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Session 1235, Minutes January 7, 1980 Page 3 4. Section 66. Change the date of the Mayoral race so that it does not coincide with the elections of other members of the City Council. Accordingly, the next term of the Mayor's office would be three years and the succeeding term would return to four years. 5. Chante the date of the fiscal year to begin October 1 and end September 30. The budget should be submitted to the City Council no later than 60 days prior to the beginning of the fiscal year. This would change Section 33. It was also suggested that the language of the change be worded so that there would be no need for three month comparative budgets for the succeeding three years, and that such fiscal year shall constitute the budget year. 6. Delete Sections 69 and 70 since these sections are now governed by state law. 7. Delete Section 26 since the City Court now falls under the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County. S. Section 116, which relates to the forgiveness of taxes as applied to unimproved lots. The Committee approved the following language: "No general or special tax assessment or interest or penalty thereon shall be remitted or abated, or the rights to enforce payment thereof released except in correction of errors or mis- takes occurring after the levy of the tax, or if it appears to the City Council that any unimproved tract of land is not worth, as determined by an independent real estate appraiser, the amount of taxes, interest and penalties due thereon, the City Council may compromise taxes, interest and penalties with the owner of the tract." 9. Section 24. Reduce the length of term for the Municipal Judge from four years to two years. Section 10, relating to the filling of vacancies in the Council, was also discussed, but no recommendations were made, since there was not a majority vote on any action for or against change in this section. All votes taken were three to three. This was brought about by the illness and subsequent death of Mr. Hugh White, a committee member. One proposal recommended that the language of Section 10 remain the same with the proviso that if a vacancy occurred within six months of a regular municipal election, the seat would remain vacant until the next municipal election. Another proposal was that any vacancy on the Council be filled by a special election no soon- er than 90 days and no later than 150 days after the seat has been vacated. Several additional observations were noted by the Committee as follows: 1. The Committee favored the raising from $2500 to $5000 the expenditure for which the City Council's approval is needed by the City administration. - 2. The Committee noted a typographical error in Article X. Initiative, Ref- erendum and Recall, Section 74 of the Charter: "Section 74 as enacted by the City of University City in 1947 in- cluded the words...'excepting ordinances for the issuance of bonds and the levy of"'