03/27/1995 Council Minutes - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Search

1 1 1 COUNCIL MEETING MARCH 27, 1995 CONSIDERATION OF DISBURSEMENTS March 27, 1995 - Council Member Elliott moved to approve these minutes as presented. Council Member Bergeson seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously. Centennial Fire Department - Council Member Kuether moved to approve these disbursements as presented. Council Member Neal seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously. CITY CLERK -TREASURER'S REPORT, MARILYN ANDERSON Consideration of a Petition Titled "Conflict of Interest" - Mrs. Anderson explained that this petition was delivered to her 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, however a current list of registered voters had to be requested from the State of Minnesota. The list was delivered on March 9, 1995. Nearly three (3) full days were needed to examine the petition and two (3) other petitions received at the same time. The City Charter, Section 5.05, Initiative, states, "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. Therefore, a petition with at least 292 signatures is required to make an initiative or referendum petition sufficient PAGE 5