1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to local government; authorizing home rule charter cities to provide by 
1.3 	charter the procedures for appointment of housing and redevelopment authority 
1.4 	commissioners;amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 469.003, subdivision 
1.5 	6.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 469.003, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
1.8 		Subd. 6.Appointment; approval; term; vacancy. The commissioners shall 
1.9 	be appointed by the mayor, with the approval of the governing body. Those initially 
1.10 	appointed shall be appointed for terms of one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively. 
1.11 	Thereafter all commissioners shall be appointed for five-year terms. Each vacancy in 
1.12 	an unexpired term shall be filled for the remainder of the term for which the original 
1.13 	appointment was made. Any member of the governing body of a city may be appointed 
1.14 	and may serve as a commissioner of the authority for the city. The council of any city 
1.15 	which appoints members of the city council as commissioners may set the terms of office 
1.16 	of a commissioner to coincide with the commissioner's term of office as a council member.
1.17 	A home rule charter city may provide in its charter another procedure for the appointment 
1.18 	of commissioners, their terms, and how vacancies will be filled.