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-5- 5. Amend Section 4.02 as follows: Sec. 4.02. City secretary. The city council shall appoint the city secretary, and such assistant city secretaries as the city council shall deem advisable. The city secretary, or an assistant city secretary, shall give notice of council meetings, shall keep the minutes of the proceedings of such meetings, shall authenticate by signature and record in full in û booJe kept anà indexed for the purpoûe, all ordinances and resolutions, and shall perform such other duties as the city manager, with the consent of the city council, shall assign and those elsewhere provided for in this charter. This wording change will allow the City Secretary the flexibility of using records storage methods for ordinances and resolutions other than the cumbersome minute books. 6. Amend Sec. 5.03 as follows: Sec. 5.03. Filing for office. Any qualified person who desires to become a candidate for election to a place on the city council shall file with the §í![ljj¡::::¡¡ìBI!i/ç@.ly mayor at least ¡I§!!;y¥f;:!yl, thirty :¡:(}1:§:~::+*T days Pfí6f""""tB""""fhe-""election day an aþþITÒátT6h for his"""""oF her name to appear on the ballot. Such application shall clearly designate the place on the council to which the candidate seeks election and shall contain the candidate's sworn statement of compliance with the qualification for holding the office sought under the laws of Texas and the provisions of this charter. Both of these changes will make this section comport with the State Election Code. The filing of candidate applications with the city secretary is a natural extension of the ministerial election duties of that position. The 45-day deadline for candidate applications to be placed on the City ballot will give effect to new provisions of the Election Code requiring write-in candidates to make written candidacy declarations no later than 30 days before election day.