Austin’s charter commission approved a few last minute tweaks to the city charter Monday and is now ready to present to city council as the process to revise the 86-year-old document nears an end.

Ultimately, the commission is looking for unanimous city council approval to adopt a revised charter, which could happen early next year.

For now, the commission and the full council are scheduled to meet at the next regular council meeting — Dec. 21 — to go over the latest draft. From there, a public hearing will be scheduled and the document will wait for official approval.

On Monday, the commission agreed to remove a conflicts of interest policy pertaining to serving on council — a recommendation made by the League of Minnesota cities because such conflicts are already outlined in state statute, making Austin’s charter overly and unnecessarily strict.

The commission also reworded a few other sections of the charter, following advice from the council received Nov. 30.

Two of the commission’s largest proposed revisions remained in place and unchanged. The commission is recommending that the term for mayor and councilmember at-large be bumped from two to four years. They also want to allow the mayor to vote if the council reaches a tie vote, something he or she can’t do currently.

Council members Jeff Austin, Brian McAlister and Dick Pacholl attended Monday’s meeting, and all three seemed supportive of the revised charter. Passage of the new document will require support from all seven council members.