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BROOKLYN CENTER CHARTER COMMISSION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1995
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
7:00 P.M.
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Cali
3. Approval of Minutes of April 26, 1995
is 4. Correspondence /Communications
5. Old Business
A. Report from Committee on Rules Procedures (Bev Wolfe)
6. New Business
A. Report from Charter Study (Rod Synder)
B. Membership Status
7. Date of Next Meeting
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May 24, 1995
To: Commissioners, Brooklyn Center Charter Commission
From: Rod Snyder, Sub committee Chair
Re: Up -date from April Mtg. refocus in light of City Hall developments
At our April Commission meeting, following informal Commissioner discussion of March,
we determined to pursue Charter attention to Council /City Manager
relationships (including
evaluation) with the following steps:
1. We would seek a broad initial inquiry by inviting the Council and the City Manager
to join the Commission at a special May meeting with the intent to combine the
views from these three different perspectives with the objective of developing a
a "big picture" consensus of how the Council and City Manager might interface in
the most efficient and effective manor from which the Commission could then
identify foundational Charter inclusions /revisions and the City Manager and the
Council could develop and implement specifics.
2. The Sub Committee Chair would personally meet with the City Manager and each
Council Member to brief them on the Commissions plan.
3. Commission Chair and Sub committee Chair would identify a mutually acceptable
date for the joint meeting.
4. The Commission would meet as a Committee of the Whole during the summer to
search out appropriate background information.
Separate meetings were held on May 2nd and 3rd with the City Manager and four of the
five Council Members. In all cases the responses were supportive and in many ways
enthusiastic.
On Thursday, May 11, Jerry Splinter informed us that he was tendering his resignation
This sudden event has caused us to put on hold the plans for the special Charter
Commission Council /City Manager meeting.
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Alternate courses of action available include the following that have been suggested by
at least one Commissioner:
A. Drop the idea of Charter review /revision relative to Council /City Manager
relationships /evaluation;
B. Table the review /revision until a new City Manager is on board follow our original
plan;
l C. Proceed, subject to availability, with two separate Commission (or subcommittee)
meetings with the out -going City Manager and the Council; do information gathering;
and, meet with the incoming City Manager when hired, with a possible combined
City Manager /Council /Commission meeting later.
D. Proceed with drafting a concise addition to the Charter that expresses the expectation
that the City Manager is accountable to the electorate through the City Council and
that annual evaluations shall be held.
Other options might include combinations of two or more of these courses or the addition
or substitution of entirely different directions.