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t v -3- • The January 4th- staff meeting. notes and the information related to the C Emergency Management. Training Course Mr. Childs and Mr. Entner would be attending were noted and ordered filed. The Manager assured the Council he would sign no contract with MAPSI. until alternatives had been researched and the franchise agreement with Minnegasco would not be renewed until the .Suburban .Rate Authority review is completed. When the Council's responses to the L..M.-M. request to rank legislative action in the order of their importance to the City are returned to Mr. Childs, he will send the legislative action survey to the League for consideration at their annual legislative conference to be held January 26th. The Council had been .provided copies of' the Manager's January 3rd letter to the Metropolitan Council requesting the agency 's assistance in developing a housing plan for St. Anthony which Mr.. Childs said the H.R.A. consultant believes would be advantageous for the City' s redevelopment plans . The Planning Commission would be involved in the development of the plan. Council members had also provided a copy of the Mayor's memo in which he addressed the advantages he . sees for establishing terms of service for Planning Commission members , and he indicated he believes such action .might be a way of avoiding politicizing Commission service and a justification for investing in more education for the Commission members when longer. terms of service are assured. Mr. Childs agreed to report the Council's comments on the proposed ordinance in such a manner -that there would be no mis- understanding on the Commission that -the intent . of the ordinance is to • i' in any way limit the - service of any Commission member, but, rather, would be designed to provide greater continuity of planning experience and knowledge on-that body than is now guaranteed under the existing annual appointment procedure. Candidates for the two vacancies on the Commission will be interviewed by the .Council at a special Council meeting scheduled for 7 :OO .P.M. , January 17th, with each interview limited to 15 minutes. Any candidate who is unable to attend this session would be invited.-to be interviewed- at 7 :00 P.M. , just prior to the January 25th meeting. Appointments to the. Human Services and Chemical Awareness Committees would also be made at the same meeting, with .the City' s representative to the Eastside Hennepin. County Services .Council. — to- be appointed at a later date. Motion by Councilman Marks and .s,econded by Councilman .Ranallo to adopt the resolution which authorizes the budget transfers necessary to balance the City budgets for the .year-end closing. RESOLUTION 82-063 A RESOLUTION. MODIFYING .THE 1982 BUDGET Motion carried unanimously. The need for more St. Anthony subscribers to the Bulletin was indicated to Jim Schwartz, the Bulletin reporter, who told of his .paper 's plans to conduct a subscription campaign in St. Anthony sometime within the next year.