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City Attorney Goodrich stated that the City Charter states that all completed petitions shall be <br />presented to the Council by the City Administrator at the next scheduled City Council meeting. <br />He did not think that the Council had the authority to withhold the acceptance of the petition. <br /> <br />Councilmember Hendriksen inquired as to what the Charter stated in regards to the Council <br />accepting a petition. <br /> <br />City Attorney Goodrich replied that the Charter states that residents can withdraw their name <br />from the petition prior to the petition being accepted by the City Council. He also noted that if <br />an improvement project is disallowed by the petition process, the Council shall not vote on the <br />same improvement project within a period of one year. <br /> <br />Councilmember Anderson inquired as to what happens if the Council does not accept the <br />petition. <br /> <br />City Attorney Goodrich replied that the City Council does not have the authority to not accept <br />the petition. <br /> <br />Councilmember Hendriksen inquired if that Charter stated that the Council has to accept the <br />petition upon presentation. <br /> <br />City Attorney Goodrich replied that it does not matter whether or not the Council accepts the <br />petition or not. <br /> <br />Councilmember Hendriksen stated that if the residents truly want to reject the project then he <br />fully supports that, but he does want to make sure that they fully understand the implications of <br />what they have petitioned for. If the Charter does state that presentation of a petitioner mandates <br />acceptance then the Council could receive petition and then schedule it for acceptance at the <br />regular City Council meeting. That would give staff time to inform the residents of what the <br />implications are of the petition and give residents time to withdraw their names if they chose to <br />do so. <br /> <br />Councilmember Anderson inquired if there had been any contact by staff with the neighborhood. <br /> <br />City Engineer Jankowski replied no. <br /> <br />Councilmember Kurak suggested making it a policy that whenever a petition is submitted to the <br />City that they be given a letter explaining what the implications of the petition are. <br /> <br />Councilmember Hendriksen inquired if the City Attorney was comfortable with the City <br />requesting bids on all of the projects with Improvement Project #01-15 being listed as an <br />alternate. <br /> <br />City Attorney Goodrich replied yes. <br /> <br />City Council/May 22, 2001 <br /> Page 9 of 23 <br /> <br /> <br />