The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-03-10
Amendments And Repeats
For Election Of Com
missioners Offered
ELECTION ON APRIL 5TH
Other Amendments Will Be
Explained In Herald
Next Week

For the decision Of the voters,
changes In the Charter in the form
of amendments and repeats will be
presented at the city election to be
held Tuesday, April 9Th. Most Of
the proposed changes pertain to
the election CT the Water, Light &
Power Commission, instead Of ap-
pointment by the Judge, as is now
the method of selection.
In preparing the ballot for the
proposed changes, the amendments
and repeats pertaining to the cleo
ton o6 the Water, Light & Power
Commission will appear separately,
as will the other sections which are
definite changes and which have no
bearing upon each other. In other
words amendments listed as Sec
lions 8, 6, and SO, and repeats OF
Sections 81 and IS, all of them nee
essary for the election OF commits
sioners on the Water, Light & Pow
er Commission, will be presented
for one Eyes" or mo" vote. Sections
8, SO, 90 and 81 and the third para
graph Of Section 81, will be present
ed separately, each to be decided by
a "yes'' or mo- vote, although the
entire list will be printed on one
ballot.
II these changes are accepted by
the electorate 1t will be the first
time that major changes have been
made in the twenty-year-old Char
ter. It will take three-fifths vote
to make the changes possible, and
voters who Gail to cast ballot on
these propositions, although they
vote Tor Officers in the election,
will be voting against the change,
as no vote IL the same as negative
vote.
Amendments to Sections 5, 6, 8,
and 90 are presented to make pos
si!ble the election Of commissioners,
as are also the proposed repeats OF
Sections o. and IS.
Section 5-There shall be elected
at large in the City Of Sank Gen.
tire a mayor, city treasurer, five
aldermen, and five members Of the
Water, Light and Power Commits
sion; and these shall be known as
the elective officers CT the City
There shall also be elected munic-
ipal Judge and a special municipal
Judge, as provided by law.
To the above has been added the
following: "and five members OF
the Water, Light and Power Com
mission" and the adoption of this
and following sections would add
the commissioners to the list Cd
elective officers of the city.
Section 6-The term of office OF
the mayor, city treasurer, the al.
dermen, and members Of the Wat,
er, Light and Power Commission
shall each be two years, except that
at the first general municipal cleo
ton after the adoption Of this
amended section Of the Charter, one
member OF the Water, Light and
Power Commission shall be elected
for one year, and two members fc1
two years, and the candidates FOL
members Of said Commission al
that election shall be designated a
zone year" and 1.-TWO year" candi
dates.
The change in section 6 above
provides the length OF office tenure
for commissioners (as well as the
other city officials), and provides
means and ways for the election Oh
the first commission under the new
proposal providing the Charter
changes are granted.
Section 8-Vacancies. An electfve
OFFICE shall be deemed vacant II
case Of failure Of the person elect
ed to qualify within ten days aftel
official notice Of his election, or DS
reason of death, resignation, re
moya1 from office, removal IRON
the city, continuous absence IRON
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