What makes a petition official?
Mayor Cronin discussed the petitions received during the last Council meeting, and stated that he sent them to the Election Board to see if they met the requirements of a legal petition. The Mayor stated that he received a report that, even though the petition consisted of 285 signatures, to be legal there would have to have been a minimum of 506 signatures from registered voters. “But it is still a petition and something which the Council needs to address,” said Cronin, and proceeded to read through the requests made via the petitions. There were three requests altogether, including a request that the Council withdraw the pending ordinances, to which Cronin replied that most of the ordinances were re-submitted back to Planning Commission and were not acted upon by Council. Another ordinance (2010-08) was amended and sent back to the Planning Commission. Due to this, Mayor Cronin stated that there was no other action the Council could take. The second request was to delay further readi
