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I Resolution No. 2003-05 City o L Mounds View Charter Commission n ]VIOunds 4 Dated October 10, 2003 '- lit 6C:5'410 View _T; r Whereas 4 , the Mounds View Charter Commission is reviewing the lists of past View art e;• :a'!1- E requests for housekeeping and clarification updates to sections of the Mo C Commission ' Charter that have caused confusion or seem to be semantically incorrect. I. F',, The Mounds View Charter Commission acting under Minnesota Statute 410.12 Chair Vi 1:.; Subdivision 7, recommends the following amendments by the replacement in its I Jonathan J Thomas 1; 763-784-5205 R entirety of Chapter 5 of the Mounds View Charter with the following replacement lr language. The Mounds View Charter Commission requests the City Council adopt Vice Chair l by ordinance those items it is in unanimous agreement with. We also request a Michele Sandbacic li response within 60 days with recommendations for modifications to any wording 763-783-1770 .`1 i3' that the City Council deems not acceptable as presented. 1 2"d Vice Chair r Daniel Freimuth P INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL 763-780-3371 Section 5.01. General Voter Authority. The people of Mounds View have p Secretary the right, in accordance with this Charter, to propose ordinances [initiative] and to Brian Amundsen i g 763-786-5699 (= require that any ordinance be referred to the voters [referendum], except those that i, appropriate money or levy taxes. The voters also have the right to remove elected Bill Doty tipublic officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to 763-786-3421 l' residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and Matthew Eenigenburg a are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200.039.(as amended), eligibility to 763-783-7216 sign the petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast i: ballots in the previous election. i:4 Sn Miller l -786-3959 i Section 5.02. Petitions. To circulate a petition provided for under this P, chapter, it must be sponsored by a committee of five or more voters of the City William78Mori `' whose names and addresses appear on the petition. A petition consists of one or 763-784-3645 i 1,11 more pages with each separately circulated page containing at its head the Barbara Thomas i information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to 763.780-6226 a initiative, referendum and recall. The committee may obtain a sample petition from the city Clerk-Administrator. All petition circulators must be voters of the City Each William Werner Sr lw separate page of the petition must have appended to it a certificate by the 763-784-3603 !y circulator, verified by oath. The certificate shall affirm that each signature was made in the circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine hi signature of the voter whose name it purports to be and that each signer was , presented with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City 14 11 and must sign and print their name and give their street address. Any voter whose 11 name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing 0 with the Clerk-Administrator before the Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of i:� �q', the sufficiency of the petition. IyF F^7 ; Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee must file 1 the completed petition in the office of the Clerk-Administrator. The t Clerk-Administrator shall provide the number of total ballots cast for President in 11 the most recent Presidential election. For a petition to be sufficient, the required 1;31 I"'; number of signatures shall be a percentage of that number. • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require at least 15 percent. 4110 -.A • Petitions for Recall, at least 25 percent. Page 1 of 3 _-_ " 1 i - -