HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-01 RESOLUTION NO. 2016-01
A RESOLUTION OF THE. AUBURN TRANSPORTATION
BENEFIT DISTRICT APPROVING A $20.00 VEHICLE
LICENSE FEE PURSUANT TO RCW 36.73.065
WHEREAS, the City of Auburn established a transportation benefit district
pursuant to adoption of Ordinance No. 6377 on September 19, 2011 as authorized by
RCW 35.21.225 and subject to the provisions of RCW 36.73; and
WHEREAS, RCW 36.73.065 authorizes a transportation benefit district to impose
by majority vote of the district's governing board, up to a $20.00 vehicle license fee
authorized in RCW 82.80.140; and,
WHEREAS, in accordance with RCW 82.80.140, the new vehicle license fee may
not be collected until six (6) months after approval of this action by the governing board;
and,
WHEREAS, the Board of the Auburn Transportation Benefit District finds it to be
in the best interest of the District to establish an annual vehicle license fee in the amount
of $20.00 for the purpose of preserving, maintaining, operating, constructing or
reconstructing the transportation infrastructure of the City of Auburn and funding
transportation improvements that are consistent with existing state, regional or local
transportation plans necessitated by existing or reasonably foreseeable congestion
levels.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE BOARD OF THE AUBURN TRANSPORTATION
BENEFIT DISTRICT DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. An annual vehicle license fee in the amount of $20.00 is hereby
established consistent with RCW 36.73.065(4)(a)(i) to be collected by the Washington
State Department of Licensing on qualifying vehicles as set forth in RCW 82.80.140 and
Chapters 36.73 and 46.16 RCW.
Section 2. The annual vehicle license fee shall take effect for notices mailed in
2017 for vehicle license renewals due as soon thereafter as the Washington State
Department of Licensing is reasonably able to incorporate collection of the $20.00 fee.
Vehicle license fees shall not be collected sooner than six (6) months after approval as
provided in RCW 82.80.140(4).
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Section 3. The revenues received from the $20.00 vehicle license fee shall only
be expended on transportation projects approved by the Board for the District. The
transportation projects to be funded with the revenues from the vehicle license fee shall
be established by separate resolution of the Board of District.
Section 4. The Board of the District may by separate Resolution terminate the
collection of the $20.00 vehicle license fee if an alternate funding source authorized by
Washington State statute is approved by the Board or by the City Council of the City of
Auburn.
Section 5. This Resolution shall be in full force and effect upon passage and
signatures hereon.
SIGNED and DATED this /3' day of , 2016
AUBURN TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT DISTRICT
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NANCY B Serson
ATTEST:
Danielle E. Daskam, Clerk of the District
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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AUBURN TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT DISTRICT
STATE OF WASHINGTON )
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COUNTIES OF KING AND PIERCE )
I, Danielle Daskam, the duly appointed, qualified Clerk of the Board of the
Auburn Transportation Benefit District, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full,
true and correct copy of Resolution No. 2016-01 of the resolutions of the Auburn
Transportation Benefit District, entitled "RESOLUTION NO. 2016-01."
I certify that said Resolution No. 2016-01 was duly passed by the Board
and approved by the Chair of the said Board on the 13th day of December, 2016.
Witness my hand this 20th day of December, 2016.
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Danielle Daskam, Clerk of the Board
Auburn Transportation Benefit District