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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 3/9/2006 Charter Updates: Category 2 Items, Chapter 5 Revision—DRAFT 6 Page 2 of 5 41 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply,respectively,to initiative, referendum and recall. Eaeh signer shall 42 .Th_e 43 committee may obtain a samepetition from the city Clerk-Administrator. All Petition circulators 44 must be voters of the Eity. Each separate page of the petition shaflmust have appended to it a 45 certificate by the circulator, verified by oath;. The certificate shall affirm that each signature 46 was made in theirthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to 47 be the genuine signature of the persmvoter whose name it purports to be. The person making Oie- 48 . and that each signer was presented 49 with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and rP int 50 their name and give their street address. Any persenvoter whose name appears on a petition may 51 withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing with the Clerk-Administrator before 52 saidthe Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. 53 54 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition SufficiencX. The committee sl}aflmust file the 55 completed petition in the office of the Clerk-Administrator at least 10 calendar days before the 56 ordinance takes effect. T17hC—T-N—M-�red number of signers shall be at least fifteen peireent foir initiati-,te 57 and refeirendum, and for reeall, at least twenty five pereent of the total tM.M..ber of eleetors who east- 58 their votes fof president at the last pfesidential eleetion. immediately upon The Clerk- 59 Administrator shall provide the number of total ballots cast for President in the most recent 60 Presidential election. For a petition to be sufficient, the required number of signatures shall be a 61 percentage of that number. 62 -Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require at least 15 Percent. 63 -Petitions for Recall require at least 25 percent. 65 Within 10 calendar days of receipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall examine the 66 determine if its sufficiency can be declared 67 by the City Council. Upon reeeivingftnal determination. the Clerk-Administrator shall report the 68 date of the determination and its sufficiency to the City Council. Upon receiptof the report, the 69 QbLCouncil shall deteiinine by fesolution the stiffleieney of the pet immediately declare the 70 sufficiency of the petition by resolution, includingthe rereported date of determination of sufficiency. 71 72 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. If the Gotin-AClerk- 73 Administrator determines that the sufficiency of iscannot be declared, it shall be 74 determined to be insufficient or irregular. ke-The Clerk-Administrator shall deliver a copy of the 75 petition, together with a written statement of its defects, to the sponsoring committee and to the 76 City Council within 10 calendar days. The committee shall have 44rty21 calendar days in which to 77 file additional signature papers and/or to correct the petition itt all other partiettlairs, exeept that, in 78 the ease of a petition foir reeall, the eommittee may not ehange the statement of the grotmds on 79 whieh the reeall is soughspecified irre ulg arity. Within€rve9 calendar days of receipt of the 80 corrected petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall again report to the Gotmeil. if the Gotmeil finds 81 that the petit determine if sufficiency of the Petition as corrected can be declared by the City 82 Council and proceed as directed in Section 5.03. If the Petition is still insufficient or irregular, the 83 City Council shall ass a resolution of insufficiency and this shall be considered the Final Finding. 84 The Clerk-Administrator shall file the petition as noted and notify the sponsoring committee i hin 85 10 calendar days that no further action will be taken. The€Final€Finding that the petition is City of Mounds View