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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 05/03/2006 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items, Chapter 5 Revision—DRAFT 20060502_2 Page 3 of 6 87 88 Section 5.02. .-venei a Pjra ,:. on- �Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter 89 shall be sponsored by a committee of five register 5 to 10 members who are voters of the City and 90 whose names and addresses -shallmust appear on the petition.. as the Sponsoring Committee. A 91 petition may eensistconsists of one or more papers, but pages-with separately circulated paw 92 shall eontainpage containing at its head„ or .,#..,,he `heire`o the information specified in sections 93 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply,respectively,to initiative, referendum and recall. .Efteh signer shall 94 The Committee 95 may obtain a sample petition from the City Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk-Administrator shall 96 provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is the total ballots cast for President 97 in the most recent Presidential election. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each 98 separate page of the petition shaRmust have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by 99 oath,. The certificate shall affirm that each signature was made in dieirthe 100 circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the 101 personvoter whose name it purports to be. The person making the eertifieate shall be a resident of the 102 City and iregisteired to vote.-and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a 103 petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their name and give their street address. 104 Any persenvoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in 105 writing fik-d-with the Clerk-Administrator before saidthe Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of 106 the sufficiency of the petition. 107 108 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The eonmnittee shall file the eo"Ieted 1091 ntimber of signers shall be at least fifteen 110 pereent foir initiative and irefeirendum,and for ree 1. , 111 eleetors who east their votes foir president at the last presidential eleetio 112 For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at 113 least the following required number of signatures: 114 -Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require at least 15 _percent of total ballots cast for President 115 in the most recent Presidential election. 116 -Petitions for Recall require at least 25 percent of total ballots cast for President in the most recent 117 Presidential election 119 Within 10 calendar days of receipt of the petition,the Clerk-Administrator shall 120 determine if its sufficiency an alp 121 declared by the City Council. Upon reeeivingfmal determination.the Clerk-Administrator shall 122 report the date of the determination and its sufficiency to the City Council. Upon receipt of the report, 123 the City Council shall immediately declare the 124 sufficiency of the petition by resolution, includingported date of determination of sufficiency. 125 126 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. i fth.Gouneil detenn res 127 , 128 together with a wiritten statement of its defeets,to the *nniftee. The eon%miffee shall have 129 thirty days in whieft to file additional signftture papefs.�_.&_Af*Zeorreet the petition in all o 130 partieu4afs, exeept that,in the ease of a petition for reeall, the eonmTAffee may not ehange the statemerA of 131 , 132 Clerk Adniinistrator shall again report to the Gouneil. ifthe Gouneil finds that the petition is still City of Mounds View