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Mounds View Charter Commission Date7/12/2007 Resolution 2007-01e Final Markup format Page 3 of 6 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed98 petition in the office of the Clerk-Administrator. The required number of signers shall be at least fifteen99 percent for initiative and referendum, and for recall, at least twenty-five percent of the total number of100 electors who cast their votes for president at the last presidential election. Immediately upon receipt of the101 petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall examine the petition as to its sufficiency and report to the Council102 within ten days. Upon receiving the report, the Council shall determine by resolution the sufficiency of the103 petition. 104 For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at least105 the following: 106 Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures numbering at least fifteen (15) percent of107 the total ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 108 Petitions for Recall require signatures numbering at least twenty five (25) percent of the total ballots109 cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 110 If all requirements have been met, the Clerk-Administrator shall report to the Council within ten (10) 111 calendar days of receipt of the completed petition. Thereafter, the Council shall immediately declare the112 sufficiency of the petition by resolution. 113 114 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Frivolous Petition If the Council determines115 that the petition is insufficient or irregular, the Clerk-Administrator shall deliver a copy of the petition, 116 together with a written statement of its defects, to the sponsoring committee. The committee shall have thirty117 days in which to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the petition in all other particulars, except118 that, in the case of a petition for recall, the committee may not change the statement of the grounds on which119 the recall is sought. Within five days of receipt of the corrected petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall again120 report to the Council. If the Council finds that the petition is still insufficient or irregular, the121 Clerk-Administrator shall file the petition and notify the sponsoring committee. The final finding that the122 petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose, nor123 shall it prevent the Council from referring the subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or124 special election. If the petition appears to be frivolous, the Clerk-Administrator shall report to the Council125 within ten (10) calendar days of receipt of the petition. If the Council determines the petition is frivolous, 126 the Council shall direct the Clerk-Administrator to file the petition as frivolous and no further action shall127 be taken. If the Clerk-Administrator determines that the petition does not meet the requirements for128 sufficiency and is not determined to be frivolous, a copy of the petition, together with a written statement129 of its defects, shall be delivered to the Sponsoring Committee and to the Council within ten (10) calendar130 days of receipt of the completed petition. As specified in this Charter, the Sponsoring Committee shall131 have twenty-one (21) calendar days to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the specified132 insufficiency. Within nine (9) calendar days of receipt of the corrected completed petition, the Clerk-133 Administrator shall determine whether the petition as corrected meets the requirements for sufficiency and134 shall proceed as directed in Section 5.03. If the petition is still insufficient, the Council shall direct the135 Clerk-Administrator to file the petition as insufficient and notify the Sponsoring Committee within ten136 10) calendar days that no further action will be taken. The final finding that the petition is insufficient137 shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose unless otherwise specified within this138 Charter. Except in the case of a petition for recall, it shall not prevent the Council from referring the139 subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or special election. 140 141 Section 5.05. Ballot Measure Requirements. If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a142 ballot and is in compliance with Chapter 4 of this Charter, at or before its next regularly scheduled143 meeting, the Council shall pass a resolution placing the measure on a ballot. If it is within one hundred144 twenty (120) calendar days of a primary or general election and all of the county election requirements145 can be met, the measure shall be placed on the ballot at the next regularly scheduled election. If a146 measure meets the requirements to be put on a ballot but cannot be placed on the ballot at a regularly147 scheduled election, at or before its next regularly scheduled meeting, the Council shall pass a resolution148