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9 <br />CHAPTER 6 <br /> <br />ADMINISTRATION OF CITY AFFAIRS <br /> <br /> Section 6.01. Administrative Responsibility. The Council as a body, shall be responsible <br />for the administration of the City. The Council shall appoint an administrative officer to assist in <br />the administration of City affairs. For purposes of reference in this Charter, this administrative <br />officer shall be referred to as the Clerk-Administrator. <br /> <br /> Section 6.02. Administrative Organization. <br /> <br /> Subdivision 1. The Council may by ordinance establish City departments, offices, and <br />agencies and prescribe their functions. No power or duty conferred by this Charter upon a particular <br />office or agency shall be transferred to another. <br /> <br /> Subdivision 2. The City Council shall hire heads of departments, and such other and further <br />officers and personnel as may be required to operate the City efficiently. The City Council shall <br />determine the qualifications thereof and prescribe the duties to be performed by each, except as <br />otherwise prescribed in this Charter. <br /> <br /> Subdivision 3. The head of departments and other officers designated by the Council shall <br />report in person to the Council and to the public at least once each quarter at a regularly scheduled <br />Council meeting. <br /> <br /> Section 6.03. Duties of the Clerk-Administrator. <br /> <br /> Subdivision 1. The duties of the Clerk-Administrator of the municipality shall include the <br />duties of the Clerk in a statutory city. The Clerk-Administrator shall give the required notice of <br />each regular and special election, record the proceedings thereof, notify officials of their elections or <br />appointments to office, certify to the county auditor all appointments and the results of all municipal <br />elections. The Clerk-Administrator shall also have the duties set forth in the following subdivisions: <br /> <br /> Subdivision 2. The Clerk-Administrator shall keep a minute book noting therein all <br />proceedings of the Council. <br /> <br /> Subdivision 3. The Clerk-Administrator shall keep an ordinance book in which shall be <br />recorded in their entirety all ordinances passed by the Council. <br /> <br /> Subdivision 4. The Clerk-Administrator shall keep an account book in which shall be <br />entered all money transactions of the municipality, including the dates and amounts of all receipts, <br />and the person from whom the money was received, and all orders drawn upon the Treasurer with <br />their payee and object. <br /> <br /> Subdivision 5. Ordinances, resolutions and claims considered by the Council need not be <br />given in full in the minute book if they appear in other permanent records of the <br />Clerk-Administrator, and can be accurately identified from the description given in the minutes. <br />The Clerk-Administrator shall act as the Clerk and bookkeeper of the municipality, shall be the <br />custodian of its seal and records, shall sign its official papers, shall post and publish such notices, <br />ordinances as may be required, and shall perform such other appropriate duties as may be imposed <br />upon by the Council. For certified copies and for filing and entering, when required, papers not <br />relating to municipal business, the Clerk-Administrator shall receive the fees allowed by state law to