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CITY OF GEM LAKE, MINNESOTA <br />RESOLUTION No. 20I8-06 <br />A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING LOCAL DECISION -MAKING AUTHORITY <br />WHEREAS, local elected decision -makers are in the best position to determine what <br />Health, safety and welfare regulations best serve their constituents; and <br />WHEREAS, just like state legislative leaders; local elected officials are held accountable <br />through Minnesota's robust elections process.; and <br />WHEREAS, ordinances at the local level are. enacted only after a comprehensive, legal and <br />open. process; and. <br />WHEREAS, local units of government are required to: publish notices about meetings where <br />policies. will be. discussed and decisions. will be made; and <br />WHEREAS, under the state's.0pen Meeting Law, public. policy discussions and decisions <br />must occur in meetings that are accessible to members of the public; and <br />WHEREAS, cities are often laboratories for determining public policy approaches to the <br />challenges Oat face. residents and businesses;. and <br />WHEREAS, preservation of local control in. Minnesota. has yielded statewide benefits <br />such as the 2007 Freedom to Breathe Act, an amendment to the Minnesota Clean Indoor <br />Air Act; and <br />WHEREAS, more than two dozen bills that restrict local decision -making have been <br />introduced. -in 2017 to date. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />GEM LAKE that this Council supports local decision -making authority and opposes. <br />legislation that removes the ability for local elected. officials to respond to the needs of <br />their businesses and constituents. <br />ADOPTED by the Gem Lake City Council this 17f h day of April, 2018. <br />Tori Leonhardt, City Cleric Date <br />