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• Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 07/11/2006 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items,Chapter 5 IIIRevision—DRAFT 20060711 Page 1 of 7 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 Navin• refere ces to"see•le of Mo ds View". "re iste-ed 6 voters". "citizens of Mounds View". and"voters". 7 3. Section 5.01 define the term "voter". 8 4. Section 5.02 d fine committee as "Sponsoring Committee its size and membership_ 9 re•ui ement and etition signer re•uiremen . 10 5. Sectio. 5.03 clarify the oces. an• esuirement. for sufficienc i. 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 settin• of election ballot. 16 10. S- ' i ^.1: c s i v -c�uirements for"Recall" tis e '1 f. acti .s o C e• -A• n' i tr r 17 council member. and Council. 18 11. u . it _e ha_t-rc a • le_� 1 ' ' 't at. to" .er•- e i i.. .to " 19 12. _ n ove . •. a ' y the readers ability to understand the process required stens. a.• 1 se 'n 20 • ' cu .tle.- ase s.en. ' __ • se ' .It• ts- -. 21 13. 11. 'Ye t le , t-_ is- e .• - de IT•e t• e s• s• 's I . 22 23 CHAPTER 3 24 25 COUNCIL PROCEDURE 26 27 Section 3.05. Procedure on Ordinances. Every proposed ordinance shall be presented in 28 writing and read in full before adoption,unless the reading is dispensed with by unanimous consent of 29 the Council. No ordinance shall contain more than one subject. Such subject shall be clearly expressed 30 in its title. The enacting clause shall be "The City of Mounds View ordains". No ordinance,except an 31 emergency ordinance shall be adopted at the meeting at which it is introduced and at least fourteen days 32 shall elapse between its introduction and final adoption. Every ordinance must contain a specified 33 effective date as noted in Section 3.09 of this Charter. 34 35 36 Section 3.07. Signing.and Publication of Ordinances. Every ordinance adopted by the Council 37 shall be signed by the Mayor, and attested to, filed and preserved by the Clerk-Administrator. Every 38 ordinance shall be published at least once in the official newspaper - — is blc_n_o earlier 39 than 7 cale dar da 's nor later than 14 calendar days from the date of passage, either in its complete 40 form preceded by a summary of its contents or as a title and summary.' 41 42 The Ordinance or the Ordinance Title and Summary shall be published in a body type no 43 smaller than brevier or eight-point type. A copy of any new ordinance may be obtained from the III1 it is the intent of the Charter Commission that the Council will determine which is less costly. City of Mounds View