HomeMy WebLinkAboutres1991-009WHATCOM COUNTY COUNC AGENDA BILL
NO. 91 -072
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Initial
Date
Date Received in Council Office:
Agenda Date
Assigned To:
Originator- F.D. 14 /Auditor
2/26/91
PS /Council
Division Head -
Department Head -
Prosecutor Review-
Purchasing/Budget Dir:
Executive-
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Resolution incorporating certain territory into Fire Protection District No. 14
ATTACHMENTS:
- Letter from Auditor, Fire Commissioners' statement, certified petition, map
Public Hearing Needed? Yes /_/Nol3aj
SUMMARY STATEMENT•
Fire District No. 14, located in the Sumas- Kendall- Deming area, wishes to annex a portion of Mosquito
Lake Road. Sixty percent of the qualified registered voters within the proposed addition signed a petition`
requesting the annexation. Under state law, when that many voters within an area proposed to be annexed
by a Fire District favor the proposal, an election and hearing on the proposal can be dispensed with.
Under these circumstances, the Council is required to pass a resolution ordering that the territory be
incorporated into the existing Fire Protection District.
ORIGINATOR'S RECOMMENDED ACTION.•
Auditor recommends that the Council enter such an order.
COMMITTEE ACTION (including dates):
COUNCIL ACTION (including dates):
2- 26 -91: Council approved 7 -0
Related File Numbers: Ordinance or Resolution Number. RE.S 91- 0 0 9
firedist.res 2/20/91 SPONSORED BY: Consent
PROPOSED BY: Fire Dist. 14
INTRODUCTION DATE: 2/26 /91
RESOLUTION NO. gl-.,QQ9
2 ORDERING THE INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN TERRITORY
3 INTO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NO. 14
4 WHEREAS, a petition was circulated requesting that an area along Mosquito Lake
5 Road be annexed by Fire District No. 14, which serves Sumas, Kendall and the Deming
6 areas; and
7 WHEREAS, the Fire Commissioners of the district concur with the petition; and
8 WHEREAS, the Auditor has certified that 60 percent of the qualified registered
9 voters within the area proposed to be annexed signed the petition; and
10 WHEREAS, under these circumstances and by the authority of RCW 52.04.011 (3),
11 the hearing on this petition shall be dispensed with and the County Council shall enter an
? order incorporating the territory into the existing fire protection district;
13 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Whatcom County Council that it
14 hereby orders the incorporation of the following territory into Whatcom County Fire
15 Protection District No. 14:
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The Mosquito Lake Road area to be annexed includes the following property
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situated in Whatcom County and not located in any other fire district or
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municipal corporation: Commencing at the corner between sections 25, 26,
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35, and 36 of Township 39 N, Rage 5E (W.M.) hence westerly along the north
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section line of sections 34 and 35 to the east meander line of the Middle Fork
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of the Nooksack River hence southeasterly along said line to the east -west
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centerline of section 13 of Township 38N, Range 5E (W.M.) hence easterly
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to the center of section 13 hence northerly on centerlines of sections 12 and
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13 to the north quarter corner of section 12 hence westerly to the section
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comer between sections 1, 2, 11, and 12 of Township 38N, Range 5E (W.M.)
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hence north between sections 1 and 2 to Township 39N, Range 5E (W.M.) to
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the southeast corner of section 35 hence north to the northeast corner of
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section 35 and the point of origin. This area includes property adjacent to
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Mosquito Lake Road from 1000 feet southeast of the Canyon Lake Road to
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1 the one -lane steel bridge over the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River.
2 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution shall be recorded in the County
3 Auditor's records, and that copies of this order shall be sent to the County Auditor, the
4 Boundary Review Board, and Fire Protection District No. 14 upon its passage by the
5 Council.
6 APPROVED this 26th day of Feb. , 1991.
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8 ATTEST:
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10 Ramona Reeves, Council Clerk
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Civil Deputy Pros. Atty.
WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON
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Daniel M. "Warner, Chairman
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