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Mounds View Charter Commission Date 01/26/06 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items,Chapter 5 Revision—Draft 4 Page 1 of 4 Charter Commission Objectives. not inclusive or all language 1. Response to request made by the City Council to provide both marked up and proposed version of the text 2. Throughout the Chapter clarify Mounds View resident terminology usage so theat references are more consistent rather than having references to"people of Mounds View". "registered voters". "citizens of Mounds View". and"voters". 3. Section 5.01 define the term"voter". 4. Section 5.02 define committee as "Sponsoring Committee". its size and membership requirement.and petition signer requirement. 5. Section 5.03 clarify the process and requirements for sufficiency. 6. Section 5.04 clarify the process for insufficient petitions. 7. Section 5.05 clarify the process for Initiative and process time line. 8. Section 5.06 correct"electors"to"voters". 9. Section 5.07 correct"into operations"to"enactment".correct"electors"to"voters". assure Chapter 4 applies to setting of election ballot. 10. Section 5.08 clarify requirements for"Recall". time line for actions of Clerk-Administrator, council member. and Council. 11. Through-out the Chapter change Clerk/Administrator to"Clerk-Administrator" . 12. Improve and clarify the readers ability to understand the process, required steps, and time line for circulating and submitting a petition to the Citv. 13. Improve the Chapters time elapse definitions to calendar days. Section 5.01. Powefs Reseffed bv the PeoDle.General Voter Authority. The people of Mounds View reserve to themselves have the powers-=n �t in accordance with the pfovisions of this Charter to initiate atid adopt this Charter,to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance be referred to the , voters [referendum], except those that appropriate moneyovv taxes. The voters also have the right to remove elected public officials. , respeetively:[recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200.039 (as amended), eligibility, to sign the petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and a referendum time line are attached to the end of this chapter. Section 5.02.Gette-al Pro • 4on �Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by a committee of five registered to fifteen members who are voters of the City and whose names and addresses shall appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A petition may e 3n4stgonsists of one or more a es with each separately circulated paper shall eonta page containing at its head, or aftaehed thereto,the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply,respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. - steet adress—The committee may obtain a sample petition from the city Clerk-Administrator. All petition circulators must be voters of the City.Each separate page of the petition sha4must have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath;The certificate shall affirm that each signatureftppended4hereto was made in tkeirthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the perseavoter whose name it purports to be. 41te person nwlting the eertifieate shall be a resident ofthe City and registered to vote.- be and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the Citv and must sign and print their name and give their street address. Any perseavoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writingfrled with the Clerk-Administrator before sa�the Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. City of Mounds View