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RELEVANT LINKS: <br /> 1. Planning commissions <br /> Minn.Stat.§§462.35I-.364. Cities can establish planning commissions by passing an ordinance <br /> See LMC information memo, <br /> Planning Connnission Guide. describing their organization and powers. City officials, such as the mayor, <br /> attorney, and engineer, frequently are advisory members. <br /> 2, other advisory boards and commissions <br /> Other advisory boards and commissions commonly established by city <br /> councils include industrial commissions, which have power to study the <br /> ways and means of attracting more commercial and industrial development <br /> to the city; safety councils, which advise the council on safety programs; <br /> and intergovernmental agencies, such as a joint-planning commission, <br /> which the city sponsors in cooperation with other units of government. <br /> As government has become increasingly complex, cities have used fewer <br /> independent or administrative citizen boards and commissions. Instead of <br /> diffusing authority for government administration over a number of <br /> See Handbook,City different agencies,many cities place all authority in the city council. This <br /> Adininistr•atiue Staff ff for more decision centralizes responsibility for the proper direction of local <br /> information about the <br /> manager and administrator government affairs and increases voter understanding of government. <br /> positions. Frequently, this trend leads to pressures for greater simplification and <br /> centralization in administration as well. The council-manager form of <br /> government(Plan B) is an answer to this pressure. Administrators, whose <br /> duties and functions lie somewhere between those of a manager and those <br /> of a clerk, may also help to centralize government. <br /> A. How chapter 6 applies <br /> s to home rule charter <br /> cities <br /> Several sections of this chapter may be useful to charter cities. <br /> In the section concerning elected officials, the discussion of statutory city <br /> officers does not apply to charter cities,but the portions on eligibility, <br /> Minn.Stat.§4I4.20.Minn. removal,resignations, and vacancies generally do apply. It may be <br /> C onst.art.V III,§5. <br /> A.G. Y <br /> Ju 34 w 59a.op (July 24, possible that a charter could specify the particular conduct that would <br /> I996).Minn.Stat.§410.20. result in removal of a council member for nonfeasance of office. The <br /> attorney general, however, has advised that a charter provision which <br /> provides that a council vacancy would occur if a council member did not <br /> attend a specified number of meetings would not be valid. A charter may <br /> provide for the recall of any elective municipal officer and for removal of <br /> the officer by the electors of the city. <br /> League of Minnesota Cities Handbook for Minnesota Cities 6M2422 r <br /> Elected Officials and Council Structure and Role Chapter 6 Page 34 <br />