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Mounds View Charter Commission Resolution 2007-01 Final Markup format — Chapter 5 97 ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 98 • Petitions for Recall require signatures of at least twenty five (25) percent of total ballots cast 99 for President in the most recent Presidential election. 100 If all requirements have been met, the Clerk -Administrator shall report to the City Council within 101 ten (10) calendar days of receipt of the completed petition. The City shall immediately declare the 102 sufficiency of the petition. 103 104 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition If the Council determines that the 105 petition is insufficient or irregular, the Clerk Administrator shall deliver a copy of the petition, together with a written 106 statement of its defects, to the sponsoring committee. The committee shall have thirty days in which to file additional 107 signature papers and/or to correct the petition in all other particulars, except that, in the case of a petition for recall, the 108 committee may not change the statement of the grounds on which the recall is sought. Within five days of receipt of the 109 corrected petition, the Clerk Administrator shall again report to the Council. If the Council finds that the petition is still 110 insufficient or irregular, the Clerk Administrator shall file the petition and notify the sponsoring committee. The final finding 111 that the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose, nor shall it 112 prevent the Council from referring the subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or special election. 113 If the Clerk -Administrator determines that the petition cannot meet the requirements for sufficiency, 114 a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, shall be delivered to the 115 sponsoring committee and to the City Council within ten (10) calendar days of receipt of the 116 completed petition. As specified in this Charter, the sponsoring committee shall have thirty (30) 117 calendar days to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the specified irregularity. Within 118 nine (9) calendar days of receipt of the corrected completed petition, the Clerk -Administrator shall 119 determine whether the petition as corrected meets the requirements for sufficiency and shall 120 proceed as directed in Section 5.03. If the petition is still insufficient or irregular, the City Council 121 shall direct the Clerk -Administrator to file the petition as noted and notify the sponsoring 122 committee within ten (10) calendar days that no further action will be taken. The Final Finding that 123 the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same 124 purpose unless otherwise specified within this Charter. Except in the case of a petition for recall, it 125 shall not prevent the Council from referring the subject matter of the petition to the voters at the 126 next regular or special election. 127 128 Section 5.05. Ballot Issue Requirements. If a measure meets the requirements to be put on 129 a ballot and is in compliance with Chapter 4 of this Charter, at or before its next regularly scheduled 130 meeting, the City Council shall pass a resolution placing the measure on a ballot. If it is within 120 131 calendar days of a primary or general election and all of the county election requirements can be 132 met, the measure shall be placed on the ballot at the next regularly scheduled election. 133 134 If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a ballot but cannot be placed on the ballot at a 135 regularly scheduled election, at or before its next regularly scheduled meeting, the City Council 136 shall pass a resolution placing the measure on the ballot and calling for a special election to be held 137 within 120 calendar days of said meeting. However, no special elections can be held between a 138 regular primary election and a regular general election or 40 calendar days after a regular general 139 election. If there is no regular primary election then no special election shall be held within 60 140 calendar days prior to a regular general election. 141 142 143 Section 5.056. Initiative*. Any ordinance may be proposed by a -petition. which shall state at 144 the head of each page or attached thereto the exact text of the proposed ordinance The exact text of the 145 proposed ordinance must be stated at the head of each page of the petition or attached thereto. If the 146 Council passes the proposed ordinance with amendments, and a majority of the sponsoring committee 147 do not disapprove the amended form by a statement filed with the Clerk Administrator within ten days Date: 3/14/2007 Page 3 of 5