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Organizational City Council Minutes —1/5/04 Page 13 of each month had been eliminated from the meeting schedule. At the request of Mayor Klausing, City Manager Beets noted that with a three meeting per month schedule, there was no rationale for eliminating the first Monday, other than his having done so arbitrarily. Mr. Beets noted that, the purpose of the staff-drafted calendar was to initiate and facilitate discussion only and staff awaited further direction from Council. Councilmember Kough noted, and Councilmembers concurred that by eliminating meetings on the first Monday of each month when possible, allowed additional time for Planning Commission decisions to be processed for Council information before requested action at a business meeting. Mr. Kysylyczyn further challenged the rationale for dropping business meetings to 21 meetings per year, rather than the 30+ held in the last several years; and sought clarification by the City Attorney on state statute differentiation between regular and work session meetings of City Councils. At the direction of Mayor Klausing, City Attorney Anderson responded to the current discussion, opining that as long as the City Council was receiving information within the meaning of State law, there was no difference legally in a regular business or work session meeting; further noting that the Council was in fact proposing holding 32 meetings in 2004, with the intent to provide due public notice prior to those meetings, whether the focus of the meeting were action votes or receiving information; and further noted that the Council had the discretion to revise their schedule as dictated by circumstances or issues, as well as changing the format of the meeting, as long as the meetings were noticed in accordance with Open Meeting Law requirements. Mr. Kysylyczyn further challenged the advantage of