Yeah, so we'll do a roll call. Um Rod Axelson. Ronald Barnes. Hussein Tahir. Oh goodness. John Eagle. Present. We have Harkman. Present. Cynthia Hunt. Present. Breanna Lindell. Karen Lundquist. Here. Jameel Masrouje. Uh Masrouje. Sorry about that. >> No, you're good. Genny McGovern. Emily Melby. Present. Leng Galafa Oriho. Steve Peterson. Here. Michael Ramirez. Here. Mark Thorsen. Here. I think chair, you have a quorum. We have a quorum. Okay, we'll get started. Our first order of business is appointing We got Ron Barnes. Okay. Ron Barnes is here too, right? Um Andrew has taken a job as a paralegal in the division City Clerk's office Rebecca Furback been promoted to take that job. And we're excited promotion would be in order to appoint Teresa Furback Is there a second? I'll second. It's been moved by Olsen Seconded by Ramirez. to appoint Teresa Furback as the deputy in the present. Are there any all in favor signify by saying "Aye". Aye. All those opposed, the motion carries unanimously. Zero. >> [clears throat] >> Ten. I believe it's ten. Okay, next up is item 2.2. So this is a follow-up item from our charter review we've been doing. Um and basically what we're going to do is we're going to walk through kind of final language on things. We are going to consider resolutions that effectively initiate the process for changing Listen, I got to try this again. Listen. All right. Thank you, chair. I decided not to do a PowerPoint tonight because a lot of the sections are long and they don't fit on a neatly on a PowerPoint slide. So, you're welcome to give me some feedback if you want me to never do that make that choice again. Um but I did that tonight um and I wanted to let you So, for some of you, you've been through this process before um and for some of you, this is new. So, I'm going to get into a little bit of information. It was in the packet, but the key things for you to know is that there are four different ways four different statutory and state law process pathways charter commission and the city council can use to amend the charter. And so, when those when you all come up with ideas on how you want to amend the charter, I think about it and I often consult with the chair and ask him what pathway he thinks would make the most sense for the given charter amendment. If you might recall, sometimes we go to the we go to the voters. Um sometimes we go to the city council by unanimous um approval. There are four different ways, those are two of them that we've used recently. So, in this instance tonight, all of the proposals that you've asked me to put together are all on a pathway that is the same. And that timeline is laid out at the bottom of page four of the packet. Uh it's a proposed timeline, but you should know that the the the dates are very specific and they are in state law. And so, I put together the draft. I had the calendar the city council calendar, I had your calendar. I I crunched the dates, I had Teresa double-check it, I think Adrian double-checked it. And so, these are the proposed dates. And the key things for you to know is that the council or the charter commission um before you tonight is a resolution that has an ordinance attached to it. So, if you all anything you all take action on tonight by resolution, will go to the city council on the 27th of April. And the council will acknowledge receipt of your recommendations and they're going to set a public hearing. My request to them is to set that public hearing for June 1st and to um proceed on a pathway that they could they could take action as early as June 1st um or they could um the latest they could take action is July 1st. So, once they take action, then we'll publish it in the newspaper like we do all other ordinances. And then state law has sort of a uh a recall type period in it where someone can appeal the the process um to amend the charter, put a halt to it, and um and there's hope well, hopefully that doesn't happen. But um if that happens, just to know there is a very specific process for that and you all will be notified about that. Um but otherwise, if that doesn't happen, then everything will go into effect around September. All right. Um the other thing to note that's really critical with this specific pathway is that the council has to approve the ordinances with seven unanimous votes. Uh that is in the law and so, we have to make sure that all seven of them are there and can vote and then most critically vote in the affirmative to adopt it. Chair, do you want to take any questions or should I just soldier forward? Any questions on the chart? Any? Okay. So, if you recall, there were edits to chapter five uh and then there were edits to chapter seven and then you asked me to look into some edits in chapter 12. We aren't ready to bring forward those edits to chapter 12 tonight because we've been having some ongoing conversations about the larger process that's discussed in that section in chapter 12. And so, we think it would be premature to do any editing to that chapter now um when we know that we're going to have a larger discussion likely later this year. So, I didn't bring forward anything specific on that for you tonight. If there is an update in May, I'll definitely give you the update on the latest on that at the annual meeting. With regard to chapter five, there are key sections. You'll see them starting on page six of your packet. They um relate to the sections of the city charter that had a sample petition like a the box in that was codified into the city charter. We all had some discussion um at our previous meeting about your desire my my recommendation to you all and then ultimately your request to me to remove that box because it didn't include all of the information that is required by Minnesota rules. And so, um I rem- removed that in this