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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2114-98 - ADMIN Ordinance - City Council - 1998/04/20ORDINANCE NO.2 114 9 8 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ST. LOUIS PARK HOME RULE CHARTER CHAPTERS 2, 6, AND 12 THE CITY OF ST LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN: SECTION 1. The St. Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 2 - Government and Officers Section 2.02 is hereby amended to read: Section 2 02 Boards. The Council shall itself be, and shall perform the duties and exercise the powers of all local boards and commissions, except as herein otherwise provided. It may, however, by ordinance create commissions with advisory powers to investigate any subject of interest to the municipality The Council shall encourage members of its diverse citizenry to become members of all commissions and boards The City shall establish standard procedures to facilitate these efforts. SECTION 2. The St. Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 6 - Taxation and Finance Section 6.05 is hereby amended to read: Section 6 05. Passage of the Budget. The budget shall be considered at regularly monthly meetings of the City Council until all of the material presented in the budget has been considered The meetings shall be conducted upon such matters, at such time and places, as shall be necessary to give interested citizens a reasonable opportunity to ask questions and to be heard The budget shall be available for public inspection at reasonable times prior to its adoption at such place or places the City Manager shall designate The City Manager shall explain the various items therein as fully as may be deemed necessary by the Council. The annual budget finally agreed upon shall set forth in such detail as may be determined by the City Council the complete financial plan of the City for the ensuing fiscal year It shall indicate the sums to be raised, the sources of revenue, the sums to be spent, and the purpose of each expenditure. The total sum appropriated shall not exceed the total estimated revenue. The Council shall adopt the budget by resolution. SECTION 3. The St. Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 6 - Taxation and Finance Section 6 07 is hereby amended to read. Section 6 07 Alterations to the Budget. After the budget has been adopted, the Council shall not have the power to increase the amounts therein fixed whether by the insertion of new items or otherwise in any amount in excess of the estimated revenues, unless the actual receipts exceed such estimates and in that event not in any amount in excess of such actual receipts The Council may at any time, by resolution passed by a vote of at least five (5) members of the Council, reduce salaries or reduce the sums appropriated for any purpose by the budget, or may by a vote of at least five (5) members of the Council authorize the transfer of funds from unexpended accounts of the budget for other purposes SECTION 4. The St. Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 6 - Taxation and Finance Section 6.12 is hereby amended to read: Section 6.12 Funds. There must be maintained in the City a general fund and the funds required by law, ordinance, the budget resolution or other resolution. The council may make inter -fund loans and transfers except from trust or agency funds or where prohibited by this charter or law. SECTION 5. The St. Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 6 - Taxation and Finance Section 6.14 is hereby amended to read. Section 6 14. Accounts and Reports The City Manager shall be the chief accounting officer of the City and of every agency thereof, and the Council may prescribe and enforce proper accounting methods, forms, blanks and other devices consistent with law, this Charter and the City ordinances The City Manager shall submit a statement to the Council each month showing the amount of money in the custody of the City Treasurer, the status of all funds, the amount spent or chargeable against each of the annual budget allowances and the balances left in each, and such other information relative to the finances of the City as the Council may require The Council may at any time and shall annually provide for an audit of the City finances by a certified public accountant or by the Department of the State authorized to make examinations of the affairs of municipalities On or before the last day of June, in each year, the City Manager shall prepare a complete financial report in a form approved by the Council of the City's financial operations for the preceding calendar year That report may be published in such manner as the Council may direct and a summary thereof shall be published in the official newspaper on or before July 31 of each year. SECTION 6. The St. Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 12 - Code of Ethics Section 12.03 is hereby amended to read. Section 12 03 Organization of Personal Campaign Committees Every candidate shall designate a single personal campaign committee which shall have a treasurer. The candidate shall file a signed statement with the City Clerk stating that a personal campaign committee has been formed and giving the name and address of the treasurer thereof Such filing shall be made before any expenditures are made by the personal campaign committee Only the candidate and the personal campaign committee shall receive contributions and make expenditures on behalf of the candidate; provided, however, that party committees and political committees shall not be prohibited from receiving contributions and making expenditures related to nominations or elections SECTION 7. The St. Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 12 - Code of Ethics Section 12.04 is hereby amended to read. Section 12 04. Contributions. (1) A candidate or personal campaign committee may not accept aggregate contributions made by an individual or committee in excess of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) in any year 1 (2) Every person who receives a contribution or loan for a personal campaign committee shall, on demand of the treasurer, and in any event, within fourteen (14) days after receipt of the contribution or loan, furnish the treasurer with the name and, if known, address of the contributor or lender, the amount contributed or loaned and the date of receipt Section 12.04 continued (3) No anonymous contributions in excess of twenty dollars ($20) or any anonymous contributions aggregating in excess of one hundred dollars ($100) in any calendar year shall be retained by the personal campaign committee, but shall be forwarded to the City Clerk and deposited to the general fund of the City. This subdivision shall not apply to anonymous contributions aggregating in excess of one hundred dollars ($100) arising from fund raising sales, where in consideration of a contribution or contributions, a person receives any tangible goods whose value has a reasonable relationship to the contribution SECTION 8. The St Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 12 - Code of Ethics Section 12.05 is hereby amended to read - Section 12 05 Use of Contributions. All contributions received on behalf of a candidate or personal campaign committee shall be used solely for the purpose of conducting that candidate's campaign for nomination for election or election to political office. Following an election any remaining contributions may also be paid to the City General Fund, a party committee, or any charity Contributions may not exceed fifty dollars ($50) annually to any one charity SECTION 9. The St. Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 12 - Code of Ethics Section 12.06 is hereby amended to read: Section 12.06 Campaign Reports. (1) The candidate or treasurer of every personal campaign committee in every primary, special or regular election, shall file a financial report with the City Clerk as follows. (a) Ten (10) days before the primary; (b) Ten (10) days before the regular or special elections, (c) Thirty (30) days after the regular or special election; and (d) January 31 in the year following the regular or special election. The reporter shall be verified upon the oath of such candidate or treasurer of such personal campaign committee and shall cover all transactions made up to and including the third day before the filing of the report and not accounted for and reported upon in reports previously filed, except that no transactions shall be made thereafter which are not included in the final report. Each report, after the first, shall contain a summary of all preceding reports. Section 12.06 continued (2) The reports required by Section 12.06(1) shall disclose the following: (a) Every contribution received by such candidate or committee during such period from any source whatsoever which the candidate or committee uses or has used, or is at liberty to use for political purposes which in aggregate exceeds one hundred dollars ($100) within the calendar year, together with the name of every person or source from which each was received and the date when each was received, together with the total amount received from all sources in any amount or manner, (b) Every promise or pledge of money, property or other thing of value, which in aggregate exceeds one hundred dollars ($100) within the calendar year, received by such candidate or committee during such period, the proceeds of which the candidate or committee uses or has used, or is at liberty to use for political purposes, together with the names of the persons by whom each was promised or pledged, the special purposes for which each was promised or pledged, and the date when each was promised or pledged, together with the total amount promised or pledged from all sources in any amounts or manner; (c) Every disbursement by such candidate or committee for political purposes during such period, together with the name of every person to whom the disbursement is made, the specific purpose for which each was made and the date when each was made; (d) Every obligation, expressed or implied, to make disbursement incurred by such candidate or committee for political purposes during such period, together with the nacres of the person or persons to or with whom each such obligation has been incurred, the specific purposes for which each was made, and the date when each was incurred, together with the total amount of such obligations made in any amounts or manner SECTION 10. The St. Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 12 - Code of Ethics Section 12 07(1) is hereby amended to read - Section 12.07 Records (1) The candidate or the treasurer of each personal campaign committee or political committee shall preserve all records and accounts required for the reports required in Section 12.06 for one year after the date of the election. SECTION 11. The St. Louis Park Home Rule Charter Chapter 12 - Code of Ethics Section 12.18(1) is hereby amended to read Section 12.18 Personal Financial Conflicts of Public Officials (1) Contracts Void Except for any contract permitted by Minnesota Statutes Section 471.88, any public official who is authorized to take part in any manner in making a sale, lease or contract in his/her official capacity shall have no personal financial interest in that sale, lease or contract or personally benefit financially therefrom unless the effect on the public official's personal financial interest is no greater than on any other person and/or property similarly situated. Any sale, lease or contract entered into by the City with regard to which a public official has acted in violation of this section is void. Any money which is paid by the Council in violation of this paragraph may be recovered from any and all persons interested therein. Any vote pursuant to Minnesota Statute Section 471.88 must be unanimous by Council. SECTION 12. Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in force and take effect in the City Charter ninety (90) days after its passage and publication. ATTEST - Civ Clerk Revi-, ed for Administration: City Manager Ad • , ted by the City Council April 20, 1998 Mayor Gail Do • STATE OF MINNESOTA) SS hd MINNESOTA SUN PUBUCAT1ONS Sun Current • Sun Sailor • Sun Post AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) Doug Dance , being duly swom on an oath says that he/she is the publisher or authorized agent and employee of the publisher of the newspaper known as Sun -Sailor , and has full knowledge of the facts which are stated below. (A) The newspaper has complied with all of the requirements constituting qualification as a qualified newspaper, as provided by Minnesota Statue 331A.02, 331A 07, and other applicable laws, as amended. (B) The printed which is attached was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published once each week, for one successive weeks; it was first publiished on Wednesday, the 29th day of April , 1998, and was thereafter pnnted and Ordinance No. 2114-98 published on every Wednesday to and including Wednesday, the day did ,1998; and pnnted below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, which is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of the notice' abcdefghnkhnnopgrstuvwxyz Acknowledged before me on this 29th day of Apnl , 1998 \kcq,c„ Notary Public BY: City of St. Louis Park (Official Publication) SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 2114-98 CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ST LOUIS PARK HOME RULE CHARTER CHAPTERS 2, 6, AND 12 This ordinance amends the St Louis Park Charter Chapters 2, 6, and 12 as recommended by the St Louis Park Charter Commission The following sections are being amended Section 2 02 Boards, Section 6 05 Passage of Budget, Section 6 07 Alterations in the Budget, Section 6 12 Funds to be Kept, Section 6 14 Accounts and Reports, Section 12 03 Organization of Personal Campaign Committees, Section 12 04 Contributions, Section 12 05 Use of Contributions, Section 12 06 Campaign Reports, Section 12 07 Records, and Section 12 18 Personal Financial Conflicts of Public Officials This ordinance shall be in force and take effect in the City Charter ninety (90) days after its passage and publi- cation — - Adopted by the City Council April 20, 1998 /s/ Gail Dorfman Mayor The text of the proposed amendments were published in the St Louis Park Sailor on March 11, 1998 A copy of the full text of this ordinance is available for inspection with the City Clerk TITLE: Publisher VICTORIA H BROUILLETTE NOTARY PUBUC—MINNESOTA MY COMMISSION EXPIRES 1 31 2000 ^. ��1-s-w-.rec�r�a.naa.w:.•ar RATE INFORMATION (1) Lowest classified rate paid by commercial users for comparable space (2) Maximum rate allowed by law for the above matter (3) Rate actually charged for the above matter $ 2.55 per line $ 6.20 per line $ 1 24 per line (April 29, 1998) A3/Cty SLP Ord #2114-98