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report of 197+ charter review commission page two RECOMMENDATION #4 Amend Article 7, to divide the duties of the current Planning and Zoning Commission by setting up a separate planning body to draw up long-range development plans, and a separate zoning commission which will consider only rezoning requests. [The Commission is not able to recommend wording for this change, since several legal questions have not been resolved. Also, the city adminis- tration and council may wish to set up the planning body as an integral, paid, part of city staff or as an appointed civilian commission. Whichever decision is taken, however, the Commission strongly recommends giving this planning body specific written authority in the city charter to do the things which may be required to satisfy the federal government's standards under the Better Communities program, if the city has legal power to do this.] RECOMMENDATION #5 Amend Article 8.17, Purchase Procedure, so as to raise the minimum limit for mandatory competitive contract bidding from $500 to $2000. This will relieve the council and administration from the unreasonable workload of dealing with bids for small amounts. Recommended wording follows: SECTION 8.17. Purchase Procedure. [change "five hundred dollars" to "two thousand dollars."] RECOMMENDATION #6 Amend Section 10.02, Power to Tax, so as to remove the requirement that any taxes assessed above 70% of the maximum rate go to debt service only; and replacing this with a requirement that no more than 30% of the maximum tax rate may go to debt service. This will prevent the city from accumulating more money than it needs in the sinking fund, and will prevent the city going excessively into debt. Recommended wording follows: SECTION 10.02. Power to Tax. [strike out everything from "but not more than 70 per cent of such maximum rate," to end of section.] [add in lieu of the above, "but not more than 30 per cent of such maximum rate of each $100 of such assessed valuation may be levied, assessed and collected for interest and sinking fund requirements, to retire any city indebtedness authorized by a vote of the people."] i