HomeMy WebLinkAbout005 RESOLUTION NO. 006
A RESOLUTION of the City of Bremerton Transportation
Benefit District authorizing a twenty - dollar ($20 00) vehicle
license fee pursuant to RCW 36 73 065
WHEREAS, Chapter 36 73 RCW and RCW 35 21 225 authorize the City of
Bremerton City Council 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 of the 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 a Transportation Benefit District as authorized by RCW 35 21 225 and subject to the
provisions of RCW 36 73, and
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton Transportation Benefit District
( "Transportation Benefit District ") includes the entire City of Bremerton as the boundaries
currently exist or as are expanded upon annexation, and
WHEREAS, pursuant to RCW 36 73 030(3), the members of the City Council,
acting ex officio and independently, constitute the governing body of the Transportation Benefit
District, and
WHEREAS, RCW 36 73 065 authorizes a transportation benefit district to
impose, by majority vote of the district's governing board, up to a twenty - dollar ($20 00) vehicle
license fee authorized in RCW 82 80 140, and
WHEREAS, the Board of the Transportation Benefit District finds it to be in the
best interest of the Transportation Benefit District to establish an annual vehicle license fee in the
amount of twenty - dollars ($20 00) for the purpose of making transportation improvements that
preserve, maintain and improve the transportation infrastructure of the City of Bremerton,
consistent with Chapter 36 73 RCW, and
WHEREAS, the Board of the City of Transportation Benefit District has
determined that vehicle license fee collection shall be initiated as soon as the Washington State
Department of Licensing has its collection system in place, however, vehicle license fees will not
be collected sooner than six months after approval as provided in RCW 82 80 140; and
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WHEREAS, the Board of the Transportation Benefit District held a public
hearing on December 7, 2011 to solicit public comment regarding the proposed vehicle license
fee and the projects to be funded, NOW THEREFORE,
THE BOARD OF THE BREMERTON TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT
DISTRICT DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS
SECTION 1. Establishment of Annual Vehicle License Fee. An annual
vehicle license fee in the amount of twenty - dollars ($20 00) is hereby established, consistent
with RCW 36 73 065, to be collected by the Washington State Department of Licensing on
qualifying vehicles as set forth in RCW 82 80 140 and Chapters 36 73 and 46 16 RCW
SECTION 2. Collection of Vehicle License Fee. The vehicle license fee
established in this Resolution shall take effect as soon as the Washington Department of
Licensing (DOL) is reasonably able to incorporate collection of the twenty - dollar ($20 00)
vehicle license fee Vehicle license fees will not be collected sooner than six months after
approval as provided in RCW 82 80 140 The City Clerk is requested to notify DOL of the
vehicle license fee and to request DOL to take all necessary steps to implement collection of this
vehicle license fee in accordance with RCW 82 80 140 The vehicle license fee shall be collected
during the term of the Transportation Benefit District as currently set forth in Chapter 1125
BMC or as subsequently extended by the City Council The vehicle license fee shall cease to be
collected upon dissolution of the Transportation Benefit District
SECTION 3. Transportation Improvements Funded. The funds collected
from the vehicle license fee shall be used for any purpose allowed by law including to operate
the Transportation Benefit District and to make transportation improvements that are consistent
with existing state, regional, and local transportation plans and necessitated by existing or
reasonably foreseeable congestion levels pursuant to Chapter 36 73 RCW The transportation
improvements funded by the district shall be made in an effort to operate and to preserve and
maintain the City's previous investments in the transportation infrastructure, reduce the risk of
transportation facility failure, improve public safety, implement projects identified in the City's
Transportation Improvement Plan, continue the cost - effectiveness of the City's infrastructure
investments, continue the optimal performance of the transportation system, and make other
related improvements as authorized by Chapter 36 73 RCW
SECTION 4. Severabthty If any one 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 S. Effective Date This Resolution shall take effect and be in force
immediately upon its passage
PASSED by the Bremerton Transportation Benefit District the 11-1- day of
2011
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