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e File No. X92o5 —By James J.
a sh; with remarks — Bernard T. (�
id — Frank L. Loss — Robert F. i'
ORIGINAL ili CITY CLERK '� : Ih
_�r: CITY OF ST. PAUe �" rail *on Rom! — George ,T.: s
OFFICE OF THE CITY 4V`ff��
COUNCIL RESOLUTION— GENLErAeT -ORIM vd b4+
PRESENTED BY
COMMISSIONE DAT —_
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WHEREAS, the Charter Commission has ubmitted to the
Council a proposed amendment to the Charter of the City of Saint
Paul, which is attached hereto and made a part hereof, therefore, be
it
RESOLVED, that a special election is hereby ordered to
be held, in the manner provided by law, in said City of Saint Paul,
Minnesbta, on the 6th day of November, 1962 Cwhich is the same day
the County and State general election will be held) for the purpose
of submitting to the electors of said City the question of ratify-
ing and adopting the proposed amendment to the Charter submitted
by said Charter Commission; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk is hereby ordered
and directed to cause the full text of said proposed amendment to
be published as required by law once a week for two (2) weeks in a
newspaper of general circulation in the City of Saint Paul, which
newspaper shall have an aggregate regular paid circulation of at
least twenty -five thousand copies and which newspaper shall be
printed and published--in the City of Saint Paul, viz: The St.
Paul Dispatch, the cost thereof to be paid out of.the election
expense account of the General Fund; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the_City Clerk is hereby ordered
to give notice of said election in the manner provided by law, and
that the registration records on file in the Bureau of Registration
and Elections of the City Clerk's office shall be used 'as provided
by law; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the proper City-officers are hereby
authorized and directed.to prepare the necessary printing, stationery
and election supplies, the cost thereof, together with all the
expense of said election to be paid out of the election expense
account of the General Fund; and be it
COUNCILMEN
Yeas Nays
Dalglish
Holland
Loss
Mortinson
Peterson
Rosen
Mr. President, Vavoulis
10M 8-62
In Favor
Against
Adopted by the Council 19—
Approved 19—
Mayor
ORIGINAL TO CITY CLERK
CITY OF ST. PAUL COUNCIL�1
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK FILE NO.
COUNCIL RESOLUTION — GENERAL FORM
PRESENTED BY
COMMISSIONER DATE -
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FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Qlerk'is hereby authorized
and directed to give such notice and do whatever else is necessary
for the - submission of said proposed amendment at said election in
the manner prescribed by law; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the polls at said special election
shall remain open during the hours provided by law, and the polling
places and the judges and clerks of said special election shall be
the same as those acting in said County and State general election.
Jays
tosen
Mr. President, Vavoulis
sort "2
$EP 2 5 1962
Adopted by the Council 19—
SEp 2 5 1962
Approved 19—
n Favor
Mayor
Against
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TO THE HONORABLE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL:
The annexed is a draft of a proposed amendment to be
made to the Charter of the City of Saint Paul, made, framed and *-
adopted by the Charter Commission of the City of Saint,Paul,
.appointed pursuant to Section 36, Article 4 of the Constitution
of the State of Minnesota, and the laws and statutes enacted
pursuant thereto; and said draft of said proposed amendment is
hereby transmitted to you as Chief Executive of the City of Saint'
Paul signed by the undersigned majority of said Charter Commission,
to be submitted to the qualified voters of said City for ratifica-
tion in the manner provided by law. l
Dated at Saint Paul, Minnesota this a/ S7 day of
September, 1962. x
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL
Amend Sec. 3 to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. The said City of Saint Paul shall be and is
hereby divided into twelve (12) wards, to be called the First (1st),
Second (2nd), Third (3rd), Fourth (4th), Fifth (5th), Sixth (6th),
Seventh (7th), Eighth (8th), Ninth (9th), Tenth (10th), Eleventh
(11th), and Twelfth (12th) Wards, respectively, limited and bounded
as follows:-
The First (1st) Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the northetn.:b.oundary
of the City and the center line of Mississippi St.; thence east
on the northern boundary of the City to the intersection of the
Northern Pacific Railway right of way; thence southwest on the
Northern Pacific Railway right of way to the intersection of the
center line of Grove St. extended; thence west on the center line
of Grove St. extended and the center line of Grove St. to the inter-
section of the center line of Mississippi -St.; thence north on the
center line of Mississippi St. to the point of, beginning.
The Second (2nd) Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the northern boundary
and the eastern boundary of the City; thence west on the northern
boundary of the City to the intersection of the Northern Pacific
Railway right of way; thence southwest on the Northern Pacific
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Railway right of way to the intersection of the center line of
Brook St. (vacated) thence southeast on the center line of Brook
St. (vacated) extended to the intersection of the Mississippi River;
thence southeast along the Mississippi River to the intersection
of the south boundary of the,City; thence east on the southern
boundary of the City to the intersection of the eastern boundary
of the City; thence north on the eastern boundary of the City to
the point of beginning.
The Third (3rd) Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the center lines of
Jackson St. and Grove St.; thence northeast and east on the center
line of Grove St. and the center line of Grove St. extended to the
intersection of the Northern Pacific Railway right of way; thence
southeast on the Northern Pacific Railway right of way to the inter-
section of the center line of Brook St. (vacated); thence southeast
on the center line of Brook St. (vacated) extended to the Mississippi
River, thence southwest along the Mississippi River to the intersec-
tion of the center line of Jackson St. extended; thence northwest
on the center line of Jackson St. extended and the.benter line of
Jackson St. to the point of beginning.
The Fourth (4th)Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the center lines of
Jackson St. and 13th St.; thence southeast on the center line of
y Jackson St. and ,the center line of Jackson St. extended to the
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Mississippi River; thence southwest along the Mississippi River to
the intersection of the center line of Eagle St. extended; thence
northwest on the center line of Eagle St. extended and the center
line of Eagle St. to the intersection of the center line of Kellogg
Blvd.; thence northwest on the center line of'Kellogg Blvd. to the
intersection of the center line of Summit Ave.; thence northeast on
the center line of Summit Ave. and the center line of Summit Ave.
extended to the intersection of the center line of Wabasha St.;
thence northwest on the center line of Wabasha St. to the center line
of Columbus Ave.; thence northeast on the center line of Columbus
Ave. to the intersection of the center line of Robert St.; thence
northwest on the center line of Robert St. to the intersection of
the center line of 13th St.; thence northeast on the center line
of 13th St. to the point of beginning.
The Fifth (5th) Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the center line of
Kellogg Blvd. and the south line of College Ave. extended; thence
southeast on the center line of Kellogg Blvd. to the intersection
of the center ' line of Eagle St.; thence on the ,center line of Eagle
St. and the center line of Eagle St. extended to the Mississippi River;
thence southwest along the Mississippi River to the intersection of
the center line of Edgcumbe Road extended south; thence north on the
center line of Edgcumbe Road extended and the center line of Edgcumbe
• Road to the center line of Hamline Ave.; thence north on the center
line of Hamline Ave. to the intersection of the center line of St.
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Clair Ave.; thence east on the center line of St. Clair Ave. to
the intersection of the center line of Pleasant Ave.; thence north-
east on the center line of Pleasant Ave. to the intersection of the
center line of S. Western Ave.-; thence north on the center line of
S. Western Ave. to the intersection of the center line of Irvine Ave.;
thence northeast on the center line of Irvine Ave. to the center
line of Walnut St.; thence northeast to the point of beginning.
The Sixth (6th) Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the southern boundary
of the City and the center line of Charlton St.; thence west on
the southern boundary of the City to the Mississippi River; thence
northeast and southeast along the Mississippi River to the southern
boundary of the City; thence west on the southern boundary of the
City to the intersection of the center line of Bidwell St.; thence
north on the center line of Bidwell St. to the southern boundary of
the City; thence west on the southern boundary of the City to the
intersection of the center line of Charlton St.; thence south on
the center line of Charlton St. to point of beginning.
The Seventh (7th) Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the center lines of
S..Hamline Ave. and St. Clair Ave.; thence east on the center line
of St. Clair Ave. to the intersection, of the center line of Pleasant
• Ave.; thence northeast on the center line of Pleasant Ave. to the
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intersection of the center line of S. Western Ave.; thence north on
the center line of S. Western Ave. to the intersection of the center
line of Irvine Ave.; thence northeast on the center line of Irvine Ave.
to the center line of Walnut St.; thence northeast tD the intersection
of the center line of Kellogg Blvd. andkthe south line of College
Ave. extended; thence northwest on the center line of Kellogg Blvd.
to the intersection of the center line of Summit Ave.; thence north-
east along the center line of Summit Ave. to the center line of
Marshall Ave.; thence west along the center line of Marshall Ave.
to the intersection of the center line of Louis St.; thence north
on the center line of Louis St. to the intersection of the center
line of Marshall Place; thence west on the center line of Marshall
Place to the intersection of the center line of Farrington St.; thence
north on the center line of Farrington St. to the intersection of the
center line of Carroll Ave.; thence west on the center line of Carroll
Ave. to the intersection of the center line of N. Lexington Parkway;
thence south on the center line of N. Lexington Parkway to the'inter-
section of the center line of Marshall Ave.-; thence west on the center
line of Marshall Ave. to the intersection of the center line of N.
Hamline Ave.; thence south on the center line of N. Hamline Ave. to
the Point of beginning.
The Eighth (8th) Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the center lines of N.
0 Dale St. end Carroll Ave.; thence east on the center line of Carroll
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Ave. to the intersection of the center line of Farrington St.; thence
south on the center line of Farrington St. to the intersection of the
center line of Marshall Place; thence east on the center line of
Marshall Place to the intersection of the center line of Louis St.;
thence south on the center line of Louis St. to the intersection
of the center line of Marshall Ave.; thence east on the center line
of Marshall Ave. to the intersection of the center line of Summit Ave.;
thence northeast on the center line of Summit Ave. to the intersection
of the center line of Rice St.; thence northwest and north on the
center line of Rice St. to the north boundary of the City; thence
west on the north boundary of the City to the intersection of the
center line of N. Dale St.; thence south on the center line of N.
Dale St. to the point of beginning.
The Ninth .(.-9th) Ward shall be bounded by, the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Rice
St. and the-northern boundary of the City; thence east on the northern
boundary of the City to the intersection of the center line of
Mississippi St.; thence south on the center line of Mississippi St.
to the intersection of the center line of Grove St.; thence west and
southwest on the center line of Grove St. to the intersection ,of the
center line of Jackson St.; thence northwest on the center line of
Jackson St. to the intersection of the center line of 13th St.; thence
southwest on the center line of 13th St. to the intersection of the
center line of Robert St.; thence southeast on the center line of
Robert St. to the intersection of the center line of Columbus Ave.;
thence southwest on the center line of Columbus Ave. to the inter-
section of the center line of Wababha St.; thence southeast on the
center line of Wabasha St. to the intersection of the center line of
Summit Ave. extended; thence southwest on the center line of Summit
Ave. extended and the center line of Summit Ave. to the intersection
of the center line of Rice St.; thence northwest and north on the
center line of Rice St. to the point of beginning.
The Tenth (10th)Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the north and west boundary
of the City; thence east on the north boundary of the City to the
intersection of the center line of N. Cleveland Ave.; thence south
on the center line of N. Cleveland Ave. to the.intersection of the
northern boundary of the City; thence east on the north boundary of
the City to the intersection of the center line of N. Snelling Ave.;
thence north on the center line of N. Snelling Ave. to the intersection
of the center line of W. Hoyt Ave.; thence east on the center line of
W. Hoyt Ave. to the intersection of the center line of N. Hamline Ave.;
thence north on the center line of N. Hamline Ave. to the intersection
of the north boundary of the City; thence east on the north boundary
of the City to the intersection of the center line of N. Lexington
Parkway; thence south on the center line of N. Lexington Parkway and
the center line of N. Lexington Parkway extended through Como Park
to the intersection of N. Lexington Parkway; thence south on the
center line of N. Lexington Parkway to the intersection of the center
• line of University Ave.; thence west and northwest on the center line
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City; thence north on the west boundary of the City to point of
beginning.
The Eleventh (11th) Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
Beginning at the intersection of the west boundary of the
City and the center line of University Ave.; thence southeast and east
on the center line of University Ave. to the intersection of the center
line of N. Lexington Parkway; thence south on the center line of N.
Lexington Parkway to the intersection of the center line of Marshall
Ave'.; thence west on the center line of Marshall Ave.to the intersec-
tion of the center line of N. Hamline Ave.; thence south on the center
lines of N. Hamline Ave., Edgcumbe Road and Edgeumbe Road extended to
the Mississippi River; thence southwest and northwest along the
Mississippi River to the center line of Emerald St. extended; thence
north on the west boundary of the City to the point of beginning.
The Twelfth (12th) Ward shall be bounded by the following
described lines:
. Beginning at the intersection of the north boundary of the
City and the center line of N. Lexington Parkway; thence east on the
north boundary of the City to the intersection of the center line of N.
Dale St.; thence south on the center line of N. Dale St. to the intersec-
tion of the center line of Carroll Ave.; thence west on the center line
of Carroll Ave. to the intersection of the center line of N. Lexington
Parkway; thence north on the center line of N. Lexington Parkway and the
• 1center line of N. Lexington Parkway extended through Como Park to the
intersection of N. Lexington Parkway; thence north on the center line
of N. Lexington Parkway to the point of beginning.
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The Common Council shall not have authority to change
the boundary lines of said wards but may prescribe election districts
therein."
Amend Sec. 4 to read as follows:
"Sec. 4. A general municipal election shall be held in
the City of Saint Paul in the year 1964 on the last Tuesday in April
and biennially thereafter."
Amend Sec. 15 to read as follows:
"Sec. 15. Upon the payment by said candidate to the City
Clerk of the 'City of Saint Paul of the sum of Twenty -five Dollars
($25.00), the City Clerk shall place the name of said candidate
upon the primary election ballot."
Amend Sec. 16 to read as follows:
"Sec. 16. Any candidate so filed may withdraw from the
primary election by filing an affidavit of withdrawal with the
City Clerk not later than 12 o'clock noon of the day after the last
day for filing affidavits of candidacy, and thereafter no candidate
may file an affidavit of withdrawal from the primary election. A
candidate may withdraw from the general election any time after the
primary election by filing an affidavit of withdrawal with the City
Clerk, but not during the 28 days preceding the general election."
Amend Sec. 21 to read as follows:
"Sec. 21. The two candidates for mayor and the two candi-
dates for comptroller receiving the highest and next highest number
• of votes in said primary election for the respective office for which
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they are candidates, and the twelve candidates for the council
receiving the twelve highest numbers of votes for nominations
thereto, and the candidates for the Board of Education of twice
the number of members to be elected to said Board receiving the
highest number of votes for nomination to said Board, shall be
declared the nominees and the only nominees for their respective
offices at the next ensuing City election. In the same manner,
the two candidates for each office to be elected for other city
offices shall be declared the nominees and the only nominees-for
their respective offices at the next ensuing city election."
Amend Sec. 27 to read as follows:
"Sec. 27. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office
of any officer elected by the people, except judges of the municipal
court, such vacancy shall be filled by election by the counci'0 or,
in the case of the Board of Education, by said Board, and the officer
thus elected shall hold office until the first Tuesday in June folt
lowing the next general municipal election.
