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Page 3 July 13, 1998 Mounds View City Council Koopmeiners re-read the requested Consent Agenda Items. 6. RESIDENTS' REQUESTS AND COMMENTS FROM THE FLOOR No resident requests or comments were considered from the floor. David Janke, 8428 Eastwood Road, wished Mayor McGarry a speedy recovery. He also asked if the City's golf course lost money during the year 1997 and if the facility would make money for the year 1998. Whiting offered to furnish Janke with the figures for the golf course's 1997 season. He told Janke that to date, the facility was doing very good for the 1998 season. Mr. Janke asked if the total spending to date for the construction of the Community Center had in any way exceeded the Charter Commission allowance of "10 percent or 20 percent". Whiting told Janke the total budget to date was $6.2 million. This amount included property purchase, cost of the election, Phase 1 Children's Home Society and now Phase 2 Community Center; the Community Center being the last Phase at $4.1 million. 7. COUNCIL BUSINESS A. Consideration of Resolution No. 5251, Concerning Sufficiency of Corrected Petition for Initiative Regarding the Project Commonly Known as the Theater Project. Whiting gave his report as follows: The first petition that was submitted contained 733 signatures. There are 859 signatures required based on Charter requirements. The matter had been voted on by the City Council and a finding was made that the petition as submitted was not sufficient. The Charter allows the citizens to address the imperfections contained in the petition. Another 155 signatures came in and were verified by the City's election judges. The revised petition count was stated as being 882. The reason for the Resolution was that the petition was not worded properly and thus the Council deemed the petition insufficient under the advise of the City's Attorney. Resolution 5251 acknowledged the increase in the number of signatures on the petition but it also acknowledged that the language of the petition had not changed, thus the recommendation that the petition be considered insufficient. City Attorney Long gave his report as follows: