Charter amendment would ease petition thresholds and create a "mini-initiative" option
Amendment 26 would lower signature requirements for initiative and referendum petitions from 10% to 8%, allow a failed initiative with at least 3,000 signatures to become a "mini-initiative" for public hearing and council vote, and permit random statistical sampling of signatures by the elections office.
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Kathy Garber, secretary of the Charter Review Commission, summarized Amendment 26 as a set of changes to initiative and referendum rules. She said the proposal would "reduce the number of required signatures for an initiative petition or referendum petition from 10% to 8%" (based on votes cast in the last governor's election) and would allow a petitioner who fell short but collected at least 3,000 signatures to transfer the measure to a mini-initiative — a process that brings the subject to a public hearing and council vote.
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