The officer elected at said next general election to fill
such vacancy shall be elected for the unexpired term of such vacancy.
Any officer removing from the city, or any officer who
shall neglect or refuse for ten days after the beginning of his term,
or notice of his appointment, if appointed, to qualify and to enter
upon the discharge of the duties of his office, shall be deemed to
have vacated his office, and the council or Board of Education,
• respectively, shall proceed to fill the vacancy as herein prescribed."
Amend Sec. 28(a) to read as follows:
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"Sec. 28 (a). There shall also be elected judges of
the municipal court, whose number and terms shall be as established
by state law. The terms of office of said judges shall be six years
from and after the first Monday in June next succeeding their elec-
tion, and until their respective successors shall have been elected
and qualified. There shall also be nominated1:and elected according
to the provisions of law such justices of the peace and such constables
as are by law provided, and from districts and in such manner as the
laws direct."
Amend Sec. 29 to read as follows:
"Sec. 29. An election for the recall of any officer
elected by the people shall be held whenever a petition, signed
by registered voters of the city equal in number to not less than
twenty -five ( 25) per cent of the total vote cast for the office of
mayor at the last preceding general municipal election, demanding
the removal of the officer therein named, shall be filed with the
city clerk."
Amend Sec. 31 to read as follows:
"Sec. 31 Each signer to such petition shall be a
registered voter at the time of signing and shall write thereon,
in ink, his name, the street and number of his ,'residence, and the
ward and precinct of his residence.,,
Each separate page of the said petition shall have appended
thereto a certificate, verified by oath, that each signature was signed
by the person so purporting to have signed the same in the presence
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of the person making such certificate.
Any name appearing on the petition not complying with
the foregoing requirements shall be stricken therefrom by the City
Clerk by marking opposite the same, 'Stricken by the City Clerk',
and no names shall be counted which have not been verified as
hereinbef ore provided." '
Amend Sec. 37 to read as follows:
"Sec. 37. Other candidates for such office may be
nominated in the same manner as is provided by law for primary
elections. The affidavit of candidacy shall be filed with the
City Clerk not later than 21 days before the recall election.
The filing fee shall be that as specified in Section 15."
Amend Sec. 39 to read as follows:
"Sec. 39. All polling places shall be open from seven
(7) o'clock in the morning until eight (8) o'clock in the evening
on the day of the recall election."
Amend Sec. 43 to read as follows:
"Sec. 43. In so far as may be practicable this amendment
shall go into effect January 1, 1914, and all City elections taking
place subsequent to that date shall be held under this Charter.
For all purposes it shall take full effect upon the first Tuesday
in June, A. D. 1914, and all officers elected under this Charter
shall take office on that day."
Amend Sec. 44 to read as follows:
• "Sec. 44. The terms of office of all officers of the
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City of Saint Paul in office prior to the first Tuesday in June,
A. D. 1914, unless otherwise provided in this charter, shall ter-
minate upon said first Tuesday in June, at 10 o'clock in the morning,
but all of said officers shall remain in office until their successors
have been elected or appointed under the terms of this charter and
shall have qualified. Any person violating this section shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor."
Amend Sec. 45 to read as follows:
"Sec. 45. The salaries of elective officers of the
City of Saint Paul shall be paid in equal monthly installments
out of a 'City Officers' Salary Fund;; which is hereby established
and shall be as follows:
Mayor, $11,500 per annum; Comptroller, $11,000 per annum.'
Commissioner of Finance, $10,500 per annum; Commissioner of Public
Works, $10,500 per annum; Commissioner of Public Safety, $10,500 per
annum; Commissioner of Libraries, Auditorium and Civic Buildings,
$10,500 per annum; Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and Public
Buildings, $10,500 per annum; Commissioner of Public Utilities,
$10,500 per annum; provided that the salaries named in this section
shall be full remuneration for all services of said officers to the
City of Saint Paul of whatever kind and character, and provided fur -
ther,,that all said officers shall devote their entire time and ener-
gies to the service of said city."
Amend Sec. 46 to read as follows:
• "Sec. 46. Regardless of other provisions of this charter,
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the City Council is hereby authorized and empowered by ordinance
to fix, and from time to time ref ix, the salaries of all officers
and employees of the City and of the Board of Education 'who are
not elected by a vote of the electors of the City, except the
employees holdin
g positions in the unclassified service in the
Board of Education, whose compensation shall be fixed, and from
,time to time refixed, by said Board of Education."
Amend Sec. 48 to read as follows:
"Sec. 48. Every person appointed to office under this
Charter except employees holding positions in the Classified Service
shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take and
subscribe an oath of office, in the form prescribed by the general
statutes of this State, and file the same with the Comptroller."
Amend Sec. 51 to read as follows:
"Sec. 51. There shall be procured by the.City Purchasing
Agent, through competitive bidding, the following categories of bonds
to the City of Saint Paul:
1. A Position - Schedule Bond to cover all elected officials
of the City and the Board of Education, including the acts of deputies,
in minimum amount of $10,000.00 for each such official; also such
other positions and for such amounts as are determined by the City
Council or the Board of Education.
2. A Public Employee Blanket Bond may be acquired cover-
ing employees of the City and the Board of Education not included
• in the Position Schedule Bond, the Blanket Bond to be in minimum
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amount of $2,500 per employee per loss (collusion included).
Amounts of the Position Bond and minimums in the Blanket
Bond and positions to be included in the Position Bond shall be
determined so as.to be adequate to protect the City of Saint Paul
in accordance with the exposure to loss in each instance. Considera-
tion should be given to the avoidance of exorbitant premiums.
These bonds shall be approved as to form by the Corporation
Counsel and as to amount by the City Council or Board of Education
so as to bind said officials and employees for the faithful perform-
ance-of their respective duties. The Council or Board of Education
shall have the power to add any conditions it may see fit, change
the amounts where it is thought necessary, or add official positions
to the Position Schedule Bond. After Council or Board approval, the `
bonds shall be filed with the Comptroller, and copies thereof shall
be filed with the Commissioner of Finance.
Should any person not qualify for coverage under the bond
covering his position, he shall have the opportunity to execute,
furnish or file an individual bond to the City of Saint Paul, written
by a company qualified under the laws of the State to do such business
in Minnesota, in the amount applicable to his official position.
Such bond shall be approved as to form by the Corporation Counsel
so as to bind said person for the faithful performance of his duties.
Said bond shall be approved by the Council or Board and filed with
the Comptroller, and the City may pay the premium therefor.
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Any person failing to qualify for coverage who refuses
'or neglects to furnish an individual bond as herein provided shall
thereby f orf eit his of f ice or position.
The City shall be reimbursed by the Board of Education
and the Water Department for'.the amounts of premiums for officers,
.members and employees of their respective departments.
All official and employee bonds to the City of Saint Paul
shall be written by companies qualified under the laws of the State
to do such business in Minnesota."
Amend Sec. 53 to read as follows:
"Sec. 53. The terms of office of all officers elected
under this Charter, except members of the Board of Education and
Municipal Judges, shall be two years and until their successors
are elected and shall have qualified. Such term shall date -from
the first Tuesday in June of each even numbered year.
The terms of office of members of the Board of Education
shall be six years, to date from the first Tuesday in June,af£er
their election and until their successors are elected and shall
have qualified. All elective officers of the City shall hold office
subject to removal in the manner provided for in this Charter.
All persons in the service of the City of Saint Paul,
including the employees of the Board of Education, whose terms of,
office have not been specifically fixed, shall hold their places
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from month to month after appointment until removal under the terms
of this Charter or State law.
Except as provided in Sec. 46 hereof the titles, salaries,
and general duties of said employees, except employees holding posi-
tions in the Unclassified Service in the Board of Education, shall
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be fixed by the Council from time to time; titles, salaries, and
general duties of employees holding positions in the Unclassified
Service in the Board of Education shall be fixed by said Board.
Remuneration of persons in the employ of the City of Saint Paul
shall be uniform for like services in all departments a.rid Boards.
In all City employment, the hours of work constituting a wcr king day
shall be set by the City Council except in cases of emergency, of
which the executive head or executive board of the department de-
claring the emergency shall.be the judge, and except in this Charter
otherwise provided, no officer. or employee shall be required to work
in excess of the hours constituting a working day as set by the
City Council, and each employee shall be entitled to not less than
two days' rest therefrom in every seven days. Officers and Employees
of the City, except those of the Board of Education, shall be granted
a vacation in each year with pay as hereinafter provided, the time
thereof to be fixed by the head of the department in which such per-
son is employed. The Board of Education shall have authority to
grant a vacation each year to any unclassified officer or employee
of said Board.
• The City Council may by resolution or ordinance provide
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for the granting of vacation, with or without pay, to all its
regularly employed employees or officers upon such terms and under
such conditions as said governing body may determine, subject to
such conditions as to length of service with such municipality as
said City Council may require. After the effective date of this
amendment the City Council may consider the total length of service
of employees or officers with such municipality in establishing
the extent of vacation to which officers or employees shall be
entitled. The Board of Education shall have authority to provide
for the granting of vacation, with or without pay, to any officer
-or employee of said Board, other than an employee holding a position
in the Classified Service in said Board of Education, upon such terms
and under such conditions as said Board of Education may determine
and subject to such-requirements as to length of service with such
municipality as said Board of Education may require. After the
effective date of this amendment the Board of Education may consider
the totAl length of service of employees or officers with such
municipality in establishing the extent of vacation to which its
officers or employees shall be entitled.
Except as hereinafter provided, the City Council may
by ordinance provide for rules and regulations establishing sick
leaves, and for such other benefits and em6luments as may improve
the public service including hours of employment. The Board of
Education shall have authority tb:provide for rules and regulations
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establishing sick leave and for such other benefits and emoluments
as may improve the public service, including hours of employmet,
for any officer or employee of 'said Board other than an employee
holding a_position in the Classified Service in said Board of
Education; upon such terms and under such conditions as said
governing body may determine. No officer or employee of the
City or Board of Education shall receive extra pay for extra
labor or work done in an emergency except by majority action d:
the City Council approved by the Mayor and Comptroller,,,or by
majority action of the Board of Education. Whenever any depart-
ment head shall declare an emergency, the same shall be reported
at the next succeeding meeting of the Council or Board, giving
in detail the circumstances creating the emergency, and-the re-
port shall become a*public record. By majority vote the Council
or Board may direct that the work of the department of Board
proceed on a normal basis."
Amend Sec. 57 to read as follows:
"Sec. 57. Immediately upon taking the oath of office,
it shall be the duty of the Mayor to assign one member of the newly
elected Council as Commissioner of Public Safety, one member of
said Council as Commissioner of Libraries, Auditorium and Civic
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Buildings, one member of said Council as Commissioner of Public
Works, one member of said Council as Commissioner of Parks and
Recreation and Public Buildings, one member of said Council as
Commissioner of Public Utilities and one member of said Council as
Commissioner of Finance."
Amend Sec. 59 to read as follows:
"Sec. 59. When in his judgment any councilman, as
councilman, or as head of any administrative department, has not
conducted the business of the city honestly, faithfully and with
reasonable skill, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to file with
the City Clerk charges against said officer, and on the filing of
said charges with reasonable specifications as to the concrete
instances of dishonesty, unfaithfulness or incompetency charged,
it shall be the duty of the Council to try publicly the truth or
falsity of such charges, and if they be found true and of sufficient
gravity to indicate dishonesty, unfaithfulness or incompetency on
the part of the accused, the Council shall remove said accused
from office. At the trial of said charges the Mayor shall not sit
as presiding officer or as a member of the Council, nor shall the
accused sit as a member, nor shall either be permitted to vote on
the question of removal. Provided, that an affirmative vote of not
less than four members elected to the Council shall be required
to remove any elective officer from office. All charges and pro-
ceedings in connection with such removal shall be entered in the
• journal of the Council and become a permanent public record."
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Amend Sec. 60 to read as follows:
"Sec. 60.. When in the judgment of the Mayor any officer
or employee appointed under the provisions of,this Charter is not
performing his duties honestly, faithfully and efficiently, the
Mayor shall so notify the officer or the body having the power of
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appointing said officer or employee, stating the facts as specifi-
cally.as may be, and shall ask such appointing officer or body to
remove said officer or employee. If said appointing officer or
body so requested refuses or neglects to act, then the Mayor may
in his discretion prefer charges seeking the removal of said of-
fending appointive officer or employee by an order in writing ad-
dressed to.the appointing officer or body and containing specific
reasons for the removal. Said officer or employee may, if he wishes
it, have the power to reply to the Mayor's charges and may, before
so replying, demand a bill of particulars which the Mayor shall
furnish as fully as practicable, and such charges, such letters
of removal, such statement of particulars and such reply shall
be filed with the City Clerk as a permanent public record of the
City.. Any such removal shall be in accordance with applicable
State law. Further proceeding hereafter should be held in accord-
ance with the provisions of this Charter and of the rules promul-
gated thereunder. Provided,'however, that the Mayor shall not
have power to remove any officer or employee appointed by the
Comptroller or Board of Education."
Amend Sec. 66 to read as follows:
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"Sec. 66. The Mayor shall have power to employ an ad-
ministrative assistant and a secretary, which'positions shall be
in the unclassified service, and such other assistants as the
Council shall by ordinance designate at his request and at such
salaries as it may fix."
Amend Sec. 67 to read as follows:
"Sec. 67. The Mayor shall exercise such other powers
and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by State law,
by this Charter, and by any ordinance not in conflict with the
provisions of this Charter."
Add a new Section to be inserted following Sec. 71, to
be known as Sec. 71(a) and to read as follows:
"Sec. 71(a). Each department and bureau of this City
shall make a complete report of its financial transactions in detail,
in such form as the Comptroller may direct, to said Comptroller and
to the Council through the Mayor not later than March 15 of each
year covering the business of the next preceding year. Included
in this report, or in a separate report directed to the Council
through the Mayor, shall be a description, in appropriate detail,
of all activities, business and programs of such department or
bureau."
Amend Sec. 72 to read as follows:
"Sec. 72. The Comptroller may appoint, and at his pleasure
may remove, a Deputy Comptroller, who shall perform such duties as
• the Comptroller may prescribe. During the absence of the Comptroller
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from the City, or his inability for any reason to discharge the
duties of his office, the Deputy Comptroller shall act in his place
and stead and shall have the same powers and duties as the
Comptroller. The Comptroller and the sureties on his bond shall
be liable for the acts of the Deputy Comptroller the same as if
they were done by the Comptroller.
The Comptroller may also appoint such other assistants
and employees as,may be necessary for the performing of the duties
imposed upon him by law as the Council may authorize at the sugges-
tion of the Comptroller.
It is the intent of this Charter that the Comptroller
shall have sufficient help to carry out the duties prescribed under
this Charter, and it is the duty of the Council to carry out this
intent."
Amend Sec. 73 to read as follows:
"Sec. 73. It shall be the duty of the Comptroller to make
an exhaustive examination, at least once a year, into the - accounts
and methods of each department or office with which he keeps controlling
accounts and to report the resultsof such examinations to the City
Council in such form as to be understood by the average Layman.
