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Roseville Charter Commission Roseville City Hall Council Chambers 9/22/1999, 7 p.rn. to 9 p.�. Minutes I. Welcome and Charge Charge agreed to by all committee members: Our charge is to determine if a charter is desirable or necessary for the City of Roseville. If we deter�nine that a charter is desirable or necessary then we are ta develop a charter to present to the citizens of Roseville for a vote. I want to emphasize the declaration and commihnent that we all made to Judge Cohen that we would be open minded, deliberate, directing our energies to the future, focusing on what is best for the entire city of Roseville. We a11 agreed not to be single issue focused or representative of a single issue in our rolc. II. Introduction of inembers an� g�thering of addzti�na� informat:oz� III. Distribution and explanation of handouts: Binders handed out and briefly reviewed IV. Decision making method: Will follow simple majority. When detailing bylaws a review will be made for the need of other decision-making methods. Also need to re�er to the MN Statutes. Format of ineetirigs: We will use Simplified Roberts Rules of Qrder. Pat Johnson and Bob Bell will prepare material for educating the committee on Simplified Roberts Rules of Qrder for the next n:ieeting. Quorum: 5 will be our quorum. By-laws should state that in the case of only S members being present then major votes would need consensus. ,r V. Next meeting: Date: October 20, 1999 and the third Wednesday of each month following. Specific motion that passed stated that we would meet once a month with no specific time constraint. Meetings would be the 3rd Wed. at each month and would start at 7 p.m. Purpose of next meeting: Discuss by-laws: A subcommittee of Elwyn Sands, Bob Bell, Pat Jahnson and Ron Riach will develop by-laws for the committee to discuss. Election of Officers: By-law subcommittee will develop position descriptions that are consistent with by-laws. Once the posifion descriptians are confirmed then we will vote on each position. A motion was made and passed that a request be made to City Hall to have future commission meeting videotaped ar cablecast. Invite someone to present to the committee a descriptxon of what is a Statutory Plan B city means and present what Roseville actually has set up. Begin to develop a laundry list of issues that we as a committee feel we need to look at hefor� we can determine if we need a charter. Task for next meeting: Read VI. Discussion of responsibilities of positions: Tabled ta next meeting VII. Selection af positions: Tabled to next meeting VIII. Adjournment