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RESOLUTION NO. 1114
RESOLUTION DETERMINING SUFFICIENCY OF !JETITION
FOR MUNICIPAL BUILDING BONDS, FIXING THE EXACT
AMOUNT OF BONDS TO BE ISSm~D AND CALLING AN
ELECTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF VOTING ON THE ISSUANCE
OF SUCH BONDS. ~ I
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COM~GSSION OF THE CITY OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA,
AS FOLLOWS:
Section J.. It is hereby found and determined that a petition in '/3
counterparts, each counterpart having attached thereto the affidavit of the
circulator thereof, was filed with the Clerk of the Commission on March 24,
1964; that said petition requests that an election be held and that there be
submitted at such election the questions of issuing bonds for the fOllowing
purpose:
To erect, furnish and equip a municipal building facility to house
city administrative offices and the pOlice and fire department, the
amount of bonds necessary to be issued for this purpose being esti-
mated at $475,uuO.vU;
that said petition is in proper form and bears the requisite number of eigna-
tures of qualified petitioners, being signed by 1159 registered electors
whose names appear upon the last completed assessment roll for state and
county taxes, as taxpayers within the City of Bozeman; that the total number
of persons who are auch taxpaer-electors according to said roll is 5,u35 I
and therefore the petition has been signed by more than 2U% of the total
number of taxpayer-ekectors whose names appear upon said rOLL; and that said
petition is now on fiLe in the office of the C~erk of the City Commission.
Section 2. Anelectlon is hereby called and directed to be held in
and for the City on Tuesday, the 2nd day of June, 1964, in the various
precincts and at the palling places as set forth in the notice of election
hereinafter contained, between the hours of lU:UU o'clock A.M. and 8:0u
o'Clock ~.M., for the purpose of voting on the question of issuing
Municipa.L Building Bonds. Said election Sha.LLbe held coincidenta.L1Y with
the Primary Nominating Election on said day, and the judges and clerks of
said Primary Nominating Election shall act as the judges and Clerks of sald
bond election. ~
Section 3. At said e.Lection all, but only, the du.Ly registered and
qualified electors of the City whose names appear upon the last preceding
assessment roll for state and county taxes, as taxpayers upon property within
the C1 ty, shall be enti tled to vote. The Clerk of the Commission is hereby
authorized and directed to give notice forthwith to the County Clerk of the
call of said election. The County Clerk shaLL, after giving due notice of
closing of the registration books, prepare printed lists of the registered
voters entitled to vote at said election, and shall prepare precinct registers
for such election for each precinct of the City in the form and manner
required by law.
Section 4. The purpose for which said bonds are proposed to be
issued and the exact amount of bonds to be issued shall be set forth in the
form of ballot hereinafter prescribed. The number of years through which
such bonds are to be paid shall be twenty (zu) years.
Section 5. The Clerk of the Commission is hereby authorized and
directed to give notice of the call and hOlding of said election by PUbli- I
cation, once each week for a period of not less than two (2) consecutive
weeks Immedia telY preceding .the da te for hOlding said elec tion, one of such
publications to be upon the Last day upon Wh1.ch such newspaper is issued
before the election, in the Bozeman DailY Chronicle, pubLished at Bozeman,
Montana, and by causing notice to be posted in at least three (3) of the
most public places in each voting precinct in the City at least ten (lU) days
prior to the date of said election, which notice so pub~ished and posted
shall read substantialLY as fOllOWS:
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NOTICE OF ELECTION
CITY OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That on Tuesday, the 2nd day of June, 1~6<4:, an
election will be held in and for the City of Bozeman, Montana, for the pur-
pose of voting on the QUestion of issuing the bonds of the City of Bozeman for
the following purpose and in the fOLLowing amoun t:
I To erect, furnish and eqt1.ip a municipa..L building facili ty to house
city administrative offices and the police and fire deparunent, the
amount of bonds necessary to be issued for this purpose being estimated
at $75,OOO.uO.
