. arr-Fa 2-331" in: Brad-?s- April 19, 2017 at: Patricia Riley, Town Clerk 23H I 9 ?f?i 9: 3'3 Town of Ledyard new?. M142, Zi??i?it?? CLERK Ledyard, CT 06339 MS. Riley: This is to inform you that I am filing an official challenge to the petition filed with the Clerk to place an advisory question on the annual budget referendum in May. My reasons are as follows: 1) Connecticut State Statutes Chapter 90 Town and Other Community Meetings, provides guidelines for annual town meetings. Since Ledya rd's May referendum is the official close of the town meeting, Chapter 90 must be followed to assure the validity of the subject petition. 2) Many of the filed signatures were collected by means of a petition form placed at the two Ledyard libraries. These petitions were unattended with no means of identifying signers and verifying signatures as required by Connecticut General Statues Section 7?9: Petitions for vote. Form. Statement by circulator (copied attached, emphasis added). 3) Section Sec. 7?9a. Circulation of petition for vote at town meeting, states ?No petition shall be valid for any action for a vote by the electors or voters at any regular or special town meeting unless such petition shall be circulated by a person resident or eligible to vote in such town.? The petitions forms at the libraries did not identify a circulator and therefore are not valid. 4) The petition forms located in the libraries contained a reference to Section 7?9 of the Statues. However, no certifying signature was included prior to a significant number of signatures being added to these forms. Additionally, the forms filed with the Clerk were not signed in advance by a circulator orcanvasser and therefore the signatures have no means of being verified. Based on the above I am requesting that this petition be declared invalid and that the subject Advisory Question not added to the May referendum. Respectfully submitted, "ohn A. Rodolico 40 Long Pond Road Ledyard, CT 06339 860?245?3 750 2013 Connecticut General Statutes Title 7 - Municipalities Chapter 90 - Town and Other Community Meetings Section 7-9 - Petitions for vote. Form. Statement by circulator. Whenever under the provisions of the general statutes or any special act, anv action for a vote by the electors or voters of a municipality is to be initiated by the petition of such electors or voters, in addition to such other requirements as such statute or special act may impose, such petition shall be on a form prescribed or approved by the clerk of such municipality, and each page of such petition shall contain a statement, signed under penalties of false statement, by the person who circulated the same, setting forth such circulator? 5 name and address, and stating that each person whose name appears on said page signed the same in person in the presence circulator, that the circulator either knows each such signer or that the signer satisfactorily identi?ed himself to the circulator and that all the signatures on said page were obtained not earlier than six months prior to the ?ling of said petition. Any page of a petition which does not contain such a statement by the circulator shall be invalid. Any circulator who makes a false statement in the statement hereinbefore provided shall be subject to the penalty provided for false statement.