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RESOLUTION NO. 2000-04 MOUNDS VIEW CHARTER COMMISSION RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL BY ORDINANCE; AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE SECTION 3.01 OF THE MOUNDS VIEW CITY CHARTER . The Mounds View Charter Commission acting under Minnesota Statutes 410.12 Subdivision 7, hereby recommends amending the Charter of the City of Mounds View under Section 3.01, Subsections 1, Subsections 2 and Subsections 3 by to read as follows; Section 3.01. Council Meetings Subsection 1. Council Meetings. The Council will meet at least twice each month at such times regularly scheduled for the conduct of official business and at places as the Council may designate by ordinance. To the extent provided by law, all meetings of the Council and it’s committees shall be public, and any citizen shall have access to the minutes and records of such meetings at reasonable times. During any of its public meetings, the Council shall not prohibit, but may place reasonable restrictions upon citizen’s comments and questions. Such restriction shall be similar to restrictions that the Council places upon its members. Subsection 2. Special meetings. Consistent with the provision of this Charter and applicable state laws and excluding emergency meetings the Mayor or any two members of the Council may call special meetings of the Council upon at least a three day notice of date, time, place, and purpose of the meeting, or such expanded notice as may be prescribed by city ordinance, or the laws of the state of Minnesota. Notice shall be posted on the principle bulletin board of the city and the door of the Council’s usual meeting room, as well as other electronic media as is available and customarily utilized for similar public information by the city. The three days written notice shall also be mailed or otherwise delivered to each voting member of the Council and all chairpersons of any official commission of the city and each person who has filed a written request for notice of special meetings with the Clerk-Administrator. Subsection 3. Emergency meetings. The Mayor or any two members of the Council may call an “Emergency meeting” which under circumstances that, in the judgment of the Council, require immediate consideration of action for the preservation of public peace, health, morals, safety or welfare in which the emergency is defined and declared in the preamble to the resolution or ordinance which is acted upon. BE IT RESOLVED that the Charter Commission directs the commissions chairperson to forward this resolution to the Clerk-Administrator for presentation to the City Council under Minnesota Statutes 410.12 Subdivision 7. Adopted this 13th day of July, 2000. _________________________ Commission Chair Attest: _________________________