He shall from time to time compile statistics showing in summary
or detailed form, as his judgment may dictate, the state of the
City's business. Annually as soon as practicable after January
1 of each year, and in any event not later than May 1, said
• Comptroller shall make a complete report upon all the business of
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the City for the last previous fiscal year an I d shall present it
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carefully collated and indexed to the Council, and said Council
shall cause it to be printed forthwith in an edition of a reason-
able number of copies, which shall be distributed to the public
free of charge upon.application to the Comptroller."
Amend Sec. 74 to read as follows:
"Sec. 74. Not later than the 15th day of each month,
or as soon thereafter as is practical, the Comptroller shall submit
to the Mayor and each Councilman a summary report of the status
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of all funds, showing, among other things, total available appro-
priations, expenditures to date, reserve and unencumbered balance.
Concurrently the Comptroller shall deliver to each department or
bureau a detailed statement with the same information as above."
Amend Sec. 95 to read as follows:
"Sec. 95. No claim for services shall be allowed unless'
the person rendering such service has his name'-enrolled with the
Civil Service Commissioner as in the employment of the City and the
class, grade,,rate of compensation and department in which employed
are specified on said roll, except'as in this Charter otherwise pro-
vided. All claims for services by the day or hour must be supported
by an adequate time report showing services rendered. Claims for
supplies for emergency repairs must be certified to by the Purchasing
Agent setting forth, facts constituting the emergency. No requisition
shall be certified or honored by any City officer or employee unless
0 it shows on its face that the Comptroller has certified that there
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are available funds to pay for the thing requisitioned. No claim
for general supplies in bulk in anticipation of requisitions therefor
shall be allowed,unless such supplies have been duly delivered
to the City and duly inspected.- Whenever supplies are bought in
bulk by the Purchasing Agent in anticipation of requisitions there-
for, said Purchasing Agent shall make such report as the Comptroller
may prescribe, giving all details as to prices, amounts, cost, evi-
dences of delivery, and all other details necessary for the protec-
tion of the City. When satisfied as to all details the Comptroller
shall draw a proper warrant covering such claims as have been satis-
factorily proved, and shall apportion the payments to the several
departments so that each shall pay for the supplies actually pur-
chased for and to be used by that department. 'Each item shall be
charged to the appropriate fund.
Except for supplies so bought in bulk, no claim for supplies
shall be allowed unless supported by a requisition approved by the
Comptroller; and unless prices thereof are certified by the Purchasing
Agent as correct, and unless properly inspected. Where purchases
are made under contract, claims for payment thereof shall not be
allowed unless the contract has in all respects been complied with.
All contract work must be properly inspected and reported upon as
done in accordance with the terms of the contract, and all materials
as complying with specifications; must be approved by the department
for which it has been performed; must have been covered by the bond'
required under this Charter, and the contractor must make affidavit
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that all claims for services and material used in connection there. -
with have been paid in full to date, before any claim shall be al-
lowed or paid by the City. No final claim or estimate on any con-
tract work shall be paid until the contract is fully completed and
properly accepted by the proper City officers as provided for in
this Charter.
No claim for extra labor or material shall be allowed
unless the cost thereof has been fully agreed upon by the department
for which the labor or material is furnished and the contractor, and
a memorandum of said agreement has be6n filed with the Comptroller
and countersigned by him prior to the furnishing of-such extra labor
or material.
All disbursements expressly required by the laws of the
State or to maintain the credit of the City shall be allowed subject
to the ruling of the Corporation Counsel as to their legality. All
disbursements authorized by the Council from moneys under the direct
control of the Council may be allowed by the Comptroller on receipt
of such authorization and subject to the terms thereof."
Amend Sec. 96 to read as follows:
"Sec. 96. The limitations in the last preceding sections
shall not apply to claims against the County Welfare Board of the ,
City of Saint Paul and County of Ramsey and the City Hall and Court
House Committee. On recommendation of the Comptroller the Council
may provide by ordinance for such arrangement as said Comptroller
emay be able to make, and which he and said Council may deem desirable,
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with the County of Ramsey for monthly and semi- monthly settlements
of all claims against the City for the City's share of the expenses
of the County Welfare Board of the City of Saint Paul and County of
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Ramsey and the City Hall and Court House Committee; provided, that
before payment, all such claims shall be audited by the Comptroller."
Amend Sec. 100 to read as follows:
"Sec. 100. The positions in the civil service of the
City of..Saint Paul are hereby divided into two classes, namely:
the Classified Service and the Unclassified Service. The Unclassi-
fied Service shall include the following positions:
s A. All positions filled by election of the people.
B., All heads:.-,of executive departments.
C. The positions of administrative assistant and a s.ecr-e
tary for the Mayor and the position of one deputy for the head of
each executive department.
D. In the Board_of Education, the superintendent, all
teachers, instructors, principals, supervisors of teachers, coun-
selors, psychologists and other professional educational employees.
The Classified Service shall include all other offices
now existing and all officers and employees holding places not ex-
cepted from said service. It shall also include all other offices
which may hereafter be created unless express -ly - exempted therefrom."
Amend Sec. 101 to read as follows:
"Sec. 101. The Civil Service Commissioner is hereby
authorized and empowered to frame and submit to the Council for its
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approval rules and regulations for the Classified Service, and
such approval shall be given by an ordinance which shall set out in
full such rules. Such ordinance need not be published in the offi-
cial paper but may be printed in pamphlet form. When so approved
such rules shall have the force and effect of law. Such rules and
regulations may be amended or repealed with the consent of the
Council in the same manner as provided for original adoption.
The Commissioner shall keep a record of all orders and
of all examinations held pursuant to the provisions hereof and shall
make suitable and proper investigations concerning the enforcement
and effect of this Charter and of the rules provided for herein.
Said Commissioner shall report to the Mayor at least once each year
and otherwise as often as he may require.
The rules herein provided for shall provide, amongst
other things:
A. For a Classification Plan showing all classes of posi-
tions in the Classified Service.
B. For open competitive examination to test the relative
fitness of all applicants for such positions.
C. That public notice be given of all such examinations
at least ten days in advance thereof, in at least one newspaper of
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general circulation, and also by posting such notice in the Court
House and City Hall.
D. For the creation of eligible lists upon which shall
• be entered the names of successful candidates in the order of their
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rating in the examinations. Such lists shall ", however, not remain
in force more than two years. ,
E. For-the rejection of otherwise' eligible candidates
who fail to comply with the reasonable requirements of the Commis-
sioner with regard to age, qualifications, residence, sex, or physi-
cal condition, or who have been guilty of crime or of infamous or
disgraceful conduct, or who have attempted any deception or fraud
in connection with an application or examination, or who have been
dismissed from the public service for delinquency or misconduct,
or who have directly or indirectly given or promised to give any
money, service, or other valuable thing to any person for or on
account of their examination, appointment or proposed appointment.
F. For the appointment, to fill a vacancy, of one of
three persons who are rated highest on the appropriate list.
G. For a period of probation not to exceed six months
after any appointment or promotion is made, during which period
such probationer may be discharged or reduced with the consent
of the Commissioner.
H. For temporary employment without examination with
the consent of the Commissioner in cases of emergency., No-such
temporary employment shall continue longer than sixty working days,
nor shall successive temporary employments of the same person be
allowed. And for provi:sia,nal employment without examination with -
the consent of the Commissioner pending the establishment of an
I* eligible list.
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I. For transfers from any position to a similar posi-
tion in the same class and grade, for reduction from any position
to any position in the same line of work in a�lower grade, and
also for reinstatement within one year of persons who without
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fault or delinquency on their part resigned from the service or
are voluntarily reduced to a lower position, or were laid off.
J: For promotion based on competitive examination and
upon a record of efficiency, character, conduct and seniority.
Lists shall be prepared and kept and promotions made therefrom in
the same manner as provided herein for original appointments. Any
advancement in rank or any increase in salary beyond the limit fixed
by the rules shall constitute a promotion. Whenever practicable-
vacancies shall be filled by promotion.
K: For suspensions for not longer than thirty days, and
for leave of absence.
L. For discharge or reduction either in rank or compensa-
tion after appointment or promotion only when the person to be dis-
charged or reduced has been presented with the reasons for such
discharge or reduction, specifically stated in writing, and has been
allowed a reasonable time to reply thereto in writing. The reasons
and the reply must be filed as a public record with the Commissioner.
M. For the appointment of the unskilled laborers in the
order of priority of application after such tests of fitness as the
Commissioner may prescribe.
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Amend Sec. 103 to read as follows:,
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"Sec. 103. All examinations for positions in the Classi-
fied Service shall':be impartial and shall have reference to the
duties and requirements of the office or position to be filled
and shall be such as will test the relative fitness of the candi-
dates for the position to be filled. Examinations may consist of
written or oral tests of the subjective or objective type, physical
tests, practical or demonstration tests, or evaluation of past
training and experience. Oral tests may be of,the subjective or
objective type, used to test the candidate's knowledge of the duties
of the position, or may be of the interview type used to test the
candidate's personal fitness for the job. Non - competitive tests
as determined by the Civil Service Commissioner with the approval
of the City Council may be used to test the qualifications of the
candidates. Examinations shall be in charge of the Chief Examiner,
except when the Commissioner shall act as Examiner. The Commissioner
may call on other persons to conduct or mark examinations, and when
such persons are connected with the City service, it shall be deemed
a part of their official duty to act as such examiners without extra
compensation."
Amend Sec. 107 to read as follows:
"Sec. 107; No person holding a position -in the Classi-
fied Service or applying for appointment to such position shall
be appointed, reduced or removed or in any way favored or
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discriminated against because of his race, creed, or political
opinions or affiliations."
Amend Sec. 109(a) to read as follows:
"Sec. 109(a). All elective officers of the City of
Saint Paul shall be qualified voters at the time of their election
and qualification for office and shall be bonafide residents of
the City during their term of office. All appointive officers
shall be registered voters of the City of Saint Paul at the time
of their election, appointment and qualification, except that by
unanimous action of the Council to fill a position requiring especial
skill, this requirement may be waived; all appointive officers shall,
however, be bona fide residents of the City during their term of
office. All employees of the City of Saint Paul shall be bona fide
residents of the City at the time of their employment and continu-
ously during such employment."
Add a new Section to be inserted following Sec. 109(a),
to be known as Sec. 109(b) and to read as follows:
'Sec. 109(b). No employee or officer of the City of
Saint Paul shall, during the hours of his employment, perform any
service or do any work except for the City of Saint Paul and shall
4 devote all his efforts and time to said City."
Amend Sec. 111 to read as follows:
"Sec. 111. The Council shall meet at the city hall of
said City on the first Tuesday of June of each year at ten o'clock
• in the morning and'on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
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of each week at ten o'clock in the morning, and at such other times
as it may determine. The Mayor may call special meetings of the
Councilmen, and the City Clerk shall do so upon the written request
of four Councilmen at such time as may therein be specified. Notice
in writing of special meetings shall be served upon each member of
the Council personally or be left at his usual place of abode at
least six hours in advance of such meeting, except with the unani-
mous consent or waiver of such notice by the entire Council, which
consent or waiver shall be in writing."
Amend Sec. 112 to read as follows:
"Sec. 112. A majority of the Council shall constitute
a quorum to transact business, but a smaller number may adjourn
from time to time and compel the attendance of absent members under
such terms and penalties as it may prescribe. The Council may adopt
rules and regulations for its government not inconsistent with law
and this Charter, sit upon its own adjournma:nent and punish its
members for disorderly conduct."
Amend Sec. 117 to read as follows:
"Sec. 117. Whenever any proposed ordinance shall be
presented.to the Council, it shall be read in full at the meeting
at which it shall be presented and read again by the title thereof
at two separate meetings not less than a week after the meeting
at which the same is presented. After such ordinance shall be
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complete in the form in which it is finally passed, it shall remain
on file in the office of the City Clerk for public inspection at
least one week before the final passage or adoption thereof.
No ordinance shall embrace more than one subject, which
shall be expressed in its title.
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Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined entirely
to appropriations, and not hing.-otherwL56.°
The enacting clause of all of the above ordinances shall
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be: 'The Council of the City of Saint Paul does ordain!'"
Amend Sec. 121 to read as follows:
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"Sec. 121. Every ordinance or resolution not making an
appropriation which shall pass the City Council shall be presented
to the Mayor as soon as practicable for approval or rejection and,,
in any event, not later than five days after its passage. If he
approves thereof, he shall sign it within five days of its presen-
tation to him and shall deposit the same in the office of the City
Clerk, where it shall be permanently preserved'as a public record.
If he does not approve it, he shall return it within five days to
the City Council with a communication in writing setting forth the
fact of his disapproval and the reasons thereof, and his communica-
tion shall be entered at large in the journal of the City Council.
Said body shall then proceed to reconsider said measure. If, after
such reconsideration, five of all the members elected to the City
Council vote affirmatively;in favor of passing said measure,
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notwithstanding the veto of the Mayor, it shall become operative
notwithstanding said veto; but in all such cases the vote of said
Council shall be taken by yeas and nays, and the names of all per-
sons voting for or against said measure shall'be recorded in the
journal of the Council. Should the Mayor fail or refuse to return
to the Council within five days any measure presented to him for
approval or veto, it shall become operative at the end of said
five days just as though approved and signed by the Mayor. Any
order, resolution or ordinance of the Council requiring more than
a majority of votes of said Council to pass in the first instance
shall require as great an affirmative vote to pass over the veto
of the Mayor." I '
Amend Sec. 122 to read as follows:
"Sec. 122. Every ordinance making an 'appropriation or
authorizing any liability, before it be binding and operative, shall
be presented to the Mayor for his approval or rejection. He may
approve or reject the whole thereof, in which evelt the procedure
shall be the same as in the preceding section. 0r, he may approve
part thereof and disapprove or reject any item orl items thereof, and
in such cases he shall note on the margin thereof and opposite such
item or items,the word-!3Rejecte4,' and shall also ih writing state
what item or items, by reference thereto, he has disapproved or
.rejected together with the reason therefor. The City Clerk shall
forthwith strike out of such ordinance any such rejected item and
• proceed in all other respects as if such rejected item or items
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were not therein contained. At the next regular meeting of the
Council he shall present to such body for its reconsideration a
verbatim copy of all such rejected items, togethl,er with the title
of such ordinance and other necessary references thereto to clearly
- identify the same, and the statement of the Mayor disapproving and
rejecting such items. If, after reconsideration, the Council shall
again pass such rejected and disapproved item or items, or any one
a of them, by five affirmative votes except the Mayor, then the City
Clerk shall forthwith publish such item or items repassed or re-
adopted, together with the title of such ordinance from which the
same were taken, preceded by a supplemental statement to the effect
that such items were repassed or readopted by the Council notwith-
standing the disapproval thereof by the Mayor., In all other respects
the provisions of the preceding section shall apply to appropriation
ordinances,."
Amend Sec. 127 to read as follows:
"Sec. 127. For a more specific enumeration and definition
of some of the powers granted hereinbefore, a fuller exposition
thereof and as an'additional grant thereto, the Council shall have
the power and authority:
A. The common council shall have power:
1. Eminent domain - -To exercise the right of eminent
domain.
2. Purchase - -To acquire property by purchase and
• .private sale as by this Charter provided.