ordinance, you'll see. And then we also talked about a desire to continue to have the email address as a part of the city of Bloomington's petition and the telephone number. So, I want to make sure that you all still um know that I and the city clerk have been having ongoing conversations about what that sample petition will look different sample petitions. There are other requirements in Minnesota rules that are far beyond what we had in our our little mini sample. And so, we will um build out those sample petitions. And then we will touch base with Hennepin County to make sure they don't have any concerns and then we'll touch base with the Secretary of State's office as well before we finalize the the sample petition that we'll have on file down in the city clerk's office if you pass this um recommendation and the council ultimately adopts the ordinance. Any questions on the actual text of the ordinance? It starts on page eight. Again, um what's functionally happening is that that we're stating that you're going to comply with the rules and Minnesota the Minnesota rules, which are the administrative rules that implement the state statutes. And that the city clerk is going to maintain a sample petition for the public. Um there are um the strike-throughs that in the in this in the way that's required in our codification rules for the city. It was 5.5, 5.11, 5.16. Anyone have any questions? Any any questions? Okay. By my perspective, I have the six voting They don't. All right. So, at this time, chair, um there is sample motion language. It would be the very first one on I assume that it's the the there's any further discussion I would entertain a motion. Adopt the resolution relating to 505 16. So moved. On this particular thing I need you to read the actual Do you want me to read it? It's the city attorney. Sure. Yeah, we can do that. >> [clears throat] >> You want me to read the first one? Top top. Yeah, I do. Yep. On the page page three, the first one, right? Mr. I move to adopt resolution number 2026 number one, a resolution recommending the city council enact a charter amendment by ordinance amending the city charter section 5.05 5.11 and 5.16 related to the initiative referendum and recall. I got Moved by Mr. Seconded by Mr. Is there any discussion? Any no discussion we come to a vote. All those in favor signify I. Is there any discussion? >> [clears throat] >> All right. The next ordinance Excuse me, the next resolution for your consideration starts on page 11 and it's 7.06. Um as you probably recall from the past time that we were here, I'm joined here by the city's finance officer, this the CFO of the city, Lori Economy Scholer. She's available to answer any questions as we go along and to um supplement my uh information. A 7.6 is a very simple edit um because we are entering a section of years that has five week December. And so it has created some um challenges for us in being as specific as we want to be to make sure that we're complying with the uh city charter as the third week could be open to interpretation. So internally we discussed compliance with that and ultimately the finance team suggested December 23rd. You all discussed that and um again this is not um truth in taxation hearing. We're not going to be holding that on December 23rd. This is just a not to exceed date for adopting the actual budget for the following year. Any questions on I see no one raising their hand for the question and entertain a motion the second motion that's on I move to adopt resolution number 2026 two C recommending the city council enact charter amendment by ordinance amending city charter section 7. 606 relating to passage of the budget. Second. Is there any discussion? If not we'll come to a vote. All those in favor say I. It's the third one is starting on page 14 and this is a discussion about the way that the city can make disbursements. Um this particular section had not been updated in a while and had not contemplated the use of credit cards and electronic funds transfer. So the folks in the finance team went back to the um the words on paper and thought through all the different ways that they make disbursements, looked at the requirements in state law which are referenced here um and came up with some sample language for us to consider. And some things for you to just know in mind here um the city is making um transactions, participating in transactions through the world. Um sometimes when our when our staff travel our officials travel. Um so um there are the contemplates the use of credit cards. We also take electronic funds transfers. Um our own disbursement process requires very detailed receipts which is discussed here. Um we have to code all of our receipts with the city fund that taken out of. And we do not make proposing that we will not disburse city funds with digital currency. If there was some discussion internally about what that term means, it means something to the people in finance but it means more colloquially is Bitcoin and things like that. Um so any questions on that? Any discussion? That's largely my goal. Digital currency thing was a new thing. I'm going to say we'd be willing to entertain a motion if it's the third one page three. I'll move the motion. Okay, could you read the one about the I move resolution recommending the city council enact a charter amendment by ordinance amending city charter section 7.10 relating to disbursements. I volunteer to second. Second. Hearing none we will come to a vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All right. The next one for your consideration is starting on page 17 of your packet looking at section 7.14, 7.15 and 7.16. There are a couple clarifying edits that were made throughout sections. Um this was suggested by our finance department uh because these our existing charter