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-3- secretary at the time of its issuance. All such forms must be returned to the city secretary before their respective expiration dates in order to be eligible to be verified and certified by the city secretary. The city secretary shall have forty-five (45) days from the receipt of any recall petition or petitions to verify and certify to their sufficiency. Sec. 6.08. Recall election. (a) The provisions regulating examination, certification and amendment of initiative petitions shall apply to recall peti tions. If the petition is certified by the city secretary to be sufficient, the council shall order and hold an election to determine whether such officer shall be recalled. The election shall be held on the date next authorized by state law for municipal elections which is at least thirty (3 0) days after certification of the petition calling for the recall election, (b) In a recall election for the mayor or a council member in an at large position, all qualified voters of the city are eligible to vote. In a recall election for a council member in a council district position, only the qualified voters of the respective council district are eligible to vote. Sec. 8.08. Proceedings on budget after public hearing. (a) As a result of such public hearing, the city council may insert new items or may increase or decrease the items of the budget, except items in proposed expenditures fixed by law, but where it shall increase the total proposed expenditures, it shall also provide for an increase in the total anticipated revenue to at least equal such proposed expenditures. (b) The budget shall not contain an apportionment of proposed expenditures to council districts, and it shall not contain any discretionary funds to be allocated to the mayor or individual council members for expenditure, except for reimbursement of expenses under section 3.04 of this Charter. Sec. 3.01.1. Transition provisions. (a) In this Section, the "former system" refers to the method of election of council members in effect through the May, 1994 election or any applicable runoff election, and the "new system" refers to the method of election of council members in effect after the May, 1994 election, or any applicable runoff election. (b) within 30 days after the council members for Places 5 and 6 take office in 1994 under the former system, the council members for Places 1 through 6 under the former system shall determine the places they will hold on an interim basis under the new system by a public drawing supervised by the city secretary. (c) All council members elected under the former system will serve the full terms of office to which they were elected, but as their terms expire, the positions of council member for Places I, 2, 3 and 4 under the new system shall be filled by qualified residents of council districts one, two, three and four, respectively.