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Councilmember Deluca introduced the following resolution and moved for its adoption: RESOLUTION 187-265 RESOLUTION DETERMINING THE SUFFICIENCY OF A PETITION FOR REFERENDUM WHEREAS, the City Council of Ramsey, Minnesota, on October 13, 1987 adopted Resolution #87-245 which adopted Gateway North Industrial Airport Zoning Ordinance #87-7; and WHEREAS, the Gateway North Industrial Airport Zoning Ordinance #87-7 was published in the Anoka County Union (the City's official newspaper) on Friday, October 16, 1987; and WHEREAS, according to City Charter Section 3.09, all non-emergency ordinances shall take effect 30 days after publication; and WHEREAS, according to City Charter Section 5.07, if a petition requesting that an ordinance be subjected to referendum is found to be sufficient, then the ordinance shall be prevented from going into operation and the subject matter of the petition shall be placed on the ballot at the next election or within 120 days, whichever comes first; and WHEREAS, a petition asking that Ordinance #87-7 be subjected to a referendum was fil ed in the offi ce of the City Admi ni st ra tor on November 12, 1987; and WHEREAS" the Ci ty Admi ni strator shall report to the City Council within ten days of receipt of a petition calling for a referendum on the sufficiency of such a petition; and WHEREAS, the required number of signatures of registered voters is ten percent of the total number of regi stered voters at the time of the last City-wide election; and WHEREAS, the last City-wide election was November 4, 1986 in which 5,476 persons were registered to vote, thereby requiring that to be sufficient, a petition for referendum must have 548 signatures of registered voters; and WHEREAS, a petition for referendum must adhere to the general provisions found in Chapter 5 of the City Charter. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RAMSEY, ANOKA COUNTY, STATE OF MINNESOTA, as follows: 1) That the City Council finds the following insufficiencies and irregularities in a petition submitted to the City Administrator on November 12, 1987 for the purpose of submitting Ordinance #87-7 to a referendum: a) The petition contains 407 signatures of registered voters which is insufficient by 141 signatures; b) The petition contains 132 signatures of persons whose address is in Ramsey but are not registered to vote; c) The petition contains 5 signatures of persons purporting to be two people (e.g., Mr. and Mrs.)~ Page 1 of 2