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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes February 10, 2009 Page 2 1 A. Ordinance No. 09-001: Codifying the General Ordinances of the City of St. Anthony, 2 Minnesota; Adopting. a New City Code, and Repealing Certain Ordinances. Kim Moore - 3 Sykes, Assistant City Manager, presenting. 4 5 Assistant City Manager Moore -Sykes reviewed Ordinance 09-001 with the Council. She stated 6 the City's Code of Ordinances was last recodified in 1993. In the 15 years since, the Code of 7 Ordinances has experienced occasional minor revisions that reflected changes in governing at the 8 local, state or federal levels. In the last two years, staff has witnessed more substantial changes 9 that needed to be included in the City's Code of Ordinances. The proposed revisions included 10 major changes to the City's Sign Ordinance, Building Code, Fire Code, Animal Control 11 Ordinance, and the addition of a City Housing Code. Council identified recodification of the City 12 Code as a goal at the 2007 Goal Setting. A bid from American Legal Publishing, who works with 13 the League, was approved June 12, 2007. 14 15 Assistant City Manager Moore -Sykes provided a PowerPoint presentation on the 2009 16 Recodification of the City Code. 17 18 City Manager Morrison stated the third reading of the Ordinance 09-001 is scheduled for March 19 10, 2009. The recodification will be effective on April 1, 2009 to give the Police Department the 20 opportunity to work with the counties. He stated the contract the City has with American Legal 21 Publishing allows for updates to existing ordinances and additions of new ordinances. 22 23 Councilmember Thuesen inquired about the $18 charge by American Legal Publishing for 24 revisions as outlined in the contract. Assistant City Manager Moore -Sykes explained there would 25 be an $18 charge for any revisions at the end of the three year contract. 26 27 Mayor Faust inquired whether it would be plausible to include the code recodification on the 28 City website with the status of "pending approval". Assistant City Manager Moore -Sykes 29 indicated this could be done. however, there could be difficulties if someone were to depend on 30 the document as current because it does not become effective until April. 31 32 Council consensus was that staff report back to Council on the possibility of including the 33 recodification on the City website. 34 35 It was noted that there is a dynamic search engine available with the current ordinance book on 36 the City website and that this tool will likely be available with the recodification. 37 38 Mayor Faust opened the public hearing at 7:14 p.m. 39 40 Mayor Faust closed the public hearing at 7:14 p.m. 41 42 Motion by Councilmember Gray, seconded by Councilmember Roth, to approve the First 43 Reading of Ordinance 09-001, Codifying the General Ordinances of the City of St. Anthony, 44 Minnesota; Adopting a New City Code, and Repealing Certain Ordinances. 45 46 Motion carried unanimously,