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B
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
barry
clegg
and,
along
with
commissioner
jan
sandberg,
I'm
one
of
the
co-chairs
of
the
charter
commission's
even
year
elections.
Work
group
welcome
to
this
meeting
of
this
virtual
meeting.
This
meeting
includes
the
remote
participation
of
members
as
authorized
under
minnesota
statutes,
section
13
d
.021
due
to
the
declared
local
health
pandemic.
B
The
city
will
be
recording
and
posting
this
meeting
to
the
city's
website
and
youtube
channel
as
a
means
of
increasing
public
access
and
transparency.
This
meeting
is
public
and
subject
to
the
minnesota
open
meeting.
Long
I'll
now
call
this
meeting
to
order
and
ask
the
clerk
to
call
the
rules
so
that
we
may
verify
the
presence
of
a
quorum.
C
B
B
B
C
D
B
B
B
B
The
2020
primary
election
for
the
state
was
at
the
same
time
as
the
special
election
for
the
city
in
which
council
member
osman
was
elected,
so
it
is
possible,
after
all,
so
we're
back
today
to
take
another
look
at
it
and
there's
really
two
threshold
questions
to
this
analysis.
In
my
view,
question
number
one
is:
is
it
legal?
Can
we
do
it
and
question
number
two
is:
do
the
policy
reasons
favor
doing
it,
assuming
we
can
do
it?
B
Obviously,
we've
got
to
answer
question
number
one
before
we
get
to
question
number
two,
although
I
think
we
can
go
down
both
tracks
at
the
same
time,
I
also
want
to
give
before
we
get
to
the
end.
Everybody
their
homework
for
the
next
meeting
for
commissioners,
go
to
the
lims
file
from
2017
and
look
at
the
documents
in
that
file.
There
were
several
scholarly
articles
on
the
wisdom
of
changing
from
odd
year
to
even
year,
elections
and
an
opinion
written
by
city
attorney,
carol,
bushoon
carol.
B
Your
homework
is
to
go
back
and
look
at
your
own
opinion
from
2017
and
take
another
look
at
it
and
see
if
it
needs
a
refresh,
and
I
would
also
like
staff
to
think
about
how
we
might
reach
out
and
engage
with
hennepin
county
and
the
secretary
of
state
again
to
get
to
the
answer
to
number
one.
Is
there
a
way
we
can
do
this.
B
So
I'll
proceed
to
item
number
four
on
the
agenda,
which
is
hearing
a
staff
presentation
from
the
minnesota
minneapolis
elections
division.
I
understand
we're
going
to
hear
from
ray
dean,
jeff,
narabrook
and
aaron
grossman.
I
know
tim
schwartz
is
here
too.
I
don't
know
if
he's
part
of
the
presentation
or
not,
why
don't
you
guys
introduce
yourselves
and
take
it
away.
G
F
E
Thank
you,
gentlemen,
and
thank
you,
co-chair
clerk
and
co-chair
sandberg
happy
to
present
to
you
today
some
of
the
issues
on
even
your
elections
that
we've
come
up
with
and
as
mentioned,
we
have
several
of
other
individuals
associated
with
elections
and
voter
services.
That
should
be
able
to
answer
most
of
your
questions.
I'm
not
so
sure
we'll
have
answers
to
100
percent,
but
we'll
do
our
best
we're
going
to
be
presenting
on
the
issues
for
consideration
of
moving
out
the
current
municipal
elections
from
off
years
to
an
even
year
election
cycle.
E
We'll
then
present
sort
of
on
previous
voter
turnout
and
what
might
actually
an
actual
shift
might
look
like
and
conclude
with
the
next
steps
that
also
look
at
a
timeline.
Should
amendment
change
be
proposed
for
2022
ballot
and
of
course,
if
you
guys
have
any
questions,
you
should
feel
free
to
ask
me
during
the
presentation
or
if
you'd
like
just
hold
your
questions
to
the
end
and
we'll
do
our
best.
So
the
first
slide
talks
about
sort
of
the
charter
commission's
role
and
this
working
group.
E
Ultimately,
there
would
be
the
presentation
to
the
city
council
should
this
move
forward
and
they
would
approve
the
ballot
language
should
be
placed
on
the
november
ballot.
Then
the
mayor
would
have
the
option
to
accept
or
veto
the
proposed
language,
and
then
the
voters
role
would
be
to
approve
with
a
51
percent.
Yes,
votes
on
all
those
who
voted
on
the
question,
and
then
it
would
be
up
to
elections
and
voters
services
sort
of
to
create
what
that
implementation.
E
E
There's
possibility
of
authorization
for
the
secretary
of
state
for
experimental
use,
and
some
of
the
other
concerns
would
be
ada
ballot
difficulties
that
might
come
into
play
and
the
changes
in
state
law
right
now
would
be
fairly
difficult.
Given
the
current
political
landscape
at
the
capitol,
and
should
we
move
forward
in
the
current
state
of
law?
Of
course,
we
will
need
to
defend
or
survive
any
legal
challenges
that
are
likely
to
be
filed
next
question.
E
E
There's
a
provision
within
state
statute
that
allows
the
secretary
of
state
to
do
things
around
elections
for
experimental
use.
Of
course,
I'm
not
a
hundred
percent
sure
that
he
could,
you
know,
put
forward
what
we
are
proposing
or
what
we
might
propose
as
an
experimental
use,
but
there
is
provision
within
state
statute
that
allows
that.
E
E
E
There's
some
personnel
impacts
that
might
arise,
and
that
would
be
staff
retention
with
no
off-year
election
and
issues
related
to
election
judge
and
student
election
judges
be
participating
in
our
elections
as
well
next
ballot,
our
next
slide,
technologically
we're
currently
unable
to
mix
a
column
ballot
with
the
grid
ballot.
