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~~~ TO: FROM: ",IJECT: TE: '"""",, 107 ~ofSan)1a,ws OFFICE MEMORANDUM City Manager City Secretary A Petition Requesting an Election to Consider Adoption of the Firemen's and Policemen's Civil Service Act. March 22, 1974 RE: Certification of said petition. 'I CSM-100 A set of nineteen (19) petitions, numbered consecutively 1 through 19, was presented to the City Secretary on Thursday, February 28, 1974, by John Hudson. The twentiet~ petition of the set was presented to thd City Secretary by Bill R. Younger, Jr., on March 14, 1974. The petition reads as follows: "PETITION FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE FIREMENS AND POLICEMENS CIVIL SERVICE ACT THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF HAYS TO THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS We, the undersigned, all being qualified voters and resident citizens of the City of San Marcos, Texas and in number not less than ten per cent (10%) of the total number of persons voting in the last preceding municipal election of the City, pursuant to Section 27(a) of the Firemens and Policernens Civil Service Act, Article l269(m), Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, hereby petition the City Council of San Marcos, Texas to call an election whereby the qualified voters of the City may cast their votes for or ~gainst the City's adoption of the said Firernens and Policemens Civil Service Act, pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Act." Upon beginning the certification process, it was determined that six (6) sets of the petition, numbers 2, 9, lO, 12, 18 and 19, were invalid due to the fact that the Charter requires that the person making oath that the statements contained in the petition are true and has personal knowledge that each signature is genuine must be a signer of the petition and a qualified voter. It was found that those persons giving oath on the above described six petitions were not signers or qualified voters or both.