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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 3/9/2006 ' Charter Updates: Category 2 Items, Chapter 5 Revision—DRAFT 6 Page 1 of 5 1 Charter Commission Objectives: 2 1. Response to request made by the City Council to provide both marked up and proposed 3 version of the text 4 2. Throughout the Chapter clarify Mounds View resident terminology usage so that references 5 are more consistent rather than having references to "people of Mounds View", "registered 6 voters", "citizens of Mounds View", and"voters". 7 3. Section 5,01 define the term "voter". 8 4. Section 5.02 define committee as"Sponsoring Committee", its size and membership 9 requirement,_and petition signer requirement. 10 5. Section 5.03 clarify the process and requirements for sufficiency. 11 6. Section 5.04 clarify the process for insufficient petitions. 12 7. Section 5.05 clarify the process for Initiative and process time line. 13 8. Section 5.06 correct "electors"to "voters". 14 9. Section 5.07 correct"into operations"to "enactment", correct "electors"to "voters", assure 15 Chapter 4 applies to setting of election ballot. 16 10. Section 5.08 clarify requirements for"Recall", time line for actions of Clerk-Administrator. 17 council member, and Council, 18 11. Through-out the Chapter change Clerk/Administrator to "Clerk-Administrator" . 19 12. Improve and clarify the readers ability to understand the process, required steps, and time 20 line for circulating and submitting a petition to the City. • 21 13. Improve the Chapters time elapse definitions to calendar days. 22 23 CHAPTER 5 24 INITIATIVE,REFERENDUM AND RECALL 25 26 Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the People. The people of Mounds Vicw reserve to 27 themselves the powers in accordance with the provisions of this Charter to initiate and adopt 28 ordinances and resolutions, to require measures passed by the Council to be referred to the 29 electorate for approval or disapproval, and to recall elected public officials. These powers shall be 30 called the initiative, the referendum, and the recall, respectivclyGeneral Voter Authority. The 31 people of Mounds View, have the right, in accordance with this Charter, to propose ordinances 32 [initiatives and to res vire that an ordinance be referred to the voters referendum exce.t those 33 that appropriate money, levy taxes or deal with administrative issues(MN Statute ). The voters 34 also have the right to remove elected public officials [recall-1. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 35 5, shall refer only to residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered 36 and are qualified to vote, Per Minnesota Statute 200.039 (as amended), eligibility to sign the 37 petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous 38 election. For clarity flow charts and a referendum time line are attached to the end of this chapter. 39 40 Section 5.02. General Provisions for Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter 41 shall be sponsored by a committee of five registered 5 to 15 members who are voters of the City 42 and whose names and addresses shall appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A 43 petition may-eettsistconsists of one or more papers, but pages with each separately circulated paper • 44 shat page containing at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in sections City of Mounds View