Ordinance - #04-47 - 11/23/2004 - Laserfiche WebLink

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the time of the last city~wide election. The required number of signatures for recall of the Mayor or a councilmember elected at large shall be at least twenty percent of the total mm~ber of registered voters in the city at the time of the last city-wide election. The required number of signatures for recall of a councilmember elected from a Ward shall be at least twenty percent of the total number of registered voters in the Wart represented by the councihnember subject to the recall at the time of the last city-wide election. Immediately upon receipt of the petition, the clerk-administrator shall examine the petition as to its sufficiency and report to the council within ten days. Upon receiving the report, the council shall determine by resolution the sufficiency of the petition. Subd. 6. Section 5.8 of the City Charter is amended to provide as follows: Section 5.8 Recall. Consideration by the electorate of the recall of any elected officer of the city may be initiated by petition. The petition shall state at the head of each page, or attached thereto, a certificate stating the name of the officer whose removal is sought, the grounds for recall, which shall be malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance in office, is not more than 250 words, and the intention of the sponsoring cormnittee to bring about the officer's recall. Such petition shall be filed in the city clerk's office prior to circulation. If the petition or amended petition is found sufficient under the provisions of Scction 5.3 of this chapter, the city clerk shall transmit it to the council without delay, and shall also officially notify the person sought to be recalled of the sufficiency of the petition and of the pending action. The council shall, at its next meeting, by resolution, provide for the holding of a special recall election within ninety days after such meeting, the council may, in its discretion provide for the holding of the recall vote at that time. If the special recall election involves a councilmember elected from a separate Ward, the spccial recall election shall be conducted only within the Ward of such councilmember. If the special recall election involves the mayor or a councilmember who is elected at large, the election shall be a city-wide election. The city clerk shall include with the published notice of the election the statement of the grounds for the recall and, also, in not more than 500 words, the answer of the officer concerned in justification of his/her course of office. If a vacancy occurs due to recall election, Section 4.5 shall apply to fill such vacancy. SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE The effective date of this ordinance is ninety (90) days after its passage and publication, subject to Minn. Stat. §410.12, Subd. 7.