HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 956ORDINANCE NO. 956
BEING AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 853, CITY CODE
OF 1977, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 5, SECTION 41 OF THE CHARTER
OF THE CITY OF COLUbfBIA HEIGHTS PERTAINING TO ACTION OF
COUNCIL ON PETITION
The City coUncil of the City of Columbia Heights does ordain:
Section 1: CHAPTER 5, SECTION 41 of The Charter of the City of Columbia Heights which
reads as follows, to-wit:
"ACTION OF COUNCIL ON PETITION. Whenever the petition shall be found to
be sufficient, the city clerk shall so certify to the council at its
next meeting, and the council shall at once read the measure and refer
it to an appropriate committee, which may be a committee of the whole.
The committee or council shall thereupon provide for public hearings upon
the measure, after the holding of which the measure shall be finally
acted upon by the council not later than sixty-five days after the date
upon which such measure was submitted to the council by the city clerk.
If the council shall fail to pass the proposed measure, or shall pass it
in a form different from that set forth in the petition and unsatisfactory
to the petitioners, the proposed measure shall be submitted by the council
to vote of the electors at the next election occurring not less than three
months after the date of the final action by the council, and if no elec-
tion is to be held within three months from such date, then the council
shall call a special election to be held not less than thirty nor more
than forty-fivedays from such date. In case the council passes the pro-
posed measure with amendments and at least four-fifths of the committee of
petitioners do not express their dissatisfaction with such amended form by
a certificate filed with the city clerk within ten days from the passage
thereof by the council, then the measure need not be submitted to the.elec-
tors.''
is herewith amended to read as follows, to-wit:
"ACTION OF COUNCIL ON PETITION. Whenever the petition shall be found to
be sufficient, the city clerk shall so certify to the council at its
next meeting, and the council shall at once read the measure and refer
it to an appropriate committee, which may be a committee of the whole.
The committee or council shall thereupon provide for public hearings upon
the measure, after the holding of which the measure shall be finally
acted upon by the council not later than sixty-five days after the date
upon which such measure was submitted to the council by the city clerk.
If the council shall fail to pass the p~oposed measure, or shall pass it
in a form different from that set forth in the petition and unsatisfactory
to the petitioners, the proposed measure shall be submitted by the council
to vote of the electors at the next election occurring not more than three
months after the date of the final action by the council, and if no other-
wise scheduled election is to be held within three months from such date,
then the council shall call a special election to be held not less than
thirty nor more than forty-five days from such date. In case the council
passes the proposed measure with amendments and at least four-fifths of
the committee of petitioners do not express their dissatisfaction with such
amended form by a certificate filed with the city clerk within ten days
from the passage thereof by the council, then the measure need not be
submitted to the eledtors."
Section 2:
The appendix section of Ordinance No. 853, City Code of 1977,~ passed
June 21, 1977, is herewith amended to contain the said Charter amend-
ment.
Section 3: This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after ninety
(90) days after its publication.
First reading:
Second reading:
Date of Passage:
May 26, 1981
July 13, 1981
July 13, 1981
Offered by: Logacz
Seconded by: Hentges
Roll Call: All ayes
Student, Se~r~etary
the Council
to
Bruce G. Nawrocki, Mayor
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