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Ramsey City Council <br />Memorandum - page 2 <br />Committee Structure Recommendations <br /> <br />STATUS OF EXISTING COMMITTEES <br /> <br />The planning commission has been reconstituted as indicated <br />above and is active on a regular basis~ '~ <br /> <br />The park committee has continued on a regular basis~ It <br />has not been reorganized as a statutory park.board and <br />therefore' is technically operating as an advisory <br />committee° It has not been assigned specific respOnsibilitY <br />in. the area of recreation program development; therefore <br />the question of whether the membership of the-committee is <br />representative of both park development and recreation <br />program development interests has not been addressed° <br /> <br />The Liguor Advisory committee has completed its Work <br />and has formally disbanded° <br /> <br />The Police and Fire Committee has completed its'recommendations <br />on basic plans for policing and~police reserves; the issue <br />of fire control is still before the committee but it is <br />not meeting regularly~ <br /> <br />TheHighway committee has reviewed the baSic MSA street <br />system and has recommended initial priorities for an <br />improvement program. The committee has continued to <br />meet to review relatively routine maintenance department <br />needs° ~ " <br /> <br />The Special Personnel and Management Committee making <br />this report will have completed its assigned functions '' <br />upon conclusion of discussion of this report~ .- <br /> <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br /> <br />In examining this whole question to arrive at recoI~enda%ions <br />for City Council action~ the committee has recognized <br />that significant actions on basic organization and program <br />questions have been taken by the City Council during the <br />past ten months~ many of them as a result of advisory <br />or other committee study and discussion. The committee <br />structure has generally worked well and been effective. <br /> <br />We also recognize that recent City Council action.has <br />resulted in major improvement of staff capability. <br />Committee liaison responsibility should be assigned to <br />staff where ever possible in order to reserve the <br />time available to council members for policy and management <br />questions~ <br /> <br />To insure that the City Council can make use of committee <br />advice on a systematic and progressive basis~ committees <br />should be disbanded when the baSic questions they are <br />assigned to consider are resolved; new committees should <br /> <br /> <br />