Memo - Second Reading of City Charter AmendmentCITY OF HOPKINS
MEMORANDUM
To: Hopkins City Council
From: Jim Genellie
Date: June 11, 2012
Subject: Second Reading of Ordinance 2012-1045
Staff recommends that the Council approve the following motion: Move that the Hopkins City
Council approve Ordinance 2012-1045 for second reading and order published.
This ordinance has not changed since the first reading.
Note: Final approval of an ordinance amending the City Charter requires unanimous approval
of all five Council Members. If all five Council Members are not in attendance this item
should be continued until the next City Council meeting.
Attachments:
• Ordinance 2012-1045
Ordinance 2012-1045 amends the City Charter by:
Add language referencing the City Code to Section 3.03.
Deletes "date of passage" from Section 3.03; and
Deletes language regarding a filing period from Section 4.02 making the City's filing period
automatically match that required by the State of Minnesota.
CITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE 2012-1045
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF HOPKINS
UPON RECOMMENDATION OF THE HOPKINS CHARTER COMMISSION
PURSUANT TO M.S.A. CHAPTER 410.12, SUBD. 7
The City Council of the City of Hopkins, upon recommendation of and
from the Hopkins City Charter Commission does hereby ordain and
thus amend and adopt the following changes, deletions, and
amendments of or from the following chapters and sections of the
Hopkins City Charter:
Section 1. Section 3.03, Subdivision 6 is amended as follows:
No section of the City Code or city ordinance er seetien theree-
shall be amended or repealed except by ordinance, and every
amendment or repeal shall refer to the section or ordinance so
amended or repealed by title, date-ef passage and section number or
numbers. All previous amendments must be consolidated in a
rewording of the section amended each time that the section is
changed.
Section 2. Section 4.02, Subdivision 1 is amended as follows:
A candidate for a city office shall file an affidavit
eleetie= with the City Clerk, or application on behalf of any
qualified voter of the City whom they desire to be a candidate may
be made as per Chapter 205, MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, of the Minnesota
State Statutes. In either case, the filing fee shall be $5.00.
Such affidavit or application shall state that the candidate is a
qualified voter of the City of Hopkins, and name the office for
which she or he is a candidate.
Section 3. The effective date of this ordinance shall be ninety
days after publication.
First reading: June 5, 2012
Second reading: June 19, 2012
Date of Publication June 28, 2012
Date Ordinance Takes Effect: September 27, 2012
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ATTEST:
Kristine Luedke, City Clerk
Gene Maxwell, Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
City Attorney Signature
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