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Subject: Ordinance 984 Amending Charter Section 7.03
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<br />Facts:
<br />35 pages
<br />500 signatures
<br />Electors (petioners) – Brian Amundsen, Valerie Amundsen, Wendy Marty, Barbara Peterson, and Andrea Shoup
<br />Circulators
<br />Valerie – 266 names: Knollwood, Brighton Lane, Rainbow, Pleasant view. Red Oak, Longview, SLP, Greenfield, H2, Hidden Hollow, Wooddale, Eastwood, J, Groveland, Sunnyside,
<br /> H, I, Lake Court, Jackson, Quincy
<br />Brian – 34; Bronson, Bona, Lake Court, SLP, Terrace
<br />Wendy – 12: Edgewood, Louisa, Greenwood
<br />Barbara – 24: Red Oak, Sunnyside, Laporte, SLR, Pleasant view
<br />Andrea – 62: Groveland, Knollwood, Ardan
<br />Kaylee Mori – 44: Sunnyside, Red Oak, Sherwood, Groveland
<br />Dennis Hammes – 22: Quincy, Greenfield, Pinewood, Adams, Gloria Circle
<br />Shelley Paige – 28: Knollwood, O’Connell Drive, St. Stephen
<br />Ronald Kordiak – 6: County Road H2
<br />Julia Wolff – 4: Eastwood
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<br />Language (substantive summary):
<br />“Require Ordinance 984, Amending Section 7.03 be submitted to the voters for adoption.”
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<br />Statute governing this amendment process (there are multiple ways to amend) Red Edits mine
<br />Subd. 7.Amendment by ordinance.
<br /> Upon recommendation of the charter commission the city council may enact a charter amendment by ordinance. Commission did this. Within one month of receiving a recommendation to amend
<br /> the charter by ordinance, the city must publish notice of a public hearing on the proposal and the notice must contain the text of the proposed amendment. Done by Staff The city council
<br /> must hold the public hearing on the proposed charter amendment at least two weeks but not more than one month after the notice is published. Done at December 13, 2021 meeting. Within
<br /> one month of the public hearing, the city council must vote on the proposed charter amendment ordinance. Done at December 13, 2021. The ordinance is enacted if it receives an affirmative
<br /> vote of all members of the city council and is approved by the mayor and published as in the case of other ordinances. An ordinance amending a city charter shall not become effective
<br /> until 90 days after passage and publication or at such later date as is fixed in the ordinance. Within 60 days after passage and publication of such an ordinance, a petition requesting
<br /> a referendum on the ordinance may be filed with the city clerk. Occurred January 25, 2022. The petition must be signed by registered voters equal in number to at least five percent
<br /> of the registered voters in the city or 2,000, whichever is less. Ramsey County Elections has received petition and is in the process of validating.
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<br />The break here is mine as a function of just easier reading. The Blue highlight now becomes the discussion point.
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<br />If the requisite petition is filed within the prescribed period, the ordinance shall not become effective until it is approved by the voters as in the case of charter amendments submitted
<br /> by the charter commission, the council, or by petition of the voters, except that the council may submit the ordinance
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