CITY QUESTION 1 (Luverne): Charter Amendment: Create New Independent Commission To Govern City Utilities

Official ballot language

Shall the Luverne City Charter be amended to establish a new governing structure with a new layer of city government for the Citys electric, water, and wastewater utilities by (1) creating a new five-member independent policymaking body to be called the Municipal Services Commission to consist of three elected members who must be City residents, one appointed representative of a large utility customer who need not be a City resident, and either a sitting Council Member or the City Administrator^ (2) creating a new employment structure under which the Commission would employ a General Manager to supervise and manage the Commissions operations and employees and existing City staff with responsibilities for the Citys utilities would be transferred to the authority of the Commission^ and (3) transferring most of the City Councils existing responsibilities for the management, operation, and supervision of the Citys utilities, including the authority to set utility rates, to the new Commission?