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CHAPTER 2 B. The role of Municipal Boundary Adjustments Minn. Stat. § 414.041, subds. After receiving the commission's report, the director of Municipal Boundary 4, s. Adjustments designates a time and a place for a hearing. Municipal Boundary Adjustments must consider the subjects and factors reviewed by the consolidation commission. It may accept, amend, return to the commission for amendment or further study, or reject the commission's recommendations. Municipal Boundary Adjustments must order the consolidation if it finds that Minn. Stat. §§ 414.02, subd. 3; it is in the best interest of the cities. Municipal Boundary Adjustments must 414.09, subd. 3; 414.01, subd. consider the same factors specified for incorporation of a municipality. If it 15 orders consolidation, it must provide for election of new city officers in accordance with Minn. Stat. § 414.09. The order must indicate the estimated increased costs to the newly enlarged city resulting from the consolidation and the time period that such cities shall be allowed special levies for those increased costs. Minn. Stat. § 414.041, subd. s. If the most populous of the consolidating cities is a statutory city, the new city will be a statutory city with an Optional Plan A government. However, the new city may adopt an alternate plan or a city charter at any time. If the most populous of the consolidating cities is a home rule charter city, that city's home rule charter will govern the new city. Minn. Stat. § 414.041, subd. s. If the commission proposes a home rule charter for the new city, Municipal Boundary Adjustments may combine the issue of the adoption of the charter and the vote on approval of the order for consolidation into one question on the ballot, and submit it at a special or general election. Municipal Boundary Adjustments may recommend not less than three or more than seven wards. The city may abandon the ward system by a four -fifths vote of the council any time after two years. The provisions for approval of the consolidation vary depending on how the consolidation was initiated. Minn. Stat. § 414.041, subd. s. The ordinances of all the cities remain in effect within their former boundaries until repealed by the governing body of the new city. Minn. Stat. § 414.041, subd. s. The new city assumes the name of the most populous city, unless a majority of the cities or the consolidation commission passes a resolution selecting another name. Minn. Stat. § 414.041, subd. s. The consolidation will not reduce the number of license privileges in the included cities. HANDBOOK FOR MINNESOTA CITIES This chapter last revised 1/3/2007 2:9