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Mounds View Charter Commission Charter Updates: Chapter 5 Resolution 2007-01a Revision — DRAFT 20070105 Date: 1/5/2007 Page 2 of 6 45 CHAPTER 5 46 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL 47 48 Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the People. The people of Mounds View reserve to 49 themselves the powers in accordance with the provisions of this Charter to initiate and adopt 50 ordinances and resolutions, to require measures passed by the Council to be referred to the 51 electorate for approval or disapproval, and to recall elected public officials. These powers shall be 52 called the initiative, the referendum, and the recall, respectively General Voter Authority*. The 53 people of Mounds View, have the right, in accordance with this Charter, to propose ordinances 54 [initiatives and to require that any ordinance be referred to the voters [referendum], except those 55 that appropriate money, levy taxes or deal with administrative issues (MN Statute 410.20, as 56 amended). The voters also have the right to remove elected public officials [recall]. The term 57 voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to residents of the City of Mounds View who first 58 register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200.039, as 59 amended, eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did 60 cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and referendum and ballot issue time 61 lines are attached to the end of this charter. 62 63 Section 5.02. General Provisions for Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter 64 shall be sponsored by a committee of five registered 5 to 10 members who are voters of the City 65 and whose names and addresses hallmust appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A 66 petition may consist consists of one or more papers, but pages with each separately circulated paper 67 shall contain page containing at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 68 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. .Each signer shall 69 be a registered voter of the City and shall sign their name and give their street addressThe 70 Sponsoring Committee may obtain a sample petition from the Clerk -Administrator. The Clerk- 71 Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is based on the 72 total number of ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. All petition 73 circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition shallmust have appended 74 to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath. The certificate shall affirm that each signature 75 appended thereto was made in +heifthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to 76 be the genuine signature of the per-senvoter whose name it purports to be. The person making the 77 certificate shall be a resident of the City and registered to vote. and that each signer was presented 78 with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print 79 their name and give their street address. Any per-senvoter whose name appears on a petition may 80 withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing filed -with the Clerk -Administrator before 81 saidthe Clerk -Administrator advises the Council of the information related to the sufficiency of the 82 petition. 83 84 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed 85 petition in the office of the Clerk Administrator. The required number of signers shall be at least 86 , and for recall, at least twenty five percent of the total 87 number of electors who cast their votes for president at the last presidential election. Immediately 88 , 89 , 90 resolution the sufficiency of the petition. For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the