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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
1. Call to Order – The meeting came to order at 7:04 pm.
2. Roll Call – Present: J. Thomas, B. Thomas, J. Battin, J. Reiling, B. Amundsen
Excused: J. Miller, B. Doty
3. Approval of agenda
Motion by B. Amundsen, second by J. Reiling, to approve agenda as written.
MOTION APPROVED
Approval of minutes
Motion by J. Reiling, second by B. Amundsen, to approve minutes of August 10, 2011 as amended..
MOTION APPROVED
4. Citizens comments from the floor
None
5. Reports of the Chair
None
6. Reports of members
B. Thomas reported on a couple of community meetings that people on the Commission as well as in
the listening audience might want to attend: 694/10 Construction open house & Ramsey County
Charter Commission Hearings regarding the Vikings Stadium referendum.
J. Battin asked if we had a follow-up on membership openings and applications at the court.
Discussion followed regarding pursuing new members.
7. Unfinished Business
Chair will email a Chapter 8 update out to all members of the commission as well as the open meeting
law statute information. The next step for this project will be to work on the definitions list. Consensus
would be that the October meeting would be for the Chapter 8 working group instead of a full
commission meeting. The agenda will include work on definitions and the draft outline. J. Battin also
suggested setting a process/step guideline with targets.
Chair introduced the need to fill the position of 2nd Vice Chair. B. Amundsen nominated J. Battin,
seconded by B. Thomas.
MOTION APPROVED
8. New Business
Discussion of Section 3.01: Chair presented that after a significant amount of research into the issue
that the current language as written actually fully covers all the questions that were raised and he
suggests making no changes.
Discussion of Section 3.02: B. Thomas presented a draft of possible language changing the liaison
function to apply to city commissions and committees. Consensus was that language probably isn’t
necessary at this time and we’ll pursue input from B. Doty and J. Miller on the deletion.
9. Adjournment
Meeting adjourned at 7:56 p.m.