HomeMy WebLinkAbout1886 RESOLUTION NO. 1886
A RESOLUTION of the City of Bremerton,
Washington providing for the submission
to the qualified electors of the City at
a special election to be held on March 10,
1981, of an initiative authorizing the
Bremerton Fire Department in response to
an emergency medical call to bill people for
services given to recover at least 50% of
direct costs for labor and materials with
the provision of a reduction in rate if over
10% profit is received and filing of costs
vs. expenses and rates charged with the
City Clerk each January and declaring an
emergency.
WHEREAS, a proposed ordinance submitted by petition,
signed by registered voters equal in number to at least twenty-
five percentum of the last preceding vote cast for all candi-
dates for Mayor, has been filed with the City Clerk as provided
for in the Charter of the City of Bremerton, and
WHEREAS, the City Clerk has verified the sufficiency
of the signatures thereto and found them sufficient, and so
reported to the City Council, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has failed within thirty
days to take final action on said initiative petition, and the
City Charter calling for the same to then be submitted to the
qualified electors fox; their approval or rejection under a ballot
title preparud therefore by the City Attorney, the City Attorney
having prepared the same,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF BREMERTON:
That it is hereby found and declared that an emergency
exists requiring tlne submission to the qualified electors of the
City at a special election to be held therein on the 10th day
of March, 1981, an initiative proposition.
RESOLVED That the Kitsap County Auditor, as ex officio
supervisof of all elections held within Kitsap County is hereby
requested to also find the existence of such emergency and to
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assume jurisdiction of, and to call and conduct said election,
to be held within the City at such special election the initiative
proposition hereinafter set forth.
RESOLVED That the City Clerk is hereby authorized and
directed to certify said initiative proposition to the Kitsap
County Auditor in the following form:
CITY OF BREMERTON
PROPOSITION NO.
INITIATIVE MEASURE
PERTAINING TO AMBULANCE
AND MEDICAL SERVICE ONLY
Shall the Bremerton Fire Department in
response to an emergency medical call
bill people for services given to recover
at least 50% of direct costs for labor and
materials with the provision of a reduction
in rate if over 10% profit is received and
filing of costs vs. expenses and rates
charged with the City Clerk each January?
FOR Initiative Proposition No.
AGAINST Initiative Proposition No.
RESOLVED That the Council hereby finds and declares
that in order to assure adequate voter turnout and to reduce
election expenses, the initiative proposition set forth in
this Resolution shall be submitted in conjunction with other
propositions to be submitted in a special election to be held
March 10, 1981 or as soon thereafter as possible.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
sjgned by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authenti-
cation of such passage this 23 day of December, 1980.
ATTEST: GLENN K. JARSTAD, Mayor
KATHLEEN L. MANDIO, City Clerk
Approved as to Form
TERRY K. McCLUSKEY, City Attorney