Ordering a City-Wide Special Election for 11-8-2022 propositions calling for amendments to the City Charter

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jurisdiction has determined that the initiated ordinance has been removed from the field of initiation. Valid petitions shall be subject to adoption or rejection at the polls, such power being known as the initiative. Any initiative ordinance may be submitted to the council by a petition signed by qualified voters of the city equal in number to at least 25 percent of the number of votes cast in the cumulative seven districts in the last contested general election for each district. Proposition T Pr�stion T ballot Iana ,e sh 1 read: Shall Sec. 101 of the Charter be amended to specify certain exemptions from the power of referendum in order to protect against nuisance efforts related to referendum? ❑ For ❑ Against If Proposition T is approved by the voters on November 8, 2022, Sec. 101 of the Charter will thereafter read as follows: Sec. 101. Power of referendum. The voters shall have power to approve or reject at the polls any ordinance passed by the council, or submitted by the council to a vote of the voters, such powers being known as the referendum, except in cases of bond ordinances, ordinances making the annual tax levy, zoning, annexation, utility rates, personnel and administrative matters, or in any instance where a court of appropriate jurisdiction has determined that the referred ordinance has been removed from the field of referendum. Ordinances submitted to the council by initiative petition and passed by the council without change shall be subject to the referendum in the same manner as other ordinances. Within 20 days after the enactment by the council of any ordinance that is subject to a referendum, a petition signed by qualified voters of the city equal in number to at least 25 percent of the number of votes cast in the cumulative seven districts in the last contested general election for each district may be filed with the city clerk requesting that any such ordinance be either repealed or submitted to a vote of the voters.