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Section 8.05. Procedure for Public Improvements not funded by Special Assessment 214 The Council may pay all the cost of Local or Public Improvements without Special Assessment to 215 the Benefited Property. The Council may utilize fund balances of dedicated funds previously collected for 216 the purpose of Local or Public improvement, may allocate a combination of dedicated funds with the 217 General funds to fund the Local or Public improvement, however may not use the General fund for the 218 Local or Public Improvement if the dedicated fund is not fully utilized before General funds are allocated. 219 This section prescribes the procedures that shall be followed and applied when Special 220 Assessments are not used for any of the financing of Local or Public Improvement in the City of Mounds 221 View. 222 223 Subdivision 1. Local Improvements with Dedicated Fund Financing 224 A. Initiation: All improvements to be paid for by Dedicated fund shall be initiated by one of the 225 following: a.) a petition (see “8.05 Sub1, B” below) together with a resolution adopted by an 226 affirmative vote of three of the five members of the Council, or; 227 b.) a resolution adopted by an affirmative vote of four of the five members of the Council. 228 B. Qualified Petition and Petitioner. 229 1. Petitions from citizens regarding a proposed Local Improvement project must meet certain 230 criteria. Any petition failing to meet these criteria will receive no consideration by City. 231  First, the Public Improvement petition must be for and include on the petition cover page a 232 specific proposal for a defined geographic area, a specific real property impact, a quantifiable 233 benefit to the City and properties affected, and propose the Dedicated Funds account to be 234 allocated for the financing. 235  Second, the petition must be of interest to and impact more than a single property, 236  Third, the petition may not request any action which would be a violation of MN Statutes or 237 local ordinances. 238  Fourth, the completed petition consists of one or more pages, gathered together and numbered 239 as a whole into a single document. Each signature page will contain the title of the proposal, the 240 geographic scope, the general change, the proposed financing method and costs to individual 241 property owners, the sponsor’s name, the dated signature and printed name and address of those 242 signing. 243  Fifth, the completed petition will be submitted for qualification review to the City 244 Administrator, or Assistant City Administrator, no later than 180 days from the date of the first 245 signature on the signature pages. 246  Sample petition will be made up b y City Staff and available for any property owner or citizen 247 interested in sponsoring a petition. 248 249 2. Petitioners are: 250  Any person whose name is listed as owner of the property with the Ramsey County Property 251 Records Office is to be recognized by the City as the property owner. 252  Any person who is the owner of a benefited property in a proposed Local Improvement, is a 253 qualified person to propose, circulate, and sign a petition. 254  Any person whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by a statement in 255 writing filed with the Council before such petition is presented to the Council. 256 3. Petitions must be submitted and conducted by a benefited property owner(s).A qualified petition 257 will have the signatures of at minimum twenty-five percent of the benefited property owners in the 258 proposed Local Improvement area. City Staff shall provide any benefited property owner the 259 complete list of names of property owners for a proposed Local Improvement area. 260 4. City Staff shall qualify petition based on items 8.05.Subd B:Ph 1,2, and 3 previous. City Staff 261 shall report receipt of all petitions for Local Improvements. The report shall include the primary 262