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(k) If the clerk certifies a petition insufficient, the certificate shall show the particulars wherein the petition is defective. If a majority of the committee chooses to continue to collect signatures, then the committee shall within twenty working days after receipt of the clerk's certificate of insufficiency, file a supplemental petition. The supplemental petition shall be governed by the same requirements as the original petition. (l) Within fifteen working days from the filing of a supplemental petition, the clerk shall complete a second certificate as to the sufficiency of the supplemental petition. Thereafter, the procedural requirements for the supplemental petition shall be the same as that for the original petition. (m) If a majority of the committee does not choose to amend a petition or collect additional signatures, the clerk shall present the certificate to the county council at the first council meeting where it can be legally agendized. A petition is approved for consideration through council action upon the clerk's certificate of sufficiency. (n) The clerk shall present the certificate to the council at the earliest meeting at which the certificate can be legally agendized. The council shall review the latest clerk's certificate, upon the committee's request, and shall approve or reject the certificate or may substitute its own determination of sufficiency of the petition by resolution. The review actions of the council shall be final but shall not preclude the filing of a new petition for the same purposes. (o) The council shall proceed immediately to consider an initiative or referendum petition which has been determined sufficient in accordance with the provisions of this article. If an initiative petition is concerned, the ordinance it proposes shall at once be introduced subject to the procedures required for ordinances under this charter; however, not more than sixty days shall elapse between the time of first reading of the initiative proposal as a bill and completion of consideration to adopt, amend, or reject the same. If a referendum petition is concerned, the ordinance to which that petition is directed shall be reconsidered by the council; and not later than thirty days after the date on which the petition was determined sufficient, the council shall by resolution repeal or sustain the ordinance. (p) If the council fails to adopt an initiative proposal or adopts a proposal with an amendment unfavorable to a majority of the committee, or if the council fails to repeal an ordinance reconsidered pursuant to a referendum petition, the clerk shall submit the final language approved by the petitioner's committee with its appropriate ballot title and ballot language to the voters of the county at the next general election. The ballot for such measures shall contain the final ballot summary and shall have below the ballot title designated spaces in which to mark the ballot FOR or AGAINST the measure. 4