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Home My WebLink About4787 ORDINANCE NO. z.~ 7 ~ '7 AN ORDINANCE relating to the designation of the Director of Community Development, or the Director's designee, as the Community Empowerment Zone administrator for the area designated by the State of Washington as a Community Empowerment Zone within the City of Bremerton WHEREAS, A Community Empowermem Zone was designated by the State of Washington within the City of Bremerton in 1994; and WHEREAS, A Community Empowerment Zone designation enables economically disadvantaged urban areas to qualify for special tax incemives intended to support reinvestment in the zone. Specifically qualified businesses located in the zone, or that hire residems of the zone, may apply to the Departmem of Revenue for sales tax deferrals and business and occupation tax credits; and WHEREAS, The Washington State Legislature passed, and the Governor of the State of Washington signed legislation during the 2000 legislative session requiring each local governmem to, by ordinance, designate a Community Empowermem Zone administrator for the area designated as a Community Empowermem Zone that is within its jurisdiction; and WHEREAS, the new law requires that a Community Empowermem Zone administrator must be an officer or employee of the local government; and WHEREAS, it is in the interest of the City of Bremerton to maintain the Community Empowerment Zone designation in good standing as a means to maintain existing and future incentives for economic development fi.om the State of Washington for Bremerton's low income communities: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BREMERTON AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City of Bremerton hereby designates the Director of Community Development, or the Director's designee, as the Community Empowerment Zone administrator for the area designated as a Community Empowerment Zone within the jurisdiction of the City of Bremerton. This designation is in fulfillment of the requirements of RCW 43.31C.070. Section 2. Any act with the authority and prior to the effective date of this ordinance is hereby ratified and confirmed. Section 3. This ordinance shah take effect and be in force ten (10) days after passage and publication. APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton on the ~ day of ,X_~'~,.~?oL, ,200/ Community Empowerment Zone.ord Page I of 2 PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton on the ~ day of , 20 OI Jt~I~LAW, Council Presidem Approved this '7 day of ~~-~ ,20 ~3 ~ ATTEST: KATHLEEN McCLUSKEY, City Clerk EFFECTIVE DATE Pi,!?~.!E:,~TIO~,! DATE /o ?-r~ '" ~1 ~?~'~' .... Community Empowerment Zone.oral Page 2 of 2 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION County of Kitsap, State of Washington No. 170886 I, Peggy Szumiesz, being first duly sworn on oath, deposes and says: That she is now, and at all times embraced in the publication herein mentioned was the principal clerk of the printers and publishers of THE SUN; that said newspaper has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the Superior Court of the County of Kitsap, in which County it is published and is now and has been for more than six months prior to the date of the publication hereinafter referred to, published in the English language continually as a daily newspaper in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, and is now and during all of said time, was printed in an office maintained in the aforesaid place of publication of said newspaper; that the following is a true text of a legal advertisement as it was published in regular issues (and not in supplement form) of said newspaper on the following dates, to wit: January 7, 2002; and that such newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period. That the full amount of the fee charged for the foregoing publication is the sum of $112.51 amount has not been paid in full. ,,\\,,\1\1""1/11/"11 /~ -4 .~ .::::-" '" Sr F EA-t 1/// $:' ~ ........ 0 ~ (S' f P' . a1 CI k) $' ';). ...... ....... -)> ~ Ignature 0 nnclp er 2~/O,ARy\'t~ Subscribed and swona~efO:;e ~d4iSle:fl:t:oBanuary 17,2002 %~{~~U8\.\v/~] ~ . /l cjJ~ /// -- "l ". .' ~ " L11t LY L()!l!1 . \%~<5' '~'~"~"~'~0\,,-f . U I U . 11//, , \\\\ '/!iI'III\.\\.D~' Notary Public in and for the State ot Washington, Kitsap County. ORDINANCE NO. 4781' AN ORDINANCE relating to the designation of the Director of Community Development, or the Director's designee, as the Community Empowerment Zone administrator for the area designated by the State of Washington as a Community Empowerment Zone within the City of Bremerton- WHEREAS, A Community Empowerment Zone was designated by the State of Washington within the City of Bremerton in 1994; and- WHEREAS, A Community Empowerment Zone designation enables economically disadvantaged urban areas to qualify for special tax incentives intended to support reinvestment in the zone. Specifically qualified businesses located in the zone, or that hire residents of the zone, may apply to the Department of Revenue for sales tax deferrals and business and occupation tax credits; and- WHEREAS, The Washington State Legislature passed, and the Governor of the State of Washington signed legislation during the 2000 legislative session requiring each local government to, by ordinance, designate a Community Empowerment Zone administrator for the area designated as a Community Empowerment Zone that is within its jurisdiction; and- WHEREAS, the new law requires that a Community Empowerment Zone administrator must be an officer or employee of the local government; and- WHEREAS, it is in the interest of the City of Bremerton to maintain the Community Empowerment Zone designation in good standing as a means to maintain existing and future incentives for economic development from the State of Washington for Bremerton's low income communities:- BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BREMERTON AS FOLLOWS:- Section 1. The City of Bremerton hereby designates the Director of Community Development, or the Director's designee, as the Community Empowerment Zone administrator for the area designated as a Community Empowerment Zone within the jurisdiction of the City of Bremerton. This designation is in fulfillment of the requirements of RCW 43.31 C.070.- Section 2. Any act with the authority and prior to the effective date of this ordinance is hereby ratified and confirmed. - Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force ten (10) days after passage and publication.- APPROVED by the City Council ofthe City of Bremerton on the 19th day of December, 2001.- PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton on the 26th day of December, 2001.- January 7,2002- - #170886-