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Ordinance No. 0776 06-20-1983��� LJ � ORDII�IANCE N0. 776 AN ORDINANCE F1P'�IDING `iHE CITY CHARTII2 OF THE CITY OF FRIDI�EY (CITY OODE SF7CPION F MISC.) THE QOUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PRIDLEY DOES ORUi�IN AS FOLL(7WS: That the following sections of the Fridley City Charter are amended as follows: 2.03. ELDCPID OFFICERS The Council shall be composed of a Mayor and four Councilmen who shall be qualified voters. The mayor shall be elected at large for a term of three years, (except the first Mayoc to be elected in 1957 shall be for a term of two years). One Councilman shall be elected at large for a term of three years except that of the first such Councilman-at-Large under this Charter, (shall be the incumbent elected last year, 1956, with two years remaining of term and he Shall be considered to serve two years as Councilman-at latqe to 1959), 7iiree Councilmen shall be elected for terms of three years each from three separate wards of the City, as designated below, except that the first Coimcilman for Wazd No, 2 imder this Charter, shall be the Councilman having one year of term yet to serve, and shall be considered Councilman for his P,Tard 2 for a one year term to expire in 1958. The Councilman from Wards 1 and 3 shal]. be elected this year, 1957, each for terms of three years. Upon adoption of this Charter, the City is divided into three separate wards as follaas: (a) Ward No. 1 shall be the area comprising all of election district No. 1. Refer to Page 4-5 of "Voting Procedures" adopted by Village Council. (b) Ward No. 2 shall be the area comprising all of election district No. 2. (c) Ward No. 3 shall be the area comprising all of election district No. 3. The Councilman from a ward must be a resident of such ward and his ceasing to be a xesident thexeof shall cause a vacancy in the office of Councilman from such ward; provided that a change in ward bounclaries during his term of office shall not disqualify him fram serving out his term. The term of Mayor and of each Councilman shall begin on the first official business day in the month of January next follaaing his election and shall end when his successor has been duly elected and has qualified, The f irst order of business at the first Official Council Meeting in January shall be the swearing in of the newly elected m�nber5 of the Council. The Council shall be �udge of the election and its menUers. The bow�daries of the three wards shall be redetermined from time to time by , ordinances duly adopted by the Council, and based on the findings of the Council that the wards so redetermined are such that the population of any ward shall not deviate by more than one percent (1�) from the average o£ the three wards. Page 2— Ordinance No. 776 After each flecennial, census of the United States, the Council shall � redetermine ward boundaries. This redetermination shall be accomplished no less than one hundred (100) days prior to the legally determined date of the munici�l primary of the year ending in the digit two, and if the Council shall fail to do so their rammeration shall be forfeited until the wards of the City are duly redetermined as required by this Charter. 2.05. VACANCIFS IN �E Ca1DICII, A vacancy in the Council shal], be deened to exist in case of the failure of any person elected thereto to qualify on or before the date of the second regular meeting of the new Council. or by reason of the death, resignation, remwal from offioe, removal f=om the City, rsnoval of a ward Councilman from his ward, continuous absence from the City for more than three months, or conviction of a felony, of any such person whether before or af ter his qualification, or by reason of the failure of any Councilman without good cause to perform any of the duties of inembezship in the Council for a period of three months. In each such case, the Council shall by resolution declare such vacancy to exist and shall forthwith call a special election to be held not ].ess than 45 days nor more than 60 days from the time such vacancy is declared. In the case of a Special Election to fi11 the vacancy, there shall be no primary election. The candidate receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared the winner, Zhe winner of said elections shall be qualified and take office i�nediately upon certification by the board of canvass and shall fill the une�ired term. If at any ta.me the membership of the Council is reduoed to less than four i4) members, the renaining m�nbers may, by unanimous action� appoint additional members to raise the membership to four (4). The � order of f�lling vacat�cies by appointrnent shall be as follaas: (a) If the terms vacant are for diffexent lenqths� the appointment will be to the seat with the shortest renaining term. (b) If the terms vacant are of the same length, the council shall choose by lot which vacancy to fill by appointrnent. 8.04. I�OCAL After this Charter takes effect, all local improvanents shall crontinue for the time being to be made under the laws and ordinances applicable thereto. The City Council may prepare and adopt a comprehensive ordinance, prescribing the procedure which shall determine all matters pertaining to the making of local improvements thereafter, and such ordinance shall supplant all other provisions of law on the same subject and may be amended only by an affixmative vote of at least four (4) members of the Council. Such ordinance shall provide for such notice and hearing in the ordering of improvements and the making of assessments therefore as shall be necessary to meet constitutional requirments. Such ordinance shall also require a petition of a majority in n�unber and interest of the owners of proper�y to be assessed f or such improvenent, or improvements, for the initiation thereof; provided that the City Council may proceed upon its awn initiative hereunder and under such ordinance by resolution adopted by five (5) affixmative votes of the City Council after proper notice and hearing. � ���` � � �. Page 3— Ordinance No, 776 � •� � •�• •• i�� � Public Work including all local improvements, may be constructed, extended, repaired or maintained either by contract or, if the estimated cost is less than one thousand dollars, directly by day labor. Before receiving bids the City [�kinager shall, imder the direction of the City Council, have suitable plans and specifications prepared for the proposed material or pro7ect and the estimate of the cost thereof in detail. The award of any contsact amounting to more than ten thousand dollars shall require an affirmative vote of at least four (4) members of the City Coimcil. When the best interests of the City will be served thereby, the City Council may organize a construction deparUnent imder competent supervision and provided with smtable equipment. The right is resexved to the City Council, upon the recommendation of an engineer, acting through the construction departrnent to bid on any work to be let by contract. All contracts shall be let to the laaest responsible bidder, but the term "laaest responsible bidder" shall be interpreted as giving the City Council the right to accept any bid which is determined to be most advantageous to the City. The City Council shall reserve the right to re�ect any or all bids. Detailed proceedings governing the advertisement for bids and the execution of the wntract shall be prescribed by ordinance. The City shall require contractors to furnish proper bonds for the protection of the City, the employees and matexial men. PASSED AND ADOPTID BY THE CITY OOiINCIL OF THE CITY OF FRIDLEY THIS 20TH DAY OF JUNE, 1983. � .t�� �.,� �-- � SIDNEY C, II�N - CITY Q,ERR Public Hearing: June 6, 1983 First Reading: June 6, 1983 Second Reading: June 20, 1983 Publication: June 29, 1983 � �,�,.�, ,�t,�� T�r.r,IAM J.�i � - MAYOR / "����,��