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-2- Council on any board, co~mission, committee, orGanization or entitv in the Council's sole discretion so lonG as that person's service does not extend bevond his or her Council term." JUSTI FI CATION: 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}(S} 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 he amended to chanqe 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 within the City or, without the City but serving inhabitants of the City, nor be the owner or proprietor of any public service companv in the City. Public service company should be defined as any company, individual, partnership, corporation or other entity recognized by law that, in the course of its principal business, uses any of the City's streets, alleys, hiGhways or grounds of the City to carry out its primary purpose, which purpose may include but not be limited to transportation, sale, or use of water, Gas, electricity, conduit, teleGraph, telephone, commercial railway or street railway." JUSTI FI CATION: As presently written, the phrase "public service corporation" 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. S. 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. ~~~~~~~~-~~~-~~~-~~~~~~-£~~y-~~~e~-~~T-t~e--~~~ã~--veãr 1:-9-8-3-8-4, There shall be provided in each annual City budget an amount fl~~~e-e*eeeè--~~*--~fl~~~flè--~~ß~~--i~~,BBB.BB~ for the expenses of the Mayor and ~fl~ee--~~~~~~è--£~~-H~~~~è-Bo~~~T~ (~3-,.&O-O-,..o.G-)--~~~ of each Counci.lmember ~rttd-:t-nq--M-ay-or. The Mayor and the members of the City Council shall he reimbursed for the amounts so provided for in the annual City budqet for their actual official City business expenses. The Cit¥ Council by resolution or ordinance shall provide for a means 0 determlnlng