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RESOLUTION ADOPTING A PLAN FOR
COOPERATION AND COMSINATION
WITH THE CITY OF LONG LAKE .
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Orono, Minnesota, as follows:
Section 1. BACKGROiTND.
1.01. In the summer of 1999,the City Councils of the Cities of Orono and Long Lake created the
Long Lake - Orono Consolidation Study Committee to examine whether the two eities
should merge. , .
1.02. On May 25, 2000, the committee adopted its findings and recommendations in favor of
� merger. These were amended by the committee on June 1, 2000. The findings and
recommendations constitute a plan for cooperation and combination under Minn. Stat. Sec.
46�.82. '
1.03. The plan proposes a charter for the new city,to create four wards and a seven-member City
Council. The plan asks the Minnesota Board of Government Innovation and Cooperation
. to �vaive four statutory requirements, including the requirement that a charter commission
be established to prepare the draft charter.
Section 2. COUNCIL ACTION.
2.01. The City Council adopts the plan for cooperation and combination prepared by the Long
Lake - Orono Consolidation Study Committee, dated May 25, 2000 and amended June 1,
2000. The plan is incorporated into this resolution by reference.
2.02. If the Minnesota Board of Government Innovation ancl Cooperation does not approve the
request to waive the formation of a charter commission,the City Council requests that the
chief judge of the Hennepin County District Court immediately appoint a charter commission
to frame a charter for the proposed merged city, to be voted upon at the same time as the
question of inerger. �
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2.43. The City Council directs the city clerk to send copies of the adopted plan and certified copies
of this resolution to the Minnesota Board of Government Innovation and Cooperation and
to the chief judge of the Hennepin County District Court.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Orono,Minnesota,at a meeting held June
5, 2000. ,
ATTEST: �
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inda S. Vee, City Clerk Gabriel abbour, Mayor
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