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ROBERTSON v. GRAZIANO

No. 1 CA-CV 97-0230.

942 P.2d 1182 (1997)

189 Ariz. 350

Edina L. ROBERTSON, a qualified elector and resident of the City of Peoria, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Janice GRAZIANO, City Clerk for the City of Peoria, in her official capacity, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department C.

July 31, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Garnett, III, Assistant City Attorney, City of Peoria, Scottsdale, for Defendant-Appellant.

Santin, Poli, Ball, Sims & Cook, PLC by Kathy W. Cook, Jeffrey Messing, K. Scott Reynolds, Phoenix, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

OPINION

TOCI, Judge.

The central issue in this case is whether the electors of the City of Peoria ("the City") can by initiative amend the charter to require the City to employ a minimum of 1.5 full-time police officers per one thousand residents. The City contends that the challenged initiative is a budgetary matter and that, by analogy to the Arizona cases precluding zoning by initiative, state regulation of the budgeting process preempts an initiative...

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