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Mounds View Charter Commission February 12,2004 • Mounds View Charter Commission Minutes Meeting February 12, 2004 1. Call to order - The meeting came to order at 7:05 PM 2. Roll Call—Present-B. Amundsen, B. Mori, J. Miller,M. Sandback, B. Thomas, J. Thomas Absent—D.Friemuth, William Werner, Sr. Excused - B. Doty, M. Eenigenburg 3. Approval of agenda and minutes Motion by B. Mori, second by B. Thomas to approve agenda as written UNAMIMOUS APPROVAL Motion by B. Mori, second J. Miller; to approve minutes of January 8, 2004 as amended in 8.b. Replacing "offered to help"with "recommend we" and with grammatical corrections in 8.c of"adapt" and replace "Consensus was to"with "Consensus was the" UNAMIMOUS APPROVAL 4. Citizens comments from the floor • None presented. 5. Reports of the Chair Chair J. Thomas reported on his meeting at council work session, on February 2, 2004,with Council members. Council members present agreed to review suggested charter language clarifications submitted to date at next council meeting. Chair Thomas expects that the Chapter 5 rewrite will be sent back for clarification of the "recall" issue, which the courts have found "unconstitutional" in other charters. City attorney also clarified at this work session that City Council can approve by ordinance as written, approve by ordinance with minor grammar corrections, or return for suggested modifications, but they cannot reject and simply not act. Charter Commission can then take issue to ballot if necessary. 6. Reports of members B. Amundsen requested clarification of 2004 time line for the "category 3" items which were designated as items that might require ballot presentation. Chair J. Thomas accepted task to draft a time line for review at March Commission meeting. '7. Unfinished Business Nothing presented. 8. New Business a. Review final resolution 2004-01 for Charter Section 4.02. • Motion by B. Mori, second by M. Sandback to approve. Page 1 of 2