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DRAFT F:ALICE�RFSWORK\CURRENT\ Special Elecrion Fire Depty Rerirement System - Canvass Res #1 December 12, 2003 RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS, CANVASSING THE RETURNS FOR THE MAY 15, 2004, CITY-WIDE SPECIAL ELECTION ON THE QUESTION OF EXEMPTING THE CITY OF PARIS AND THE PARIS FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF AND RETIREMENT FLTND FROM THE APPLICATION OF THE REQLTIREMENTS OF ARTICLE XVI, SECTION 66 OF THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION, ENTITLED "PROTECTED BENEFITS LTNDER CERTAIN PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS;" MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the Legislature of the State of Texas, by adoption of House Joint Resolution No. 54, provided for submittal of a new Article XVI, Section 66 to the Texas Constitution to the electorate of the State of Texas; and, WHEREAS, the aforesaid Article XVI, Section 66 to the Texas Constitution was adopted by a majority vote of the electorate of the State of Texas; and, WHEREAS, as a consequence of the adoption of said Article XVI, Section 66 to the Texas Constitution, entitled "Protected Benefits Under Certain Public Retirement Systems," the Paris Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund would be subject to the provisions of said Article XVI, Section 66; and, WHEREAS, Article XVI, Section 66 authorized the City Council of the City of Paris, as a political subdivision governed by said constitutional provision with a retirement system falling under said constitutional provision, to seek exemption from the provisions of Article XVI, Section 66 by submitting the issue of said exemption to the voters of the City Paris; and, WHEREAS, Article XVI, Section 66 provides that any such election seeking exemption must be held on May 15, 2004; and, WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Paris, Paris, Texas, did on the 9r'' day of February, 2004, by Resolution No. 2004-022 order a special city-wide municipal election for the City of Paris to be held on the 15r'' day of May, 2004, by a11 of the qualified voters of the City of Paris, to consider a proposition on the question of exempting the City of Paris and the Paris Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund from the application of Article XVI, Section 66 of the Texas Constitution, entitled "Protected Benefits Under Certain Public Retirement Systems;" and, WHEREAS, again pursuant to prior Resolution No. 2004-022, an election was held by