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RESOLUTION NO.2008-37
RESOLUTION CONCERNING A PETITION
�J REQUESTING A VOTE ON THE ISSUANCE OF
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BONDS
Cify of Edina
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Edina, Minnesota,as follows:
Section 1. FINDINGS.
1.01 On February 19,2008,following a duly noticed public hearing,the Edina City Council adopted
Resolution No. 2008-24 modifying the City's capital improvement plan and approving the issuance of general
obligation capital improvement bonds in the principal amount of up to$14,000,000 to finance the acquisition,
construction and equipping of a public works and park maintenance facility("Bond Issue").
1.02 Minnesota Statutes 475.521,subd. 2(c)provides:
A municipality may issue the bonds only after obtaining the approval of a majority of the voters voting
on the question of issuing the obligations, if a petition requesting a vote on the issuance is signed by
voters equal to five percent of the votes cast in the municipality in the last general election and is filed
with the clerk within 30 days after the public hearing. The commissioner of revenue shall prepare a
suggested form of the question to be presented at the election.
1.03 A petition was filed with the Assistant City Manager in part on March 19,2008 and with the City
Clerk in part on March 20,2008. The petition requests a vote on the question of issuance of the Bond Issue.
The petition was signed by 624 people. The petition has not been checked to determine if the individuals who
• signed the petition are registered to vote in Edina and therefore eligible to sign the petition.
1.04 The last general election, when voters of the City,not the school district,voted to elect public officials
was held in November 2006. 26270 votes were cast.
1.05 The petition does not contain 5%of the votes cast at the last city general election.
Section 2. DECISION.
The petition does not have the required number of signatures to require an el ction.
ADOPTED by the Edina City Council this 1 st day of April, 2008.
Attest: --
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Debra A. Mangen,City Clerk �/) Ja s B. Hovland,Mayor
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN)SS
CITY OF EDINA )
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing
Resolution was duly adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of April 1,2008 and as recorded in the Minutes of
said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this day of ,20
Cit;Clerk
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