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-3- Mr.' Childs said he would check with. .the City Attorney to see if the wording change is necessary . Motion by Mr. Bowerman and .seconded .by Mr. Bjorklund to recommend the Council adopt the ordinance amendment relating. .to signs with the changes , additions and/or deletions recorded in the January 18 , 1983 Planning Commission Minutes , noting that the proposed ordin- ance is a result of two years of Planning Commission, staff and public effort and input with .several, public hearings before the ordinance evolved in its present form. ORDINANCE 1983-001 AN ORDINANCE RELATING .TO .SIGNS ; AMENDING SECTION 430 :00 OF- THE 1973 CODE OF ORDINANCES Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Bjorklund presented. the new D.N. R. pamphlet from which he indicated he would like to see the City order a set of aerial maps of the City to replace those which are now over .twelve years old as well as the maps which show the watershed districts . In his December 13th memorandum .to the Council and Mayor, which had been included in the agenda packet, Mr. Childs :had addressed the establishment of terms of the Planning Commission and he had dis- ' tributed copies of Mr. Soth ' s December. -10th letter to him indicat- ing that an amendment to the City Ordinance would be necessary if terms other than the current one year. terms are to be established. The Manager recalled that subject of lengthening the terms had been discussed many times in the past, since the. Council had long believed such action would be a good way of hanging on to good people and, at the same time, .imparting an additional sense of security to the Commission members themselves . There would appear to be no political. ramifications to making the change in an off election year , and ,Mr. Childs assured the commissioners that the desire to limit the number of terms of service of any current member of the Commission had never been a consideration of the Council. The -Council had selected two persons to fill the vacancies on the Commission after interviewing five candidates the previous evening , and Mr. .Childs said he perceives the decision was made based- on . the responses to the five questions posed to each applicant, which he summarized for the Commission members ' benefit. He added that each person had been questioned as to their ability to serve for. four years. Mr. Bowerman agreed longer terms might provide morecontinuity on the Commission but -wanted to be certain a Commissioner could resign for reasons beyond his or her control without prejudice. He also wanted a standard of attendance established so any member who had not attended at least sixty percent of the meetings which were held, ® could be replaced on the Commission. in justice to the other members .