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10) The City Council, Tuesday night, approved the 450-acre North Mudville annexation by a 5 to 0 vote over the loud denouncements of area residents that the council was "shogunning in" the measure.

Protesting residents filled the Council Chambers. But their verbal attacks and threatening an injunction could not alter the fact that the two petitions they submitted at the council's Feb. 20 meeting did not have the punch to call for an election.

The protesters needed signatures from at least 25 percent of the registered voters in the area or signatures from 25 percent of the property owning at least 25 percent of the assessed value to require an election.