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Roscville Chartcr Commission Roseviile City Hall Council Chambers Minutes of Meeting of May 16, 2001 Call to Order/Roll Call The meeting was called to order at 7=00 p.m. by Chair Vicky Larenz. All mernbers were prescnt. II. Minutes The minutes of the meeting of April 18, 2QOi were approved as pn.nted. TII. Public Corriment No one appeared for the public comment period. IV. Chapter 5— Initiative and Referendum Bob Bell presented, with comments, the report of the subcommittee, which met with Duke Addicks on, may 10. The subcomrnittee developed a document for Chapter 5. The discussion and voting involved the subcommittee's report and the language adopted previously, which was printed in thc redline version of the Model Charter da.ted 3/21/O1. All voting on chapter 5 was by roll call. 5.01 General Voter Authori Motion by Sobola to change the subcommittee language to "The voters of the City shall have the right, in accordance with this charter, to propose ordinances by a process known as initiative. These proposed ordinances may be suhmitted to a vote of the citizens by a process known as refcrendum." The motion was approved, all voting aye. 5.02 Petitions The first sentence of this section, regarding exemptions from initiative and referendum, was transferz'ed to 5.02 from 5.06, Action on Suf�cient Petition. Motion by Riach to arr�end Section S.a2 in the subcommittee report to: A petition for an initiative to modify or repeal an ordinance adopted by the City Council or by a previous refcrcndum shall be signed by 10°/Q of the registered voters of the City as of the date af `hc submission of the petition. AlI Q.�her petitians for an initiative shall he signed by 5% of the voters of the City as of the date of the subrnission of the petition. Moti.on was approved. Bell, Brewer and Sands, nay; all others aye. 5.03 Form of Petition Johnson moved the adoption of Section 5.03 as it appears in the redline version dated 3/21/01, adding "registcred" before voter in the first sentence; striking required by section 5_OS or 5.06/S.Qb or S.Q7 as the case may be and substituting "giving the exact text of the proposed ordinance, and changing resident to "registered voter" in sentence 5. Motion was approved. Bell and Sands, nay; all others, aye. This section includes language allowing petition signers to withdraw their names. 5.04 Detertnination of Sufficienc & 5.05 Disposiiion of Insufficient Petition Motion by Lorenz to adopt Sections S.Q4 and S.OS as stated in the redline version of the Model Charter dated 3/21/O1. Motion was approved, all voting aye. 5.06 Action on Sufficien� Petition (new title; old title: Initiative) Motion by Sands to adopt 5.06 as stated in the Model Charter with friendly amendments graciously accepted and others suggested by the mover as follows: 1) Move the firsl sentence (listing exemptions &om initiative and referendum} to Section 5.02, omitting which shall state at the head of each pa�;e or attached thereto the exact text of the proposed ordinance. (This provision appears in 5.03, Form of Petition} 2) New sentence 1 to begin: "If the council deternunes that the petition is sufficient and passes the proposed ordinance... 3) Delete entire Section 5.07 Referendum on redlinc dated 3/21/Q1. 4) Change the titie to Action on Sufficient Petition. Motion was approved; ail votin� ay�. 5.07 Re eal or Arnendment of Ordinances (Section 5.05 on subcommittee report.} Motion by Johnson to adopt Section 5.05 on the subcommittee report as Section 5.07. Motion was approved, all voting ayc.