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RESOLUTION NO.9553 <br />CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW <br />COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br />RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING RESOLUTION NO. 9547 <br />REGARDING A PETITION FILED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, <br />SECTION 410.12, SUBDIVISION 7 <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 410.12, subd. 7, the Mounds View <br />Charter Commission presented to the Mounds View City Council a proposed ordinance amending <br />section 7.03 of the Mounds View City Charter; and <br />WHEREAS, on December 13, 2021 the Mounds View City Council passed Ordinance No. <br />984 to enact the proposed amendment to section 7.03 of the Mounds View City Charter and <br />Ordinance No. 984 was published on December 21, 2021; and <br />WHEREAS, the amendment to the Mounds View City Charter becomes effective on <br />March 21, 2022 unless a petition requesting a referendum on the ordinance is filed by February 22, <br />2022; and <br />WHEREAS, on January 25, 2022 a petition was filed with the City Clerk; and <br />WHEREAS, on February 4, 2022, the City Council called a special meeting regarding the <br />petition and passed Resolution No. 9547 accepting the findings of the City Clerk that the petition <br />was deficient; and <br />WHEREAS, petitioners were provided with a notice of insufficiency on February 4, 2022, <br />which provided that February 14, 2022, was the 10-day statutory deadline for submitting an <br />amended petition; and <br />WHEREAS, petitioners submitted a letter through their attorney on February 14, 2022, <br />objecting to, seeking reconsideration of, and otherwise appealing the notice of insufficiency and <br />stating that the City Clerk must immediately reverse the notice of insufficiency and accept the <br />petition as sufficient; and <br />WHEREAS, the letter did not explicitly state that the letter constituted the submission of <br />an amended or new petition nor was an amended or new version of the petition submitted with the <br />letter; and <br />WHEREAS, the City Clerk may respond to the letter using the process for an amended <br />petition as described in Minnesota Statutes, Section 410.12 even though no actual petition has been <br />submitted; and <br />DOCSOPEN\MU2 1 0\4\780902. v2-2/17/22 <br />