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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 3/9/2006 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items, Chapter 5 Revision—DRAFT 6 -BA Notes added Page 2 of 7 39 40 Section 5.02. GeneralPjro .:4on- �Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter 41 shall be sponsored by a committee of five register 5 to 15 members who are 4 voters of the City 42 and whose names and addresses shafff-appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A 43 petition may eonsist consists of one or more papers, but. age�each separately circulated paper 44 shall ,.,.,,t,.: at its head, of attaehed thereto , the information specified in sections 45 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply,respectively,to initiative, referendum and recall. Eaeh signer shall 46 be a registered voter of the City and shall sign theif natne and give their street addfesS7-T he 47 committee may obtain a samepetition from the city Clerk-Administrator. All Petition circulators 48 must be voters of the City'. Each separate page of the petition sha44muse have appended to it a 49 certificate by the circulator, verified by oath;. The certificate shall affirm that each signature 50 was made in thei-rthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to 51 be the genuine signature of the personvoter whose name it purports to be. The person making Ot-&- 52 . and that each signer was presented 53 with the full etin tion.10 Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and rn int 54 their name and give their street address. Any persarzvoter whose name appears on a petition may 55 withdraw their name by filing"=a statement in writing fr4e,4-with the Clerk-Administrator before 56 sai4the Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. 57 58 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition SufficiencX. The committee shtrllmust file the 59 completed petition in the office of the Clerk-Administrator at least 10 calendar days before the 60 ordinance takes effect". 417-ifte-r-e-V- ired tmmber of signers shall be at least fifteen pefeent fof 61 , 62 The Clerk- 63 Administrator shall provide the number of total ballots cast for President in the most recent 64 Presidential election. For a petition to be sufficient, the required number of signatures shall be a 65 percentage of that number. 66 -Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require at least 15 percent. 67 -Petitions for Recall require at least 25 percent. 4 I prefer the language like"a minimum of five"rather than setting an upper limit. 5 "Shall"needs to be kept from a legal standing to assure the names are included on the petition,per MN Statute 645. 6 We need to reject this deletion and allow the attachment to the petition language to allow for explanations,or if we want the language to stay simple and straight forward then we need to consider language like"the proposed language or action,as applicable for section 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08,must be listed on the signature page of the petition". 7 We want this information on each petition as a means for the Clerk-Administrator to verify the voter is a resident, along with a new voter registration card if necessary. 8 The is a new requirement and would not allow voter's children or even non-voters to participate in collecting signatures,which seems like a restriction of rights to me. Our focus needs to be on who the signatures are and not how they were obtained. This will be particularly problematic with new electronic rules about signatures. 9 "Shall"and"must"have the same meaning in MN Statues 645. 10 This is a new requirement and it is impossible to do. The full petition would physically be the document with all required signatures. I believe what we mean is the full proposed language or action. 11 Can we change this phrase to"filing a written statement of withdrawal with the Clerk-Administrator..." 12 This is a limited time which is unnecessary. The Clerk-Administrator need only report to the Council a Petition exists and is received,that a potential sufficiency may come after examination. The Council should then delay ratifying any ordinance or action until after the sufficiency is determined. City of Mounds View