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3. To acquire property - -To acquire and take real and
personal property by gift, 'devise or bequest
and hold and employ the same for public purposes.
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B. The Council shall have power by ordinance:
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1. To define, license, regulate and restrain:
a. Theatres, halls, exhibitions and shows and
entertainments of all kinds.
b. Dances and dance halls.
c. Billiard and pool rooms, bowling alleys and
other similar places and the proprietors and
keepers thereof.
d. Hotels, boarding houses and restaurants.
e.' Auctioneers and public auctions.
f. Pawn brokers.
g., Intelligence and employment offices and agents.
h. Second -hand stores and junk shops and the owners
and managers thereof.
i. Hawkers, peddlers, porters, runners, agents and
solicitors for common carriers, express companies,
hotels or other establishments.
j. Ticket agents and brokers and immigration and
steamship agents.
k. Draymen, cartmen, cabmen, hackmen, omnibus drivers
and chauffeurs.
1. Vehicles of all kinds whatsoever, and the use
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of the streets, public thoroughfares, highways
and places by such vehicles; and also the carry-
ing and hauling of persons and property for hire.
m. Vendors or dealers in inflammable oils or sub-
stances, firearms, fireworks or explosives of
any kind.
n. Vendors of meats, vegetables and other food
products.
2. To regulate the size and weight of bread sold
or prepared for sale.
3. Liquor licenses --
a. To license and regulate, except as herein other-
wise provided, all persons vending, dealing in or
disposing of spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented
liquors and all places in which the same are dealt
in, vended or disposed of .
b. To prevent or prohibit any person from giving or
dealing in spirituous, fermented, malt or vinous
liquors unless duly licensed by the Common Council.
c. Patrol limits - -To establish, alter, enlarge and
contract patrol limits within said City and to
prevent, suppress and prohibit the sale or other
disposal of any spirituous, fermented, malt, vinous
or other intoxicating liquor within such limits,
• except by duly licensed druggists for medical,
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mechanical or chemical purposes to be used else-
where than upon said druggist's premises. Pro-
vided, however, that said Council shall never grant
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any license to sell or otherwise dispose of any
such spirituous, fermented, malt, vinous or other
intoxicating liquor except to such druggists
for the purpose aforesaid within the limits of
the following territory, viz: Sections twenty -
eight (28) and twenty -nine (29), the east half
(1/2) of the east half (1/2) of section thirty-
two ( 32), and all of section thirty -three (33)
in township twenty -nine (29), range twenty- three-
(23) and the east `half (1/2); of the east half (1/2)
of section five (5) and all of section four (4)
in township twenty -eight (28) of range twenty-
three (23), all in Ramsey County, Minnesota, and
also within any territory within two hundred (200)
feet of any of the boundary limits thereof, nor
within a distance of one -half (1/2) mile of any
college, university or reformatory institution
within the limits of the new territory added to
said City by Chapter 281 of S. L. 1885, validated
by Chapter 574, S. L. 1889.
4. To define, prevent, prohibit and suppress:
• a. Gambling and fraudulent practices and devices.
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b. Drunkenness and obscenity.
c. Vagrancy, mendicancy and prostitution.
d. Disorderly houses, houses of ill fame and
groggeries.
e. Riots, noise and disorderly assemblages.
f. Disorderly or mischievous conduct, or conduct
annoying or dangerous to others, or detrimental
to the rights of person or property.
g.. Vice and crime.
h. All practices and acts whatsoever inconsistent
with the preservation 'of peace and good order
and just rights and comfort of the inhabitants
of the City.
5. To regulate and control, prevent and prohibit:
a. The use, sale or offering for sale of firearms,
explosives, fireworks or the use or exhibition
of any firearms, fireworks or explosives in any
place which may be considered by the Common Council
dangerous or annoying to any citizen.
b. The receipts, storage, transportation and traffic
in any inflammable oil or substance or any explo-
sives within said City, or within one mile of the
corporate limits thereof.
c. The carrying of concealed weapons.
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d. The running at large of any animals.
e. The encroachment upon or obstructing or incumber-
ing of any highways, sidewalks, public grounds or
levee.
f. The cutting of ice within the city limits and
the sale thereof.
g. The burial of the dead within the city limits
or within one mile beyond such limits, and to
regulate the location and conduct of cemeteries
and crematories.
h. .Places of bathing and swimming in the waters
within the city limits.
i. The landing and conveyance of paupers and persons
in destitute condition into said City not having
a legal residence or settlement therein by any
railroad train, boat, vessel or other means of
conveyance, and to require that such persons 'shall
be taken back to the place from whence they may
have been brought by the person or_ persons convey-
ing or leaving them in said City.
j. The penning, herding and treatment of all animals
within the City.
k. The emission of dense smoke.
6. To define, regulate, prohibit and abate nuisances.
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7. To compel owners, agents or occupants to keep all
buildings and premises and the streets, sidewalks
and alleys adjacent thereto in a cleanly, whole-
some, safe and passable condition and to regu-
late the disposal and collection of all refuse
whatsoever.
8. To compel the registration of births and deaths
and the collection of other vital statistics.
9. To impose a tax , ®n, : dogs and regulate the keeping
thereof and to authorize the destruction of the
same in a summary manner when at large contrary
to the ordinance and to provide for the killing
of dangerous or vicious dogs and to punish by
fine or imprisonment the owner or keeper of any
such dog who refuses to deliver up the same to be
killed or to pay the tax imposed thereon.
10. Building regulation and fire protection.
a. To regulate the construction, alteration, removal
and repair of all structures and the permanent
equipment thereof, and to provide for the safety
of the occupants of all strur tures and all properly
in the vicinity thereof against danger from fire
or panic or from methods of construction or in-
stallation detrimental to life, health or property,
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and to prohibit the use
of buildings
or parts of
buildings when dangerous
to life from
collapse,
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fire or panic.
b. Fire limits - prescribe. To prescribe, contract
or extend the limits within which wooden buildings
or buildings of other materials that shall not be
considered as fireproof shall not be erected,
placed or repaired; to direct that all and any
buildings within the limits prescribed shall be
made and constructed of fireproof materials; to
prohibit the rebuilding of wooden buildings
within the fire limits when the same have been
damaged to the extent of fifty per cent of the
value thereof, and to prescribe the manner of
ascertaining such damage.
C. To prescribe limits within which all roofs shall
be covered by non - combustible material.
d. Compel the installation in all structures of
devices, appliances and arrangements for the
preservation of life, health and property.
e. To regulate the storage and handling of all
combustible or other substances, articles, equip-
ment or devices affecting the fire hazard.
f. To license, regulate, prohibit and suppress the
erection and maintenance of signs, signboards,
billboards and fences. r
g. To establish and enforce building lines and to
regulate thelh,4 &t of buildings.
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h. To regulate the measurement and inspection of
building materials and of fuel of all kinds.
11. To regulate the location of stock yards, slaughter
houses, rendering plants, soap factories, tanneries,
stables, privies and other unwholesome or nauseous
houses or places.
12. To designate and set apart',certain thoroughfares
as parkways or boulevards and regulate the use
of the same and prohibit hauling heavy loads
thereon.
C. The Council shall have power: .
1. To pass all ordinances necessary or expedient
for the preservation of health and the suppression
of disease, to prevent the introduction of infec-
tions or contagious diseases into the City, and
to make and enforce quarantine laws. The juris-
diction of said City shall extend to and be en-
forced over any lands within the County of Ramsey
purchased or used by said City for the purpose of
a quarantine, for police and sanitary regulation;
and for the preservation of the_ health of said
City, and the suppression of disease and abate-
ment of public nuisances, and the suppression of
any business contrary to the sanitary regulation
of the Common Council or the Commissioner of Health,
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the jurisdiction of said City shall extend for
a circuit of one mile beyond the present or any
future limits of said City.
2. Pass any other ordinances and resolutions neces-
sary to carry out the intent and provisions of
this Charter.
D. Penalties and enforcements of ordinances. - -The Council
shall have full power and authority:
1. To revoke for misconduct of a licensee any license
granted under this Charter.
2. To declare and impose fines and penalties and to
enforce the same against any person who may violate
any of the provisions of any ordinance or reso-
lution,and all such ordinances and resolutions
are hereby declared to be and have the force of
law; such fines and penalties may extend to
a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or im-
prisonment in the workhouse not exceeding ninety
(90) days or both; and offenders against any
ordinance or resolution as aforesaid may be re-
quired to give security and to keep the peace
not exceeding six months and in a sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars.
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3. To provide by ordinance that anyone convicted
of an offense before the Municipal Court sub-
jecting such offender to an imprisonment under
the Charter and ordinances of said City may be
kept at hard labor in the workhouse established
for that purpose.
4. To establish by ordinance all neddful_regula-
tions for the security and discipline of such
persons, provided that the Municipal Court shall
not have the power to commit for vagrancy any
persons to the city prison, city workhouse or
county jail for a longer period than thirty days.
E. Departments or bureaus to charge for services. --
The City Council shall have power by resolution to
authorize a department or bureau to charge another
City department, bureau, board, authority, etc. for
services performed by said department or bureau.
F. Municipal undertakings.- -The Council shall have power
by ordinance:
1. Markets. - -To erect and maintain market houses and
,to establish markets and market places.
2. Wharves and levees. - -To control, regulate and
cause to be constructed, altered and maintained,
wharves and levees and grading and paving along
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City limits. To-prescribe and control the prices
to be charged for wharfage thereon; to prevent
or remove all obstructions 'in the water of said
river and to regulate the landings, levees, wharves
and piers within the City limits and the boats
and vessels landing and mooring at the same, and
--' the charges therefor; to have and exercise the
same power and control over the said river within
the limits of said City that it may possess over
its streets, highways and alleys so far as such
power and control may not be inconsistent with
the laws of the United States or of this State.
3. Garage. - -To establish and maintain a garage or
garages for the housing, care and repair of all
automobiles owned by the City.
4. Pounds. - -To establish and regulate public pounds
and to provide for the empounding of animals run-
ning at large and the sale of unclaimed animals.
5. Lighting.
a. To provide for lighting the City and lighting and
heating all public buildings and furnishing power
thereto.
b. To establish, erect, maintain and cause to be
operated gas works, electric lighting and power
• plants or other works for lighting the streets and
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public grounds, and lighting and heating public
buildings _arid: furnishing power thereto and to
sell and furnish light, heat and power to the
citizens of said City and to occupy and use
the public streets and conduits therein in
.connection therewith.
c. To purchase, erect, establish and maintain conduits,
subways and appliances for lighting purposes, the
use of which conduits, subways and appliances
said Common Council may let to any person, firm
or corporation contracting to light said City or
part thereof for a term not exceeding said contract.
Provided, however, that the Commissioner of Public
Utilities shall have exclusive power and jurisdic-
tion within the limitations of this Charter as to
the location of all lamps.
6. Municipal paving plants. - -To' provide, maintain and
cause to be operated under the supervision of the
Commissioner of Public Works, municipal quarries,
-apparatus and other facilities for the manufacture,
construction and laying of all kinds of street
pavements and sidewalks.
7. Sprinkling plants, etc. - -To provide, equip and
maintain apparatus and facilities for the clean-
ing, repairing and sprinkling of streets, alleys,
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sidewalks, sidelawns, public grounds, levees,
and for the collection and disposal of garbage
and all other waste material."
Amend Sec. 130 to read as follows:
"Sec. 130. The Council is hereby authorized by ordinance
to lease to any person, company or corporation any part or portion of
the levee known as the West Side Levee in the Sixth (6th) Ward of the
City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, as the same is designated and shown
on the maps on file in the office of the Commissioner of Public Works
of the City of Saint Paul, the said leases to be for such purposes
and upon such terms and for such a length of time as the Council
shall prescribe; however, the provisions of this section may not
be inconsistent with the laws of the United States of America or
of this State."
Amend Sec. 133 to read as follows:
"Sec. 133. The Council shall have no power to
1. New or salaried offices. -- Create any new or salaried
elective offices not specified in this Charter or in
any manner to increase the salary or compensation of
any officer whose salary is fixed in this Charter,
or, to employ any assistant whereby said City might
be liable for any services rendered or attempted to
be rendered in performing the duties imposed by law
upon any salaried officer of said City; but nothing
in this Charter shall prevent said City and its officers
• from employing such servants from day to day and from
month to month as are authorized by this Charter.
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2. Disputed demands on contracts. -- Authorize any com-
promise of any disputed demand arising out of
contracts or any allowance therefor or therein
except as provided in the contract therefor.
3. Damages for injuries. -- Authorize the compromise or
payment of any damages claimed for alleged injuries
to persons or property except by ordinance adopted
by a majority of the members -elect thereof.
4. The council cannot relieve or exempt. -- Relieve any
person or corporation from the payment of any law-
ful tax, assessment, fine or license, or from any
burden imposed by law or order; nor shall it cause
to be paid any demand not lawfully authorized and
duly audited."
Amend Sec. 134 to read as follows:
"Sec. 134. Any ordinance may be proposed by petition
by the registered voters of the City of Saint Paul equal in numbers
to ten per cent of the electors who voted for Mayor at the last pre-
ceding City election."
Amend S'ec. 137 to read as follows:
"Sec. 137. No ordinance passed by the Council shall go
into effect until the expiration of thirty days after it has been
passed, approved-and published, unless it shall be necessary for
the preservation of the public peace, health or safety, and the
• Council shall by six affirmative votes of all the members elected.
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declare that it shall go into effect immediately upon its publica-
tion. The necessity for such action shall bey stated in the title
and in a section of such ordinance. If within thirty days after the
passing, approval and publication of any ordinance, a number of the
qualified electors of the City of Saint Paul equal to eight per
cent of all the electors who voted at the last City election for
Mayor, shall file a petition with the City Clerk addressed to the
City Council asking that said ordinance shall be submitted to the
voters of said City for approval or rejection, it shall be so submitted
as hereinafter provided, and shall not go into effect ( except in
cases-,of emergency as herein provided) until approved by a majority
of all the electors voting thereon at a general or special City
election within the City of Saint Paul. Should a majority of said
electors vote against the approval of said ordinance it shall not
go into effect, but shall be void and of no effect. If by action
of the Council as aforesaid any ordinance shall be declared neces-
sary for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety,
and it shall be provided that it shall go into effect immediately
upon publication thereof, and if within ninety days of its publication
and taking effect a petition shall be filed as aforesaid asking that
such ordinance be submitted to the voters of the City of Saint Paul
for - approval or rejection, said ordinance shall be so submitted,
and if a majority of said electors voting thereon vote to reject
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such
ordinance,
said vote shall
effect
a repeal
of said
ordinance
from
and after
the announcement
of said
result.
In like
manner any
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ordinance not an.emergency ordinance may be repealed on referendum
vote asked for by petition filed as aforesaid within ninety days"
after the publication of said ordinance."
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Amend Sec. 140 to read as follows:
"Sec. 140. The budget resolution or the resolution pro-
viding _annually for the support of the government of the City of
Saint Paul shall go into effect immediately upon publication.
Said resolution shall not be submitted to the voters of Saint Paul
for approval or rejection on petition or otherwise, provided that
any item in said budget making appropriation for new outlay shall
be subject to referendum in the same manner as though it were not
part of said budget resolution."
