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The following ordinances and resolutions of the Council shall not be subject to referendum, to-wit:
(a) General appropriation ordinances.
(b) Ordinances appropriating money for improvements or expenditures of any kind when the money so appropriated has been obtained or authorized to be obtained by bond issues; provided that all ordinances authorizing bond issues shall be subject to a referendum, except bond issues in anticipation of the collection of special assessments.
(c) Ordinances appropriating money for the discharge of lawful obligations of the City or authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes for the discharge of such obligations.
(d) Ordinances authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes in anticipation of the collection of special assessments.
(e) Ordinances authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes for street intersection improvements.
(f) Ordinances providing for the payment of the regular daily expenses of any department of the City.
In case a petition is filed requiring that a measure passed by the Council providing for an expenditure of money, a bond issue, or a public improvement, be submitted to a vote of the electors, all steps preliminary to such actual expenditure, actual issuance of bonds, or actual execution of a contract for such improvement, may be taken prior to the election.
The Recall
Any elective official provided for in this Charter may be removed from office by the electorate qualified to vote for a successor to such officer. Such officer shall be subject to removal in such manner as is now or may be hereafter provided by this Charter. The procedure to effect such removal shall be as follows:
A petition demanding that the question of removing such official be submitted to the electors qualified to vote for his or her successor shall be addressed to the Council and filed with the Clerk thereof. The petition shall contain a statement in not more than two hundred (200) words of the grounds upon which removal of such person is sought. Such petition shall be signed by registered voters (electors) equal in number to at least twenty-five (25) percent of the total vote cast at the election for such office, at the last preceding general Municipal election.
(Adopted November 4, 1969)
Petition papers shall be procured only from the Clerk of the Council, who shall keep a sufficient number of such blank petition papers on file for distribution as herein provided. Prior to the issuance of such petition papers an affidavit shall be made by one or more qualified electors and filed with the Clerk, stating the name and office of the officer sought to be removed. The Clerk, upon issuing any such petition paper to an elector, shall enter in a record, to be kept in the Clerk's office, the name of the elector to whom issued and shall certify upon each paper the name of the elector to whom issued and the date of issuance. No petition paper so issued shall be accepted as part of a petition unless it bears such certificates of the Clerk and unless it be filed as provided herein.
Each signer of a recall petition shall sign his or her name in ink or indelible pencil and shall place thereon after his or her name, his or her place of residence by street and number. To each such petition paper there shall be attached an affidavit of the circulator thereof, stating the number of signers to such part of the petition and that each signature appended to the paper was made in the circulator's presence and is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be.
All papers comprising a recall petition shall be assembled and filed with the Clerk as one (1) instrument within thirty (30) days after the filing with the Clerk of the affidavit stating the name and office of the officer sought to be removed. Within ten (10) days from the date of the filing of such petition the Clerk shall determine the sufficiency in valid signatures and attach thereto a certificate showing the result of the Clerk's examination. If the Clerk shall certify that the petition is insufficient the Clerk shall set forth in the certificate the particulars in which the petition is defective, and shall return a copy of the certificate to the person designated in such petition to receive it.
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