Official Referendum PETITION SIGNING for Hollywood registered voters only.
DRIVE THRU option- Volunteer will be there with clipboard under the overhang by the front entrance- just pull up and sign.
Sunday, July 10. 2:30pm-4:30 pm.
3151 Stirling Rd.
Stirling Road Branch Library.
The Hollywood Historical Society will be holding an event at STIRLING Rd Branch library at 1 PM.
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.
Message from Hollywood volunteers/residents:
"In regards to the City attorney's "interpretation" of our referendum efforts:
The City is claiming that their interpretation of the referendum process is that we can only do a referendum on an ordinance, not a resolution (Related deal). However, after running the argument by the attorneys, we have decided that there is a chance the City is wrong. So, our strategy is to keep pressing on with referendum efforts. The fight is worth it."