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MUNICIPAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION METROPOLITAN GOVERN.AENT ACCOUNTABILITY LEGISLATIVE ISSUE: 1. Creation of a Legislative Commission on Metropolitan Affairs Representatives Carolyn Rodriguez, Connie Levi and John Brandl have proposed legislation which would create a Legislative Commission on Metropolitan Affairs. The duties of the commission would be to review plans and policies, annual work programs and budgets and other reports and work products of the Metropolitan Agencies, Boards and Commissions; to oversee and report on the activities of the Metropolitan Agencies, Boards and Commissions; to study and make recommendations it deems appropriate to assist the legislature in formulating policy and legislation affecting metropolitan affairs; and to review and evaluate proposed legislation affecting metropolitan affairs. The committee would be made up of five (5) members frog each house of the legislature. The Chair of the Senate Local and Urban Government Committee and the Chair of the House Local and Urban Affairs Committee would also be appointed as members of the commission. POSITION: The Municipal Legislative Commission endorses legislation creating a Legislative Commission on Metropolitan Affairs. The MLC deems a separate commission as a positive step in providing accountability to the legislature for Metropolitan Commission and Agency activities. The 14LC urges that the menbership be made up of members of the House and Senate from the seven (7) county metropolitan area. LEGISLATIVE ISSUE: 2. Elected versus appointed Metropolitan Council. There has been recent discussion regarding the merits of an elected hletropolitan Council versus the present process of appointment. POSITION: The Municipal Legislative Commission opposes the creation of an elected Metropolitan Council or any other elected metropolitan agency or connission. M