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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 13, 2015 Page 26 Mayor Roe concluded that the City Council was supportive of retaining two commissions; agreed on the need to work on the duties/functions of the HRC and their title and any other issues; agreed to defer the joint meeting of the HRC and City Council; and work to resolve not filling or increasing membership until the HRC's new charge is defined. City Manager Trudgeon expressed concern in getting that accomplished by the next meeting of the City Council; with Mayor Roe and Councilmember Laliberte strongly encouraging that be accomplished; or a special meeting scheduled if oth- er items were also pending. For clarity, City Manager Trudgeon reiterated the request of staff was to deter- mine what would constitute a quorum, and how to deal with changing the specific number of commissions for a quorum. As a second and separate piece, Councilmember Laliberte noted the deferral of the joint meeting from August to later in 2015. d. Discuss Uniform Commission Code At the request of Mayor Roe, City Manager Trudgeon briefly addressed issues in developing a uniform code to governing the organizational structures for advisory commissions occurring over the last few years in attempting to consolidate com- mon threads of regulations, resulting in the creation of a new Chapter 201 to City Code (Attachment B). As provided in current City Code, Title 2 — Commissions (Attachment A) — and the new draft (Attachment B), Mr. Trudgeon noted those additions and those areas for deletion unless statutory requirements; and thanked Councilmembers Willmus and Laliberte for their input, as well as other Coun- cilmembers over the past few years. Mr. Trudgeon clarified that this draft is not intended for adoption tonight, and only as a starting off point for discussion and consideration of the concept of a uniform commission code. New Chapter 201 —Advisory Commissions (Attachment B) Councilmember Etten spoke in support of the new chapter, suggested several re- visions and additional elements to the draft. Page 2, Section 201.06: Organization Section C: Specific to creation of committees, subcommittees and/or task forces within commissions, Councilmember Etten noted the need to differentiate be- tween those that needed to come before the City Council for approval and those not necessary to do so. Councilmember Laliberte agreed; opining that she saw them almost as opposites based on various comments and input to-date. However, Councilmember Laliber- te suggested that the first sentence provide that differentiation with the key words,