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AGENDA ITEM 3A STAFF ORIGINATOR Marilyn Anderson, Clerk -Treasurer DATE March 21, 1995 TOPIC Consideration of Petition Titled "Conflict of Interest" CNN Attached you will find the first page of as petition delivered, to my office on February 22, 1995 at 5:00 P.M. The City Charter requires that, "the City Clerk -Treasurer examine the petition as to its sufficiency and report to the Council within 10 days". The petition should have been presented to the City Council by March 6, 1995. I contacted the Secretary of State's office immediately upon receipt of the petition and requested an updated registered voters list. The list was received pn March 9, 1995. Nearly three (3) full days of my time was need to examine this petition and two (2) other petitions received at the same time. The City Charter, Section 5.05, Initiative, states that any ordinance may be proposed by a petition to the City Council. The City Council may pass the ordinance as petitioned thereby not requiring the ordinance to be submitted to the voters. If the City Council fails to enact the ordinance as petitioned within 60 days after the final determination of sufficiency of the petition, the ordinance as petitioned shall be placed on a ballot as determined in Section 5.03. Section 5.03 states, "The sponsoring committee shall file the completed petition in the office of the Clerk Treasurer. For determining the required number of signatures, the term "base" shall be defined as the number of registered voters at the time of the last regular municipal election. At least five percent (5%) of the base shall be required to make an initiative or referendum petition sufficient and allow such petition to be placed on the next scheduled election ballot as determined by Section 5.05 or 5.07. At least ten percent (10%) of the base shall be required to allow an initiative or referendum petition to cause, as determined by Section 5.05 or 5.07, a special election to be scheduled within 120 days of said petition's filing so that said petition can be placed before the voters". There were 5, 824 registered voters for the 1993 Municipal Election.