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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 3/9/2006 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items, Chapter 5 Revision—DRAFT 6 Page 1 of 5 1 Charter Commission Objectives: 2 1. Response to request made by the City Council to provide both marked JW and Provo sed 3 version of the text 4 2. Throughout the Chapter clarify Mounds View resident terminology usage so that references 5 are more consistent rather than having references to "people of Mounds View". "registered 6 voters". "citizens of Mounds View". and"voters". 7 3. Section 5.01 define the term "voter". 8 4. Section 5.02 define committee as "Sponsoring Committee", its size and membership 9 requirement, and petition signer requirement, 10 5. Section 5.03 clarify the process and requirements for sufficiency. 11 6. Section 5.04 clarify the process for insufficient petitions. 12 7. Section 5.05 clarify the process for Initiative and process time line. 13 8. Section 5.06 correct "electors"to "voters". 14 9. Section 5.07 correct "into operations"to "enactment". correct"electors"to "voters". assure 15 Chapterpplies to setting of election ballot. 16 10. Section 5.08 clarify requirements for"Recall", time line for actions of Clerk-Administrator 17 council member. and Council. 18 11. Through-out the Chapter change Clerk/Administrator to "Clerk-Administrator" . 19 12. Improve and clarify the readers ability to understand the_process, required stems and time__ 20 line for circulating and submittinga petition to the City. 21 13. Improve the Chapters time elapse definitions to calendar days. 22 23 CHAPTER 5 24 INITIATIVE,REFERENDUM AND RECALL 25 26 Section 5.01. The people ofMottnds Nliewireseyve to 27 themselves the powers in aeeordanee with the provisions of this Charter to initiate and adopt 28 , to fequire measures passed by the Gotmeil to be referred to the 29 eleetorate f6f approval or disapprotal, 30General Voter Authority. The 31 people of Mounds View, have the right, in accordance with this Charter. to propose ordinances 32 [initiative] and to require that any ordinance be referred to the voters [referendum], except those hose 33 that appropriate money, levy taxes or deal with administrative issues(MN Statute ). The voters 34 also have the right to remove elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 35 5, shall refer only to residents of the City of Mounds View who first register or who have registered 36 and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200.039 (as amended), eligibility to sign the 37 petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous 38 election. For clarity flow charts and a referendum time line are attached to the end of this char. 39 40 Section 5.02. GeneralP..,._-: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 voters of the City 42 and whose names and addresses shall appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A 43 petition may eenistconsists of one or more papers, pages with each separately circulated paper 44 shall eontaipage containing at its head, or a+taehed`h,..eto, the information specified in sections City of Mounds View