Message copied from Friends of Hollywood:
DRIVE THRU PETITION SIGNING
April 5th. 6 to 8 pm Lippman Center
Parking Lot 2030 Polk Street
"Without our permission, and with the opposition of nearly every resident who has spoken out publicly and written letters to the city, our City's Commissioners voted 5/7 in favor of giving a 99-year lease to a wealthy private developer for the purpose of building a tower of a minimum of 135 privately-owned luxury condominiums on our parks and recreation property on
1301 South Ocean Drive.
By our Charter, we, the residents, own this land and registered voters are entitled to vote on any conversion of public park land to private use. However, the City is taking a position that we have no rights in the matter.
Regardless of your position, giving up your right to vote now sends the wrong message to our Commission for the future of all of our public open spaces.
Registered Voters have one opportunity for an initiative to take back our rights. We are asking registered voters to sign a petition that would force the City to put this to a public vote by referendum."
WHAT: Drive-By Petition Signing by Registered Voters
WHEN: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 - 6:00 - 8:00 pm
WHERE:
Parking Lot, North Side of the Lippman Center
2030 Polk Street
(one block East of Dixie and two blocks north of Hollywood Boulevard)
We Can Do This. You Can Do This.
-Friends of Hollywood
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A dedicated group of Hollywood residents/volunteers will be collecting signatures all over town in order to overturn the decision of the City Commission. According to the Hollywood City Charter, voters can reject the 1301 decision by collecting signatures from 15 percent of the registered voters in Hollywood and then presenting these signatures to the City of Hollywood, Florida Government City Clerk. The City Clerk will then count them and verify that all of the signatures are Hollywood registered voters. This is just one of the ways this project can be stopped.
“The electors shall have the power, in accordance with the provisions of this Article 5, to approve or reject at the polls any measure passed by the commission or submitted by the commission to a vote of the electors, such power being known as a referendum.”
“Upon the delivery of a referendum petition signed by at least fifteen percent (15%) of the total number of registered voters in each of four (4) districts of the city and at least fifteen percent (15%) of the total number of registered voters of the city as a whole, all as shown by the official registration books, the referendum petition shall be considered sufficient and shall be acted upon as provided herein.”
Volunteers will need to collect approximately 14,800 signatures total. There is no deadline, as far as they are aware. Volunteers will be holding petition signing events, walking door to door, standing in public places with clipboards, and asking friends and neighbors. Everyone signing must be a Hollywood registered voter. If they aren’t, the City Clerk will disqualify that signature. You can only sign for yourself, not someone else. You must sign on paper (not electronic). All of the registered voters in a household may sign the petition.