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Charter Commission Annual Meeting May 7, 2026
Bloomington City CouncilMonday, May 18, 2026
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No one. And uh the recording secretary can take the roll. >> [clears throat] >> Okay. Brad Exton. Here. Ronald Glantz. Here. Hussein Daher. Not present. John Eagle. Here. Jacob Hartman. Here. Cynthia Hunt. Here. Breanna Lindquist. Lindell. Lindell. Lindell. Whoops. Sorry. She's Lindquist. I'm Lindell. There we go. I combined you two. You two did. All right. And Karen Lindquist. Here. Jamil Mashruje. Mashruje. Mashruje. Here. I practiced, too. I'm sorry. All right. Uh Jamie McGovern. Here. Molly Melby. Here. Juan Galafa. Oreo. Not present. Peterson. Not present. Michael Ramirez. Here. And Mark Thorsen. Here. Vice chair, I believe you have a quorum. You'd like to call item 3.1? Yes, we can call item 3.1. Um it says to appoint a recording secretary. Is there a motion to appoint someone? I would appoint or nominate uh Teresa Burbach. Is there a second? Second. Okay. So, motion Motion Motion by Mark Thorsen. Motion by Mark Hunt. Second by Cynthia Hunt. um, to appoint Teresa Burbach as the reporting secretary for the Charter Commission. Um, pass it. All those in favor? All All those in favor? I. I have it. I. Um, all those opposed? Hearing none, motion passed. Unanimous. >> He makes it look so easy. He just like writes it down. >> Lots of practice. Unanimous. All right. Um, so then the second order or second item is item, um, Is it 3.2? >> 3.2, sorry. There were all kinds of issues, as you can see from the with the agenda management system. So, there's that's why we have some, um, novel numbering, um, and things like that. Apologies for that. It was very stressful to Teresa in the process. I bet. [laughter] I'm sure. Yeah. Is Is Steve Peterson still on the commission? Uh, Chair, Steve Peterson is still Oh, excuse me. Um, Chair Melby and Commissioner Steve Peterson is still on the commission. He's unable to be here tonight, uh, but he, um, would love to come back and come to all the future meetings. Uh, he was technically, uh, reappointed. Okay. The only reason I ask is when I went to look at the agenda today, and it my landing page was the this commission the commissioner's page. He wasn't on there. Oh, well, we will update that as well. So, um, I would make a motion to appoint uh, Steve Peterson as chair. Uh, so I think we're on a chair We're on 3.2. Oh, we're not? We're not [laughter] there. I I move to appoint Melissa Manderscheid as our attorney of record. Uh, all right. So, moved by, um, Michael Ramirez, seconded by Breanna Lynn Powell. Um, All right. Uh, to appoint Melissa, uh, Manderscheid as the attorney for the Charter Commission. Um, all those in favor say I. I. I. I. Those opposed? Hearing none, the motion passes unanimously. Oh, I would need to not Okay. The motion, uh, so item 3.3, um, motion to elect Peterson, um, as chairperson. That's motioned by I. Mark Thorsen. And uh, seconded by Cynthia Hart. Um, all those in favor say I. I. I. I. Opposed? Hearing none, the motion passes. Uh, item 3.4 is to elect a vice chairperson. Any nominations? I move to elect Emily Melby. Second. Uh, motion 3.4 to elect a chairperson, uh, oh, no. Who's that? Jamila Masroji. Masroji. Masroji. Um, seconded by Mark Thorsen. Um, to elect Emily Melby as vice chairperson of the Charter Commission. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. I. Opposed? Say no. Hearing none, that the motion passes unanimously. Mr. Chair, before you get started with item, uh, meeting minutes. Mhm. Uh, it is 4.1. Uh, a little bit of Can I provide a little bit of context? So, in our rules of procedure, there is a process after the meeting, the draft minutes are prepared. I look them over, and then we send them out to the vice chair and the chair who look them over, and then once they uh, approve the draft, then it goes out to the full commission as an unapproved draft minutes. And then ultimately it comes to the board for actual action to approve the minutes. So that process takes a little bit of time and we were hopeful that we could get the April 16th ones turned around and we got drafts out but we haven't yet had a chance to finalize them for your consideration. So in making the motion and this is explained in the request for commission action. But in making the motion I would request that you remove the April 16th reference at the end of that motion. As discussed in the agenda item. And they're not attached to the agenda either. So Are we do we have to do anything unique for that or are they inserted in there? That's all. We're good. We're just when you make the motion, whoever makes the motion just don't say the last part. >> to approve the May meeting minutes May 1st, January 8th and January 15th. Second. Cheney. So um motion by Brown and and second by Cheney McGovern um to approve the May meeting minutes from May 1st, January 8th and January 15th. Favor say I. I. All those opposed. Do I have thoughts to abstain from a meeting I didn't attend? [clears throat] Okay. I couldn't remember. Um motion passes passes unanimous. All right. Early Vice Chair Melby, a little bit of an edit is required for the annual meeting. Um or excuse me the annual report. So state law that Oh my bad. Brown Review Program Award. Yeah. Okay, 6.1. I'll wait I'll wait. You can proceed with that. This is on page 17 of the agenda. Those um 6.1 is the review of program of work. Are there any motions um to accept the program of work as presented? I'll move. I can Second. So, the motion is um motion by Michael Ramirez, second by Mark Thorsen, accept the program of work as presented. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. Motion passes unanimous. Now, uh Vice Chair Melby, I would request the uh the clerical uh authority and direction, I suppose, from the commission to similarly edit on page 19 um before we finalize the report um for this past year, we would need to edit the um the paragraph that starts the annual meeting to represent who is actually present here tonight because it's talking about tonight. And then we'd similarly remove um April's the reference to April 16th meeting minutes. So, so the motion would be as presented here and then you could just say um with direction to uh commission attorney to update accordingly. Okay. I'll do it. Approve the annual report as presented by the Bloomington Charter Commission for the period of May 2, 2025 through May 17, 2026 with the direction to the city attorney to present the names of those present tonight and the removal of April 16, 2026. I'll second. I'll second. Is that you, Red? Um >> It was Um The one. Motion by Michael Ramirez, seconded by Rod X. We approved the report as presented um for the commission for the period May 2nd The caveat of making um the changes for attendance as well as striking April 16th. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say no. Hearing none, the motion passes unanimously. >> [clears throat] >> Um Item 10. German. Okay. Um Despite it saying 4.41, it's 10. Uh so, item 10 is to adjourn the meeting. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. Um Second. Motion by Mark Thorsen, seconded by Cynthia Hunt. And um all those in favor to adjourn the meeting say I. I. All those opposed say no. All right. >> Nobody's opposed. >> [laughter] >> Very efficient meeting, Vice Chair. You know, very well done. Got us out early. Thank you. Thank you. 7:11. Adjourned.