The places of voting at said election in the City of Bozeman Wi..Ll be ~s
fOllows:
Precinc t No. Polling Place
Address
1 Hawthorne School
11~ North Rouse
2 Armory Building
24 W. Mendenhall
3 Courthouse
311 West Main
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4 Willson Jr. High SChool
404 West Main
5 Emerson SchoOl
III South Grand
6 City Hall
326 East Main
7 Longfellow SChool
516 South Tracy
8 Irving School
611 South 8th
9 Whittier School
511 North 5tn
10 Student Union Building
600 W. Garfield
11 Women's Club House
702 West Main
I 12 Sou thside t'ark
710 South Fifth
34 Quonset
Fieldhouse (MSC)
The pails for said election Wi.Ll be opened at ..Lu:uO o'Clock a.m. and will
remain open until ~:UU O'Clock p.nl. on said date of election.
All, but only, the duly registered and qualified electors of the City
whose names appear on the last preceding assessment roll for state and county
taxes as taxpayers upon property within said City are entitled to vote at said
election on the Questions of issuing bonds.
Da ted this da y of
, 196~.
BY ORDER OF THE CITY COMMISSION
, Clerk
Section 6. The Clerk of the Commission shall cause suitable ballots to
be prepared for use at said eiection and shall distribute the same to the
judges of e~ection in the respective precincts, together with the precinct
regis ters supplied by the County Clerk and other necessary and proper election
supY.Lies, which ballots shall be white in color and of convenient size, printed
in accordance with R.C.M. 11-23u9, and shall read substantial..LY as follows:
OFFIC IAL BALLOT
CITY 01" BO.:EMAN, MOWrANA
JUNE 2, 196~
I (INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: Mark a cross (x)
in
the square opposite the word "FOR" if you wish
to va te in favor of the proposition, or in the
square opposite the word "AGAINST" if you wish
to vote against the proposition.)
PRO.POSITION
. . . FOR the City of Bozeman, Montana, issuing and
. . selling its general obligation bonds in the
. . . amount of Pour Hundred Seven ty Pi ve 'l'housand
Dollars ($475,uUU.UU), to be payable during
a period of twenty (2U) years from the date of
tneir issuance, the proceeds of such bonds to
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be used to erect, furnish and equip a municipal
building facility to house city administrative
offices and the police and fire departments.
. . . AGAINST the City of Bozeman, Montana, issuing
. . and seLling its general obligation bonds in the
. . . amount of Four Hundred Seventy Five ~housand
DOllars ($4'lb,OOU.OV), to be payable durIng a
period of twenty (~u) years from the da te of
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their issuance, the proceeds of such bonds
to
be used to erect, furnish and equip a municipal
building facility to house city administrative
offices and the police and fire departments.
Sec tion 7. The Clerk of the Commiss ion is au thorized and direc ted to
fu.rnish to the judges of election all other necessary and convenient facilities
and sUPPlies for sHid election and the returns thereof. Said election shall
be conducted and the returns made in the same manner as other city elections.
The votes cast at said bond election shall be counted separatelY from the
votes cast in the regular primary nominating election, and the returns for
said bond election shall be made separate from the returns for said general
.Primary Nomina t1ng Election, and returns must be made separatelY for the
proposition submitted at s&id election.
Passed by the City COmY,ission and approved by the Mayor this ~ day of
April, 1<;164.
Approved:
S/ R. Harrv Morrow
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A TTSST :
S/ C. K. Wilson
Clerk of the Commission
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State of Monttina )
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County of Ga1lytln) ss.
City of Bozeman )
I, C. K. Wilson, Clerk of the Commission of The Clty of
Bozeman, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolntion No. 111-4,
was published by title tind number in the Bozeman DailY Chronicle,
a newspaper of generaL circulation printed and published in said
Ci ty in the issue of 'the 13th day of Apri..l., 1964, and due proof of
such pnblictltion is on fl1e iu m~ office.
IN Wn'NESS WHEREOF I hereunto se t my hand and affix the
corporate seaL of my off1ce this 14th day of April, lY64.
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Clerk'o th ity Commi sion
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