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RESOLUTION NO. 002
A RESOLUTION of the Governing Board of the
Bremerton Transportation Benefit District, providing for a ballot
proposition to be submitted to the qualified electors of the District
on November 3, 2009 authorizing the Bremerton Transportation
District to fix and impose a thirty dollar ($30.00) annual vehicle
fee, subject to the provisions ofRCW 36.73 and RCW 82.80.140,
within the boundaries of the District for the purpose of funding
transportation improvements.
WHEREAS, Chapter 36.73 RCW and RCW 35.21.255 authorize the City
of Bremerton to establish a transportation benefit district within the City's jurisdiction for
the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving, providing, and funding transportation
improvements within the district that are consistent with existing state, regional, and local
transportation plans and necessitated by existing or reasonably foreseeable congestion
levels; and
WHEREAS, the City Council ofthe City of Bremerton found it to be in the best
interests of the City to establish a citywide Transportation Benefit District consistent with
Chapter 36.73 RCW, for transportation improvements that improve modal connectivity and for
the preservation and maintenance of the City's transportation infrastructure, to reduce the risk of
transportation facility failure, to improve safety, to continue optimal performance of the
infrastructure over time, to avoid more expensive infrastructure replacements in the future and to
implement the City's transportation improvement plan; and
WHEREAS, in Ordinance No. 5076, the City Council of the City of Bremerton
established the Bremerton Transportation Benefit District as authorized by RCW 35.21.225 and
subject to the provisions ofRCW 36.73; and
WHEREAS, the Bremerton Transportation Benefit District includes the entire
City of Bremerton as the boundaries currently exist or as may be expanded upon annexation; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to RCW 36.73.030(3), the members ofthe City Council,
acting ex officio and independently, constitute the governing body of the Bremerton
Transportation Benefit District; and
WHERAS, RCW 36.73.040 authorizes a transportation benefit district to impose
a vehicle fee in accordance with RCW 82.80.140 in an amount exceeding twenty dollars
($20.00) upon a favorable vote of the qualified electors within the district for the purpose of
funding certain transportation improvements;
NOW THEREFORE, THE BOARD OF THE BREMERTON
TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT DISTRICT, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
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SECTION 1. That the Board of the Bremerton Transportation Benefit District
hereby finds it to be in the best interests of the District to impose a thirty dollar ($30.00) vehicle
fee in accordance with RCW 36.73 and RCW 82.80.140 for the purpose of raising revenue to
fund the following transportation improvement projects including (together the "Project"):
1. Street repair and reconstruction, also known as "Pavement Preservation"
identified in the City ofBremerton's Multi-Year Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation Plan,
in partnership with the City ofBremerton.
2. Sidewalk construction indentified in the City of Bremerton's Non-Motorized
Transportation Plan, in partnership with the City ofBremerton.
SECTION 2. That the Board of the Bremerton Transportation Benefit District
hereby finds that it is in the best interests of the District that at the election to be held on
November 3,2009 there shall be a proposition for the imposition ofa thirty dollar ($30.00)
vehicle fee to be imposed in accordance with RCW 82.80.140 submitted to the qualified electors
of the Bremerton Transportation Benefit District for approval or rejection in substantially the
same form as set forth below:
BREMERTON TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT DISTRICT
ANNUAL VEHICLE FEE FOR
TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
The Governing Board of the Bremerton Transportation Benefit District of the City
of Bremer ton, Washington, adopted Resolution No. 002 concerning the
imposition of an annual vehicle fee to finance transportation improvements. This
proposition would authorize an annual vehicle fee in the amount of thirty dollars
($30.00) to be imposed and collected within the District in accordance with RCW
82.80.140 for a term of three years to be collected as soon as authorized by law
for the purpose of paying the costs of transportation improvement projects
identified in Ordinance No. 5076 creating the Transportation Benefit District and
Bremerton Transportation Benefit District Resolution No. 002. Should this
proposition be approved?
YES
o
NO
o
SECTION 3. The City Clerk for the City ofBremerton is authorized to deliver a
certified copy of this resolution to the Kitsap County Auditor.
SECTION 4. That should the qualified electors within the District approve the
proposition, an annual vehicle fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) shall be established,
consistent with RCW 36.73, to be collected by the Washington Department of Licensing on
qualifying vehicles as set forth inRCW 82.80.]40 and Chapters 36.73 and 46.16 RCW.
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SECTION 5. That if the proposition is approved, the vehicle license fee shall
take effect for notices mailed in 2010 for vehicle license renewals due on or after June 1,2010 or
as soon thereafter as the Washington Department of Licensing is reasonably able to incorporate
collection of the thirty dollar ($30.00) fee. Vehicle licenses fees will not be collected sooner
than six months after approval as provided in RCW 82.80.140.
SECTION 6. Severability. If anyone or more sections, subsections, or
sentences of this Resolution are held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portion of this Resolution and the same shall remain in full
force and effect.
SECTION 7. Effective Date. This Resolution shall take effect and be in force
immediately upon its passage.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ATTEST:
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