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FCPEMSD Resolution No. 41 RESOLUTION NO. 41 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BAYTOWN FIRE CONTROL, PREVENTION, AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DISTRICT CANVASSING THE RETURNS OF THE CONTINUATION ELECTION HELD WITHIN THE DISTRICT'S BOUNDARIES ON THE 3RD DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2015, FOR THE PURPOSE OF VOTING FOR OR AGAINST THE PROPOSITION OF WHETHER THE BAYTOWN FIRE CONTROL, PREVENTION, AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DISTRICT SHOULD BE CONTINUED FOR FIVE (5) YEARS AND WHETHER THE FIRE CONTROL, PREVENTION, AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DISTRICT SALES AND USE TAX SHOULD BE CONTINUED FOR FIVE (5) YEARS; FINDING THAT NOTICE OF THE CONTINUATION ELECTION WAS PROPERLY HELD AND THE RETURNS THEREOF MADE BY THE PROPER OFFICIALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS; AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF. ************************************************************************************* WHEREAS, on June 23, 2015, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of the Baytown Fire Control, Prevention, and Emergency Medical Services District (the "District") ordered a continuation election to be held within the District's boundaries between the hours of seven o'clock a.m, and seven o'clock p.m. on November 3, 2015, for the purposes of determining whether to continue the District and the associated sales and use tax (the"Election"); and WHEREAS, on November 3, 2015, the EIection was held under and pursuant to the provisions of the resolution calling the election as well as the provisions of state law; and WHEREAS, between October 21, 2015, and November 10, 2015, the early voting ballot boards of Harris and Chambers Counties met to verify and count provisional ballots pursuant to Chapter 65 of the Texas Election Code; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Chapter 67 of the Texas Election Code, the Board at a meeting held on the 161h day of November, 2015, proceeded, as required by Iaw, to canvass the returns of the Election; and WHEREAS, the Election having been duly and regularly had and held according to law, and the returns thereof having been duly made and the Election Judges having certified the results of the Election, as hereinafter set out, and the Board having duly and regularly canvassed the returns of the Election and finding that the total votes cast at the Election were as follows, to-wit: I,()[- five (S) years and wlictlicr tile �_Irc colitrol, Total For 3,232 Against 342 Total 3,574 (the"Election Returns"); and WHEREAS, the Board finds the Election Returns set out above to be accurate and correct and no election protest or contest have been filed with the Board or instituted in connection with the Election Returns; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BAYTOWN FIRE CONTROL, PREVENTION,AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DISTRICT: Section 1: That the Board of Directors of the Baytown Fire Control, Prevention, and Emergency Medical Services District hereby finds that the above-referenced recitals are true and correct. Section 2: That the Board of Directors of the Baytown Fire Control, Prevention, and Emergency Medical Services District further finds that the notice of the Election was duly and properly given as required by law and as provided in the resolution calling the Election and that the Election was duly and regularly held and the returns thereof duly and regularly made by the proper officials of said Election and in all things according to law. Section 3: That a majority of the votes cast at the Election were in favor of the following proposition: PROPOSITION NO. 1 Whether the Baytown Fire Control, Prevention, and Emergency Medical Services District should be continued for five (5) years and whether the fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services district sales and use tax should be continued for five(5) years. and accordingly, the Baytown Fire Control, Prevention, and Emergency Medical Services District and the associated 1/8 of 1% sales and use tax is continued for five years. Section 4: This resolution shall take effect immediately from and after its passage by the Board of Directors of the Baytown Fire Control, Prevention, and Emergency Medical Services District. INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED, by the affirmative vote of the Board of Directors of the Baytown Fire Control, Prevention, and Emergency Medical Services District this the 16th day of November, 2015. RENDA BRADLEY SMITH, P s dent ATT T: �Ntiilut+utriz TICIA BRYSCI.1, Secretary _ s APPROVED AS TO FORM: I NACIO RAMIREZ, S General Counsel R..Karen FilesTity Council Fire Control.Prevention and Emergency Medical Services District Resolutions 2015WovemlxrNCanvassingContiountionElection.doc 2