Message from Hollywood residents:
Official Referendum PETITION SIGNING for Hollywood registered voters only.
Tues. Sept 13. 7:00-8:00 pm. Hollywood Beach Community Center
1301 S Ocean Drive.
This is also the Hollywood Lakes Civic Association Meeting, so parking is FREE.
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 15,000 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.
Hollywood residents advise you to follow the facebook page for alerts and updates: https://www.facebook.com/NO-private-condo-tower-on-Hollywood-public-beach-101689205539310