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Minutes of a Public Hearing On Proposed Charter Review Revisions 8-10-10 Page 10 Council does not work in the Village, who's in charge during the daytime when they are both at work? It becomes a little bit tricky and difficult. As a result, the Charter Review Commission is recommending that we take out those words "when the Mayor is absent from the municipality" and merely say that "when the Mayor for any reason is unable to perform the duties of Mayor, then the President of Council shall come in". That could be health-wise, it could be absentee-wise. It could be any reason. The Council makes that final decision as to whether or not he is unable to perform his duties. 5. ORDINANCE NO. 2010-26 This proposal speaks about ordinances not subject to referendum. This one is a little difficult to explain. It really is not a substantive change in the Charter. It's merely a cleaning up of the language actually and clarifying what the intent is behind this Article VII, Section 5. This particular Section of the Charter had a section in it that said "Ordinances or resolutions submitted to the Council by initiative petition and passed by the Council either with or without change but not required to be submitted to a vote of the electorate shall be subject to referendum in the same manner as other ordinances or resolutions." Did you all follow that? Most people can't. What that section is really saying is because it is under matters subject to referendum, is that an initiative petition submitted by the voters was not subject to referendum by another group of voters who wouldn't want that item to go on to the ballot. It gets very confusing. In fact, if you were to circulate a petitiori and you wanted to have an ordinance adopted as the public and this Council didn't want to do it, you have the right to do it. Once you circulate that initiative petition and you have enough signatures, it will go on the ballot. Council, like the Charter Review Commission recommendations, has no choice. They must put it on the ballot. The voters then will get to decide whether that ordinance becomes law or not. We didn't want to confuse the fact as to whether or not there's a referendum right to stop an initiative petition. That just wouldn't make appropriate sense. What does make sense is something like the police station. At least 15 ordinances are required to make a public improvement. The widening of SOM Center probably involved 50 different ordinances. The building of the Fire Station, the purchase of the Church, all involved multiple, multiple ordinances. The beginning ordinances are those called resolutions of necessity or ordinances to proceed with the project.