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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 05/03/2006 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items, Chapter 5 Revision—DRAFT 20060502 jjt Page 3 of 6 81 the petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous 8 election. For clarity flow charts and a referendum time line are attached to the end of this chapter. 89 90 Section 5.02. General P,.,,vi4e,,s f r Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter 91 shall be sponsored by a committee of five register- a 5 to 10 members who are voters of the City 92 and whose names and addresses lmust appear on the petition.. as the Sponsoring Committee. A 93 petition may eefisistconsists of one or more papers, btA pages with each separately circulated paw 9 shall eentai page containing at its head„ or attaehed thereto the information specified in sections 95 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. .Eaek s;R„or shall 9 The 9 Committee may obtain a sample petition from the City Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk- 98 Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is the total 99 ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. All petition circulators must be 10 voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition sha44must have appended to it a certificate by 101 the circulator, verified by oath;. The certificate shall affirm that each signature appended thefete 102 was made in theifthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine 103 signature of the persenyoter whose name it purports to be. The per-so making the eei4 fieate 10 . and that each signer was presented with the full 105 petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign- print their name 10 and give their street address. Any pefsen oter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw 10 their name by filin& a statement in writing 41ed-with the Clerk-Administrator before s-aidthe Clerk- 108 Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. 109 110 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The e mm;ttvo shall file the ,.,,.,,.,le 111 petition in the offiee of the Clerk Administmter-. The r-e"ir-ed fmmber-of signers shall be at least 11 , at least�weaty five pefeent of the total 113 number of eleeter-s who east their-votes for-pr-esident at the last pr-esidential eleefie 11 For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at 115 least the following required number of signatures: 116 • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require at least 15 percent of total ballots cast for 117 President in the most recent Presidential election. 11 • Petitions for Recall require at least 25 percent of total ballots cast for President in the most 118 recent Presidential election 121 lfmned ately upon Within 10 calendar daoreceipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall 122 examine the petition as to determine if its sufficiency an r oi4 to the Getineil within ten day-s.can 123 be declared by the City Council. Upon reeeiv. final determination, the Clerk-Administrator shall 124 report the date of the determination and its sufficiency to the City Council. Upon receipt of the 125 report, the City Council shall determine by resolution the suffi.ieney of the re* immediately 12 declare the sufficiency of the petition by resolution, includingtported date of determination of 12 sufficiency. 128 129 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. if the r,,,,nei dete ,:Hines 13 , 131 ,to the sponser-ing eeffimittee. The eon*P.4ttee shall have City of Mounds View