{"id":90082,"date":"2015-12-15T13:36:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=90082"},"modified":"2015-12-15T16:13:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T22:13:49","slug":"city-rejects-police-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=90082","title":{"rendered":"City rejects police petition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valley City (CSi)\u00a0 Valley City Auditor Avis Richter has sent out a response to the proposed \u201cpetition to initiate ordinance\u201d committee members signed by Tony Drake, Lloyd Nelson and Robert Drake.<\/p>\n

\"Petition\"<\/a>The petition was in regard to putting a question on a ballot, asking voters if they wanted to put the Valley City Police Department, after disbanding it, under administrative control\u00a0\u00a0of \u00a0the Barnes County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n

City Administrator David Schelkoph says after exhaustive legal research with city staff members, they have rejected the proposed petition for signature circulation.<\/p>\n

Schelkoph says the petitioners can choose to rewrite the document to conform to all legal requirements and clarifications.<\/p>\n

If the petition is approved, the sponsoring committee would need to get the necessary signatures before the city could approve it and place it on a future ballot.<\/p>\n

Once on the ballot, voters would have to approve or disapprove a city ordinance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City (CSi)\u00a0 Valley City Auditor Avis Richter has sent out a response to the proposed \u201cpetition to initiate ordinance\u201d committee members signed by Tony Drake, Lloyd Nelson and Robert Drake. The petition was in regard to putting a question on a ballot, asking voters if they wanted to put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90136,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90082\/revisions\/90136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}