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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1966-821 ORDINANCE NO. g'/ AN ORDINANCE proposing to the voters of the City of Yakima that the City lease and operate a public bus transportation system and retain National City Management Company as transpor- tation consultant; specifying and adopting the system or plan proposed and declaring the estimated capital cost thereof; levying and providing for the collection of a housing unit transit subsidy tax and declaring it to be a misdemeanor to refuse to pay said tax; calling a special election to submit a proposition to the voters of the City of Yakima for their ratification or rejection of this ordinance, WHEREAS, National City Management Company has proposed that the City of Yakima lease from National City Management Company all buses, equipment and facilities necessary to operate a public bus transporta- tion system within and, insofar as allowed by law, without the City of Yakima, and retain National City Management Company as transportation consultant, all according to the Lease Agreement attached hereto; and WHEREAS, no local public bus transportation system presently serves the people of the City of Yakima, and the City Council deems it in the best interests of the people of the City that a municipally • leased and operated public bus transportation system be organized to so serve the people of the City, all as proposed by National City Management Company, now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section I. That the City of Yakima is hereby authorized to lease from National City Management Company and operate a public bus trans- portation system within and, insofar as allowed by law, without the City of Yakima, and to retain National City Management Company to provide transportation consulting services to the City, all according to the terms of the Lease Agreement attached hereto and by this refer- ence made a part hereof, which Lease Agreement contains the system or plan hereby proposed and adopted for furnishing such public bus trans- portation service, and which Lease Agreement the City Manager and City Clerk of the City of Yakima are hereby authorized and directed to execute. Section 2. It is estimated that no capital cost will be incurred by the City for acquiring, purchasing or constructing any property as an incident to the leasing and operating of the public bus.transporta- tion system proposed by this ordinance. Section 3. Pursuant to Chapter 35.95 of the Revised Code of Washington, commencing October 3, 1966, a housing unit transit subsidy tax in the amount of $ ,‘5"each month for each housing unit, is hereby levied against, and shall be collected from, all persons within the City of Yakima who are served by and billed for any one or more public 411 utility services owned and operated by the City of Yakima. The term "housing unit" as used herein means any building or portion thereof designed for or used as the residence or living quarters of one or more persons living together, or of one family. A billing for the tax hereby levied shall be rendered by the Utility Accounting Division of the City of Yakima at the same time as each service billing is render- ed for any public utility service owned and operated by the City, and the billing for the tax shall be included as an item on each such service billing. Payment of such tax shall be made at the time pay- ment is made for any such public utility service. The proceeds from such housing unit transit subsidy tax shall be used only for the operation, maintenance and capital needs, if any, of the public bus III transportation system proposed by this ordinance. It shall be unlawful for any person served by and billed for any • one or more public utility servicesowned and operated by the City of Yakima to refuse to pay the housing unit transit subsidy tax as re- quired herein. Any such person who violates the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine in any amount not to exceed $300 or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a term not to exceed 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 4. A special election shall be held in the City of Yakima on the 20th day of September, 1966, in accordance with all applicable laws, for the purpose of submitting this ordinance to the voters of the City of Yakima for their ratification or rejection by means of a ballot title and proposition which shall read as follows: PROPOSITION Leasing, Operating, Subsidizing City Transit Shall Ordinance No. f2J of the City of Yakima, passed August I, 1966, be ratified; and shall the City of Yakima -2- , lease and operate a public bus transportation system and retain National City Management Company as transportation consultant; and shall a housing uuit transit subsidy tax be levied and collected by the City, and criminal punish- ment be imposed on conviction of refusol to pay said tax; all pursuant to said Ordinance No. JT./ . CITY TRANSIT . . . Yes 1/ CITY TRANSIT . . . No /1 III Section 5. The Clerk of the Council .is hereby directed to notify the County Auditor of Yakima County, Washington of the passage of this ordinance, and to do all other things necessary in the time and manner required by law to the end that the proposition set out hereinabove shall be submitted to the voters of the City of Yakima, Washington, as aforesaid. Section 6. If the proposition above set forth should be adopted and approved at said election, as by law provided, the City of Yakima • shall proceed to lease and operate a public bus transportation system, and retain National City Management Company as transportation consult- ant, in accordance with the plan or system as herein set forth, and III shall have authority to use or borrow any monies or funds legally available therefor as by law and this ordinance authorized. Section 7. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter. • PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this 1st day of August, 1966. • i AllOr -- a -(../J--e----f-v _ Mayor _ _. _ __ _ _ ATTEST: 411 City Clerk -3-