Ordinance 33820006.900000
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12/03/01
ORDINANCE NO. 3382
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, AMENDING THE EDMONDS CITY CODE
SECTION 1.02.035 FILLING A VACANT COUNCIL POSITION
TO RENUMBER THE EXISTING PROVISIONS AS
SUBPARAGRAPH (1) AND TO ADD A NEW
SUBPARAGRAPH (2) ESTABLISHING A PROCEDURE FOR
THE FILLING OF A COUNCIL VACANCY OCCURRING
AFTER A SUCCESSOR HAS BEEN ELECTED AT GENERAL
ELECTION, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL
BECOME EFFECTIVE.
WHEREAS, the City Council has established a procedure for filling vacant
council positions; and
WHEREAS, the procedural requirements imposed by that ordinance do not
contemplate the filling of a vacancy which has been created following the election of a successor
for the vacated position;
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the current procedures are appropriate for
use in most situations but wish to establish an exception for situations when the City Council
wishes to fill a vacancy created after a successor to the council position has been elected and
prior to the date when such successor would normally be certified and sworn in; NOW,
THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1. Section 1.02.035 of the Edmonds City Code, Filling Vacant Council
Positions is hereby amended by numbering the existing provisions as subparagraph (1) and
adding a new subparagraph (2) in order that said Section shall read as follows:
1.02.035 Filling vacant council positions.
(2) In the event that a council member shall resign or otherwise
become ineligible to hold office after the date when the council
position has been filled by election but prior to the date on which
the newly elected council member is eligible to take office, the
City Council may in its sole discretion elect to dispense with the
procedures established by subsection (1) above and appoint the
newly elected successor to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the
unexpired term.
Section 2. Effective Date. This ordinance, being an exercise of a power specifi-
cally delegated to the City legislative body, is not subject to referendum, and shall take effect
five (5) days after passage and publication of an approved summary thereof consisting of the
title.
ATTEST /AUTHENTICAATED: tg'."
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
APPROVED AS TO FOR]
OFFICE OF - P(IE1CfT ' A
M.
W. SCOTT SNYDER
APPROVED:
M OR G Y HAAKENSON
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 12/04/2001
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 12/04/2001
PUBLISHED: 12/06/2001
EFFECTIVE DATE: 12/11/2001
ORDINANCE NO. 3382
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3382
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 4th day of December, 2001, the City Council of the City of Edmonds,
passed Ordinance No. 3382. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title,
provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, AMENDING THE
EDMONDS CITY CODE SECTION 1.02.035 FILLING A VACANT COUNCIL POSITION
TO RENUMBER THE EXISTING PROVISIONS AS SUBPARAGRAPH (1) AND TO ADD A
NEW SUBPARAGRAPH (2) ESTABLISHING A PROCEDURE FOR THE FILLING OF A
COUNCIL VACANCY OCCURRING AFTER A SUCCESSOR HAS BEEN ELECTED AT
GENERAL ELECTION, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 5th day of December, 2001.
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
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STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH
SUMMARY OF OF. INANCE NO. 338
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of t e dmonds, Wasrn
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On the 4th day of December, 2001, the City Council of
I he City of Edmonds, passed Ordinance No. 3382. A
summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of
the title, provides as follows:
WASH-
ING ON I AMENDING EDMO DS CITY CODE SECTION
1. .035 FILLING A VACANT COUNCIL POSITION TO
GRAPH (2 ESTABLISHING A PROCEDURE FOH f r1t
FILLING OF A COUNCIL VACANCY OCCURRING
AFTER A SUCCESSOR HAS BEEN ELECTED AT
GENERAL ELECTION, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE
SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon
request.
DATED this 4th day ITY CLERK. SANDRA S. CHASE
Published: December 6,2001.---
Affidavit of Publication
S.S.
The undersigned, being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says that she is
Principal Clerk of THE HERALD, a daily newspaper printed and published
in the City of Everett, County of Snohomish, and State of Washington; that
said newspaper is a newspaper of general circulation in said County and
State; that said newspaper has been approved as a legal newspaper by order
of the Superior Court of Snohomish County and that the notice
City of Edmonds
Summary of Ordinance No. 3382
a printed copy of which is hereunto attached, was published in said newspaper
proper and not in supplement form, in the regular and entire edition of said
paper on the following days and times, namely:
December 6, 2001
and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th
day of December, 2001
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DEC 1 0 2001
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