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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 11/13/2006 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items, Chapter 5 Revision-DRAFT 20061113 Page 3 of 6 91 Section 5.02. Gore,..,' Pfev 4en f Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter 92 shall be sponsored by a committee of five register- 5 to 10 members who are voters of the City 93 and whose names and addresses-,hallmust appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A 94 petition may eensist consists of one or more papers, but pages with each separately circulated paper 95 shall eentai.B.page containing at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 96 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. .Each signer shall 97 The 98 Sponsoring Committee may obtain a sample petition from the City Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk- 99 Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is based on the 100 total number of ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. All petition 101 circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition sh"must have appended 102 to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath;. The certificate shall affirm that each signature 103 was made in theifthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to 104 be the genuine signature of the perseevoter whose name it purports to be. The per-so„ making th-e 105 eei4i ;ea4e shall be a eside * f the City and registered to vote. and that each signer was presented 106 with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print 107 their name and give their street address. Any persen3 oter whose name appears on a petition may 108 withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing fAed-with the Clerk-Administrator before 109 saidthe Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the information related to the sufficiency of the 110 petition. 111 112 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The e mm;ttvo shall file the,.effl lete 113 petition in the effiee of the Glefk Adm4nistFaten The r-equifed ntuRber-of signers sha4l be at least 114 , a4 least�wefAy five per-eent of the total 115 nuffibef of eleetefs who east their-votes faf pfesiden4 at the last pfesidential eleetion. lfmnediately 116 t of the petition, the Clerk Administrator-shall examine the petition as to its suffieiefle�- 117 , the Couneil shall detefmifle by 118 Feselution the sti ffi.ieney of the petition-.-For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the 119 requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at least the following: 120 • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures of at least 15 percent of total ballots 121 cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 122 • Petitions for Recall require signatures of at least 25 percent of total ballots cast for President in 123 the most recent Presidential election. 124 If all requirements have been met, the Clerk-Administrator shall report to the City Council within 125 10 calendar days of receipt of the completed petition. The City shall immediately declare the 126 sufficiency of the petition by resolution. 127 128 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. if the Couneil detef v roes 129 , 130 ,to the sponsofing eoffmvittee. The eeffffnittee shall have 131 132 ,the eonunittee may not ehange the statefne.n.t 133 , 134 Glefk Administfatof:shall again r-epoft to the Gouneil. if the Gouneil finds that the petition is still 135 instiffieient of iffegulaf,the Clerk Adminis4atof shall file the petition a-Rd flotify the Sp . - 136 eonunittee. The final finding that the petition is insuffieient of irfegular-shall not pf!ejttdiee the filing of