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Mounds View Charter Commission Resolution 2007-01 d Final Markup format — Chapter 5 Date: 6/28/2007 Page 3 of 5 94 For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at least 95 the following: 96 • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures numbering at least fifteen (15) percent of 97 the total ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 98 • Petitions for Recall require signatures numbering at least twenty five (25) percent of the total ballots 99 cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 100 If all requirements have been met, the Clerk -Administrator shall report to the Council within ten (10) 101 calendar days of receipt of the completed petition. Thereafter, the Council shall immediately declare the 102 sufficiency of the petition by resolution. 103 104 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition_ I fthe Council determines tha♦ the petitio i 105 insufficient or irregular, the Clerk Administrator shall deliver a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, to 106 the sponsoring committee. The committee shall have thirty days in which to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the 107 108 grounds on which the recall is sought. Within five days of receipt of the corrected petition, the Clerk Administrator shall again report 109 to the Council. If the Council finds that the petition is still insufficient or irregular, the Clerk Administrator shall file the petition and 110 notify the sponsoring committee. The final finding that the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new 111 petition for the same purpose, nor shall it prevent the Council from referring the subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next 112 regular or special election. If the Clerk -Administrator determines that the petition does not meet the 113 requirements for sufficiency, a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, shall 114 be delivered to the Sponsoring Committee and to the Council within ten (10) calendar days of receipt of 115 the completed petition. As specified in this Charter, the Sponsoring Committee shall have twenty-one 116 (21) calendar days to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the specified irregularity. Within 117 nine (9) calendar days of receipt of the corrected completed petition, the Clerk -Administrator shall 118 determine whether the petition as corrected meets the requirements for sufficiency and shall proceed as 119 directed in Section 5.03. If the petition is still insufficient or irregular, the Council shall direct the Clerk- 120 Administrator to file the petition as insufficient and notify the Sponsoring Committee within ten (10) 121 calendar days that no further action will be taken. The final finding that the petition is insufficient or 122 irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose unless otherwise specified 123 within this Charter. Except in the case of a petition for recall, it shall not prevent the Council from 124 referring the subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or special election. 125 126 Section 5.05. Ballot Measure Requirements. If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a 127 ballot and is in compliance with Chapter 4 of this Charter, at or before its next regularly scheduled 128 meeting, the Council shall pass a resolution placing the measure on a ballot. If it is within one hundred 129 twenty (120) calendar days of a primary or general election and all of the county election requirements 130 can be met, the measure shall be placed on the ballot at the next regularly scheduled election. 131 132 If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a ballot but cannot be placed on the ballot at a regularly 133 scheduled election, at or before its next regularly scheduled meeting, the Council shall pass a resolution 134 placing the measure on the ballot and calling for a special election to be held within one hundred twenty 135 (120) calendar days of said meeting. However, no special elections can be held between a regular primary 136 election and a regular general election or forty (40) calendar days after a regular general election. If there 137 is no regular primary election then no special election shall be held within sixty (60) calendar days prior to 138 a regular general election. 139 140 Section 5.05,06. Initiative*. Any An ordinance may be proposed by a -petition which shall state at the 141 head of each page or attached thereto the exact text of the proposed ordinance. If the Council passes the proposed ordinance with 142 amendments, and a majority of the sponsoring committee do not disapprove the amended form by a statement filed with the Clerk 143 144 enact the ordinance in a form acceptable to the majority of the sponsoring committee within sixty days after the final determination of 145 sufficiency of the petition, the ordinance as originally proposed shall be placed on the ballot at the next election occurring in the City. 146 If no election is to occur within 120 days after the filing of the petition, the Council shall call a special election on the ordinance to be