Quality Commission. Orduno further stated that ordinances do not <br />generally need a public hearing and if this one did, there would not be <br />enough notice for publication to set the hearing for the 8th. <br />Mayor Linke made a motion to withdraw the above motion regarding the <br />Environmental Quality Commission with permission from the seconder of <br />the motion. Motion withdrawn. <br />Councilmember Rickaby stated that all of the commissions have unclear <br />wording under Removal. The statement that is unclear is that an <br />appointed member may also be removed by the City Council for <br />nonattendance at Commission meetings if a Commissioner is absent from <br />five regularly scheduled meetings per year or from three consecutive <br />meetings without the consent of the Commission. According to this <br />statement it does not clarify or matter whether these are excused <br />absences or not. <br />Mayor Linke stated that no one has ever been removed from any <br />Commission. <br />Councilmember Wuori stated that there is an explanation in the by <br />• laws or each commission which covers excused and unexcused absences. <br />If a person calls in sick or has another business meeting and cannot be <br />in attendance at the Commission meeting, that person must call in and <br />let the Commissioners know so the meeting would not be delayed. Those <br />are excused absences. <br />Councilmember Blanchard stated that most persons serving on the <br />Commission have dedicated this time to the City. If they find they <br />can't do it, they usually would resign on their own. Blanchard <br />concurred with Mayor Linke in that she remembers no time where a <br />Commissioner has been removed for non-attendance of meetings. <br />Councilmember Rickaby stated that she is not quibbling about the <br />policy but about the clarity of the sentence itself. <br />Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, stated that the Council <br />could approve introduction of Ordinance No. 523 Establishing <br />Chapter 33, Entitled, "Environmental Quality Commission" because <br />changes that would be made are not substantial. <br />Motion/Second: Linke/Wuori to approve introduction of Ordinance <br />No. 523 Establishing Chapter 33, Entitled, "Environmental Quality <br />Commission" and further discuss the composition of the ordinance before <br />its adoption on February 8, 1993 <br />Councilmember Wuori suggested that the Commissioners receive <br />• copies of the proposed ordinance prepared by Mayor Linke prior <br />to the Work Session. <br />