on 9/18/00 10:20 AM, Richard Chandler at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Speaking of changes to the Charter, when and how did Minneapolis change from
> a larger number to thirteen wards?
1951. The online version of the Charter states, under Chapter 2, Section 1:
> Amendment note--The amendment of June 11, 1951, reduced the number of members
> of council from 26 to 13 and the term of office from 4 to 2 years.
Can you imagine TWENTY-SIX council members? The URL is:
http://www.municode.com/CGI-BIN/om_isapi.dll?infobase=11490.NFO&softpage=Bro
wse_Frame_Pg42
Have any of you actually tried to read the Charter? It's awful -- It
deserves a complete rewrite from the ground up, even if no substantive
change is desired.
The provision I like the most is Chapter 2, Section 19: which states that a
person who violates ANY law is ineligible to hold City office.
> Any
> elective or appointive officer of the City of Minneapolis, or any
> person employed in the services of the City of Minneapolis, who
> shall willfully violate or evade **any of the provisions of law** , or
> commit any fraud upon the City, or convert any of the public
> property to his or her own use or knowingly permit any other
> person to convert it, or by gross or culpable neglect of duty allow
> the same to be lost to the City, shall be deemed guilty of a
> misdemeanor and in addition to the penalties imposed by law,
> and on conviction, shall forfeit the office and be excluded forever
> after from receiving or holding any office under the Charter of the
> City of Minneapolis and shall be liable to refund to the City, at the
> suit of any taxpayer or citizen, any amount lost to said City by
> reason of any such violation of law.
(emphasis added).
Has your Council Member received a traffic ticket lately? Then he or she
should be removed from office under the terms of the Charter.
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Greg Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linden Hills
13th Ward (612) 925-0630
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