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' t • This number shall be at least ten percent for initiative and referendum, and at least twenty percent for recall of the total number of electors who cast their votes at the last regular city election. The city clerk shall then have an additional five days to report to the city council as to the sufficiency of the petition. Upon receiving the report, the council shall determine and declare within a fourteen day period whether or not the petition is sufficient. Sec. 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. If the council determines that the petition is insufficient or irregular, the city clerk shall deliver a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, to the sponsoring committee. The committeeshall have thirty days in which to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the petition in all other` particulars, except that, in the case of a petition for recall, the committee may not change the statement of the • grounds on which,the recall is sought. If at the end of that period the council finds that the petition is still insufficient or irregular, the city clerk shall file the petition in the clerk's office and notify the sponsoring committee. The final finding that the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose, nor shall it prevent the council from referring the subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or special election. Sec. 5.05. Initiative. Consideration by the electorate of. an ordinance, resolution or other measure may be initiated by petition. The petition shall state at the head of each page, or attached thereto, the exact text of the proposed measure. The council shall enact the proposed measure within thirty days after the final determination of the sufficiency of the petition, or place the measure on the ballot at the next election occurring in the city. • -2-