CCPD Resolution No. 72 RESOLUTION NO. 72
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 3Ro DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2020, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
VOTING FOR OR AGAINST THE PROPOSITION OF WHETHER THE BAYTOWN
CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT SHOULD BE CONTINUED
FOR FIVE (5) YEARS AND THE CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION
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 9, 2020, 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,
2020, for the purposes of determining whether to continue the District and the associated sales and use
tax (the "Election"); and
WHEREAS, on November 3, 2020, the Election was held under and pursuant to the provisions
of the resolution calling for the election as well as the provisions of state law; and
WHEREAS, between November 2, 2020, and November 16, 2020, 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 171h day of November, 2020, proceeded, as required by law, 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:
Proposition
Whether • Baytown i and Prevention District should be
shoulduse tax be i
For 16,443
Against 3,900
Total 20,343
(the"Election Returns"); and
WHEREAS, the Board finds the Election Returns set out above to be accurate and correct and
no election protests or contests 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 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. A
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 (5) 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 17`h day of November, 2020.
RIrCKI WHEELER, President
AT'MST:
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L TICIA BRYSCH, Secr ary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
KAREN L. HORNER, General Counsel
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