File #: 2008-0519    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/29/2008 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: Final action: 10/20/2008
Enactment date: 10/31/2008 Enactment #: 16282
Title: AN ORDINANCE establishing February 3, 2009, as the date for an election on the question of the formation of a metropolitan park district encompassing portions of the King County fire protection district No. 27 and various neighborhoods adjacent to the fire protection district, and requesting in addition that the manager of elections place on the February 3, 2009 ballot the proposed district's ballot measures to create the Fall City metropolitan park district and elect a five-member board of commissioners.
Sponsors: Kathy Lambert
Indexes: Elections, Fall City, Town of, Records and Elections
Attachments: 1. 16282.pdf, 2. A. Legal Description, 3. A. Legal Description
Drafter
Clerk 10/21/2008
Title
AN ORDINANCE establishing February 3, 2009, as the date for an election on the question of the formation of a metropolitan park district encompassing portions of the King County fire protection district No. 27 and various neighborhoods adjacent to the fire protection district, and requesting in addition that the manager of elections place on the February 3, 2009 ballot the proposed district's ballot measures to create the Fall City metropolitan park district and elect a five-member board of commissioners.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. RCW 35.61.010 provides that "(a) metropolitan park district may be created for the management, control, improvement, maintenance, and acquisition of parks, parkways, boulevards, and recreational facilities."
2. King County residents in the area of fire protection district No. 27 circulated a petition seeking to form a metropolitan park district to area residents in accordance with chapter 35.61.020 RCW.
3. On April 21, 2008, the elections division certified the sufficiency of the petition to the metropolitan King County council.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The name of the proposed park and recreation district shall be Fall City metropolitan park district.
SECTION 2. An election shall be held on February 3, 2009, in accordance with chapter 35.61 RCW within the territory of the proposed metropolitan park district, for the purpose of submitting the question of formation of a metropolitan park district to the qualified electors within the proposed district described in section 4 of this ordinance.
SECTION 3. The King County manager of the elections division is hereby requested to assume jurisdiction to call and conduct an election and submit to the registered voters within the subject area the proposition as set forth in section 3 of this ordinance. The clerk of the council is hereby authorized and directed to transmit the proposition to the manager of t...

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