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Within 10 calendar days of receipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall examine the pet determine if its sufficiency and report to the within to days-- the City Council. Upon Feeeivi final determination, the Clerk-Administrator shall report the date of the determination and its sufficiency to the Council. Upon receipt of the report, the Council shall determine immediately declare the sufficiency of the petition by resolution the stiffieieney including the reported date of determination of sufficiency. Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. If the cetineil Clerk- Administrator determines that the sufficiency of a petition iscannot be declared, it shall be determined to be insufficient or irregular. The Clerk-Administrator shall deliver a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, to the sponsoring committee and to the City Council within 10 calendar days. The committee shall have thirtyZ1 calendar days in which to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the petition in all other partiettlars,exeept that,in the case of a petition for r-eeall,the eommittee may not ehange the statement of the grounds on whieh the roes„ i h+.specified irreaularity. Within five9 calendar days of receipt of the corrected petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall again repot t, , „ne:,. if the Couneil finds that the pets determine if sufficiency of the petition as corrected can be declared by the City Council and proceed as directed in Section 5.03. If the etition is still insufficient or irregular, the City Council shall pass a resolution of Insufficiency and this shall be considered the Final Finding. The Clerk-Administrator shall file the petition as noted and notify the sponsoring committee within 10 calendar days that no further action will be taken. The final finding that the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose unless otherwise specified within this Charter. Except in the case of a petition for recall, it shall snot prevent the Council from referring the subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or special election. Section 5.05. Initiative. Any ordinance may be proposed by a-petition. state at the head of eaeh page or attach d - he exaet text of the proposed ordinanee. if the Goaneil passes proposed ordinanee with ameadments,and a majority of the sponsoring eorimnittee do not disapprove the arnead form by a statement filed with the Clerk Administrator within ten days of its passage by the Couneil,the efdinanee need not be submitted to the voters. if the Couneil fails to enaet the efdinanee in a fem aeeeptable to the majority of the sponsoring eennnittee within si*4y days after the final determination of suffieieney of the petition-, aw rdina ee as originally proposed s The exact text of the proposed ordinance must be stated at the head of each page of the petition or attached thereto. The petition once filed with the Clerk-Administrator shall be valid for 180 days during which time a completed petition with signatures must be filed. Within 60 calendar days after final determination of the petition's sufficiency under the provisions of Section 5.03 of this charter. the Council may either hold a first reading of the ordinance, as defined in Section 3.05 of this charter and proceed with the adoption process, or propose an amendment to the petitioned ordinance. If an amendment is proposed by a maiority vote of the Council and presented to the petition committee, the petition committee has 14 calendar days from the receipt of the amended proposed ordinance to disapprove the amendment by maiority vote, and file a statement with the Clerk-Administrator. Upon filing a statement of disapproval, the proposed ordinance, as stated on the original petition, must be placed on the ballot at the next election occurring in the City. if no o,oe..e .s to ae-eurw ithi