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The results of a recall petition against Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek will be announced at a special council meeting on Monday, May 13.
According to a news release on Monday afternoon, the meeting will begin at 9:30 am that day and the city clerk will make an oral statement of the results of the recall petition. The clerk will also make a presentation on the verification process used.
The Council will receive the city clerk’s statement and record it in the corporate record during that meeting, the statement said.
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In February, the City of Calgary said it had received notice of a recall petition against Gondek on Jan. 30 and had verified that it complied with the recall criteria set out in the Municipal Government Act. The recall petition was published on February 5.
The organizer of the petition, Landon Johnston, had until 4 pm on April 4 to collect 514,284 signatures from Calgarians who are eligible to vote, or 40 per cent of the electorate.
Once Johnston submitted the petition, city clerks and Calgary Elections officials began a 45-day process to count the signatures. If the petition meets the threshold, Elections Calgary will begin the verification process.
If the threshold is met, the city will release the number of verified signatures. If the threshold is not met, the city will release the unverified number of signatures.
Johnston previously told reporters that he had counted and submitted 72,271 signatures.
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