CCPD Resolution No. 43 RESOLUTION NO.43
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BAYTOWN CRIME
CONTROL AND PREVENTION 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 CRIME CONTROL
AND PREVENTION DISTRICT SHOULD BE CONTINUED FOR FIVE YEARS AND
THE CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT SALES AND USE TAX
SHOULD BE CONTINUED FOR FIVE 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 9, 2015, the Board of Directors (the`Board") of the Baytown Crime Control
and Prevention 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 Election 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:
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Total
For 3,100
Against 441
Total 3,541
(the"Election Returns"); and
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BAYTOWN CRIME
CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT:
Section 1: That the Board of Directors of the Baytown Crime Control and Prevention District
hereby finds that the above-referenced recitals are true and correct.
Section 2: That the Board of Directors of the Baytown Crime Control and Prevention 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. l
Whether the Baytown Crime Control and Prevention District should be
continued for five (5) years and the crime control prevention district sales
and use tax should be continued for five (5) years
and accordingly, the Baytown Crime Control and Prevention 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 Crime Control and Prevention District.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the Board of Directors of the
Baytown Crime Control and Prevention District, this the 1 bth day of November, 2015.
RIKKI WHEELER, President
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TICIA BRYSCH, S tary
APPROVED AS TO FORM: y
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NACIO RAMIREZ, ., General Counsel
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