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Agenda 3 HRA Meeting Minutes Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Page 16 1 Section 2.6 2 Member Wall sought legal counsel comment noted the sixty day written notification for 3 resignations. 4 5 Ms. Ingram advised that the reason for the 60-day written notice was to provide an HRA, staff, 6 the Mayor and City Council to find a replacement in a reasonable amount of time. 7 8 Member Wall opined that such a clause was unenforceable if a sitting Commissioner did not 9 wish to remain on the board. 10 11 Ms. Ingram recognized that situation; however, she noted it was something to addressed by the 12 Minnesota Legislature, since the HRA Act included mirror language, and using Member 13 Walls argument, the clause in the Act itself was also unenforceable if a sitting Commission 14 chose to go off immediately. 15 16 Section 2.7 17 Member Wall asked Ms. Ingram if there was any case law on enforcing this clause regarding 18 removal of a Commissioner for inefficiency or neglect of duty; and questioned what defined 19 inefficiency. 20 21 Ms. Ingram advised that she was not aware of any litigation. 22 23 Section 3.5 24 Member Wall suggested that the HRA by-laws reflect reality, and language changed to stated 25 that the Secretary may delegate keeping of minutes of all meetings to the Executive 26 Director 27 28 Member Etten noted references in Section 3.6 that tied into Section 3.5 regarding 29 responsibilities of the Executive Director. 30 31 Consensus of the body was to leave language in Section 3.5 as is 32 33 Section 3.7 34 Member Wall expressed concern that the Executive Director, as an appointed versus elected 35 officer, be exempted from this section. 36 37 Ms. Ingram suggested a simple fix of adding elected before officer. 38 39 The body concurred with this proposed change. 40 41 Section 4.3 42 Member Wall suggested changing language to City Clerk. 43 44 Ms. Ingram advised that the HRA Act defined clerk, and while not legally necessary to 45 further define this section, Ms. Ingram offered to do so at the direction of the body. 46 47 Section 5.2 48 Member Wall noted current contracts are executed by the HRA Chair and Executive Director, 49 and suggested removing or to continue that policy. 50 51 Section 4.6 52 Ms. Ingram noted that the changes made last year by the HRA reflected the change by the City 53 from Roberts Rules to Rosenbergs Rules. 54 55 Chair Maschka duly noted that, and directed staff to change the documents accordingly.