2007-032 RES-Accepting and approving the revised ballot for the proposed charter amendments

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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 total number of votes cast in the cumulative seven districts in the last contested general election for each district maybe filed with the city clerk requesting that any such ordinance be either repealed or submitted to a vote of the voters. ^ For ^ Against Proposition 55: Amend Section 107, "Submission to electors," to establish that the next available uniform election date shall be the time when any ordinance proposed by voters through the initiative or referendum process that the city council fails to pass or repeal shall be on the ballot, so that the section shall read: If the council shall fail to pass an ordinance proposed by the initiative process, or shall pass it in a form different from that set forth in the petition thereof, or if the council fails to repeal a referred ordinance, the proposed or referred ordinance shall be submitted to the voters at the next available uniform election date from the date the council takes its final vote thereon. ^ For ^ Against Proposition 56: Amend Section 110, "Repealing ordinances; publication," to provide that ordinances adopted by initiative may not be repealed for two years and ordinances repealed by referendum may not be re-adopted for two years, so that the second sentence shall read: However, no ordinance adopted by the council or approved by the voters in response to an initiative petition shall be amended or repealed by the council within two years of the adoption, and no ordinance repealed by the council or rejected by the voters in response to a referendum petition shall be re-enacted by the council within two years of the repeal. ^ For ^ Against Proposition 57: Amend Section 112, "Recall procedure," to require that any voter who files a petition for recall must live in the district of the councilman whose recall is sought, so that the initial phrase of the first sentence of the section shall read as follows: Any qualified voter living within a council district of the City of Paris may make and file with the city clerk an affidavit containing the name of the council member from that district whose removal is sought. ^ For ^ Against Proposition 58: Amend Section 112, "Recall procedure," to provide that a voter who files a petition seeking the recall of a council member shall file a statement of not more than 200 words stating the grounds for removal, and that the council 16