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Attachment 1 — Response to City Letter of July 11, 2019 Case File 62-CV-19-4965 • Statute 410.05 requires and authorizes the Commission to set their own "quorum" level for conducting business and does not require "full complement of membership" anywhere in statute. • The Commission Bylaws, Revised 2019 (Attachment 3 Bylaws) identifies the Commission's • quorum, as 5 members if nine are appointed or 4 members if less than nine are appointed. Commission membership at this time and since April 2016, prior to my current appointment made by the Court, has exceeded the Bylaws' quorum requirement to conduct business. • The Council has not submitted ordinances for any proposed amendments, per MN Statute 410.12 Subd 7 (Attachment 5), to the Commission for review of "important issues involving the Mounds View City Charter". The Letter states the Commission chair (Commissioner Marissa Reyes -Johnson) abruptly resigned and that there are two other pending resignations following the Commission's meeting on May 21, 2019. • I agree that Commissioner Reyes -Johnson resigned after the May 21 meeting. • Commissioner Reyes -Johnson's resignation (Attachment 6) does not state her reason. • To my knowledge no other resignations have been received. • The Letter does not name the two other commissioners threatening resignations. • The two commissioner names have never been released so their intent and reasons are not verifiable. • The Letter's math is incorrect, one resignation plus two pending would reduce the Commission's membership by 3 of 9 members. Even if the additional resignations occur the Commission's ability to have quorum is not impaired and the Commission can continue to function with as few as four. • Other commissioners making threats to resign unless I'm removed is a bullying behavior and should not be tolerated or be reason for removal of another commissioner. • In my opinion, city staff and Council have a bias towards and against various Commission members and tolerate behaviors from some, but not others (ie. demands to remove another member.) Egiaauu The Letter provides a history of the Council actions leading them to this request of the Court. • There are a number of inaccurate dates in the paragraph, which are detailed below. • The Letter doesn't mention the lack of due process afford me and required by the Council's Statement of Values (Attachment 7) or code of conduct when working with volunteers, • The Letter does not identify which historical data, emails, legal opinions the Council viewed nor was this information made public or shared with me. The Letter states that they held a workshop meeting on June 4, 2019, to discuss my removal. • I disagree. • The meeting was June 3, 2019, publicly televised. • The Council did not follow its due process requirement specified in its "Statement of Values". • I was not contacted by any Council member or the city administrator prior to the June 3 public discussion regarding concerns about me at the May 21, 2019, Commission meeting. Nor was Page 2 of 13