Amend Sec. 142 to read as follows:
"Sec. 142. The ballots used in voting upon any measure
as provided for in this chapter shall set forth in full the title
thereof and state briefly the general nature thereof, and thereafter
in larger type contain the words, 'Shall the Proposed Ordinance be
Adopted?' "Yes'or Not."
Amend Sec. 176 to read as follows:
"Sec. 176. The Corporation Counsel shall be elected by
the Council on the second Tuesday in July of each and every even
numbered year, beginning with the year 1914. His term of office
shall begin on the second Tuesday in August following his election,
and it shall be for two years and until his successor shall be
elected and qualified."
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Amend Sec. 180 to read as follows :
"Sec. 180. In all cases of the imposition of any fine
or penalty, or of the rendering of any judgment by the judge of
the Municipal Court, pursuant to any ordinance or law of the
said City of Saint Paul or pursuant to any provision of the Charter
of said City, as a punishment for any offense,l or for the viola-
tion of any law or ordinance as aforesaid, the offender shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
punished by a fine or imprisonment not in excess of the maximum
fine or imprisonment specified by State law for misdemeanor offenses,
and if the sentence provides for imprisonment,' the offender shall
be forthwith committed to the workhouse provided jointly by said
City and the County of Ramsey or to the City jail or to the County
jail as the judge of the Municipal Court imposing such sentence
shall determine, and from and after the time of arrest of any person
or persons for any offense whatsoever until the time of trial or
hearing, the person or persons so arrested may;b.e imprisoned in the
common jail of Ramsey County, or in the City prison, or in the joint
City and County workhouse, and in all cases where any judge of the
Municipal Court is or may be authorized to commit any person or
persons for any cause by virtue of the provisions of the Charter
of said City, he may commit such person or persons to said joint
City and County workhouse."
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Amend Sec. 188 to read as follows:!
"Sec. 188. Said Commissioner of Finance may appoint
and at his pleasure may remove a Deputy Commissioner of Finance,
who shall perform such duties as the Commissioner of Finance may
prescribe. During the absence of the Commissioner of Finance from
the city, or his inability, for any reason, to discharge the duties
of his office, the Deputy Commissioner of Finance shall act in his
place and stead, and shall have the same powers and duties, and
the Commissioner of Finance and the sureties on his bond shall be
liable for the acts of the Deputy Commissioner ' of Finance the same
as if they were done by the Commissioner of Finance."
Delete Sec. 188(a) in its entirety.
Delete Sec. 189 in its entirety and substitute the fol-
lowing as Sec. 189:
"Sec. 189. The Commissioner of Finance shall deposit
daily, to the credit of the City of Saint Paul, subject to payment
and withdrawal upon demand, all moneys and funds then in the custody
of said Commissioner, in such incorporated national or state bank
or banks as shall be designated therefor by the Sinking Fund Committee
which hereby is charged with the duty of designating such bank or
banks therefor with proper regard to the financial strength and
security of the same, provided that no bank shall be so designated
therefor which shall have been reorganized on the basis of an exten-
sion of time for the payment of the deposits or other of its obliga-
• .tions until such deposits and other obligations shall have been
fully paid.
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Said Committee shall determine and - prescribe the maxi-
mum amount to be maintained on deposit in each such case and in
each such designated depository bank and shall direct said
Commissioner, from time to time, as to the bank or banks therefor
and the amount or amounts of such deposits of such moneys and f unds
of said City or those of any such department, bureau or activity
of the same and shall direct said Commissioner, from time to time,
as to the bank or banks from which withdrawals'of sudzdeposits
shall be made for the payment of maturing obligations of said City
and the amount of each such withdrawal.
Before any such moneys or funds of said City or those
of any such department, bureau or activity of the same shall be
deposited, by said Commissioner, in any such designated bank, the
subject bank, to secure such moneys or funds, shall deposit with
said Commissioner Bonds or other Direct Obligations of the United
States ,of America of a market value equal to at least $110 for every
$100 of the aforesaid determined and prescribed .maximum amount of such
moneys or funds for maintenance on deposit therein, accompanied by
an assignment of such Bonds or Direct Obligations to said City,
which assignment shall recite that such depository bank shall pay over
to said City or its order, on demand, free of exchange or dher charge,
all moneys or funds deposited by said Commissioner therein at any
I time during the period such collateral shall be deposited and to pay
the interest thereon, when due, at the agreed rate; and that in case
• of any default on the part of such depository bank, the governing body
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of said City shall have full power and authority to sell such col-
lateral or so much thereof as shall be necessary to produce the full
amount due said City from such depository bank and to pay over any
surplus to such depository bank or its assigns.
Provided that any and all Bonds or other Direct-1Obligations
of the United States of America, in any such case, deposited with
and assigned to said.City as and for such collateral security, by
any such depository may be deposited, in behalf of said City, for
safekeeping, with and in the custody of the Federal Reserve Bank
for the region or area- embracing said City or any other authorized
national or state depository, the depository, in each case, to issue
a receipt therefor reflective of the transaction and its custodial
status in respect of the subject of the deposit, including, among
other things, provisions for its remittance of interest on the subject
collateral as received by it, from time to time, to the depository
bank concerned, the receipt in each such case to be executed and
delivered in two counterparts, one whereof shall be filed with the
Comptroller of said City, as ex officio Secretary of the Sinking Fund
Committee, and the other whereof shall•be filed f with said Commissioner
of Finance, as the Treasurer of said City.
Provided further that any and all Bonds or other Direct
Obligations of the United States of America, in any such case,
deposited with and assigned to said City, as and for such collateral
security, by any such depository, shall be retained therefor by said
- 0 City in its Treasury, and said City Comptroller, as ex officio
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Secretary of the Sinking Fund Committee, and such Commissioner of
Finance, as the Treasurer of said City, shall provide for the re-
mittance, from time to time, to the depository bank concerned, of
accrued interest as received or matured interest coupons on account
of =the subject oollateral deposit."
• Delete Section 190 in its entirety.',
.Amend Sec. 191 to read as follows:
"Sec. 191. The Sinking Fund Committee shall, whenever,
in its judgment, the greater security of the City's money requires
it, direct the Commissioner of Finance to withdraw money from any
City.depository bank and deposit it in another bank, subject to the
limitations aforesaid, and the Commissioner of Finance shall comply
at once with all directions and instructions of the Committee given
in pursuance hereof. Whenever the Commissioner of Finance shall
make a deposit in any one of such banks the depository bank shall
forthwith transmit to the Comptroller a duplicate deposit slip ade-
quately evidencing the subject deposit; and the Commissioner of
Finance shall forthwith deliver to the Comptroller an itemized
statement of the sources from which the moneys so deposited were
received; and it shall be the duty of the Comptroller so to keep
the accounts of his office as to show the amount belonging to each
fund on deposit, and the bank or banks holding the money of the City
or any department, bureau or activity thereof."
Amend Sec. 200 to read as follows:
"Sec.- 200. It shall be the duty of the Comptroller not
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later than September 1 of each year to transmit to the City Council
detailed estimates in writing of the expenses 'of the City for the next
succeeding fiscal year and of the revenue necessary to meet said
expenses. Said Comptroller shall have full power and authority to
require from each head of an administrative department of the City
of Saint Paul or . otther person in control of expenditures, and from
the Board of Education, specific estimates, in,such form as said
Comptroller may prescribe, of the expenses of such department for
- the next succeeding fiscal year, the expenditures of the department
for the six months immediately preceding June 30 next preceding,
and f,or the last preceding fiscal year. Said estimates shall be
placed in the hands'of the Comptroller prior to August 1 of each
year. Said estimates shall be so itemized as to show clearly the
amounts to be raised for each purpose necessary to carry on the
business of the City. At the same time as presenting said estimates
of expenditures, the Comptroller shall also submit estimates of
probable revenue from taxation, probable rate of direct property
taxes necessary, and probable amount of revenue to be received by
the City from sources other than direct taxation for the next
succeeding fiscal year.
In said report of budget estimates for the year 1964 and
annually thereafter the Comptroller shall divide said estimates into
the following funds:
1. City Officers' Salaries
• From which shall be paid the salaries of all officers of
the City of Saint Paul elected by the electors of Saint
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2. Mayor's Office Administration
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
.expenses of the Mayor's office including the Mayor's
contingent fund.
2.01 City Planning
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the City Planning Bureau.- _
2.02 Civil Defense
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the Civil Defense Bur--au. -nt
2.03 Fair Employment Practice Commission
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and ex-
penses of the Fair Employment Practice Commission's
. office.
2.04 Publicity Bureau
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the City Publicity Bureau.
3. , Corporation Counsel
. From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the Corporation Counsel's office.
4. ;City Clerk - Records
:From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the City Clerk's Records office.
4,,01 City Clerk - Registrations
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
0 expenses of the City Clerk's Registrations office.
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• 5. Commissioner of Finance
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the Finance Commissioner's office.
6. Commissioner of Public Safety
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the Department of Public Safety not
properly chargeable to funds 6.01, 6.02, 6.03 or
6.04.
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6.01 Police
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the Police Department.
6.02 Fire
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the Fire Department.
6.03 Police and Fire Alarm
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses necessary for the operation of the police
and fire alarm system.
6.04 Health
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the Bureau of Health.
7. Commissioner of Public Works
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the Public Works Commissioner's office,
including the Bureau of Engineers and Traffic Control
• and Parking Meter Service.
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7.01 Street Maintenance and Repair
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses for street maintenance and repair charged
to City revenues under this Charter.
7.02 Sewer Maintenance and Repair
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses for sewer maintenance and repair charged
to City revenues under this Charter.
7.03 Street and Sewer Cleaning
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses for street and sewer cleaning, weed cutting,
garbage disposal, rodent control and related
activities. i
7.04 Bridge Building and Repair
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses for construction and repair of bridges
charged to City revenues under this Charter.
8. Public Schools
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses for the operation and maintenance of the
public school system as authorized by this Charter
and State law. School bond or note maturities and
interest cost on outstanding indebtedness for school
purposes should be paid from Funds 2%. 29 a rd 30.
9. Commissioner of Libraries, Auditorium, and Civic
Buildings
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From which shall be paid the salaries and expense
of the office of the Commissioner of Libraries,
Auditorium, and Civic Buildings not properly charge-
able to Funds 9.01, 9.02, 9.03 or 9.04.
9.01 Public Library
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the public library system.
9.02 Auditorium
From which shall be paid those salaries, wages and
expenses for the operation and maintenance of the
Auditorium as financed by the receipts of such department.
9.03 Stadia
From which shall be paid those salaries, wages and
expenses for the operation and maintenance of Stadia
as authorized by this Charter.
9.04 Civic Educational Center
From which shall be paid-those salaries, wages and ex-
penses for th6 operation and maintenance of the Civic
Educational Center as authorized by this Charter.
11. Commissioner of Public Utilities
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and ex-
penses of the Public Utilities Commissioner's office
and bureaus under said Commissioner's direction and
control, unless provided for by more: specif is funds.
11.01 Public Lighting
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and expenses
for public lighting not chargeable to a more specific fund.
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12. Water Department
• From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the Water Department as financed by the
receipts of such department.
13. City Comptroller
From which shall be paid salaries, wages and expenses
of the Comptroller's office.
13.01 Civil Service
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From which shall be paid salaries, wages and expenses
of the Civil Service Bureau.
14. Municipal Court
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and ex-
penses for the operation of the municipal courts.
15. Purchasing Agent
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses of the office of the Purchasing Agent.
16. Council Investigation and Research Bureau
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
_expenses of the Council Investigation and Research
Bureau.
18. Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and Public
Buildings
From which shall -be paid the salaries, wages and ex-
penses of the Department of Parks and Recreation and
Public Buildings not properly chargeable to Funds
18.01 and 18.02.
• ' 18.01 Public Parks and Recreation
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and
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expenses for the operation and maintenance of the
public parks system and all public recreation activities
and facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department
of Parks and Recreation and Public Buildings.
18.02 Public Buildings'
From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and ex-
penses of the City Architect's office and bureaus
under his jurisdiction.
19. Elections
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From which shall be paid the salaries, wages and ex-
penses incidental to the conduct of all elections
held in the City.
20. Board of Public Welfare
From which shall be paid the City's portion of the sala-
ries, wages and expenses of the Board of Public Welfare.
21. City Hall and Court House
From which shall be paid the City's portion of the
salaries, wages and expenses for the operation and
maintenance of the City Hall and Court House.
22. Detention and Corrections Authority
From which shall be paid the City's share of the
salaries, wages,"'and expenses of the Detention and
Corrections Authority.
25. Employee Benefits
From which shall be paid employee benefits such as
(but not limited to): Police Relief Association,
Firemen's Relief Association, Health Relief
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Association, Public Employees Retirement Associa-
tion, health, accident and hospitalization insurance,
severance pay, and unemployment compensation.
26. Judgment and Compromise
From which shall be paid any docketed and unpaid
final judgments against the City and all disputed
claims which are compromised and settled before
judgment.
27. Local Improvement Aid
From which shall be paid the City's share of local
improvements, state highway aids, and other local
improvement aids received but not chargeable to
other funds.
28. Interest
From which shall be paid the amounts necessary to
meet all interest payments due or payable by said
City.
29. Sinking Fund
A sinking fund or funds may be established to pro-
vide for the accumulation of sums for payment of
bonds at maturity. The City may place such sums
in such fund or funds from year to year as will be
sufficient to pay off the bonds at maturity.
30. Redemption of Bonds and Notes
• From which shall be paid the principal of any certificate
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of indebtedness, whether against current, general
or special assessments, maturing within the year,
which is not otherwise provided for, and also the
principal of any City obligations to mature within
the year which cannot be paid for out of a sinking
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fund and which are not to be refunded or otherwise
renewed.
35. General Fund
From which is shall be paid the salaries, wages and
expenses in connection with the government of the
City of Saint Paul or any of its departments, bureaus,
or activities, charged to City revenue and not pro-
vided for in the funds hereinabove named. Said
fund shall be sub - divided in said report and esti-
mates 6f said comptroller and specific amounts
therein shall be provided for specific purposes,
so far as is practicable.
Throughout this section, the whole-number, preceding the
decimal point, -s•hall.control transfers of funds. With the ap-
proval of the Comptroller, transfers may be made by the City
Council among all funds carrying the same whole humber.
Amend Sec. '202 to read as follows:
"Sec. 202. Upon the receipt of the Comptroller's report,
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the Council shall cause the same to be published once in the offi-
cial paper of the City. Five days after such publication said
Council shall hold public hearings from day to day for at least
ten days but not more than twenty days, at such times and in such
manner as the Council may prescribe, at which all residents of the
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City of Saint Paul desiring to be heard may be heard in reference
to any of said estimates or any item thereof. In this connection
the Council is given full authority to establish under the direc-
tion of the City Clerk an exhibit of diagrams, models or other
devises useful in explaining budget items to the public."
