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Attachment 1 The follow is a general summary of the amendments to the Mounds View Municipal Code (the "Code") that are contained in the recodification which has been presented to the City Council for adoption pursuant to Ordinance 976. These amendments were determined necessary based on extensive code review and careful consideration by staff and consultants that has taken numerous months to complete. 1. The Code is proposed to be amended by reorganizing, combining, renaming, and renumbering titles throughout the Code as recommended by the City's third -party codifier, American Legal Publishing. The proposed new title format, which staff agrees with, is as follows: Title I General Provisions Title III Administration Title V Public Works Title VII Traffic Code Title IX General Regulations Title XI Business Regulations Title XIII General Offenses Title XV Land Usage Table of Special Ordinance 2. The Code is proposed to be amended with the language "as they may be amended from time to time" after various citations to statutes or rules so that future amendments to such laws or rules will become part of the Code. 3. All monetary figures, e.g. dollar amounts for fees and fines, are proposed to be replaced with the phrase "as approved by ordinance", and are proposed to be included in the City's fee schedule moving forward. Said fee schedule is adopted annually by the City and so moving forward, changes to said monetary figures would efficiently occur by amending the fee schedule rather than by amending various sections of the Code. For that same reason, it is further proposed that those instances where the phrase "as approved by resolution" appears be replaced with "per the City's approved fee schedule." 4. To maintain consistency throughout the City Code, certain titles or departments are proposed to be renamed to establish consistency with current city titles and departments. Although other clean-up might have occurred, said amendments include the following: a) The terms City Administrator, City Clerk and City Clerk -Administrator are proposed to be replaced with the term City Administrator. b) The terms Finance Director/Treasurer and Treasurer are proposed to be replaced with Finance Director. c) The terms Park and Recreation Department, Parks or Recreation Division are proposed to be replaced with Parks and Recreation Department. d) The terms Public Works Director or Public Works Director/City Engineer are proposed to be replaced with Director of Public Works/Parks and Recreation. e) All references to zoning district designations are proposed to include a hyphen between the letter and number (for example, R-1, R-2, etc.). f) The terms Building Official or Building Inspector are proposed to be replaced with the term Authority Having Jurisdiction. g) All references to the Redemption Fund are proposed to be replaced with the term Debt Service Fund. DOCSOPEN-MU210-54-720885.v2-5/24/21