language was clear on how many votes we needed to uh issue bonds but it was not clear on how many votes we needed to adopt a resolution awarding the sale of those bonds. And because it was unclear we wanted to make sure um we always want to be very exact but we want to be especially exact um when we're doing publicly financed uh bond deals. And so we did never want it there to be ambiguity. So this is an effort to clarify that. Similarly um at similar edits are made in each one of these sections clarifying requires for in section 7.14 permanent improvement revolving fund the uh permanent improvement revolving loan. Sorry, I'm adding extra words. A permanent improvement revolving fund um which is used to finance public improvements. And then the second part in 7.15 are tax anticipation certificates. Uh and then the last section 7.16 are emergency debt certificates. And if you recall the last time we met and we discussed this, these aren't often used but when we do need to use them we need to be um we all need to be on the same page about kind of vote required when anything like Just on 7.15 um that one not clear on even authorization. So that one is good. >> [laughter] >> Five votes for an authorization to issue those type of bonds and then the floor for Any questions or discussion? Mr. Chair. So there's been no substantial change in the number of votes required it's just a clarification. Clarification. Thank you. Just a Yeah, but we're on that. I think on the awarding sale I think you can interpret that as five votes. Just we would say majority. The one particular day that we were awarding the sale, only four council members were able to make that meeting. We needed every vote. But we were worried that if we needed five um we wouldn't have it to award and we sold them that day. Also too the the issuance is um the creation of the process, the start of the process, whereas the sale is sort of the completion of the process. Uh and Right. Well, I think it's the halfway through. >> Okay, you go you keep talking. I mean the whole process includes um the public improvement is in our capital improvement plan and we asked the council to approve a reimbursement resolution probably six to nine months beforehand. So they know that we're going to issue debt for that item. Um Departments are planning it, they're getting consultants, they're getting it designed. Um about 60 days before we actually sell the bonds um we ask them to authorize it. And during all that time we've engaged the consultants, attorneys, municipal advisors. We're keep moving the process. When they authorize it, that is our permission to sell. And on the date of sale, that's just awarding to the lowest bidder. So it's like a common normal lowest bidder of any sort of contract that we have. Do we have any questions? I move adopt resolution number 2026-4C. A resolution recommending the city council enact a charter amendment by ordinance amending the city charter section 7.14, 7.15, and 7.16 relating to permanent improvement revolving funds, tax anticipation certificates, and emergency debt certificates. Okay. Dane has a second. Second. Here. Second. Hearing none, we'll come to a vote. All those in favor signify by saying Aye. Aye. >> [clears throat] >> Opposed. All right. And Mr. Chair, the last one that we have before us tonight is 7.17. Again, this is in that same finance chapter. And this relates to general obligation charter and the limitation that was imposed related to net debt. Uh so there was an effort initially when this was first put in place, it was prepared by our bond counsel. So the requests that you made for edits were similarly uh reviewed by outside counsel and so there was some minor tweaks that were made there. There was also clarifications that were sought from uh commission members after the packet went out. So we reviewed those um questions and requests. And so you see a revised version in the packet from what originally published. This was published um earlier this week and um has a slightly different um language at the beginning of subdivision two. Um Lori, you want to add anything more to the net debt discussion? Um we just wanted to make sure that um in the conversations that we had in January, um net debt kind of indicated that it was a type of bond instead of it's just a structure of an event of of accumulation of general obligation. So hopefully by um putting the reference to the statute in here and very specifically um identifying general obligation throughout, provided more clarity to you. Did we distribute the revision the packet that came in the mail? Packet that came in the mail has the old language. The new language was updated on the city website. It's also included in the room. I held up the charter commission members on Tuesday morning. I didn't channel what you were And I appreciate that. I did talk to Lori and I I'm Any other Oops. It would have been revised language. No discussion. That's the last motion. It's three that we have in order. I hear a motion. I move to adopt resolution number 2026-5C, a resolution recommending the city council enact a charter amendment by ordinance amending city charter section 7.17 relating to general obligation charter bonds and limitation on net debt obligation. I cancel. I second. So it's moved by Rick and Adopt the Hearing none, we'll come to a vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Sure. A voice vote is fine. Um we can do a voice vote. Um Are you talking about the ones that we just Oh, um I don't believe that we can do a voice vote to adjourn. I think a a fewer number can can adjourn. I think we need to have a vote on that. So You don't need a roll call vote. Um do I hear a motion to I second. Second. Then moved and then seconded and then my turn. So to hear and All those in favor signify by saying Aye. Opposed.