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Roseville �harter Cammission Roseville City Hall Council Chambers Minutes of Meeting of February 21, 2001 Ca11 to Order/Roll Calt The meeting was called to order by chair Vicky Lorenz at 7:00. All Commission memb�rs were present. YI. Approval o#' Minutes The minutes of the meeting held on January 17, 2001 were approved as mailed. III. Public Comment 1. John Kysylyczyn, Mayor of Roseville, spoke in favor of a lower limit on signatures for initiative and referendum peti#ions, stating that the primary purpose is to offer the initiative or referendum to a vote of the people. 2. Georgeanne Hall emphasized the authority of elected officials in malcing decisions for their constituents and the possihility that initiative could result in ihe rule of the minority. IV. �ther Business -Revised copies of the Comnnission By-laws were distributed. -2.03 Council Composition and Election — The secretary pointed out that the phrase, "the other successful candidate" was vague and did not indicate who was the other successfu� candidate. Motion by Bell to substitute "receiving the tl�ird highest number of votes" was approved unanimously. V. Chapter 5 Initiative and Referendum 5.01 General Voter Authority Motion by Sands ta adopt, Section 5.1 was approved. Aye: 5, Nay: 3, Abstain: 1. 5.02 Petitions The chair suggested dividing this section into two parts: 1) the nu.mber of signatures needed on a petition, and 2) the form of the petition. Motion by Lorenz that new Section 5.02 be limited to the subject of the number of signatures need�d on a petition. Motion was approved unanimously. Motion by Lorenz to use S°/fl of the number of registered voters as the basis for the number of signatures needed for initiative and re£erendum. Sobola offered a friendly amendment to Iimit the motion to initiative, which was accepted. Motion to use S% of the nutnber of registered voters as the basis for initiative passed unanimously. Motion by Bell to use 5% af the n�nber of registered•voters as the basis for the number of signa.tures required for referendum failed. Aye: 4, Nay: 5. Motion by 7ohnson that a referendum petition be sig�ed by10% of the registered vaters was approved. Aye: 6, Nay: 3. Exact fanguage for these provisions, following the format in the model charter, was provided by 7ack Brewer. A sample initiative petition was considered but rejected as not applicable to our case. Mation by 3ohnson to create Section 5.03 by adopting model charter language for Section 5.02 starting with "Each petition..." continuing to the end, and changing ci clerk to city manager was approved unanitnausly. A discussion of the problenns that could result from dividing and renumbering Model Charter Sectian 5.02 followed, suggesting the option of retaining the original number and fortnat. Pariiamentarily speaking, the new sections, 5.02 Petitions and 5.03 Form of �etition, remain in force since no a.mendments or new motions were made to change them. i.