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Mounds View Charter Commission Minutes — APPROVED Tuesday, July 15, 2025 1.Call to Order. Regular meeting came to order at 6:31 PM. 2.Roll Call. Present: B. Amundsen, E. James, M. Meehan, K. Mills, J. Peterson, G. Quick, R. Scholl, A. Urlacher, R. Warren Excused: Absent: Also present: Council Liaison Gary Meehlhause, City Administrator Nyle Zikmund 3.Approval of Agenda and Minutes . a. Approve Agenda. Chair R. Warren introduced the Preliminary Agenda. Discussion was requested. MOTION made, by B. Amundsen, and seconded, by E. James, to approve the agenda as presented. MOTION adopted 9-0. b. Approve Minutes of Regular Meeting. Chair R. Warren asked for review of the Secretary's May 20, 2025, Regular Meeting Minutes. Discussion occurred. Typo corrections were made. MOTION made, by J. Peterson, and seconded, by R. Scholl, to approve the Meeting Minutes as amended. MOTION adopted 9-0. 4.Citizen's Comments from the Floor. No citizens present made comments. 5.Reports of Chair. 6.Reports of Members. Secretary B. Amundsen reported that past approved agendas are being sent to the city for archiving. 7.Unfinished Business. A. Discussion of Chapter 4 Nominations and Elections – 4.05 Vacancy appointment allowance . Chair R. Warren requested the secretary to provide status of the item. B. Amundsen reviewed packet documents distributed; Resolution 2025-01,Exhibit A (as corrected by K&G with the options the commission selected at our last meeting), and the original document proposed to the council. B. Amundsen said after review he has some suggested changes. Chair R. Warren asked B. Amundsen to proceed with his suggested changes. 1) First was to correct the resolution to read “Chapter 2 and 4”. Chair R. Warren asked if there were any objections, none were made. 2) Exhibit page1; there were no changes. 3) Exhibit page 2: line 44, suggest changing “timeline” to “procedures”, no objections were raised to the change. R. Scholl raised question to clarify when the vacancy exists. Discussion occurred on when does a vacancy exist, in particular related to residence qualification. Motion, by R. Scholl, and seconded, by G. Quick, to amend Subdivision 1 by replacing “Vacancy” with “When a vacancy has been declared” and replacing the period with a coma. Discussion on the motion occurred. R. Scholl asked to withdraw the motion, and the Chair declared there was no motion before the Commission. At this point. K. Mills brought up some format consistency issues related to subdivision underlining and carriage return usage in the chapter, which need correcting and a spelling error of the word appointment. M. Meehan discussed that the document is using “process” in later places and suggested the change from “timeline” to “procedures” should be changed to “process”, B. Amundsen agreed and without any objections from the Commission. J. Peterson pointed out that page 2 line 65 also needs to read “3.(D)” not Page 1 of 3