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Resolution setting a hearing on the proposed excise tax on the retail sale of motor vehicle fuel within the
Point Roberts Transportation Benefit District.
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Resolution
Public Hearing Needed? Yes /moo/ /
SUMMARY STATEMENT.-
This resolution sets the hearing on the proposed excise tax on the retail sale of motor vehicle fuel in the
Point Roberts Transportation Benefit District. This hearing shall be heard by the Council acting ex officio
and independently as the legislative body of the District.
ORIGINATOR'S RECOMMENDED ACTION.•
Pass
COMMITTEE ACTION (including dates):
COUNCIL ACTION ('including dates):
7/23/91: Resolution adopted 6 -0, hearing set for 8/13
Related File Numbers: Ordinance or Resolution Number: R91 -053
SPONSORED BY: consent
PROPOSED BY: Executive
INTRODUCTION DATE: 7/23/91
1 RESOLUTION NO. 91-053
2 A RESOLUTION IN THE MATTER OF THE HEARING
3 ON THE PROPOSITION TO FIX AND IMPOSE AN
4 EXCISE TAX ON THE RETAIL SALE OF MOTOR
5 VEHICLE FUEL WITHIN THE POINT ROBERTS
6 TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT DISTRICT.
7 WHEREAS, Substitute House Bill 1342, as passed by the Washington State
8 Legislature and encompassed within a new chapter of Title 82 RCW, authorized the
9 District to impose an excise tax on the retail sale of motor vehicle fuel and special fuel up
10 to one cent ($0.01) per gallon of retail gasoline sold within the Point Roberts Transportation
11 Benefit District boundaries, if the tax is approved by the majority vote of the registered
12 voters within the District, voting on the tax at a general or special election;
13 WHEREAS, the ballot setting forth the proposition shall state the tax rate that is
14 proposed;
15 WHEREAS, the rate of such tax shall be in increments of one -tenth of a cent per
:6 gallon and shall not exceed one cent per gallon;
17 WHEREAS, the tax imposed shall be collected and paid to the District for the
18 purposes of District street, road and highway construction and maintenance;
19 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the legislative body of the Point
20 Roberts Transportation Benefit District that the date of August 13, 1991 at 7:00 p.m., be set
21 for the hearing of the proposition to fix and impose an excise tax on the retail sale of motor
22 vehicle fuel within the Point Roberts Transportation Benefit District. The hearing will be
23 held in the Whatcom County Council Chambers, 1000 North Forest, Bellingham.
24 APPROVED this 23rd day of 1991.
25 ATTEST: WHATCOM COUNTY, W HINGTON
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27 Ramona Reeves, Clerk Damel M. Warner, Chairman
28 APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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30 Civil Depu ros. Atty.