File #: 2009-0650    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/30/2009 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: 12/7/2009 Final action: 12/14/2009
Enactment date: 12/22/2009 Enactment #: 16740
Title: AN ORDINANCE establishing the date for an election on the question of increasing the number of commissioners serving the Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety, King County fire protection district no. 43.
Sponsors: Reagan Dunn
Attachments: 1. 16740.pdf

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AN ORDINANCE establishing the date for an election on the question of increasing the number of commissioners serving the Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety, King County fire protection district no. 43.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

RCW 52.14.015 provides for a three-member board of commissioners of any fire district to determine by resolution that it would be in the best interest of the district to increase the number of commissioners from three to five.  The law further notes that the board of commissioners from such a fire district shall submit a resolution to the county legislative authority in which the district is located requesting that an election be held to determine the number of commissioners.  Upon receipt of the resolution, the legislative authority shall call a special election to be held within the fire protection district.

The board of commissioners for Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety, King County fire protection district no. 43 has submitted a resolution to the

 

King County council, as required under RCW 52.14.015, requesting that the proposition increasing the board of commissioners from three to five members be placed before the voters.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  A special election shall be held on February 9, 2010, within King County fire protection district no. 43.  The ballot proposition shall be in substantially the following form in accordance with RCW 52.14.015:

                     "Shall the board of commissioners of Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety, King County fire protection district no. 43, be increased from three members to five members?

                     YES                                                                                                                                                   [     ]

                     NO                                                                                                                                                   [     ]"

                     SECTION 2.  Notice of the election shall be published as required by law.

                     SECTION 3.  The director of elections is hereby authorized and requested to prepare and distribute a local voters' pamphlet, pursuant to K.C.C. 1.10.010, for the

 

special election called for in this ordinance, the cost of the pamphlet to be included as part of the cost of the special election.