Resolution No. 62-11 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING SCHEDULED GENERAL ELECTION:
PROVIDING i'OR THE SUBMISSION OF CITY MEASURES TO
THE LEGAL VOTERS, PRESCRIBING BALLOT TITLES AND
REQUIRING GIVING OF NOTICE:
I WHEp.EAS, the City of Tigard, Oregon, was incorporated in
1961 pursuant to Chapter 21 Oregon Revised Statutes and has hereto-
fore operated under the general statutes of the State of Oregon
without a charter; and
WHEREAS, the people of the City of Tigard are authorized
by the statutes and constitution of the State of Oregon to take unto
themselves the benefits of Home Rule and loc$l control through the
adoption of a municipal charter; and
[REAS, the Council of the City of Tigard, having duly
considered various proposed charter provisions, and having found
that with adaptations the model charter for the mayor-council form
of municipal government as drafted by the League of Oregon Cities
and the Bureau of Municipal Research is suitable to the needs of
the City of Tigard, Oregon, for a charter; and
WHERE, the City of Tigard, Oregon, has no established tax
base under Section 11, Article XI, Oregon Constitution, and the
health, peace and welfare of the people of the City require that
the question of establishing a tax base be submitted to the legal
voters at the earliest date possible;
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of. the CITY OF TIGARD, OREGON:
(a' That the general election scheduled within the City
of Tigard and elsewhere throughout the State of Oregon for November
6, 1962, be, and the name is hereby, desig:::.L.C3, ^crfi-rmed and
ratified as a general election whereat eiicee councilmen for the
City ofTigard shall be elected - th_ two receiving the highest
number of votes shall hold office for four years, and the remaining
one shall hold office for two years - and whose terms of office
shall begin at the first Council meeting in the Year 1963.
Aw (b) That the question of adoption of a charter to provide
for the government of the City of Tigard, Oregon, according to the
provisions of a proposed enactment hereto attached and by reference
made a part hereof, to be known as the CITY OF TIGARD CHARTER OF 1962,
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be, and the same is hereby, submitted to the legal voters of the
City at the general election to be held within the City on the 6th
day of November, 1962, between the hours of 8:00 a.m, and 8:00 p.m.,
to be voted upon at the precinct voting places within the City
designated by the County Clerk of. Washington County, Oregon.
(c) That the ballot title with respect to said charter
measure hereby submitted to the voters be, and the same is hereby,
adopted in the following style:
CITY OF TIGARD CHARTER PROPOSAL 1962
(d) That there shall be submitted to the legal voters of
the City of Tigard at the election hereinabove scheduled to be held
within the City of Tigard on November 6, 1962, between the hours of
8:00 a.m, and 8:00 p.m., the question of establish nR a tax base
for the City of Tigard in the amount of $ D�.- , there being
no present tax base for said City, pursuant to u ecc�V71, Article
XI, Oregon Constitution.
(e) That the ballot title with respect to the question of
establishing a tax base is hereby adopted in the following style:
CITY OF TIGARD TAX BASE PROPOSAL
(f) That the City Clerk be, and he is hereby, authorized
and directed to cause to be published in one issue of the Tigard
Times, a newspaper of general circulation within the City of Tigard,
Oregon, within twenty days innediately prior to November 6, 1962,/
the City of Tigard charter of 1962 in full, together with the
ballot title and number,/and the City Clerk is further directed to
give notice of the election within the City of November 6, 1962, and,'
of the measures hereinabove stated being submitted to the voters
by the City Council,/by posting notice thereof, one within each
voting precinct within the City of Tigard as established by the
County Clerk of Washington County, Oregon, not less than ten days
prior to November 6, 1962, and by publishing said notice once each
week for two consecutive weeks, the first publication to be not
less than ten days prior to the date of said election.
(g) That the City Attorney be, and he is hereby, authorized
and directed to cause to have prepared an official ballot with
respect to the candidacies and measures to be voted upon at the
election of November 6, 1962, and the City Clerk beand he is hereby,
directed to cause to have a sufficient number of b.,lots printed
and to cause to have published in one issue of the Tigard Times not
later than the fourth day, nor earlier than the 15th day, prior to
November 6, 1952, a facsimile of a sample ballot conforming to the
official ballot except as to size, color, and labelled "SAMPLE BALLOT".
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