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Resolution No. 2003-05 Mounds View Charter Commission Dated October 10, 2003 View Charter Commission Chair Jonathan J Thomas 763-784-5205 Vice Chair Michele Sandback 763-783-1770 2"' Vice Chair Daniel Freimuth 763-780-3371 Secretary Brian Amundsen 763-786-5699 Bill Doty 763-786-3421 Matthew Eenigenburg 763-783-7216 Jean Miller 763-786-3959 William Mori 763-784-3645 Barbara Thomas 763-780-6226 William Werner Sr 763-784-3603 Whereas, the Mounds View Charter Commission is reviewing the lists of past requests for housekeeping and clarification updates to sections of the Mounds View Charter that have caused confusion or seem to be semantically incorrect. The Mounds View Charter Commission acting under Minnesota Statute 410.12 Subdivision 7, recommends the following amendments by the replacement in its entirety of Chapter 5 of the Mounds View Charter with the following replacement language. The Mounds View Charter Commission requests the City Council adopt by ordinance those items it is in unanimous agreement with. We also request a response within 60 days with recommendations for modifications to any wording that the City Council deems not acceptable as presented. INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL Section 5.01. General Voter Authority. The people of Mounds View have the right, in accordance with this Charter, to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance be referred to the voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money or levy taxes. The voter's also have the right to remove elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200.039 (as amended), eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. Section 5.02. Petitions. To circulate a petition provided for under this chapter, it must be sponsored by a committee of five or more voters of the City whose names and addresses appear on the petition. A petition consists of one or more pages with each separately circulated page containing at its head the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. The committee may obtain a sample petition from the city Clerk -Administrator. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition Must have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath. The certificate shall affirm that each signature was made in the circulator's presence and that the circulator believes there to be the genuine signature of the voter whose name it purports to be and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their name and give their street address. Any voter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing with the Clerk -Administrator before the Clerk -Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee must file the completed petition in the office of the Clerk -Administrator. The Clerk -Administrator shall provide the number of total ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election.. For a petition to be sufficient, the required number of signatures shall be a percentage of that number. Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require at least 15 percent, Petitions for Recall, at least 25 percent. Page I of 3