Fiscal Note
Implementing the ordinance will require staff time to create the petition document, review petitions, and process challenges. Fiscal impacts are anticipated to be minimal and would be absorbed in the Clerk's office personnel budget. No appropriation is required.
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Creating Section 2.035 of the Madison General Ordinances related to requiring elector signatures with application to fill vacancy on the Common Council.
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: This ordinance requires applicants to fill a Common Council vacancy to submit a petition containing the names, addresses and signatures of at least 20 electors of the district which has the vacancy. Currently, applicants must submit an application containing the information required by MGO 2.03. This ordinance would require the City Clerk to create a petition document and to review the names and signatures submitted by applicants to determine sufficiency of the signatures, process any challenges to the signatures, and determine whether applicants have qualified to proceed to review by the Common Council Executive Committee.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Section 2.035 entitled “Signature Requirement for Applicants to Alder Vacancy” of the Madison General Ordinances is created to read as follows:
“2.035 SIGNATURE REQUIREMENT FOR APPLICANTS TO ALDER VACANCY
(1) Prior to submission of applications to the Common Council Executive Committee under MGO 2.03, applicants to fill a vacancy on the Common Council shall submit a petition supporting their application. The petition shall contain the signatures of at least 20 and no more than 40 electors of the district with the vacancy. Only one signature per applicant for the same vacancy is valid. In addition to their signature, in order for the signature to be valid, each signer of a petition shall legibly print their name in a space provi...
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