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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 6/12/2007 Revision g-Chapter 5 Markup of Clear Text from Resolution 2007-01 b to -01 c Page 3 of 5 93 94 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. If the Clerk-Administrator 95 determines that the petition Ean does not meet the requirements for sufficiency, a copy of the petition, 96 together with a written statement of its defects, shall be delivered to the Sponsoring Committee and to 97 the City Council within ten(10) calendar days of receipt of the completed petition. As specified in this 98 Charter, the Sponsoring Committee shall have thirty (30) twenty-one (211 calendar days to file 99 additional signature papers and/or to correct the specified irregularity. Within nine (9) calendar days of 100 receipt of the corrected completed petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall determine whether the petition 101 as corrected meets the requirements for sufficiency and shall proceed as directed in Section 5.03. If the 102 petition is still insufficient or irregular, the City Council shall direct the Clerk-Administrator to file the 103 petition as noted and notify the sponsoring committee within ten(10) calendar days that no further 104 action will be taken. The final finding that the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the 105 filing of a new petition for the same purpose unless otherwise specified within this Charter. Except in 106 the case of a petition for recall, it shall not prevent the Council from referring the subject matter of the 107 petition to the voters at the next regular or special election. 108 109 Section 5.05. Ballot Issue Measure Requirements. If a measure meets the requirements to be put 110 on a ballot and is in compliance with Chapter 4 of this Charter, at or before its next regularly scheduled 111 meeting, the City Council shall pass a resolution placing the measure on a ballot. If it is within 120 112 calendar days of a primary or general election and all of the county election requirements can be met, 113 the measure shall be placed on the ballot at the next regularly scheduled election. 114 115 If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a ballot but cannot be placed on the ballot at a 116 regularly scheduled election, at or before its next regularly scheduled meeting, the City Council shall 117 pass a resolution placing the measure on the ballot and calling for a special election to be held within 118 120 calendar days of said meeting. However, no special elections can be held between a regular 119 primary election and a regular general election or 40 calendar days after a regular general election. If 120 there is no regular primary election then no special election shall be held within 60 calendar days prior 121 to a regular general election. 122 123 Section 5.06. Initiative*. An ordinance may be proposed by petition. The exact text of the 124 proposed ordinance must be stated at the head of each page of the petition or attached thereto. Within 125 sixty(60) calendar days after final determination of the petition's sufficiency Undef the pr-evisions of 126 according to Section 5.03 and 5.04 of this Charter, the Council must either adopt an ordinance agreed to 127 by Sponsoring Con*nit4ee to Subdivisions 1 or 2 of this section or pass a resolution to 128 place the measure on a ballot as provided in Subdivision 3. Any amendment to the proposed ordinance 129 must proceed according to Subdivision 2 of this section. If an ordinance is adopted. it shall become 130 effective thirty(30) calendar days after adoption unless the ordinance specifies a later effective date. If 131 the vote for adoption fails, the ordinance must be placed on the ballot as provided in Section 5.05. If a 132 ballot measure for a proposed ordinance fails the same measure is prohibited from being hit 133 forward again as an initiative within six months of the election certification. Failure of a ballot measure 134 for a proposed ordinance shall not prevent the City Council from proposing a similar ordinance. 135 136 Subdivision 1. If the Council elects to adopt the ordinance as provided by the petition without 137 amendment. defined i� they shall proceed in 138 accordance with Section 3.05 of this Charter. The Cotineil " the pr-eeeed with the nofmal ordi��„�o 139 a r- . ,eels, whieh does not exeli ao During this adoption process, the ordinance cannot be 140 amended but, if adopted, is subject t to the referendum process as defined in Section 5.07_ 141 propose an amendment to the petitioned afdiaaaee-.