FCPEMSD Resolution No. 17 RESOLUTION NO. 17
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BAYTOWN FIRE
CONTROL, PREVENTION, AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DISTRICT
CANVASSING THE RETURNS OF T14E CONTINUATION ELECTION HELD
WITHIN THE DISTRICT'S BOUNDARIES ON THE 14TH DAY OF MAY, 2011, 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 SI40ULD BE CONTINUED FOR FIVE
(5) `PEARS; 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 January 25, 2011, 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 May 14, 2011, for the purposes of determining whether to continue the District and the
associated sales and use tax (the "Election"); and
WHEREAS, on May 14, 2011, 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, on May 20, 2011, the early voting ballot board 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 23rd day of May, 2011, 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
BaytownWhether the r Prevention,
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prevention-
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should be continued for five(5)years?
Total Percentage
For 1377 86.99%
Against 206 13.01%
Total 1583 95.65%
(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 I% 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 23rd day of May,
2011.
-` RENDA BRADLEY SMIT President
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
AGNACIO RAMIREZ, S eneral Counsel
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