City Council

CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES OCTOBER 29, 2012 - 3 PM CITY HALL, 1840 SECOND STREET, COLUMBIA CITY Present: Cheryl Young Casey Wheeler Bill Amos Frank Hupp Leahnette Rivers Absent: Sue Ziglinski Ed Fischer Moved (Young), seconded (Hupp) and carried unanimously to elect Casey Wheeler as Chair. A coin was flipped to determine the Vice Chair. Frank Hupp won the flip and was duly declared to be elected as Vice Chair. After much discussion, it was decided to start from scratch with the League of Oregon Cities Model Charter (included as an attachment in an email from Leahnette a while back) instead of trying to rework an antiquated document like our current charter. Committee Members will also review other charters from the cities of Clatskanie, Troutdale, our current charter, etc. to see what other ideas are out there for possible inclusion in our draft. Casey volunteered to setup a Dropbox folder for the Committee to use in working on the material. Between now and the meeting on November 29th the Committee Members are asked to do the following: a. Read through the current Columbia City charter, the draft Columbia City model charter, the Clatskanie Charter and the Troutdale charter and decide whether or not the model charter should include any sections from the other three charters. b. Develop a list of topics to discuss in greater detail. An example from the meeting is whether or not we want to have a City Manager or a City Administrator. Committee Members are asked to save this list in their individual folders in Dropbox and Casey will compile a list for the next meeting. At the meeting on November 29th, we will have a projector and will project the model charter on the wall for review and discussion so everyone can see it at the same time. Meeting adjourned 4:12 p.m.