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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 07/11/2006 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items, Chapter 5 Revision—DRAFT 20060711 Page 3 of 7 88 89 Section 5.02. .-venei a Pjra ,:. on- �Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter 90 shall be sponsored by a committee of five register 5 to 10 members who are voters of the City and 91 whose names and addresses -shallmust appear on the petition.. as the Sponsoring Committee. A 92 petition may eensistconsists of one or more papers, but pages-with separately circulated paw 93 shall eoniainpage containing at its head, or ..ttaehe thei eto, the information specified in sections 94 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply,respectively,to initiative, referendum and recall. .Efteh signer shall 95 The Committee 96 may obtain a sample petition from the City Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk-Administrator shall 97 provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is the total ballots cast for President 98 in the most recent Presidential election. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each 99 separate page of the petition shaRmust have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by 100 oath,. The certificate shall affirm that each signature was made in dieirthe 101 circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the 102 personvoter whose name it purports to be. The person making the eertifieate shall be a resident of the 103 City and iregisteired to vote.-and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a 104 petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their name and give their street address. 105 Any persenvoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in 106 writing fik-d-with the Clerk-Administrator before saidthe Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of 107 the sufficiency of the petition. 108 109 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The eonmnittee shall file the eo"Ieted 1101 ntimber of signers shall be at least fifteen 111 pereent foir initiative and irefeirendum,and for ree 1. , 112 eleetors who east their votes foir president at the last presidential eleetio 113 For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at 114 least the following: 115 -Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures of at least 15 percent of total 116 ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 117 -Petitions for Recall require signatures of at least 25 percent of total ballots cast for President 118 in the most recent Presidential election 120 immediately upon Within 10 calendar days of receipt of the petition,the Clerk-Administrator shall 121 determine if its sufficiency and fepoA to the Gouneil within ten days7.gaan alp 122 declared by the City Council. Upon reeeivingfmal determination.the Clerk-Administrator shall 123 report the date of the determination and its sufficiency to the City Council. Upon receipt of the report, 124 the City Council shall immediately declare the 125 sufficiency of the petition by resolution, includingported date of determination of sufficiency. 126 127 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. i fth.Gouneil detenn res 128 , 129 together with a wiritten statement of its defeets,to the *nniftee. The eon%miffee shall have 130 thirty days in whieft to file additional signftture papefs�ffla.&_Af*Zeorreet the petition in all o 131 partieu4afs, exeept that,in the ease of a petition for reeall, the eonmTAffee may not ehmge the statemerA of 132 , 133 Clerk Adniinistrator shall again report to the Gouneil. ifthe Gouneil finds that the petition is still City of Mounds View