Amend Sec. 203 to read as follows:
"Sec. 203. Upon the completion of said hearings, and
not later than October 1 of each year, the Council shall „ by
resolution to be adopted by four affirmative votes of all members
elected to the City Council, fix the amount of expenditures in
dollars that may be made by the several departments, bureaus or
activities of the City government of the City of Saint Paul, in-
cluding the Board of Education, during the next following fiscal
year. In fixing such expenditures, said Council shall specify as
to the expenditure from each of the funds in this Chapter provided
and shall make appropriations in fullest practical detail designating
the purpose of each expenditure as specifically as may be. In so.
fixing expenditures, the Council shall follow closely as to items
the estimates of the City Comptroller. In determining said expendi-
tures, said Council shall not increase by more than ten per cent
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any fund beyond the estimates of said Comptroller, and it shall not
increase the aggregate of all appropriations more than three per
cent above the estimates of said Comptroller.', Said Council may
reduce any item or the aggregate of all items as much as it may
deem consistent with public interests. If the'Council shall fail
to fix before October 10 of any year the amount of expenditures
for the next succeeding year, then the amount of City expenditures
for the succeeding year shall.be the same as the expenditures for
the year in which such failure shall occur."
Amend Sec. 204 to read as follows:
"Sec. 204. The Mayor shall have power to veto any item
or items in said resolution without affecting the validity of any
other item or items, and it shall require five affirmative votes
of the members elected to the Council to pass said item over said
vet-o. I"
Amend Sec. 205 to read as follows:
"Sec. 205. No department, bureau, activity, bo.ard or
officer of said City shall have power or authority to expend any
of the public moneys, or to incur any liability on behalf of the
City in any fiscal year in excess of any fund or, of any item of any
fund as fixed by the Council except as hereinafter provided. Viola-
tion of this section shall be deemed malfeasance in office on the
part of the person or persons violating itrand shall make such person
personally liable to the other contracting parties for the excess
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for which said person has attempted to bind said City."
Amend Sec. 207 to read as follows:
'!Sec. 207. The Council may ` ordinance provide for
retaining for specific purposes by the various departments, bureaus
or activities of the government of the City of Saint Paul of balances
in the various funds at the end of the year after all obligations
and purposes for which the funds were appropriated have been provided
for.. Said provision fEwzetaining said balances shall be unif orm f or all
departments, bureaus and activities of the City government. Regard-
less of other provisions of this .Cfiarter the Council may by ordinance
provide for the retaining by each department proceeds from the sale
of any City property originally purchased from 'f unds under its juris-
diction and used for a specific department use."
Amend Sec. 209 to read as f ollows :
"Sec. 209. All unencumbered balances remaining in the
budget funds as defined in Section 200 which are not reappropriated
by the Council at the end of the year shall be credited to the surplus
account of the General Fund."
Amend Sec. 210 to read as follows:
"Sec. 210. The Comptroller shall include in his report
of estimates of City expenditures to the Council, as heretofore
provided for, estimates of the probable receipts within the next
succeeding year from sources other than general City taxation and
special assessments, or where money is received into the City
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Treasury for some specific use, and shall detail in such report
how said estimates may be apportioned to the funds 'in this Chapter
.above provided for-."
Amend Sec. 212 to read as follows:
"Sec. 212. After the adoption of the budget by reso-
lution, not later than October 1 of each year as provided in Sec-
tion 203 of this Charter, the Council shall on or before October
10 of each year adopt a tax levy resolution. To achieve this end
the resolution shall show the Gross Budget less a summary of other
sources of revenue to arrive at the amount which must be provided
by an ad,valorem tax on all taxable real and personal property
within �th.baCity.�.bf 'Saint Paul."
Amend Sec 217 to read as follows:
"Sec. 217. The Council shall have power by five af-
firmative votes of all its members to authorize the issuance of
bonds for the purpose of refunding bonds previously issued as the
same become due if the funds in the sinking fund properly applicable
to such maturing bonds are not sufficient to pay and discharge the
same, and also for the purpose of creating or preserving a permanent
improvement revolving fund, or funds, as provided for in this Charter.
All refunding bonds so issued shall be negotiated by the sinking
fund committee, hereinafter provided for, and no part of any issue ~
of bonds, either for refunding other bonds or creating or preserv-
ing a permanent improvement revolving fund or funds, shall be sold
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or used in exchange for bonds of a previous issue, at less price
than the full face value thereof with accrued interest, nor shall
any bond or any proceeds of any bonds issued for refunding or re-
newing bonds of a previous issue be used for any other purpose
than of retiring or renewing such prior bonds. And no bond or any
part of the proceeds of any bond issued for the purpose of creating
or preserving a permanent improvement revolving fund, or funds, shall
be used for any other purpose than the specific purpose for which
the same may be issued. No other bonds shall be issued unless the
Council by five affirmative votes of all its members shall vote to
issue the same and unless the question of whether such bonds shall
be issued shall be submitted to and approve -d by a majority of the
electors voting upon the question at a general!or special election.
The total net debts of the City created by the issuance
of bonds shall not exceed ten (10) per cent of , the full and true
valuation of the taxable real and personal property within the City
as based upon the last preceding report by the'County Auditor, as
required by law, containing the total full and true valuation of
each class of taxable real and personal property within the City.
In calculating the net debt, each of the following obligations shall
be deducted from the City's gross debt:
(1) Obligations issued for improvements which are payable
wholly or partly from the proceeds of special assessments levied
upon property specially benefited thereby; including those which
• are general obligations of the City, if the City is entitled to
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reimbursement in whole or in part from the proceeds of the special
assessments.
(2) Warrants or orders-having no definite or fixed
maturity.
(3) Obligations payable wholly from the income from
revenue - producing conveniences.
(4) Obligations issued to create or'maintain a permanent
improvement revolving fund.
(5 ) Obligations issued for the acquis.ition, and better-
ment, of public waterworks systems, and public lighting, heating,
or power systems, and of any combination thereof or for any other
public convenience from which a revenue is or may be derived.
(6) Amount of all money and the face value of all securi-
ties held as`a sinking fund for the extinguishment of obligations
other than those deductible under this subdivision.
(7) All other .obligations which under the provisions of
law authorizing their issuance are not to be included in computing
the net debt of the City.6f Saint Paul."
Amend Sec. 2,24 to read as follows:
"Sec. 2240 All bonds issued by the City shall be signed
by the Mayor and countersigned'by the Comptroller and have thereto
attached the corporate seal of the City of Saint Paul attested to
by the City Clerk. Coupons issued with ainy such bond may be
authenticated by the engraved signature of the Mayor and the
• countersignature of the Comptroller. Except as otherwise provided
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by law the form of bonds issued by the City shall be determined by
the Sinking Fund Committee with the advice of the Corporation Counsel.
By resolution the City Council may provide that one of
the above named officers shall sign such bonds,manually and that
the other signatures may be printed, lithographed, stamped or en-
graved thereon. The seal of the City may be impressed on each bond
or a facsimile thereof may be printed, lithographed or engraved on
each bond as determined by a resolution of the "City Council."
Amend Sec. 225 to read as follows:
"Sec. 225. As soon as the tax levy for any year has
been transmitted to the County Auditor, the Council may, by ordinance to
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be' adopted -by�if our affirmative votes of all its members, cause to be
issued and sold by the Sinking Fund Committee certificates of in-
debtedness in anticipation of the collection of;taxes for any of
the funds named in the tax levy, but the total amount of the prin-
cipal of all such certificates issued in any one year for any fund
shall not exceed eighty per cent of the amount included in the tax
levy of the same year for such fund." I
Amend Sec. 240 to read as f ollows : 4
"Sec. 240. Upon the written application of three or
more interested owners of property which may be subject to an assess-
ment for benefits for an improvement or improvements set out in such
application, or upon the written proposal therefor by any Councilman,
the Council, by a resolution to be known as a 'Preliminary order,'
may order and direct the Commissioner of Public Works to investigate
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the necessity for or the desirability of any such improvement or
improvements set out in such preliminary order, the nature, extent
and estimated cost of each such improvement and the total thereof,
a plan, profile or sketch of each thereof, together with such other
data or information as the Council may desire or require, and report
the same to the Commissioner of`Finance. The said Commissioner of
Finance shall thereupon forthwith investigate and determine what
lots, parts or parcels of land or real property may be assessed
benefits to defray the cost of such improvements or each of said
improvements, the total estimated amount of such assessment for
each improvement and the total of all improvements, and report the
same to the Council together with the report made to him by the
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said Commissioner of Public Works."
Amend Sec. 257 to read as f ollows :
"Sec. 257. Where the cost and expenses of any of the
following improvements, viz: a change of grade, condemnation of
any land or an easement therein,,does not exceed the sum of Seven
Hundred and Fifty ($750) Dollars, thessame shall be paid out of
the general funds ; of the City." ,
Amend Sec. 259 to read as follows:
"Sec. 259. The cost of any improvement and the assess-
ment levied and assessed and against any real-property under the
provisions of this Charter shall be a perpetual, paramount and
continuing lien upon the real estate upon which the same may be
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imposed from and after the confirmation of such assessment as herein-
before provided and until the same is;paid, provided, however, that
as between grantor and grantee, vendor and vendee and mortgagor
and mortgagee, the lien of such assessment shall attach as follows:
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(1) Where such assessment is payable in one installment,
then on and from the day of the publication by the Commissioner of
Finance of a notice as hereinafter provided, for its payment.
(2) When such assessment may be paid in two-or more
installments, then the lien of the first installment shall attach
on and from the day of the publication by the. Commissioner of Finance
of a notice, as hereinafter provided, for its payment, and the lien
of each subsequent installment shall attach on the first Monday of
January of the year for which such installment ! is certified for
collection to the County Auditor of Ramsey County by the Commis-
sioner of Finance.
The lien of such assessment or of any installment of such
assessment shall be of equal rank with the lien of the State for
taxes which have or may be levied upon said property under the general
'�1aws of the State, and the general rules of law as to priority of
tax liens shall apply equally to the lien of such assessments or
installments thereof. It shall apply equally to such Liens for
general taxes with the same force and effect as,though, all of the liens
aforesaid and all the taxes and the assessments�and installments
aforesaid were of the same general character and imposed for the
same purpose and by the same authority without regard to the priority
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in point of time of the attaching of either of said liens, and a
sale or perfecting of title under either shall not bar or extinguish
the other. The enforcement of the liens of any installment shall
not operate to give the same superiority over subsequent unpaid
installments. No assessment or sale made pursuant to this Charter
shall extinguish or affect the lien of the City under an assess-
ment previous to the adoption of this Charter."
Amend Sec. 275 to read as follows:
"1275. The Council shall have power and may provide
sufficient funds by appropriation and tax levy therefor for the
purpose of sprinkling, oiling and flushing of streets and other
places.
The levy and collection of said taxes shall in no way
prevent the making and collection of assessment's for such sprinkling,
oiling and flushing and cost of any equipment, and all sums realiz-
able from such sources shall be used to pay for such equipment and
the cost of such sprinkling, oiling and flushing in advance of the
collection of the annual assessment therefor.
�. Delete Section 275(a) and substitute therefor the following
Sec. 275(a): .
11275(x). The Commissioner of Public Works shall keep
accurate account of the cost, including inspection, of all sprinkling,
oiling and flushing,as nearly as the same can be ascertained, in
front of the lots or parcels of land fronting on said improvement.
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Not later than the first day of November of each year, the said, `
Commissioner of Public Works shall report to the Comptroller and-
deliver to the County Auditor of Ramsey County a copy of said report
-� showing the total cost of such sprinkling, oiling and flushing, to -,
gether with a-certification of sprinkling, oiling and flushing rates.
On or before November 10 of each year, the Comptroller shall certify
by resolution to the Council the report from the Commissioner of
Public Works showing the total cost of such sprinkling, oiling and
flushing."
Delete Section 275(b) and substitute therefor the follow-
ing Sec. 275(b)
"Sec. 275(b). The County Auditor shall, after ratification
of said report by, the Council and at its ,d'ir.ection, proceed to assess
the cost of such sprinkling, oiling and flushing and the cost of making
and collecting such assessment upon each lot, part or parcel of land
fronting on such improvement upon the basis of the adjusted lineal
frontage of such parcels, all in accordance with the report of the
Commissioner of Public Works and the amount of sprinkling, oiling and
flushing done adjacent to said premises, at rates certified by the
Commissioner of Public Works. Upon completion of the assessment by
the County Auditor, the County Treasurer of Ramsey County shall pro-
ceed to collect and enforce the collection of the same in the same
manner as provided herein for the collection and enforcement of the
collection of assessment for other local improvements, and render
due account thereof in the same manner and at the same time.
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All moneys so collected and all interest, penalties and other moneys
accruing thereto shall be kept in a separate fund and shall not other-
wise be used except to pay, from time to time, the cost of such
sprinkling, oiling, flushing and other expenses connected therewith
in advance of collection of an assessment therefor."
Add a new section to be inserted directly following the
above Section 275(b), to be known as Section 275(c) and to read as
follows:
"Sec. 275(c). The cost of sprinkling, oiling and flushing
property adjacent to or abutting exempt or tax - forfeited property as
determined by the County Auditor shall be assessed in the same manner
as provided in Section 275(b), and the assessment delivered to the
Comptroller on or before the next April 1. The Comptroller shall,
in preparing the next fiscal budget, include such portion of the above
assessment that is by law immune from collection."
Add a new section to be inserted directly following the
above Section 275(c), to be known as Section 275(d) and to read as
f ollows :
"Sec. 275(d). The Council, upon recommendation by the
Commissioner of Public Works, shall by resolution describe and desig-
nate those streets, alleys, thoroughfares or public highways or other
public or private places which shall be sprinkled, oiled and flushed
under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works."
Delete the present Section 276 and substitute therefor
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"Sec. 276. The Council shall have the power to establish
and maintain, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works,
a plant or outfit, including necessary vehicles and other material
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and equipment, for the sprinkling, oiling and flushing of streets
and other public places. The cost of maintaining, establishing and
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enlarging such plant, outfit, apparatus, material and equipment shall
be deemed a part of the cost of such sprinkling, oiling and flushing,
for which assessment may be made."
Delete Section 277 in its entirety.
Amend Sec. 280 to read as follows :
"Sec. 280. It shall be the duty of ',the Commissioner of
Public Works annually to cause proposals to be published in the offi-
cial paper, in the same manner and for the same time as for other pub-
lic improvements, for the construction, relaying and repair of such
sidewalks as may be ordered built, relaid or repaired by the Council
prior to the first day of November of each year.
Such proposals may provide for onesor. more contracts for the
construction, repair and relaying of sidewalks of brick, stone, cement
and any other material or materials. The work shall be let and placed
under contract as other improvements for which an assessment shall be
levied.
Whenever the Council.shall pass a final order for the con-
struction, repair or relaying of any sidewalk, the Commissioner of
Public Works shall transmit a copy of such order to the contractor
iwho shall proceed to comply therewith without unnecessary delay within
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thirty (30) days after the delivery of such final order, except
as hereinafter provided. The final order of the Council shall
describe definitely the property in front of wh.ich such sidewalk
shall be constructed, relaid or repaired as the case may be."
Amend Sec. 281 to read.-,as follows:
"Sec. 281. The said Commissioner of Public Works
shall, as soon as practicable after the construction, repair
or relaying of such sidewalks, report to the Commissioner of
Finance the cost thereof including inspection thereof, as nearly
as he can ascertain the same, and the said Commissioner of
Finance shall proceed to assess such cost and inspection and the
necessary cost of collecting such assessment upon lots and parcels
of land benefited by said improvement upon the ,basis of the lineal
frontage of such lot or parcel of land, and thereafter the pro-
cedure for perfecting such assessment and the collection and the
enforcement thereof shall be the same as in the case of other
assessments."
