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Administration to place rejected initiative petition on November ballot per committee letter
Summary
Council received a committee letter noting the committee’s previous rejection of an initiative petition and heard that administration will place legislation to put the item on the November ballot, the next step required by the code.
Council was informed that the administration had received a letter from the committee regarding resolution 5-2026, which the committee previously passed to reject an initiative petition. The mayor explained the procedural next step: "the administration is gonna put a legislation on, authorizing the placing of this item on the ballot for the November election." He stressed the language in the chart compels this next procedural item.
The mayor said this legislation is the next step in the statutory process and that the administration will bring that item forward at the next council meeting for formal consideration. No vote on the underlying initiative occurred at this meeting; the item is a procedural step in the election-timing sequence.
