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RESOLUTION NO. 3178
RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL
OF THE TOWN OFTIBURON
ENDORSING A NOVEMBER 1996 BALLOT MEASURE
BY THE MARIN MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT
FOR COUNTYWIDE FIRE FLOW IMPROVEMENTS
WHEREAS, many officials have been concerned about the threat of fire storms and
fires resulting from seismic events in Marin County and the inadequacy of the fire flow within
the area, and '
WHEREAS, a multi-jurisdictional Fire Flow Study Group spent the last two years
identifying the fire flow n~ds within the Marin Municipal Water District area, and
WHEREAS, this study involved the fire professionals from each jurisdiction who
identified the needs and prioritized the projects throughout the district by looking at the fire
threat on a regional basis, and
WHEREAS, the Study Group then took the list of needed projects and developed
recommendations for funding the projects incorporating the results of an independent poll of
the voters within the MMWD area, and
WHEREAS, this Study Group, along with the Marin County Fire Chiefs Association,
has asked the Marin Municipal Water District Board of Directors to place on the November
1996 ballot an advisory measure asking the voters to support an annual fire flow fee of $75 per
parcel for fifteen years to fund the necessary fire flow and seismic upgrades identified in the
study,
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Council of the Town of
Tiburon hereby expresses its endorsement of this action by the Marin Municipal Water District
and encourages the voters to support this measure in November as one of the most important
public safety measures to come before the voters in decades.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of
Tiburon held on September 4, 1996, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Ginalski, Hennessy, Thayer, Wolf
None
Thompson
AITESrlL _
DIANE L. CRANE, TOWN CLERK
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/NICKY WOLF, MAYOR
Town of Tiburon