Official Referendum PETITION SIGNINGS (for Hollywood registered voters only). 

• Tuesday April 26. 7 PM - 8:30 PM
  Fred Lippman Center. 2030 Polk St.
• Sunday, May 1st. 11 AM- 2 PM.
  3151 Stirling Rd.
  Stirling Road Branch Library. DRIVE THRU option- Volunteers will be there with clipboards- just pull up and sign.

To sign the official referendum petition, you must be a Hollywood registered voter. You must sign on paper, not online. You can only sign one time. You can only sign for yourself (not a spouse, family member, or roommate). Your signature should match your voter registration signature. You must then print your name neatly (so the City Clerk can verify that each person is a registered voter after we turn in all the signatures). You must sign with the name that matches your voter registration (not a nickname). Your address should match your voter registration (including apartment number). You don’t have to bring your voter ID to sign, but be aware that the City Clerk will disqualify your signature if you aren’t a registered voter or if she can’t read your name/address.

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.

Not a Hollywood registered voter? EVERYONE can help by also asking the Broward County Commission to deny the land use amendment (they would need a land use amendment to add density to this public open space). Broward Commission emails to ask them to deny the land use amendment at 1301 S Ocean Dr Hollywood Beach:
NRich@broward.org, MBogen@broward.org, MUdine@broward.org, LFisher@broward.org, SGeller@broward.org, BFurr@broward.org, TRyan@broward.org, Jemoskowitz@broward.org, TAlston@broward.org