File #: 2005-0513    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Lapsed
File created: 12/5/2005 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: Final action: 2/6/2006
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE establishing February 7, 2006, as the date of a special election on the question of annexation to the city of Issaquah, and assumption of indebtedness, of an unincorporated area known as the Klahanie annexation area and appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the February 7, 2006, special election; and declaring an emergency.
Sponsors: David W. Irons, Kathy Lambert
Indexes: Annexations, Elections, Issaquah, City of
Drafter
Clerk 12/05/2005
Title
AN ORDINANCE establishing February 7, 2006, as the date of a special election on the question of annexation to the city of Issaquah, and assumption of indebtedness, of an unincorporated area known as the Klahanie annexation area and appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the February 7, 2006, special election; and declaring an emergency.
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SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The issue of annexation of the Klahanie annexation area to the city of Issaquah has previously been placed before the voters of the area at the general election held November 8, 2005, and in that election, Proposition 1, approving annexation, passed by the requisite margin, however, Proposition 2, approving assumption of outstanding city indebtedness, failed to pass by the requisite margin.
B. The city of Issaquah by Resolution No.2005-11, has determined that it is in the public interest and general welfare to provide for the annexation of an area known as the Klahanie annexation area, in accordance with chapter 35A.14 RCW. The city has indicated that it may request to resubmit both the issues of annexation and assumption of indebtedness to the voters of the area as a combined single ballot proposition.
C. The city of Issaquah, by Resolution No. 2005-4 initiated the annexation of the Klahanie annexation area.
D. The King County boundary review board received a request for review under chapter 36.93 RCW, and on July 14, 2005, the review board, in file 2191, deemed the proposed city of Issaquah Klahanie annexation file approved.
E. The city of Issaquah has indicated to the county that the city council may adopt on the evening of December 5, 2005, an ordinance requesting the King County director of elections to find an emergency and hold a special election on February 7, 2006, and to submit to the qualified electors of the Klahanie PAA a proposition authorizing the Klahanie PAA to be annexed to the city and in the same...

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