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PUBLIC HEARING - REPEAL SECTION 3.2 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF RAMSEY By: Jo Thieling, Deputy City Clerk CASE # / Background: Precinct Liaison Meetings On'~.~.aYlg~;~.~/amsey City Council conducted a public hearing to receive comment on the prop0.~3' ~rdinance repealing the requirement of precinct liaison meetings between City Council and Ramsey residents. Upon Council's request, the Charter Commission reviewed the requirement of precinct liaison meetings. Council made this request because of the lack of citizen attendance at past meetings of this type. Because of the opportunity for citizen input at every Council meeting, it was felt that these liaison meetings were unnecessary. ,/~g~bli~.~::jgput:':Was¢~r~ei~.e~l at the heating and the ordinance was ~ntroduced w~th a ~-/d vote 15y Council. Council, also with a 5/0 vote, adopted ~~0~t~fl~msOn .. meetings Up to the point in time when Ordinance #93-09 was adopted, Council was appointed to a precinct. When Council adopted their organization resolution in January 4, 1994, all of Cotmcil was listed as _s_0rving at-large, however, Precinct Boundaries Section 3.2.2 deals with precinct boundaries and states that the precinct boundaries shall correspond to those adopted and revised periodically by Council, meaning that Council ',. has the means to grant authority to change boundaries - adding precincts. The Charter states that there shall be three (3) precincts and they shall approximate each other in population. It appears the precincts were named Precinct 1, Precinct 2 and Precinct 3. With the growth of the City, at some point in time (after election 1988 and prior to election 1990), the precinct boundaries were redrawn to more evenly distribute the number of voters, and two precincts were added. Keeping in line with the referral to three precincts, instead of adding numbers 4 and 5, the precincts were named Precinct IA, lB, 2, 3A and 3B. ~~~. Staff presented this information to the Charter Commission to review and to recommend these amendments to the City Council. The Charter Commission did review this information on September 23, 1999, and recommended that Council schedule a public hearing to introduce an ordinance to amend Chapter 3, Section 3.2 of the Home Rule City Charter. Staff advertised this public hearing for October 12, 1999, in the Anoka Union on Friday, September 24, Friday, October 1, and again on Friday, October 8, 1999. ~ ~R~-Fs~ ~I/~L ~ ~users[JThieling~.~C~UNC~L& ~C~TYC~UN~ ~ 999~ct~ber[Repea~3.2Charter.d~c 10/08/99