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regulating the holding of municipal elections and in accordance with the ordinances adopted by the city council for the COllduct of elections. Provided that tIhe city council shall appoint the election judges and other election officials. Voting precincts shall be established by ordinance and may be altered from time to time in like manner. 3. Amend Section 6.03 as follows: Sec. 6.03. Forms of petitions. Initiative petition papers shall contain the full text of the proposed legislation in the form of an ordinance, including a descriptive caption. Referendum petition papers shall contain a sufficient description of the ordinance sought to be referred to identify it, or if the ordinance has been passed by the council, the full text of the ordinance sought to be referred shall be included in such papers. The signatures to the initiative or referendum petitions need not be all appended to one paper, but each signer shall sign his or her name in ink or indelible pencil, together with a notation showing residence address and voter registration number. No signature shall be counted where there is reason to believe it is not the actual signature of the purported signer or that it is a duplication either of name or of handwriting used in any other signature on the petition, and no signature shall be counted unless it is accompanied by all of the information required by applicable state law. Before signatures on any petition paper may be counted, one of the signers of such petition paper, a qualified voter, shall make oath or affirmation before the city clerk or any other officer competent to administer oaths or affirmations, that the statements made therein are true, that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name purports to be signed thereto, and that such signatures were placed thereon in that person's presence. 4. Amend Section 9.03 as follows: Sec. 9.03. Misapplication of bond funds. Any officer or employee of the City of San Marcos who shall willfully wilfully or knowingly divert or use any funds arising from the issuance of any bond or sinking fund for any other purpose than that for which the fund is created or as herein otherwise authorized, shall be subject to prosecution as provided by the laws of the State of Texas on the diversion and conversion offunds belonging to any of the municipalities of the State of Texas. c. OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS The Commission recommends that the proposed budget for each fiscal year (mentioned in Charter Section 8.02), the adopted budget for each fiscal year (mentioned in Charter Section 8.05), and the bond register for the City (mentioned in Charter Section 9.02) be made available to the public, if possible, via Internet at the City's web site. C:\TEMP\charter commission report-200l.doc 9