{"id":18902,"date":"2013-09-26T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T12:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/?p=18902"},"modified":"2013-09-26T08:08:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T12:08:25","slug":"brigantine-city-clerk-petition-change-government-invalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/brigantine-city-clerk-petition-change-government-invalid\/","title":{"rendered":"Brigantine City Clerk: Petition to Change Government Invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressofatlanticcity.com\/communities\/atlantic-city_pleasantville_brigantine\/brigantine-rules-petition-to-change-form-of-government-invalid\/article_e8020f48-263a-11e3-a20e-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">WALLACE McKELVEY of the Press of Atlantic City<\/a>, a\u00a0petition that would have brought a proposal to change the city\u2019s form of\u00a0government before voters this November is invalid, city officials determined Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners failed to properly word the petition question, to provide affidavits from circulators\u00a0attached to the signatures and to obtain the necessary 1,415 signatures, a memo signed by City Clerk\u00a0Lynn Sweeney states.<\/p>\n<p>The petition, submitted to Sweeney\u2019s office earlier this month, called for a referendum to revert the\u00a0city to a three-member commission form of government, in which elected officials would oversee\u00a0individual departments.<\/p>\n<p>A similar movement in 1989 led to the city abandoning that form for the\u00a0manager and seven-member council it currently has.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are too many people who want to see this move forward for us to throw our hands up,\u201d said\u00a0Frank Koch, president of Respectable Government.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney, in an interview Wednesday, said the group has 10 days to resubmit its petition materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressofatlanticcity.com\/communities\/atlantic-city_pleasantville_brigantine\/brigantine-rules-petition-to-change-form-of-government-invalid\/article_e8020f48-263a-11e3-a20e-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by WALLACE McKELVEY of the Press of Atlantic City, a\u00a0petition that would have brought a proposal to change the city\u2019s form of\u00a0government before voters this November is invalid, city officials determined Wednesday. 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