07 - Certificate of Insufficiency - Petition - To Allow Smoking in a Welding Facility

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Item No. 7 Memorandum TO: Mayor & Council Grayson Path, City Manager FROM: Janice Ellis, City Clerk SUBJECT: CERTIFICATE OF INSUFFICIENCY — INITIATIVE PETITION TO ALLOW SMOKING IN A WELDING FACILITY DATE: May 10, 2021 BACKGROUND: On April 22, 2021, the City of Paris received an Initiative Petition to allow smoking in a Welding Facility. STATUS OF ISSUE: Section 103 of the Paris City Charter requires that within ten days after an initiative petition is filed, the city clerk shall determine whether each paper of the petition has a proper statement of the circulator and whether the petition is signed by a sufficient number of qualified voters. After completing examination of the petition, the city clerk shall certify the result thereof to the Council at its next regular meeting. I reviewed the petition and found it to be insufficient as detailed in the attached Certificate of Insufficiency. I called Mr. Mark Lester and explained this to him, then followed up with formal notification to Mr. Lester. Mr. Lester expressed that it was not their intention to take the petition to a vote of the citizens, but rather to simply make the City Council aware of their interest in the smoking ordinance being reviewed. BUDGET: NA. RECOMMENDATION: This is not an action item.