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Mounds View City Council August 22, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 35 severance benefit of one weeks pay for each year of service for the three employees involved, which is standard severance for full time employees. He stated the most-cost case for each employee, which will probably not be the case, would work out to $54,000. He noted that amount was in the Medtronic performa. MOTION/SECOND. Gunn/Marty. To waive the reading and adopt Resolution 6585 Approving A Severance Package For Regular Full-Time Golf Course Employees. City Attorney Riggs suggested adding the following: BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that severance benefits only occur if the Bridges closes in 2005. The Council agreed to make this revision. MOTION/ Stigney. To amend Resolution 6585 to indicate: "flex time payout would be concurrent with the date of closing and done in cash." Motion died for lack of a second. Ayes-4 Nay-1 (Stigney) Motion carried. N. Resolution 6608 Approving the Sufficiency of Petition in Opposition • Ordinance 760 (Ordinance Authorizing Disposal by Sale of Real Property Owned by the City of Mounds View to the Mounds View Economic Development Authority) City Administrator Ulrich advised that staff received a petition on Monday, August 15, 2005, against Ordinance 760, authorizing disposal of the Bridges. He stated the Council adopted Ordinance 760, which will be effective August 19, 2005. He advised that the petition names were put in a data base to determine eligible signatures. Staff also checked each signature on the Ramsey County Registered Voter Master List, which contains all registered voters in Mounds View. Staff then checked all determined Non-Registered voters on the Minnesota Statewide Voter Registration System. He stated there were some issues with legibility and three people looked at those signatures to determine how they fit into the eligibility list. City Administrator Ulrich reported that 12 signatures could not be determined due to legibility issues for both the signature and printed name. The petition contained 1,193 signatures, 17 were determined invalid because residence could not be determined, 214 signatures were non- registered voters, and 34 signatures were duplicates. The total number of registered voter signatures is 945. City Administrator Ulrich advised the petition needed 989 signatures to receive a ruling of sufficiency in accordance with Section 5.03 of the City Charter. The Charter requires the number of signers be at least 15% for initiative and referendum and for recall, at least 25% of the total number of electors who cast their votes for president at the. last presidential • election. The last presidential election was in 2004 and 6,597 residents cast their vote. City Administrator Ulrich advised that the City Attorney brought up an argument any person