Amend Sec. 291 to read as follows:
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"Sec. 291. In case of emergency, as determined by the
Council expressed by resolution of the said body, or by a resolu-
tion of the Board of Education in matters involving the public
schools, where failure to act promptly will work an injury to
the City or to the schools, the Purchasing Agent, with the written
consent of the Comptroller and Mayor, or, in the case of school
matters,with the written consent of the Comptroller and the
Superintendent of Schools, may purchase supplies or services or
rent equipment with or without operators thereof to any amount
without advertisement and competitive bids."
-- Amend Sec. 297 to read as follows:
"Sec. 297. All contracts and purchases of supplies are
hereby divided into the following classes:
(a) Informal Purchases. All purchases or contracts under
the sum of Five Hundred ($500) Dollars shall be made in such manner
and from such persons as the Purchasing Agent may determine.
(b) Informal Bids. All contracts and purchases of
Five Hundred ($500) Dollars and not to exceed Two Thousand ($2,000)
Dollars shall be made upon such informal bids or proposals, not less
than two, as the Purchasing Agent may procure or may be filed with
him, and shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder by the
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Purchasing Agent., Notice of such proposed purchases shall be posted
in the office of the Purchasing Agent for not less than one day.
(c) Formal Bids. All purchases or contracts in excess
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of the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000) shall be made only upon
competitive sealed bids and after advertisement therefor in the official
newspaper for at least once a week for two successive weeks. Such
advertisement shall state the kind and quantity of articles desired
and the quality thereof either in full or by reference to the standard
specifications, the time and places for the filing and opening of
bids. All formal bids shall be made on forms provided by the Purchasing
Agent, shall state the price, the quantity and quality of each
article bid on,,and shall be sealed, but may be as to one or all
of the articles named in the advertisement and shall also be filed
at the time and place therein designated. All�bids shall be publicly
opened by the Purchasing Agent at the time and place named in the
advertisement in the presence of the Mayor and the Comptroller .
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or their representatives and such other persons as may be present;
in the case of school purchases, bids shall be opened in the presence'
of the Comptroller and of the Board of Education or their'representatives.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section�-,3�20 or
other provisions of this Charter, the Purchasing Agent may waive
th,e requirements for a performance bond and the. requirements for
a formal contract on all purchases of supplies where the total
purchase does not exceed the sum of Two Thousand ($2,000) Dollars."
Amend Sec. 298 to read as follows:
"Sec. 298. The Purchasing agent may reject all bids and
that of any persons, with the consent of the mayor, or, in the case
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of school purchases; the Board of Education, who has failed to per-
form a previous contract with the City. However, the Purchasing
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Agent shall not be required to reject bids containing alterations
or erasures unless such alterations or erasures destroy the legibility
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of the bid. In case of the rejection of all bids, the Council, or,
in the case of school purchases, the Board of Education, may authorize
the Purchasing Agent either to reladvertise or purchase such article
or articles in such other manner,1subject to this Charter, as it may
prescribe."
Amend Sec. 304 to read !as follows:
"Sec. 304. (a) Sketch Plans. Whenever the erection of
any building is contemplated either by the Council or any Commissioner,
then the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and Public Buildings,
upon written request, shall prepare, as soon as practicable, any
and all sketch plans and other data therefor.
(b) Complete Plans and Specifications. When any such im-
provement has been authorized, the Council shall direct the Commis-
sioner of Parks and Recreation and'Public Buildings to prepare or
cause to be prepared complete plans, estimates.of cost and specifica-
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tons therefor. Under the direction of the Commissioner aforesaid,
the City Architect shall frame plans and specifications and make esti-
mates of cost for all public buildings and superintend the construction
thereof. The Council may, however, authorize the said Commissioner to
employ a consulting or designing architect or architectural firm to
aid in such work at such compensation as it shall fix. All plans and
specifications shall be prepared and approved.in the manner provided
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for in the chapter on Parks and Recreation and Public Buildings
in this Charter, as modified by this section.'
(c) Construction of Buildings. (1) By Contract. The
committee on public buildings shall direct the Purchasing Agent
to advertise for proposals in accordance with the provisions of
this Charter for alternative proposals: (1) upon the basis for the
construction of said building ixed
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bidder, a.nd (2) upon the basis of the construction of the said
building by the said bidder upon force or cost account, which
latter bid shall contain the costlthereof as estimated by the
bidder and the per cent of the cost demanded by the bidder for
construction and superintendence. It is hereby made the duty of
the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and Public Buildings to
submit an estimate for such construction work.
Subject to the approval of the Council, the said committee
authorized by this Charter to open said bids shall award the contract
for such improvement to the lowest responsible bidder either upon
the basis of a fixed price or upon the basis of force cr cost account
and percentage, or it may reject all bids and .re- advertise',, or it
may recommend that the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and
Public Buildings perform such work.
(2) Construction of Buildings - -By City Department. When-
ever in the judgment of the Council-the construction of any building
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can be more economically done by the City, either before or after the
submission of proposals therefor, it shall direct the Commissioner
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of Parks and Recreation and Public Buildings to do such work for the
department requiring the same upon the basis of force or cost account,
but no percentage for construction shall be allowed.
(d) The Board of Education shall have authority to retain
the services of ind'ependent architects, engineers, consultants, or
architectural,engineering or consulting firms for the estimate of
costs, preparation of plans for the erection,'alteration or repair
of buildings, and for the superintendence of construction thereof.
Services of such independent experts, firms, or of the Department
of Parks and Recreation and Public Buildings personnel, performed for
said Board, shall be paid from the school fund and all plans adopted
for use of the Board shall first be approved as to conformance with
City ordinances by the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and Public
Buildings. All proceedings for the obtaining and opening of bids and
letting contracts for such, improvements shall be subject to the ap-
proval of the Board of Education. Such contracts shall be awarded
to the lowest responsible bidder and the Board shall have power to
reject any and all bids and direct re- advertisement therefor."
Amend Sec. 305 to read as follows:
"Sec. 305. Any and all repairs, replacements or altera-
tionsnto any building or buildings, the,cost of which shall exceed
the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000) or the work of which shall
not be done and performed by the employees and under the direction
of any officer or department of the City shall be made in the
manner hereinbefore prescribed for new construction work."
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Amend Sec. 310 to read as follows:
"Sec. 310. Unless otherwise herein provided plans and
specifications for buildings to be erected for the City of Saint
Paul or any department, bureau or activity thereof shall be prepared
under the direction of the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and
Public Buildings; all plans and specifications for engineering work
shall be prepared under the direction of the Commissioner of Public
Works. All other plans and specifications shall be prepared as in
this Charter otherwise provided, or where not provided for shall be
prepared as the Council shall direct." '
Amend Sec. 324 to read as follows:
"Sec. 324. There is hereby created a Department of Public
Works which shall be composed of the bureaus of Engineers, Construc-
tion and Repair, Bridges, Sanitation, and General Administration
and subject to the Charter and - enactments in pursuance thereof,
the same shall be under the full and complete control, direction
and management ,,of the Commissioner of Public Works.
The Commissioner of Public Works shall appoint a'Deputy
Commissioner of Public Works and may place in his hands any responsi-
bility or function other than legislative duties in connection with
the discharge of official duties which may be placed by law upon
said,Commissioner, but he shall be responsible to the City of Saint
Paul for all official acts whatever of said Deputy Commissioner, or
any other acts which may affect the interests of said City, it
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Amend Sec. 325 to read as follows:
"Sec. 325. The said Commissioner of Public Works shall
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be the chief engineering officer of the City and,'subject to the
Charter and the enactments in pursuance thereof, shall name and
appoint the following officers and employees who shall be and
constitute the Bureau of Engineers:
A chief engineer. f or a term of two years from and after
his appointment and until his successor is appointed and qualified.
Such engineers, stir „veyors, draughtsmen and other employees
as the Council, by -an administrative ordinance, shall provide and
at such compensation as it shall fix.”
,Delete Section 335 in its entirety.
Delete Section.336 in its entirety.
Delete Section 337 in its entirety.
Amend Sec. 340 to read as follows:
"Sec. 340. Every prisoner sentenced from Municipal
Court confined in a penal institution of the City of Saint Paul or
Ramsey County or in an institution operated by the Joint Detention
and Corrections Authority of the City;:, of Saint Paul and the County
of Ramsey, or being in the lawful custody,of an officer or other
person of such institution, who shall escape from any such insti-
tution, or shall damage any such institution with intent to escape
therefrom, or who shall attempt by force or violence or in any other
way to escape from any such institution, whether such escape be
• effected or not, upon conviction thereof before the Municipal
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Court of said City, shall be punished by confinement in the Joint
City and County Workhouse for a term not exceeding double the term
for which such person was' so sentenced, to commence from and after
the expiration of his or her former sentence."
Delete Section 348 in its entirety.
Delete Section 355 in its entirety.
Amend Sec. 356 to read as f ollows
"Sec. 356. The said'Commissioner shall be ex- officio the -
chief peace officer of the City, and subject to the Charter and en-
actments in pursuance thereof, shall appoint the officers and employees
hereinafter named, who, together with the Chief of Police appointed
as hereinafter provided, shall. constitute and be the Bureau of Police.
The Commissioner of Public Safety shall appoint the follow- `
ing designated officers and employees:
A Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety; t
A License Inspector;•
Such captains, lieutenants, detectives, patrolmen,.,
and such other employees as the Council, by an administra-
tive ordinance, shall provide, including one or more women
to be detailed for special work as police officers;'
Such surgeons and other employees as the Council shall
prescribe for the maintenance and operation of a police
ambulance; and
Such special policemen and watchmen as the Commissioner
ADdeems necessary.
The Commissioner may place in the hands of his Deputy
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any responsibility or function other than legislative duties in
connection with the discharge of official duties which may be placed
by law upon said Commissioner, but he shall be responsible to the
City of Saint Paul for all official acts whatever of said Deputy
Commissioner, or any other acts which may affect the interests of
said City.
The License Inspector shall be appointed for a term of
two years from and after his appointment and until his successor
is appointed; provided, however, that this appointment shall be
made with the approval of the Council.
Special policemen and watchmen shall serv6 without pay,
but all other appointees shall be paid such compensation as the
Council shall fix.
Such special policemen and watchmen who shall serve with-
out pay shall have all the authority conferred upon policemen in the
regular service and shall be subject to all the rules and regulations
prescribed for such special policemen and watchmen and shall not be
subject to the Civil Service provisions of this Charter."
Delete Section 356(f) in its entirety.
Amend Sec. 356(g) to read as follows:
"Sec. 356(8). The Chief of Police may be removed for
cause by four affirmative votes of the Council' at any time upon
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charges preferred by the Mayor or by any member of the Council:
The Bearings on said charges shall be held before the Council."
Amend Sec. 367 to read as follows:
• "Sec. 367. The said Commissioner of Public Safety shall
be ex- officio fire marshal and head of the Bureau of Fire Protection,
named, who shall be and constitute the Bureau of Fire Protection.
A Fire Chief for a term of two years from and after
his appointment and until his successor is appointed. The appoint-
ment of said Chief shall be subject to confirmation by the City
Council.
An Assistant Fire Chief for a term of two years from
and after his appointment and until his successor is appointed.
Such battalion chiefs, captains, lieutenants, engineer,
and other employees as the Council, by an administrative ordinance,
shall provide and at such compensation as it shall fix."
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Amend Sec. 371 to read as follows:
"Sec. 371. The Council by ordinance may impose further
powers and duties on the Bureau of Fire Protection, its officers
and employees, including establishment of the average hourly work
week. The manner of adjusting hours and shifts to provide this
average hourly work week shall be at the discretion of the Fire
Chief .
No employee shall be subject to call or perform any
duties in said department out of his regular hours established
pursuant to the provisions of this section; provided, however, that
the Fire-Chief may establish such rules as may be necessary to insure
the attendance of employees in case of a great conflagration or
unusual fire or fires, and in such cases said Chief may iequire
each and every employee to assist in the protection of life and
.s
and subject
to
the Charter
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shall name
and
appoint the
officers and employees hereinafter
named, who shall be and constitute the Bureau of Fire Protection.
A Fire Chief for a term of two years from and after
his appointment and until his successor is appointed. The appoint-
ment of said Chief shall be subject to confirmation by the City
Council.
An Assistant Fire Chief for a term of two years from
and after his appointment and until his successor is appointed.
Such battalion chiefs, captains, lieutenants, engineer,
and other employees as the Council, by an administrative ordinance,
shall provide and at such compensation as it shall fix."
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Amend Sec. 371 to read as follows:
"Sec. 371. The Council by ordinance may impose further
powers and duties on the Bureau of Fire Protection, its officers
and employees, including establishment of the average hourly work
week. The manner of adjusting hours and shifts to provide this
average hourly work week shall be at the discretion of the Fire
Chief .
No employee shall be subject to call or perform any
duties in said department out of his regular hours established
pursuant to the provisions of this section; provided, however, that
the Fire-Chief may establish such rules as may be necessary to insure
the attendance of employees in case of a great conflagration or
unusual fire or fires, and in such cases said Chief may iequire
each and every employee to assist in the protection of life and
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property, notwithstanding said employee has been relieved from
duty under the provisions of this act."
Amend Sec. 372 as follows:
"Sec. 372. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall
ex- officio be the chief health officer of the City and shall
appoint a health officer, who shall be a duly licensed Doctor of
Medicine of not less than five years' practice, for a term of six
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years at an annual salary to be set by the City Council. Such
health officer shall continue in office for a term of six years
after the expiration of a prior term unless the Council, not earlier
than ninety days nor later than sixty days before the expiration
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of such prior term, shall determine by four affirmative votes to
terminate his incumbency for the office on such expiration date.
If the Council elects to terminate the said incumbency, it shall be
the duty of the City Clerk to so notify the Commissioner of Public
Safety of such action by the Council.
There is hereby created the position of deputy health
officer which shall be set up under and pursuant to the Civil
Service system now existing in the City, and the Civil Service
Commissioner of the City shall include the said position as a Civil
Service position with proper title,and the said position of deputy
health officer shall be treated thereafter in all things as a Civil
Service position.
Said Commissioner of Public Safety shall appoint such
• other officers, physicians, inspectors, assistants, and other
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provide and at such compensation as it shall fix."
Delete Section 376 in its entirety.
Delete Section 377 in its entirety:
Delete Section 378 in its entirety:
Amend Sec. 386 to read as follows:
"Sec. 386. The Board of Education of the City of Saint
Paul shall consist of seven elective, non - salaried members. They
shall be elected for terms of office as provided in Section 5 and
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subsequent sections of this Charter."
Delete Section 395 in its entirety.
Amend the title of Chapter XIX W to read as follows:
"DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARIES, AUDITORIUM, AND CIVIC BUILDINGS."
