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Mounds View Charter Commission Minutes Meeting November 10,2005 1. Call to order -The meeting came to order at 7:05 PM 2. Roll Call-Present- B. Doty, C. Mueller,B. Thomas,J. Thomas, William Werner, Sr Absent- Excused-M. Eenigenburg, J.Miller, B. Amundsen 3. Approval of Agenda and Minutes Motion by Bill Doty, second by Barbara Thomas,to approve the Agenda as presented. APPROVED Motion by Bill Doty, second by Carol Mueller, to approve minutes of October 13, 2005 as amended with clarification that Petition discussion was moved toNovember meeting. ce�4 wr L . APPROVED al %' 4 dt 4. Citizens Comments None 5. Reports of the Chair J. Thomas discussed the petition time line process with the City Attorney. Chair's position is that existing language doesn't define the time line for the process sufficiently. The Chair recommends the Commis ion should review case law and state statutes relat k,our Charter's petition.gr V'v ile also taking a careful look at conditions that could result in - 11111 delay of ordinance. 6. Reports of Members None 7. Unfinished Business a. Discussion of Guidelines for 7.03 J. Thomas opened the discussion witlha question to the Commission about the scope of the issue. He expressed concern thatZurrent scope requires more Commission time and - effort than is probably available in the next 5 months. J. Thomas indicated his desire to have the"System of taxation"to be guidelines providing direction of necessary services to residents. Consensus was a common goal would be to have a levy limit, special taxing authority(ex. Sales tax)would need to go to ballot. Chair J. Thomas offered to review city budgets for the last 10 or 20 years and do a comparison of levy changes per year for next meeting. Discussion was closed and consensus was to add item to agenda for December meeting: b. Review of Chapter 5: Discussion Discussion was opened by C. Mueller who stated she was uncomfortable with the changes in the time line that were proposed at the October meeting. Chair J. Thomas provided and-updated version of the language and time line for Commission review. - Changes included: 1. Clerk Administrator has to review the submitted petition for accuracy and sufficiency and present it to the Council. 2. The time line has to give the Clerk Administrator enough time to review and present to the Council. 3. Update `publication can't be less than 7 days to a maximum of 14 days'. Chair J. Thomas also recommends adding a definition for `registered voter' Discussion continued on the need — Page 1 of 2