So
that's
the
difference
between
standard
sort
of
election
ballot
and
grid
style
ballot
being
rank
choice
in
the
event
that
we
might
have
four
or
five
different
ring
choice,
races
on
a
single
ballot.
E
There
are
limitations
of
using
the
optical
scan
voting
system
in
which
state
law
currently
says
you
can
only
use
one
ballot.
There
would
be
issues
around
usb
storage
of
the
data,
as
mentioned,
the
stat
regulation
on
ballot
size
won't
really
allow
for
a
larger
ballot
and
then,
of
course,
the
reconciliation
that
takes
place.
Wouldn't
it
not
be
possible
if
voters
did
not
submit
the
second
card
to
be
tabulated,
there's
other.
E
E
If
we
shift
to
presidential
election
terms
doing
both
the
city,
council
and
the
mayor
at
the
same
time,
we
could
make
a
shift
a
three-year
term
to
align
with
the
even
year
elections,
or
we
could
do
a
five-year
term
that
would
then
align
with
a
mid-term
election.
State
law
allows
us
to
move
one
year
either
way
in
regards
to
that
and
you'll
notice.
When
you
look
at
the
council,
we
have
the
two-year
terms
that
would
focus
around
redistricting.
E
That
would
take
place
next
slide
and
then
this
slide
is
actually
a
shift
of
city,
council
and
mayor
elections
so
that
they
don't
coincide.
They
were
alternate
and
again
looking
at
the
shifting
of
the
council
during
presidential
years
in
the
mayor
during
midterms,
and
then
the
council
during
midterms
in
the
mayor
during
presidential
next
slide.
E
So
the
the
next
steps
would
have
the
working
group
recommendations
to
the
full
charge
commission
by
may
4th,
so
that
with
the
goals
being
able
to
meet
the
requirements
and
notify
voters
of
possible
shift
to
appear
on
that
nova
november
ballot,
the
charter
commission
would
then
require
public
hearing
on
the
proposed
charter
change
on
june.
1St
and
then
the
charter
commission
consideration
regarding
moving
forward
or
shelfing.
The
consideration
at
the
time
would
have
to
take
place
on
july,
13th
that
date
to
recommend
the
charter.
B
F
B
E
F
Yes,
that's
correct
and
I
I
I
have.
We
asked
hennepin
county
to
mock
up
some
ballots,
so
you
could
see
some
visuals
ranked
choice.
Voting
races,
take
up
a
very
large
amount
of
real
estate
and
ray
is
right
that
it
was.
If
you
have
one
race,
you
can
probably
fit
it
on
an
even
year
ballot
and
if
you
have
the
full
slate
you
wouldn't.
B
G
G
I
believe,
oakland
is
in
even
years
and
yes,
they
they
generally
would
have
multiple
ballot
cards
in
other
states,
where
it's
more
regular
and
allowed
to
your
question
and
as
far
as
I
know,
there
isn't
I'm
not
sure
how
it
looks
in
the
state
where
it's
mixing
both
the
prank
choice,
elections
and
more
conventional
elections.
Of
course
we
have
the
one
example
like
you've
mentioned,
of
2020
for
us.
G
G
E
B
D
Thank
you.
Okay.
I
see
that
the
deadline
to
the
city
council
is
august,
4th
for
the
council
to
adopt
a
language,
but
would
we
then
be
sending
it
to
them
on
the
13th,
I'm
worried
about
the
gap
to
make
things
go
through
council
cycles.
I
think
we've
had
some
experience
where
that
it
could
be
longer
than
we
originally
anticipate.
So
is
that
our
real
deadline
for
our
decision
making,
even
though
technically
it's
the
21st.
H
H
H
H
I
thought
that
was
interesting
from
the
national
group
that
took
a
stance
on
this
newest
charter
to
move
to
or
to
suggest
that
people
stay
within
an
odd
year
election.
So
I'm
just
throwing
that
out
people
can
the
committee
comments
discuss
it.
It's
very
brief,
but
people
might
want
to
look
at
that.
Thank
you.
C
B
I
It's
going
to
be
the
attorney
general
and,
with
all
due
respect
to
our
lawyer,
friends,
who
are
on
the
call,
that's
gonna
take
a
bit
so
if
we're
gonna
do
anything
and
and
give
the
full
commission,
you
know
a
full
analysis
of
all
the
of
all
the
details
here.
We
we
better
find
out
how
how
far
we
can
go,
and
that
means
with
the
secretary
of
state.
So
I
think
we
have,
if
we're
going
to
do
that,
they
better
we
got
to
get
moving.
We
don't
have
much
time.
B
Well,
I
hope
I
can
pull
us
back
a
little,
because
I
wasn't
necessarily
suggesting
we
consider
this
with
a
goal
to
this
year.
I
was
just
considering-
I
don't
think
we'd
want
to
do
it
in
a
municipal
only
year.
I
think
we'd
want
to
do
it
in
a
in
a
general
statewide
election
year,
but
I
recognize
there's
probably
a
lot
more
work
to
do
than
we
can
do
between
now
and
july,
but
that's
fine.
I
just
don't
want
this
to
get
lost
again.
B
I
will
work
with
co-chair
sandberg
to
set
a
time
for
our
next
meeting
and
co-chair
sandberg,
and
I
are
going
to
alternate
chairing
meetings,
so
she
will
chair
the
next
meeting
and
we
will
send
out
a
time
in
the
next
few
days.
I
think
I
think
we
would
like
to
plan
for
one
the
week
of
the
next
charter
commission
meeting
so
first
week
in
april.