HomeMy WebLinkAboutCharter Resolution 2000-04xRESOLUTION 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. If the City Council does not adopt this resolution by an unanimous vote of all its members the Charter
Commission hereby requests that the above amendment be placed on the ballot at the next general election in
November 2000, under Minnesota Statues 410.12 Subdivision 1.
Adopted this 13th day of January, 2000. __________________________
Commission Chair
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Commission Officer