Tina Fisher Cunningham

Petition organizer Pete Graff provided his canvassers , or "circulators" with the above documentation, which included the City Council Dec. 4 agenda and staff report, a copy of the ordinance as presented on the Dec. 4 agenda on the city web site, the five-district "Purple" map that the City Council approved on Nov. 20 and forms on which the circulators declared he or she observed the signatures being written. Graff said that while he did much of the canvassing himself, he paid circulators $2 a signature for their time although the usual amount is $5. The practice is legal and is used statewide. On the agenda, the ordinance is referred to as "No. 17-" in the staff report and was left unnumbered on the copy of the measure. The number (17-07-745) was attached the day after the City Council's 5-0 vote to adopt the ordinance. The city said that the inaccurate ordinance number on the petition was one reason to reject it.