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.
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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 _
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
I NACIO RAMIREZ, S General Counsel
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