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-2- Council on any board, commission, committee, organization or entity Tn the Council's sole discretion so long as that person's service does not extend beyond his or her Council term." JUSTIFICATION: Some ordinances require that a member of the City Council shall be appointed to various boards and committees to represent the Council. without clarification, this section could be construed to prohibit that practice. 4. Sec. 3.02(a)(5) which provides that a council member shall not be an officer, director or owner of a public service corporation serving the inhabitants of the City, should be amended to change the phrase "public service corporation" to "public service company" and to define "public service company" as follows (changes are underlined): "Shall not be an officer or director of any public service company wi thin the Ci ty or, wi thout the Ci ty but serving inhabitants of the City, nor be the owner or proprietor of any public service company in the City. Public service company should be defined as any company, individual, partnership, corporation or other entity recognizeg,by law that, in the course of its principal business, uses any of~'the City's streets, alleys, highways o~ grounds of the City to carry out its primary purpose, which purpose may include but not be limited to transportation, sale, or use 2I water, gas, electricity, conduit, telegraph, telephone, commercial railway or street railway." JUSTIFICATION: As presently written, the phrase "public service corporatiort" is vague and subject to more dispute about its meaning than would be the case by changing the name to "public service company" and carefully defining it. 5. Sec. 3.04, Compensation, should be amended as follows, with deletions shown by striking through the word and additions shown by underlining. "Members of the City Council shall serve without payor compensation; provided, however, that they shall be entitled to all necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties. ~§4RR4R§-w4~~-~~e-aRR~a~-~4~~-Ð~è§e~-~e~-~Ðe--~4£€a~--yea~ 1~23=24, There shall be provided in each annual City budget an amount ~-~e-e*€eeè--~4*--~Ðe~Saflè--Ðe~~a~s--~~~,~~~õ~~~ for the expenses of the Mayor and ~Ð~ee--~~~saflè--£4*-Htlflè~eè-Ðe~~a~s- ~$~,6~~õ~~~-~e~-~fte-e*~eflses of each Councilmember e*~~~~~flg-M~yor. The Mayor and the members of the City Council shall be reimbursed for the amounts so provided for in the annual City budget for their actual official City business expenses. The City Council by resolution or ordinance shall provide for a means of determining