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• Roseville Charter Commission Roseville City Hall Council Chambers Minutes of Meeting of May 16, 2000 I. -Call to Order/Roll Call: The meeting was called to order by chair Vicky Lorenz at 7:03 p.m. Present: All members were present. II. Approval of Minutes for April 19, 2000. A correction was made on the vote for the motion on a press release. Motion by Pat Johnson to approve the minutes as corrected was approved. There was a brief discussion of the need for a specific number of members to handle publicity. III. Public Comment: Five Roseville residents appeared to express their views: Roger Toogood, D' Wayne DeZiel, George Johnson, Pat Igo and Sharon Gerber. Comments were both pro and anti a home rule charter. Of special note were Roger Toogood's recommendation of David Broder's book, Democracy Derailed, and Sharon Gerber's confusion over the purpose of the charter commission and her recommendation to inform the public of the chazge to charter commissions under the laws of the State of Minnesota. IV. Al Sands report on initiative and referendum in metro area charter cities. Mr. Sands prepared a survey on metro area cities' use of initiative and referendum. He received responses from 22 of the 24 cities he surveyed. Within the parameters of the survey it shows that citizens' use of initiative and referendum has been rare -six times in the past five years by four cities. Fifteen other referendums were held under other • auspices than a citizens' referendum. Citizens can receive copies of this survey from Mr. Sands by contacting him at 651-489-1393 (office), or 651-633-5761 (home). V. Commission Discussion: Commission members mentioned the limitation of a Plan B City to originate initiatives, prohibition against imposing term limits, probability of abuse of initiative and referendum on the local level, which system is more likely to give us good laws, and developing a sense of community. The question of publicity was addressed when Pat Johnson and Jack Brewer volunteered to act as a public relations committee. They received suggestions from other Commission members. The chair suggested that the secretary review materials for publication. VI. Topic/Presenters for June: The topic for June is wards and even-year elections. Jim Button of Woodbury has already been scheduled to discuss that city's progress through the process we are experiencing and the decision not to develop a charter. The suggestion was made that we hear from charter cities of our size on the meeting topic. Fridley and Richfield are most similar. Ron Riach will contact them for speakers. The secretary volunteered to secure League of Minnesota Cities memos on the June topic and distribute them before the meeting. VII. Adjournment: The meeting adjourned at 8:45 p.m. Georgiana Sobola Secretary •