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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 10/09/2006 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items, Chapter 5 Revision—DRAFT 20061009 Page 3 of 7 87 register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200.039, as 88 amended, eligibility to signpetition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did 89 cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and referendum and ballot issue time 90 lines are attached to the end of this charter. 91 92 Section 5.02. General P,.,,vi4ens f r Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter 93 shall be sponsored by a committee of five register- 5 to 10 members who are voters of the City 94 and whose names and addresses 4+aUniust appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A 95 petition may ensist consists of one or more papers, btrt pages with each separately circulated papef- 96 shall eentai.n.page containing at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 97 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. .Eaek s;R„or shall 98 The 99 Committee may obtain a sample petition from the City Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk- 100 Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is based on the 101 total number of ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. All petition 102 circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition sha must have appended 103 to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath;. The certificate shall affirm that each signature 104 appended thefete was made in theifthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to 105 be the genuine signature of the pevsenvoter whose name it purports to be. The per-son making the 106 eei4i ease shall be a esideff* f the City and registered to vote and that each signer was presented 107 with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print 108 their name and give their street address. Any pefsen- oter whose name appears on a petition may 109 withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing€ie4-with the Clerk-Administrator before no s-aidthe Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the information related to the sufficiency of the 111 petition. 112 113 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The ,.,,wAniaee shall file the ,.,,Y,pletoa 114 petition in the offiee of the Clerk Administfatef. The r-equi-fed nthmber-of signers shall be at least 115 , 116 fv&mber-of eleeter-s who east their-votes f6r-president a4 the last presidential eleetie 117 For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at 118 least the following: 119 • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures of at least 15 percent of total 120 ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 121 • Petitions for Recall require signatures of at least 25 percent of total ballots cast for President 1�� in the most recent Presidential election 124 lfmnedia4ely upon Within 10 calendar daoreceipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall 125 examine the petition as to its determine if all requirements for sufficiency have been met and report 126 to the Ci . County at or before the next regularly scheduled meeting_ and fepet4 to the Cetmei 127 within ten ,a Upon reeeiv. determination, the Clerk-Administrator shall report the date of the 128 determination of meetingthe he requirements for sufficiency to the City Council. Upon receipt of the 129 report, the City Council shall determine by resolutiOn the sHffi.ieney Of the '^e* immediately 130 declare the sufficiency of the petition by resolution, includingtported date of determination of City of Mounds View