I wanted to re-post a message from last summer. Someone posted the section 8.07 paragraph 3 from the Pickerington City Charter for recalling an elected offical. Yes, Maxey is an elected offical by their own charter.
I suggest we all read this section and list the names on those that should be re-called from our city government. Then for the sake of the charter not more than 200 words of why they should be removed from office. Your words may make something happen here in our unfair city.
My suggestion is to start at the top of the ladder. Remove anyone that has denied this city and its citizens their rights under the city charter.
First there is some work to do. Someone must call the Board of elections (740-687-7000) and find out how many people voted in the last Muncicpal election (probably November of 2001)Please post that information for everyone.
Can the voters of Pickerington afford to put this action off any longer??
Section 8.07 INITIATIVES, REFEREDUMS, RECALL
(3) RECALL
The electors of the Municipality shall have the power to remove from office by recall election any elected official of the Municipality. If an elected official shall have served six (6) months of the term, a petition demanding removal may be filed with the Municipal Clerk, who shall note thereon the name and address of the person filing the petition and the date of such filing, and deliver to such person a receipt therefore and attach a copy thereof to said petition. The petition may be circulated in separate parts, but the separate parts shall be bound together and filled as one instrument.
Each part shall contain the name and office of the person whose removal is sought and a statement in not more than two hundred (200) words of the grounds for the removal. Such petition shall be signed by at least that number of electors which equal twenty-five (25) percent of the total number of electors voting in the last preceding regular Municipal election.
Within ten (10) days after the day of which such petition shall have been field, the Municipal Clerk shall determine whether or not it meets the requirements hereof. If the Municipal Clerk shall find the petition insufficient, the Clerk shall promptly certify the particulars in the petition is defective, deliver a copy of the certificate to the person who filed the petition, and make a record of such delivery. Such person shall be allowed a period of twenty (20) days after the day on which delivery was made in which to make the petition sufficient. If the Municipal Clerk shall find the petition sufficient, the Clerk shall promptly so certify to the Council, shall deliver a copy of such certificate to the official whose removal is sought, and shall make a record of such delivery.
If such official shall not resign within five (5) days after the day on which delivery shall have been made, the Council shall thereupon fix a day for holding a recall election, not less than sixty (60) nor more than seventy-five (75) days after the date of such delivery. At such recall election, this question shall be placed upon the ballot: ?“Shall (naming the official) be allowed to continue as (naming the office)??” with provision being made on the ballot for voting affirmatively, or negatively on such question. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be voted affirmatively, such official shall remain in office. If a majority of the votes cast shall be voted negatively, such official shall be considered as removed, the office shall be declared vacant, and such vacancy shall be filled as provided by this Charter. The official removed by such recall election shall NOT be eligible for appointment to the vacancy created thereby.
By Double dealer
I suggest we all read this section and list the names on those that should be re-called from our city government. Then for the sake of the charter not more than 200 words of why they should be removed from office. Your words may make something happen here in our unfair city.
My suggestion is to start at the top of the ladder. Remove anyone that has denied this city and its citizens their rights under the city charter.
First there is some work to do. Someone must call the Board of elections (740-687-7000) and find out how many people voted in the last Muncicpal election (probably November of 2001)Please post that information for everyone.
Can the voters of Pickerington afford to put this action off any longer??
Section 8.07 INITIATIVES, REFEREDUMS, RECALL
(3) RECALL
The electors of the Municipality shall have the power to remove from office by recall election any elected official of the Municipality. If an elected official shall have served six (6) months of the term, a petition demanding removal may be filed with the Municipal Clerk, who shall note thereon the name and address of the person filing the petition and the date of such filing, and deliver to such person a receipt therefore and attach a copy thereof to said petition. The petition may be circulated in separate parts, but the separate parts shall be bound together and filled as one instrument.
Each part shall contain the name and office of the person whose removal is sought and a statement in not more than two hundred (200) words of the grounds for the removal. Such petition shall be signed by at least that number of electors which equal twenty-five (25) percent of the total number of electors voting in the last preceding regular Municipal election.
Within ten (10) days after the day of which such petition shall have been field, the Municipal Clerk shall determine whether or not it meets the requirements hereof. If the Municipal Clerk shall find the petition insufficient, the Clerk shall promptly certify the particulars in the petition is defective, deliver a copy of the certificate to the person who filed the petition, and make a record of such delivery. Such person shall be allowed a period of twenty (20) days after the day on which delivery was made in which to make the petition sufficient. If the Municipal Clerk shall find the petition sufficient, the Clerk shall promptly so certify to the Council, shall deliver a copy of such certificate to the official whose removal is sought, and shall make a record of such delivery.
If such official shall not resign within five (5) days after the day on which delivery shall have been made, the Council shall thereupon fix a day for holding a recall election, not less than sixty (60) nor more than seventy-five (75) days after the date of such delivery. At such recall election, this question shall be placed upon the ballot: ?“Shall (naming the official) be allowed to continue as (naming the office)??” with provision being made on the ballot for voting affirmatively, or negatively on such question. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be voted affirmatively, such official shall remain in office. If a majority of the votes cast shall be voted negatively, such official shall be considered as removed, the office shall be declared vacant, and such vacancy shall be filled as provided by this Charter. The official removed by such recall election shall NOT be eligible for appointment to the vacancy created thereby.
By Double dealer
