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Mounds View Charter Commission Resolution 2007-0 l e Final Markup format Date7/12/2007 Page 3 of 6 98 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed 99 petition in the office of the Clerk Administrator. The required number of signers shall be at least fifteen 100 101 electors who cast their votes for president at the last presidential election. Immediately upon receipt of the 102 petition, the Clerk Administrator shall examine the petition as to its sufficiency and report to the Council 103 within ten days. Upon receiving the report, the Council shall determine by resolution the sufficiency of the 104 petition. 105 For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at least 106 the following: 107 • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures numbering at least fifteen (15) percent of 108 the total ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 109 • Petitions for Recall require signatures numbering at least twenty five (25) percent of the total ballots 110 cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 111 If all requirements have been met, the Clerk -Administrator shall report to the Council within ten (10) 112 calendar days of receipt of the completed petition. Thereafter, the Council shall immediately declare the 113 sufficiency of the petition by resolution. 114 115 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Iffeg+rlar Frivolous Petition_ If the Council determines 116 that the petition is insufficient or irregular, the Clerk Administrator shall deliver a copy of the petition, 117 together with a written statement of its defects, to the sponsoring committee. The committee shall have thirty 118 , 119 that, in the case of a petition for recall, the committee may not change the statement of the grounds on which 120 the recall is sought. Within five days of receipt of the corrected petition, the Clerk Administrator shall again 121 report to the Council. If the Council finds that the petition is still insufficient or irregular, the 122 Clerk Administrator shall file the petition and notify the sponsoring committee. The final finding that the 123 petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose, nor 124 shall it prevent the Council from referring the subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or 125 special election. If the petition appears to be frivolous, the Clerk -Administrator shall report to the Council 126 within ten (10) calendar days of receipt of the petition. If the Council determines the petition is frivolous, 127 the Council shall direct the Clerk -Administrator to file the petition as frivolous and no further action shall 128 be taken. If the Clerk -Administrator determines that the petition does not meet the requirements for 129 sufficiency and is not determined to be frivolous, a copy of the petition, together with a written statement 130 of its defects, shall be delivered to the Sponsoring Committee and to the Council within ten (10) calendar 131 days of receipt of the completed petition. As specified in this Charter, the Sponsoring Committee shall 132 have twenty-one (21) calendar days to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the specified 133 insufficiency. Within nine (9) calendar days of receipt of the corrected completed petition, the Clerk- 134 Administrator shall determine whether the petition as corrected meets the requirements for sufficiency and 135 shall proceed as directed in Section 5.03. If the petition is still insufficient, the Council shall direct the 136 Clerk -Administrator to file the petition as insufficient and notify the Sponsoring Committee within ten 137 (10) calendar days that no further action will be taken. The final finding that the petition is insufficient 138 shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose unless otherwise specified within this 139 Charter. Except in the case of a petition for recall, it shall not prevent the Council from referring the 140 subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or special election. 141 142 Section 5.05. Ballot Measure Requirements. If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a 143 ballot and is in compliance with Chapter 4 of this Charter, at or before its next regularly scheduled 144 meeting, the Council shall pass a resolution placing the measure on a ballot. If it is within one hundred 145 twenty (120) calendar days of a primary or general election and all of the county election requirements 146 can be met, the measure shall be placed on the ballot at the next regularly scheduled election. If a 147 measure meets the requirements to be put on a ballot but cannot be placed on the ballot at a regularly 148 scheduled election, at or before its next regularly scheduled meeting, the Council shall pass a resolution