Amend Sec. 398 to read as follows:
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"Sec. 398. There is hereby created a .Department of Libraries,
Auditorium, and Civic Buildings which shall be composed of the Libraries,
Auditorium, Civic Educational Center, Stadia, and such other civic
buildings as the Council shall designate. Said department shall be
under the direction and control of the Commissioner of Libraries,
Auditorium, and Civic Buildings. Said Commissioner shall appoint a
Deputy Commissioner of Libraries, Auditorium, and Civic Buildings and
may place in his hands any responsibility or function other than legis-
lative duties in connection with discharge of official duties which
may be placed by law upon said Commissioner, but he shall be responsible
to the City of Saint Paul for all official acts whatever of said Deputy
• Commissioner, or any other acts which may affect thie interests of said
City.
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and employees necessary for the administration of libraries, museums,
galleries of art, stadia, and other civic buildings. The number,
general duties and compensation of said employees or assistants shall
be fixed by ordinance passed by the Council on recommendation of
said Commissioner. Said Commissioner shall also cause to be appointed
such
janitors, caretakers and other employees as may be necessary for
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the care and maintenance of the buildings in which said libraries,
museums, galleries of art, stadia and other civic buildings are
housed, but the number and duties of said employees and their salaries
shall be fixed by ordinance passed by the Council on recommendation
of said Commissioner." I -
Delete Section 399 in its entirety.
_ Amend Sec. 400 to read as follows:
"Sec. 400. The said Commissioner shall have the manage-
ment and control, subject to the action of the Council, of all
public libraries, reading rooms, civic educational center, stadia
and other civic buildings now belonging to or hereafter acquired
by the City of Saint Paul, and of all property set apart for the use
or maintenance thereof, and the control and expenditure, subject to
action of the City Council, the provisions of this Charter and the
laws of the State, of all moneys levied, collected or received for
such purposes."
Amend Sec. 401 to read as follows:
"Sec. 401. Subject to the approval of the Council, said
Commissioner shall appoint a director of libraries, at-,a salary"',
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• determined by the Council by ordinance, who shall be a graduate of
a university of educational standards equal to those of the University
of Minnesota and who shall when appointed be familiar with library
administration and practice. Said director of libraries shall be
the administrative officer of the Commissioner in conducting public
libraries and reading rooms, under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner."
Amend Sec. 402 to read as follows:
"Sec. 402. Said Commissioner shall prepare and present
to the Council in the form of an ordinance such rules and regulations
as may be necessary or advisable for the administration of said
libraries, civic educational center, stadia and other civic buildings
and the properties thereto belonging. The Council shall consider
and may amend said ordinance, and after putting it into proper form
shall pass said ordinance, which shall not be inconsistent with this
Charter.`!
Amend Sec. 404 to read as follows:'
"Sec. 404. Subject to the action of the Council, said
Commissioner shall have exclusive control over the expenditure of
all moneys provided for the use of said libraries, civic educational
center, stadia and other civic buildings, except as otherwise directed
in this Charter. He shall have the supervision, custody and care of
all grounds and buildings constructed, set apart, leased or in any
other manner secured for the use of said libraries, civic educational
center, stadia and other civic buildings."
Amend Sec. 405 to read as follows:
"Sec. 405. All moneys appropriated, received or collected
for the construction, repair or maintenance of public libraries
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• shall be deposited in the treasury of said City in a fund to be
known as the 'public library fund' which is hereby established, and
shall be kept separate and apart from all other moneys of said City,
and shall be paid out only upon proper vouchers approved and counter-
signed by said Commissioner, and for purposes for which such moneys
have been appropriated or received. All unexpended balances in said
library fund at the end of any year shall remain in said fund and
be available in the year following for the purposes for which said
fund is intended.
On recommendation of said Commissioner and under the pro-
visions of this Charter, the Council shall have full power to authorize
the purchase in the name of the City of Saint ,Paul of ground, and to
cause to be erected thereon a suitable building or buildings, for the
use of said library. On recommendation of said Commissioner said
Council shall have power to accept or, in its discretion, decline
donations tendered under the provisions of this Charter. On recommenda-
tion of said Commissioner, said Council shall have power to improve,
lease or let any and all property set apart for the use of said
library, or otherwise acquired for the purposes herein referred to,
upon such terms and conditions as it may deem best, and may authorize
said Commissioner to deliver leases therefor. It may receive and '
support subscriptions for the benefit of said library fund."
Delete Section 406 in its entirety.
Amend Sec. 407 to read as follows:
"Sec. 4071. Every library and reading room established or
• maintained under the Charter shall be forever free to the use of the
inhabitants of said City subject to such reasonable rules and regulations
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as may be prescribed under the authority granted in this Charter or-
by law, and said Commissioner may exclude from the use of any such
place any and all persons who shall violate such rules and regula-
tions. Non - residents may be admitted to the privileges of said
libraries upon such conditions as said Commissioner may prescribe,
subject to approval by the Council."
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Delete Section 408 in its entirety and substitute the
following as Sec. 408:
"Sec. 408. On recommendation of said Commissioner and
under the provisions of this Charter, the Council shall have full
power to authorize the purchase in the name of the City of Saint Paul
of ground, and to cause to be erected thereon suitable building or
buildings for the use of said civic educational center, stadia and
other civic buildings. On recommendation of said Commissioner said
Council shall have power to accept or, in its discretion, decline
donations tendered under the provisions of this Charter."
Amend Sec. 410 to read as follows:
"Sec. 410. The Council by four affirmative votes shall
define conditions upon which the City may accept or decline donations
of money or other property for the use of said library, civic educa-
tional center, stadia, and other civic buildings, provided that such
regulations shall be subject to repeal or amendment in the same manner
and provided that all money or property so donated shall remain at
all times in the control for the use of and under the direction .of the
public through its proper officers as designated in this Charter."
Amend Sec. 411 to read as follows:
• "Sec. 411. It shall be the duty of said Commissioner to
appoint twelve residents of Saint Paul properly qualified for the
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• position to serve a term of two years from August J of each year in
which there shall be elected a Mayor and Council, and such persons
so appointed shall act as an advisory library board. The members
of said board shall meet at said library with said Commissioner
six times per year and make such recommendations as they may con-
sider will promote the best interests of said library. Said library,
its branches, etc., belonging to the City shall be open at all times
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to the members of said advisory board for their inspection in such
manner as not to interfere with the work being carried on in these
places. The members of said board shall especially be expected
to recommend how to make the resources of said library most profit-
ably available to the public. Said recommendations when made by
the board as a whole shall be in writing and shall be a permanent
public record in the office of the Commissioner. Whether said
recommendations are acted upon or accepted shall remain in the
discretion of said Commissioner."
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Amend Sec. 412 to read as follows:
"Sec. 412. The Council is hereby authorized to levy
and collect taxes and appropriate funds necessary for the proper
maintenance and support of said library or libraries, civic edu-
cational center, stadia and other pivic --buildings."
Sec. 413. - amend title as follows:
"The Auditorium; Commissioner of Libraries, Auditorium,
and Civic Buildings in charge."
Amend Sec. 415 to read as follows::
• "Sec. 415. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of
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Libraries, Auditorium, and Civic Buildings and of the Council so to
manage said auditorium building as to make it self- supporting or
as nearly so as practicable. Keeping this end in view said Council
shall by ordinance on recommendation of said Commissioner fix scales
of prices for the use of said auditorium and determine to what uses
it shall be devoted, provided that such uses shall always be for
the benefit of the public of Saint Paul. It is the intention of
this Charter that distinction shall be made in determining scales
of prices between-,persons who hire the use of the auditorium for
gain and those who engage it for gatherings or entertainments for
which no admittance fee is charged. In no case shall the amount
charged for the use of the building be less than the actual cost
of heating, lighting and attendance occasioned by such use. The
Council may, however, where the use is strictly for the public
purpose or benefit to all the people of Saint Paul, and where no
admittance fee is charged, reimburse from the contingent fund-
the auditorium fund for such expenses, and provide at the time of
making such appropriation for reimbursement that the use of said
building shall be free."
Delete Section 417 in its entirety.
Amend the title of Chapter XX to read as follows:.
"Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and Public Buildings ".
Amend Sec. 418 to read as follows:
"Sec. 418. The Commissioner of Parks and Recreation
and Public Buildings shall have the management and control under
the limitations of this Charter of all lands which have been or
may be acquired for parks, parkways or playgrounds,other than school
playgrounds, within this City. He shall direct all expenditures
from the parks and playgrounds funds for the maintenance and improve-
ment of parks and parkways and shall have power to provide, either
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directly or by lease of privileges approved by the Council, such
conveniences, accommodations and entertainments as he may deem
proper for the use, enjoyment or recreation of all persons visiting
said parks or parkways or playgrounds.
Said Commissioner shall appoint a Deputy Commissioner
of 'Parks and Recreation and Public Buildings and may place in his
k-
hands any responsibility or function other than legislative duties
in connection with discharge of official duties which may be placed
by law upon said Commissioner, but he shall be responsible to the
City of Saint Paul for all official acts whatever of said Deputy
Commissioner or any other acts which may affect the interests. of
said City."
Amend Sec. 425 to read as follows:
"Sec. 425. Said Commissioner shall,with the approval
of the Council appoint a suitable superintendent of city parks
who shall be a skilled landscape architect or engineer. Said
superintendent shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by
said Commissioner."
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Amend Sec. 431 to read as follows:
"Sec. 431. Said Commissioner shall be ex- officio building
inspector of the City of Saint Paul. With th 'ie approval of the
Council he shall appoint a competent architect of not less than
five years' practical experience in his profession next preceding
his appointment, to work under the direction'af said Commissioner."
Amend Sec. 434 to read as follows
7°Sec. 434. Besides performing such duties as the Council
or the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and Public Buildings
may prescribe, said architect shall prepare or have prepared
plans, specifications and estimates, under the direction of
said Commissioner, for all public buildings of any and.every
character whatever to be erected or altered by the City of Saint
Paul or by any department, bureau or officer thereof.. Through
said Commissioner said architect shall submit said plans to the
officer or department responsible for the expenditure of the funds
with which said building is to be erected or altered. If said plans
meet the approval of said officer, he shall submit them to the
Council, and after their approval by resolution of the Council,
they shall be the official plans for the .building in,.question.
If they do not meet with the approval of the 'officer re�onsible
for the expenditure of said funds, he shall point out in detail
to said Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and Public Buildings
and to said architect his objections to said plans, and said
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Commissioner shall cause said architect to meet such objections.
If in the opinion of the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and
Public Buildings such objections are well taken,,he shall require
said architect to so modify said plans as to remove said objections.
If on the other hand said architect and said Commissioner of Parks
and Recreation and Public Buildings consider said plans proper,
he shall have said architect report upon said plans in detail,
and said Commissioner shall lay said plans with the objections
to them and the report of the architect before the Council, which
shall approve said plans or shall order said Commissioner to have
new plans prepared. Plans shall in this manner be prepared and
submitted to said Council until they prove satisfactory to the
Council and are approved by it."
Amend Sec. 438 to read as follows:
"Sec. 438. Subject to the Council,,said Commissioner
shall have full charge of and responsibility for all playgrounds
belonging to the City of Saint Paul, except playgrounds attached
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to public schools, and it shall be his duty to�see that they are
used to the best advantage for the purposes for which they are
intended. On recommendation of said Commissioner the Council
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shall by ordinance make proper rules and regulations for the use
and enjoyment of said playgrounds and shall provide for their
enforcement. The Council shall have full authority to provide
penalties for the violation of said ordinances.
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Delete Section 445 in its entirety.
Amend Sec. 446 to read as follows:
"Sec. 446. Said Commissioner shall have full
administrative control under the direction of the Council and
shall be responsible for the operation of any public utility which
the City of Saint Paul may now own or may hereafter acquire, except
as otherwise provided in this Charter. Said Commissioner shall
appoint a Deputy Commissioner of Public Utilities and may place in
his hands any responsibility or function other than legislative
duties in connection with discharge of official duties which may
be placed by law upon said Commissioner, but he shall be responsible
to the City of Saint Paul for all official acts whatever of said
Deputy Commissioner or any other acts which may'affect the interests
of said City.
In accordance with the terms of this,Charter said Commis-
sioner shall appoint such assistants and employees as may be neces-
sary to carry out the duties placed upon him by this Charter or the
ordinances of said City in harmony herewith. Said Council shall
fix by ordinance the numbers, titles and compensation of said
employees. Said Commissioner and his employees,shall be advisers
of the Council upon all technical questions relating to said public
utilities."
Amend Sec. 447 to read as follows:
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"Sec.
447. The Council shall provide
for the
establish-
ing of municipal
testing laboratories under the
direction
and
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management of the Commissioner of Public Utilities Said Commis-
sioner shall prepare an ordinance for the establishing of said
laboratories, fixing the numbers, titles and salaries of the
necessary employees thereof and defining their duties and powers.
Said Council shall consider said ordinance and, after amending it
&6 said Council may deem proper, shall pass said ordinance. Said
ordinance shall provide for a skilled chemist and such other skilled
technical officers and employees as may be necessary to carry out
the intent of this section. If• thought necessary said Council
may, upon the recommendation of said Commissioner, provide in
connection with said laboratories for a force of inspectors to look
after and inspect all work performed or supplies or material pur-
chased by or under the direction of this or the other departments
for which inspectors are not otherwise provided in this Charter.
Provided, that the cost of inspection shall not in any case exceed
one per centum of the construction cost of the work or service
inspected or one -half of one per centum of the cost df supplies
or materials purchased." "-
Amend Sec. 461 to read as follows: `
"Sec. 461. The said board shall assess against each
and every lot, piece or parcel of land in front of which water
pipes are laid an annual tax or assessment of twenty -five (25)
cents per lineal foot of the frontage thereof ,' which assessment
shall be a lion thereon and shall be collected by and through the
• County Auditor and County Treasurer in such manner as the Council
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by an administrative ordinance shall prescribe';. but no property shall
be subjected to more than ten such annual assessments; and all sums
so collected shall be for the benefit and use of the said board."
Amend Sec. 464 to read as follows:,
"Sec.. 464. All bonds heretofore issued by the City for
the purchase or improvement.of the water system of the City are
hereby declared to. be legal and valid obligations of the City of
Saint Paul.
Upon-request of the said board, the Council shall have
power by five affirmative votes of all its members to issue and
sell not to exceed Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000) par
value of the bonds of said City for the purpose of , sand the pro-
ceeds thereof shall be used solely for, extending, enlarging and
improving the water plant and system of said City, provided, how-
ever, that no more than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000)
par value of said bonds shall be issued and sold in any one calendar
year.
Said bonds shall be in
shall bear interest at a rate not
annum, and shall be payable in no-
after their date. It is the duty
suitable provision for the prompt
the form prescribed by the Council,
to exceed four (4) per cent per
t to exceed thirty (30) years
of said board to make annually
payment of the interest on anj ,-'said
bonds and for the redemption of said bonds at their maturity from
the revenues of said board.
Said bonds may be issued and sold notwithstanding any
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other provisions of this Charter nor any provision of law fixing
the bonded indebtedness of said City, but they shall not be addi-
tional to the bonds authorized in the provisions of this Charter
relative to City finances."
Delete Section 467 in its entirety.
Delete Section 482 in its entirety.
In accordance with the provisions of the Laws of 1961,
Chapter 608, this amendment will take effect and be in force from
and after January 1, 1963.
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