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<br />I know a lot of you care about this issue, so I wanted to bring everyone up to speed with where this issue is right now. So now it is up to the city council to do the right thing. <br />V. Amundsen responses to comments <br />William Stoffel - The petition was simply bringing an Ordinance the city passed back to the voters for a vote. When a council passes a change to charter language, citizens can bring <br /> the issue to the ballot box if they get 5% voter's signatures in a petition, and then decide the issue instead of the council. We got more than 5%, but city claimed wrong form was <br /> used, and wrongly threw out the petition. That apparently is not legal in MN according to current law, and they were advised of that today. <br /> <br />Bob King - Yes Bob, the elections office was copied and notified. But the county does NOT make the decision about determining sufficiency of petitions. Read the letter (Chris above <br /> posted a link to the letter) - it explains everything. The county did NOT consider the relevant statute in determining, and there is case law and precedence that the petition was sufficient <br /> in current form. It's a very detailed legal read. 12 pages long! Everything is thoroughly covered. I think it will help you understand. <br /> <br />Scott Gamelin response - Thank you for putting in your time and everything else you do. Maybe these people should step down that are responsible for their incompetence of doing their <br /> duty. Corruption starts at all levels I see. Way to go Mounds View city council people. What a embarrassment, you people should be ashamed of yourselves and the shit you all try to <br /> pull. <br /> <br />Scott Gamelin - I think some good and decent people who really want to listen to the people of Mounds View need to start thinking about running for Council and Mayor. We will have 3 <br /> seats to fill later this year. We can speak with our votes come November, and get this city back on track. <br /> <br />Marissa Sweet - Brian and I have been a part of this community since 1979. This is our home, and we love the people in this community. Walking and talking with folks made this even <br /> more personal. We heard stories of seniors struggling to stay in their homes, people actually seriously considering moving out of MV because of city stuff going on, and many other <br /> stories too many to tell here. This is not our petition - it is the people's petition. We got 98% of those we asked to sign, actually wanting to sign. Many more signatures could <br /> have been gathered had we continued longer. But we had more than enough signatures, and we were concerned about the walker's well being when the weather turned really cold. <br /> <br />Andrea Shoup (one of the petition circulators) Thank you Valerie and Brian for the countless hours and now money spent hiring this law firm. Regardless of whether you as a resident support <br /> this petition, the city cannot disregard laws either through ignorance or intentionality. Our community deserves better than this. We need accountability. Sent from my iPhone "Fire <br /> is Everyone's Fight" <br /> <br />Don't forget to call or email your city council and Mayor about how you feel about this issue. And tell them that you expect them to follow the law. Hold them accountable. It is part <br /> of the oath they take when taking office. This is our statatory right to petition for this (MN 410.12, subd. 7) https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/410.12