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Mounds View City Council July 9, 2007 Regular Meeting Page 2 City Administrator Ulrich explained that the Charter Commission has looked at this and Council 1 has reviewed it at a work session and has heard it on first reading. The Charter Commission and 2 Staff have made requested changes and recommend approval on Second Reading. 3 4 Barbara Thomas, Secretary of the Charter Commission, indicated she was present to answer any 5 questions the Council may have as Mr. Thomas, the Chair of the Charter Commission, was 6 unable to attend. 7 8 Hearing no public comments, Mayor Marty closed the public hearing. 9 10 Council Member Mueller said that she read through this carefully and found no issues with it. 11 12 Council Member Stigney pointed out on the Resolution in Section 5.03 and 5.04 should be left 13 formatted to the left. 14 15 Ms. Thomas indicated that it will be properly formatted when the Attorney’s put the language 16 into the Charter. 17 18 Council Member Stigney said that he agrees with the City Attorney’s opinion regarding the 19 timeframe for publication and he would like to go back to the language “as soon as practicable”. 20 21 Council Member Stigney would like to clear up the ambiguity in the petition process itself and it 22 has to do with not having enough signatures because there could be a situation where they are 23 short of the required signatures and they are allowed more time to gather signatures. The other 24 issue he has is that a person can remove their name at any time up until the City Administrator 25 delivers the petition to the Council and he thinks that they should be able to remove their name at 26 any time during the process. He further said that he would like to have a provision that the 27 petitioners can withdraw the petition. 28 29 Ms. Thomas said that one of the conversations among the attorney and Staff is that there are a lot 30 of scenarios where someone could choose to cheat the system and this is to address legitimate 31 situations of the resident. The City Attorney and the Charter Commission has agreed to look at 32 an amendment to grant the Council specific authority to allow further restrictions on petitions 33 and do that by Ordinance rather than the Charter. 34 35 Ms. Thomas said that language regarding the City Clerk Administrator allowing removal of 36 names there is no language regarding removal of names. 37 38 Ms. Thomas said that the length of time is a difference of opinion because there is no way to 39 have a timeline with language of “as soon as practicable.” 40 41 Council Member Mueller said that now an insufficient petition has a defined time to become 42 sufficient. With the cleanup of the language, the dates and the timing shown in the flow charts 43 match. It is a change in that the charter amendment allows 'not to exceed 21 days' instead of the 44