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ROSEVILLE CHARTER COMMISSION Annual Meeting November ~~, 2004 Roseville City Hall PRESENT: Sobola, Lorenz, Crump, Bell, Riach, Sands, Shearon, Smith ABSENT: None CALL TO ORDER: Chair, Georgiana Sobola, called the meeting to order at ~:oo p.m. She noted the absence of Marilyn Silvis, who resigned prior to this meeting. MINUTES: After correcting the minutes of the December io, 2003 meeting to include the name of Lawrence Shearon to the members present, the minutes were approved. PUBLIC COMMENT: Tam McGehee appeared to speak in support of a charter for Roseville. OLD BUSINESS: A. The Chair reviewed an opinion received from the firm of Ratwik, Roszak & Maloney confirming that nothing precludes the Commission from dissolving on athree-fourths vote of its members. A short discussion among the commissioners showed a consensus that there is little interest in the community for adopting a charter. B. Vicky Lorenz introduced a resolution to dissolve and moved its adoption. The motion was seconded by Ron Riach. Terry Moses, an originator of the charter petition, spoke in favor of continuing the Charter Commission. Following a discussion a roll call vote on the resolution to dissolve was taken. Voting in favor: Sobola, Lorenz, Riach, Shearon, Smith Voting against: Crump, Bell ,Sands The motion failed for lack of athree-fourths vote. NEW BUSINESS: A. No changes were made to the by-laws. B. In order to avoid a meeting in December to approve the annual report as required by the by-laws, it was agreed that the annual report to the district judge would be written by the chair, circulated to Commission members for additions or corrections and transmitted to the secretary for delivery to the judge. A motion by the chair to that effect was approved. C. The chair reviewed the terms expiring on August 3i. 2005 : Sobola,