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Within 10 calendar days of receipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall examine the • petition as to determine if its sufficiency and report to the Council within ten days.can be declared by the City Council. Upon recfinal determination, the Clerk-Administrator shall report the date of the determination and its sufficiency to the Council. Upon receipt of the report, the Council shall determine immediately declare the sufficiency of the petition by resolution the sufficiency of the petitionincluding the reported date of determination of sufficiency. Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. If the Council Clerk- Administrator determines that the sufficiency of a petition iscannot be declared, it shall be determined to be insufficient or irregular-tee. The Clerk-Administrator shall deliver a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, to the sponsoring committee and to the City Council within 10 calendar days. The committee shall have thifty21 calendar days in which to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the statement-of-the grounds-or iseh4he-feeail-is-seught.specified irregularity. Within €v-e9 calendar days of receipt of the corrected petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall again-Pepe -t e €ounc i. i'-the-Coanc-i1- rods-that-4 -petition-determine if sufficiency of the petition as corrected can be declared by the City Council and proceed as directed in Section 5.03. If the petition is still insufficient or irregular, the City Council shall pass a resolution of Insufficiency and this shall be considered the Final Finding. The Clerk-Administrator shall file the petition as noted and notify the sponsoring committee within 10 calendar days that no further action will be taken. The final finding that the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose,nor unless otherwise specified within this Charter. Except in the case of a petition for recall, • it shall it-not prevent the Council from referring the subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or special election. Section 5.05. Initiative. Any ordinance may be proposed by a-petition.-which shall state at the-hem-oma ei ag err-attached-t -ete-the-e-xac-t-te- e#=trie-1 aps d-er iftanc-e—ff-tl e-C-ou3 it-passim tine pfoposed-srdinanee-with-amendine and-a--majority-ref-tie-spore- sori eonn -ittee-de-net-dapp+sve-the-amended need not be submitted to the voters. If the Council fails to enact the ordinance in a form acceptable to the majority ordinance-as-originally prepesed-shred The exact text of the proposed ordinance must be stated at the head of each page of the petition or attached thereto. The petition once filed with the Clerk-Administrator shall be valid for 180 days during which time a completed petition with signatures must be filed. Within 60 calendar days after final determination of the petition's sufficiency under the provisions of Section 5.03 of this charter, the Council may either hold a first reading of the ordinance, as defined in Section 3.05 of this charter and proceed with the adoption process, or propose an amendment to the petitioned ordinance. if an amendment is proposed by a majority vote of the Council and presented to the petition committee the petition committee has 14 calendar da s from the receipt of the amended proposed ordinance to disapprove the amendment by majority vote, and file a statement with the Clerk-Administrator. Upon filing a statement of disapproval the Proposed ordinance as stated on the ori•inal petition must be placed on the ballot at the next election occurring in the City. If no election is to occur within -0_days-a-fter-the-feline-efthe-petition-the-Cau cell-shall-ezill-a-spealal election-on e-vrdinance4e-be-held-within •