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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 11/13/2006 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items, Chapter 5 411 Revision—DRAFT 20061113 Page 4 of 6 137 _ ._ _ _ .. .. • - - - --- - - - - •_ - .:•1_ 138 _ ._ ' •. . _ . _ . _ -- _ . . . . - •. . If the Clerk-Administrator determines 139 that the petition cannot meet the requirements for sufficiency, a copy of the petition, together with a 140 written statement of its defects, shall be delivered to the sponsoring committee and to the City 141 Council within 10 calendar days of receipt of the completed petition. As specified in this Charter, 142 the committee shall have 30 calendar days to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the 143 specified irregularity. Within 9 calendar days of receipt of the corrected petition, the Clerk- 144 Administrator shall determine whether the petition as corrected meets the requirements for 145 sufficiency and shall proceed as directed in Section 5.03. If the petition is still insufficient or 146 irregular, the City Council shall direct the Clerk-Administrator to file the petition as noted and 147 notify the sponsoring committee within 10 calendar days that no further action will be taken. The 148 Final Finding that the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new 149 petition for the same purpose unless otherwise specified within this Charter. Except in the case of a 150 petition for recall, it shall not prevent the Council from referring the subject matter of the petition to 151 the voters at the next regular or special election. 152 153 Section 5.05. Ballot Issue Requirements. If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a ballot 154 and is in compliance with Chapter 4 of this Charter, at or before its next regularly scheduled 155 meeting, the City Council shall pass a resolution placing the measure on a ballot. If it is within 120 156 calendar days of a primary or general election and all of the county election requirements can be 157 met, the measure shall be placed on the ballot at the next regularly scheduled election. • 158 159 If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a ballot but cannot be placed on the ballot at a 160 regularly scheduled election, at or before its next regularly scheduled meeting, the City Council 161 shall pass a resolution placing the measure on the ballot and calling for a special election to be held 162 within 120 calendar days of said meeting. However, no special elections can be held between a 163 regular primary election and a regular general election or 40 calendar days after a regular general 164 election. If there is no regular primary election then no special election shall be held within 60 165 calendar days prior to a regular general election. 166 167 Section 5.056. Initiative*. Any ordinance may be proposed by a-petition which shall state at the 168 head of each page or attached thereto the exact text of the proposed ordinance. If the Council 169 .. - - . ... _ ' - . • . , - . - - - •- : ••: -:•• ••• _ .. 170 -: . _ . _ . t--t- - . . - - _• 171 of its passage by the Council, the ordinance need not be submitted to the voters. If the Council fails 172 . _ . - •- . . _ - . •• •-- - • - - - - - - - - •- • -- - .. _ • ' 173 days after the final determination of sufficiency of the petition, the ordinance as originally proposed 174 shall be placed on the ballot at the next election occurring in the City. If no election is to occur 175 within 120 days after the filing of the petition, the Council shall call a special election on the 176 . • . - - :t -- . • - - . _ •. . . --.•: -•- - - - •_ . . • . - - _ - . 177 favor, it shall become effective thirty days after adoption unless the ordinance specifies a later 178 effective date. (Amended,Ord. 650, 8 16 2000). The exact text of the proposed ordinance must be 179 stated at the head of each page of the petition or attached thereto. Within 60 calendar days after 180 final determination of the petition's sufficiency under the provisions of Section 5.03 and 5.04 of this 181 Charter, the Council may either hold a first reading of the ordinance, as defined in Section 3.05 of 182 this charter, and proceed with the normal ordinance adoption process,which does not exclude the