King County - File #: 2006-0383

• File #: 2006-0383
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 8/21/2006
• In control: Growth Management and Natural Resources Committee
• Final action: 9/5/2006
• Enactment date: 9/11/2006
• Enactment #: 15580
• Title: AN ORDINANCE establishing November 7, 2006, as the date of an election on the questions of creating a public utility district on Vashon-Maury Islands; establishing and defining the boundary lines of the proposed public utility district; determining the number of commissioners of the proposed public utility district and the manner of their election; requesting the preparation and distribution of a voters' pamphlet for the special election; and appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the November 7, 2006, election.
• Sponsors: Dow Constantine, Jane Hague
• Indexes: PUD, Vashon

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/5/2006	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
9/5/2006	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed as Amended	Pass
8/21/2006	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

Title
AN ORDINANCE establishing November 7, 2006, as the date of an election on the questions of creating a public utility district on Vashon-Maury Islands; establishing and defining the boundary lines of the proposed public utility district; determining the number of commissioners of the proposed public utility district and the manner of their election; requesting the preparation and distribution of a voters' pamphlet for the special election; and appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the November 7, 2006, election.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. On June 5, 2006, a petition for the formation of a new public utility district in King County encompassing all of the territory of Vashon-Maury Islands was filed with the King County director of the records, elections and licensing services division. The King County director of the records, elections and licensing services division has examined the signatures on the petition, compared them with the voter registration records of the King County records, election and licensing services division, and certified their sufficiency in accordance with RCW 54.08.010.
B. The King County council fixed a date for a hearing on the petition and published the petition, without the signatures, stating the time of the hearing in the Vashon Island Beachcomber on August 16, 2006, in accordance with RCW 54.08.010.
C. The council held a public hearing on the petition in compliance with RCW 54.08.010.
D. It appears that there is a technical omission in the form of the signed petitions filed with the King County director of the records, elections and licensing services division as the signed petitions do not contain a description of the commissioner districts as required by RCW 54.12.010.
E. In light of the technical omission in the form of the signed petitions and in recognition of the demonstrated interest in the formation of a public utility d...