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Roseville Charter Commission Roseville City Hall Council Chambers Minutes of Meeting of January 17, 2001 I. Call to Order/Roll Call The meeting was called to order by chair Vicky Lorenz at 6:30 p.m. Absent: Craig Klausing. Patricia Johnson was called away later in the meeting. II. Approval of Minutes The Secretary called attention to two minor changes. The minutes were then approved. III. Ethics Code Prior to this meeting- all members of the Commission received a disclosure form as required of all city commission members by the ethics code adopted by the City Council. Two other questions were answered: Has everyone received the annual report? Yes. Has everyone received the revision to the By- laws? Not yet. A computer problem remains to be solved. IV. Public Comment No one appeared for the public comment section. V. Revisit Previous Sections and Begin Discussion of Chapter 5, Initiative and Referendum 2.03 Council Composition and Election New language for this section was presented by the subcommittee. Changes suggested to the new language are as follows: Paragraph 1, line 4, insert after held, concurrently with or; delete the last paragraph. Motion by Sands to adopt with the changes suggested, passed unanimously. This section now reads: The Council shall be composed of a mayor and four council persons who shall be qualified electors and who shall be elected at large. Each council member shall serve for a term of four years and until his or her successor is elected and qualifies, except that at the first election held concurrently with or after the adoption of this charter, the two candidates having the highest number of votes shall serve for four years and the other successful candidate shall serve for two years. The mayor shall serve for a term of four years and until his or her successor is elected and qualifies. 2.05 Vacancies The new language developed for this section by the subcommittee is much longer than the section in the model charter -Additions include Section 2.OSa Procedures to Fill Council Vacancies b Special Election, and 2.OSb, Procedures to Fill Council Vacancies by Council Appointment. Sub-section 2.OSb contains six subcategories. The following changes were suggested: 2.05 Vacancies Line 6, change may to shall; Line 7, delete act and substitute make the appointment. Line 8, delete a special election shall be called b the cit manager to fill the vacanc ,and substitute the mayor shall fill the vacancy from the lrst of qualified applicants. Motion by Sands to adopt 2.05 with these changes was approved unanimously. 2.OSa, Procedures to Fill Council Vacancies by Special Election Lines 1-3, delete or if the unexpired term of the council vacanc is less than one year and the council fails to fill the vacancy throu h the appointment rocess. Line 4, change council to crty manager. Delete the last sentence. Motion by Brewer to adopt 2.OSa with the changes suggested, passed unanimously. 2.OSb, Procedures to Fill Council Vacancies by Council Appointment Subcategory 1, Line 3, change declared to occurrences of the. Subcategory 2, Line 2, change declared to occurrence of the. Subcategory 3, change declared vacancy to occurrence of the vacancy. Subcategory 5, delete in its entirety. Renumber subcategory 6 to subcategory 5. Motion by Brewer to adopt 205.b with these changes, passed unanimously. Because of the length of Section 2.05, with its subsections, the full text as amended appears in its entirety as Attachment 1 to the minutes. 2.07 Council Salary Review Commission New language for this section was submitted by Ron Riach. Motion by Bell to adopt the replacement language was adopted unanimously. The full text is Attachment 2 to the minutes.