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-2- 5/25/93 the petition was presented with the full text of the petition . The advantages and disadvantages of including a sample petition in the charter as done in Crystal was discussed . Sue Hankner volunteered to draft the language of Chapter 5 and offered to include a sample petition in her draft for the commission to review. The decision on whether to keep a sample petition would be reserved until the draft was reviewed by the commission . §5 . 03 - Threshold of Petitioners to Cause an Election After discussing the actual numbers of petitioners required to cause an election for a voter initiative or referendum, the commission agreed to adopt the new standard of "20% who voted for mayor in the last preceding general election . " There was no discussion of recall petitions . The 10 days review time for the Clerk-Administrator to examine the petitions will be clarified by the language " 10 working days . " §5 . 04 Disposition of Petition The commission agreed it was necessary to make two changes in this section : ( 1 ) allow the petition to be presented to the "Clerk-Administrator or their designee , " and ( 2 ) clarify the time for presenting a recall petition to the council as "five working days . " $5 . 05 - Initiative The words " or resolution " need to be deleted to conform with §5 . 01 . §5 . 07 & §5 . 08 Referendum & Recall These sections need to be conformed to the preceding sections , deleting "or resolution . " §5 . 08 - Recall After discussing the use of the recall section and whether to delete "misfeasance " the commission decided to make no changes . §6 . 02 Administrative Organization The consensus is to include a statement authorizing the clerk- administrator to delegate duties . The commission ' s goal is to authorize the clerk-administrator to delegate duties while remaining accountable for the performance of subordinates . Richard Oman volunteered to re-write Chapter 6 incorporating these goals and following the second alternative he proposed for §6 . 03 . (One other small change to be included is to add the word " office " at the end of §6 . 02 , subd . 1 . No changes were made to §6 . 04 .