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ICLEARANCES Date Date Received in Council Office Agenda Date Assigned To
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9/3/97
9/9/97
County Council
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SUBJECT.-
Resolution setting special election; City of Lynden annex into Rural Library Dis
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COUNCIL ACTION TAKEN
1997-318 9/9/97: Approved 7 -0. Res. #97 -053
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1 libraryres.9 /9797 SPONSORED BY: Consent
2 PROPOSED BY: City of Lynden
1 INTRODUCTION DATE: 9/9/97
2 RESOLUTION NO. 97-053
3 SETTING A SPECIAL ELECTION WITHIN THE CITY OF LYNDEN
4 TO DETERMINE IF THE CITY OF LYNDEN SHALL BE ANNEXED INTO THE
5 WHATCOM COUNTY RURAL LIBRARY DISTRICT
6 WHEREAS, RCW 27.12.360 permits the legislative body of a city with a population of one
7 hundred thousand (100,000) or less to initiate an annexation procedure by ordinance declaring its
8 finding that the public interest of the residents of the city would be served by annexation into the
9 rural library district of the county; and
10 WHEREAS, the City of Lynden, a city with a population of less than one hundred thousand
11 (100,000), has enacted such an ordinance, Ordinance No. 1038, on August 4,1997; and
12 WHEREAS, there being no library board within the City of Lynden, the Lynden ordinance
13 has been duly submitted to the State Librarian for review as provided by law, and has further
I received the concurrence of the Whatcom County Rural Library District, as appears in Attachment
15 A to this resolution; and
16 WHEREAS, upon receipt of notification of the enactment of the above - referenced City of
17 Lynden ordinance, the opportunity for review by the State Librarian, and the concurrence of the
18 Rural Library District, RCW 27.12.370 provides that the County legislative authority shall, by
19 resolution, call a special election to be held in such city on the next date provided in RCW
20 29.13.010; and
21 WHEREAS, the next available special election date provided in RCW 29.13.010 is the 4th
22 day of November, 1997.
23 NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Whatcom County Council that a special
24 election conducted by the Whatcom County Auditor's Office shall be set on the annexation ballot
25 proposition within the City of Lynden for the 4th day of November, 1997.
26 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Whatcom County Auditor's Office shall cause notice
27 of said special election to be given pursuant to RCW 29.27.080.
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1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said election shall be conducted, voter eligibility
established, and the voting majority determined in accordance with RCW 27.12.370 and the other
3 general laws of the State of Washington as applied by the Whatcom County Auditor.
4 BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the ballot proposition shall be stated in substantially the
5 following form:
6 Shall the City of Lynden be annexed to and be part of the Whatcom County
7 Rural Library District?
8 YES .................................................. .............................(. )
9 NO ................................................... ..............................( )
10 APPROVED this 9 day of September 1997.
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'1 ;69'✓Daria Brown- Davis, Clerk of the Council
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