The authority of the council granted by this charter shall include authority by ordinance to organize or reorganize and create a fire department or a firemen's Relief Association or both. Any such organization or reorganization, whether voluntary or otherwise, shall be at all times subject to the full and complete supervision and control of the City Council.
CERTIFICATE OF COMMISSION
We, the undersigned, being the duly appointed, qualified and acting members of the Board of Freeholders (Charter Commission) in and for the City of Benson, Swift County, Minnesota, certify that the foregoing document., consisting of 12 sections, is the draft of a proposed new (revised) Charter for said City of Benson, prepared and framed by said Board of Freeholders and approved by said Board and the undersigned members thereof, and hereby affix our signatures to said draft and deliver the same to the Honorable Mayor and chief executive of the said City of Benson, to be submitted for action as by law provided.
Dated at Benson, Minnesota, this 6th day of April, 1965.
ROBERT HAWLEY, Chairman
ROBERT BUSS, Vice-Chairman
JOHN THOMPSON, Secretary
HARRY HUGHES
HJALMER ERICKSON
DONN LORENZ
FRED HANSON
NOEL DOKKEN
R.S. KUFRIN
BERNIE GALLAGHER
RAYMOND ARNE
ROBERT NELSON
ROBERT CHEVALIER
RICHARD BODGER,
RAY HOLMQUIST,
Attorneys for and members of the Commission.
Amendments to Charter dated:
November 4, 1982
March 17, 1983
May 3, 1983
June 2, 1983
September 9, 1983
were approved on said dates by Benson City Council:
Duaine E. Flanders, Mayor
Kenneth Angier, Councilmember
Connie Kiley, Councilmember
Edwin Johnson, Councilmember
Donald Thomas, Councilmember
Edward J. Shukle, Jr., City Manager
Charter Commission:
Vern Smith, Chairman
Thomas Buckingham
Roy DeBoer
Alwood Dokken
Dr. Dean Erickson
Barry Jungwirth
Connie Kiley
Dr. Greg Lee
Tim Mattheisen
Susan Nelson
Shirley Peterson
Dr. Donald Plackner
Ray Scheffler
Kenneth Spates
Donald Wilcox, Member and Assistant City Attorney
Vic Wordelman