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Item No: 8B Meeting Date: October 3, 2005 Type of Business: Special Session City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Kurt Ulrich, City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Resolution 6649 Approving the Sufficiency of Petition in Opposition of Ordinance 760, an Ordinance Authorizing Disposal by Sale of Real Property Owned by the City of Mounds View to the Mounds View Economic Development Authority Background: On Monday, August 15, 2005, staff proceeded with determining the validity of the petition against Ordinance 760, an Ordinance Authorizing the Disposal by Sale of Real Property owned by the City of Mounds View to the Mounds View Economic Development Authority. On August 22, 2005, the City Council adopted Resolution 6608, determining that the referendum petition was insufficient, finding the referendum question invalid, and declaring that such question shall not be certified for a special election. According to 5.02 of the City Charter it states: Section 5.02. General Provisions for Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by a committee of five registered voters of the City whose names and addresses shall appear on the petition. A petition may consist of one or more papers, but each separately circulated paper shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. Each signer shall be a registered voter of the City and shall sign their name and give their street address. Each separate page of the petition shall have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath, that each signature appended thereto was made in their presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. The person making the certificate shall be a resident of the City and registered to vote. In order to validate the petition, staff developed a database to track each resident that signed the petition. Each resident was checked on the Ramsey County Registered Voter Master List. This list contains all registered voters in the City of Mounds View. After this was completed, Staff checked all determined Non-Registered voters on the Minnesota Statewide Voter Registration System. This system is updated daily, and has the most updated information on registered voters. Names were rejected if they had the incorrect or missing address, incorrect or missing year of birth, illegible names, or if they were not registered.