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CERTIFICATION OF INSUFFICIENCY OF TAX PETITION I, Dolores A. Miller, Acting City Clerk, do hereby state that I have received a peti- tion denominated "gross receipts tax initiative petition." I further state that I forwarded to the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners the petitions which I received. On December 3, 1979, I requested of this Council, at its regular Council meeting, held on that day, a legal opinion as to whether the petition may be acted upon by the Council. I am in receipt of that legal opinion, and based on that opinion, I certify to this Council the following: 1. That each paper of the petition has the proper statement of the circulator. 2. The number of qualified electors, as certified by the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners, who signed the petition, aggregated 2,491. 3. As certified by the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners, the total number of registered voters in University City is 24,435. Thus, the number of qualified signatories on the petition represents 10.194% of the registered voters at the last regular municipal election. 4. It is in fact a referendum petition which was not timely filed within fifteen days after June 25, 1979, when the taxing ordinances which the petition seeks to repeal were enacted. 5. It is in fact a referendum petition which has not been signed by at least fifteen percentum of the registered voters at the last regular municipal election. 6. It is in fact a referendum petition which seeks to repeal tax ordinances specifi- cally exempted from the referendum power. 7. Its subject matter deals with the taxing power and, as such, is beyond the scope of both the initiative and referendum provisions in the Charter. 8. I hereby certify that I will immediately notify the persons filing the petition of my findings in accordance with Section 76 of the University City Charter.