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Committee narrows petition thresholds and discusses filing dates and ranked-choice voting
Summary
Committee agreed to reduce the petition threshold for council petitions to a fixed number (225) and discussed (but did not resolve) whether council and mayor filing dates should match; ranked-choice voting was referred for further legal review and placed late in the drafting queue.
The committee reviewed Article 7 election provisions and reached several practical decisions and directions for staff.
Key outcomes: the committee accepted a hard-number petition threshold of 225 signatures (removing a purely percentage‑based formula) for the council petition mechanism and removed limits on how many separate petitions an elector may sign. Members also…
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