2015-03-11 CC Minutes - Approved

Home Browse Search

City of Centerville Council Meeting Minutes March 11, 2015 Mayor Wilharber provided Council Members with an opportunity to amend the presented minutes. Motion by Council Member Fehrenbacher, seconded by Council Member Love, to approve the minutes of the February 25, 2015 City Council Meeting as presented. All in favor. Motion passed. VII. CONSENT AGENDA 1.City of Centerville February 26, 2015 through March 11, 2015 Claims (Check #29365- 29386) & (Check #29387-29396) w/Voided Check #29376 2.Centennial Lakes Police Department Claims through February 28, 2015 (Check #10195- 10296) 3.Centennial Fire District Claims through March 3, 2015 (Check #6790-6803) 4. Res. #15-010 – Support of Legislation Establishing an Early Voting Process for Voters in Minnesota 5. Res. #15-011 – Authorizing the Abatement of Special Assessments Certified to Anoka County for PID #R14-31-22-41-0018 for the Years 2015-2017 & the Correction of a Typographical Error on Res. #14-035 6. Planning & Zoning Commission Recommendation Findings & Decision for Approval of Conditional Use Permit ~ Ultimate Martial Arts Studio - Business Operator Mr. Brian th Hanson/Building Owner Richard Pearson, 6845 – 20 Avenue South Mayor Wilharber provided Council Members an opportunity to pull items from the Consent Agenda for additional discussion. Council Member King again requested that Item #4 be pulled for further discussion. Motion by Council Member Fehrenbacher, seconded by Council Member Paar to approve Consent Agenda Items #1-3 & 5-6 as presented. All in favor. Motion passed. Council Member King stated that he has attempted to review this item in length, he understands the process but does not believe that the desired outcome to make voting easier is needed with the fact that Minnesota has the highest turnout rates already. Council Member King was concerned with costs associated with this also. City Administrator Ericson stated that he had provided Council with background information from the League of Minnesota Cities regarding cost effectiveness, voters having the ability to place their own ballots directly into a tabulator which in turn would allow for immediate notification if they over-voted/under-voted in a race or crossed over party lines in a primary election; providing them an opportunity to spoil that ballot and be provided with a new ballot. The law does not allow the ballot envelop with voter information on it to remain with the ballot, for privacy reasons, when County staff places the ballot in the tabulator, if the voter over- voted/under-voted in a race or crossed over party lines the staff has no alternative but to override the defective races which means no votes are cast in that race. The voter does not have the ability to immediately correct the error or any ability to correct the error. They do not know that they made a mistake or that their vote was not counted in either of the cases. Page 2 of 6