3716RESOLUTION NO. 3716
A RESOLUTION REPEALING RESOLUTION NO. 2 OF THE MOSES LAKE
TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT DISTRICT BOARD AUTHORIZING A VEHICLE
LICENSE FEE
Recitals:
1. On February 28, 2017, the Moses Lake Transportation Benefit District Board adopted Resolution
No. 2 authorizing a vehicle license fee to be imposed as set forth in RCW 82.80.140, and
Resolution No. 3 providing for a ballot proposition to be submitted to the qualified electors a 0.2%
sales and use tax increase as set forth in RCW 82 .14.0455(1 ).
2. On April 25, 2017, the Moses Lake City Council assumed the rights, powers, functions and
obligations of the Moses Lake Transportation Benefit District Board (TBD), pursuant to Ordinance
No. 2861 . The governing board of the TBD shall be the Moses Lake City Council, which shall
have the authority to exercise the statutory powers set forth in RCW 36.73.
2. The proposed ballot measure to increase the sales and use tax (Proposition No. 1) was voted in
favor by qualified electors on November 7, 2017 and certified by the Grant County Elections Office
on November 28, 2017.
3. Section 6 of Resolution No. 3 expressed the Council's intent to rescind, upon the voter's approval
and the effective date of the proposed sales and use tax (April 1, 2018), the $20. 00 vehicle license
fee and no longer collect such fee after 11 :59 p.m., March 31 , 2018, through the Washington State
Department of Licensing on qualifyi ng vehicles as set forth in RCW 82.80.140 and RCW Chapters
36.73 and 46.16.
Resolved:
1. Consistent with the Moses Lake City Council's expressed intent in Section 6 of Resolution No. 3,
and based upon the passage of Proposition No. 1, Resolution No. 2 of the Moses Lake
Transportation Benefit District is repealed effective 11 :59 p.m. on March 31 , 2018, and the $20.00
vehicle license fee authorized by Resolution No. 2 shall thereafter cease to be collected through
the Washington State Department of Licensing.
Adopted by the City Council of Moses Lake, Washington on January 9, 2018.
ATTEST:
Cindy Jensen, Finance Director