Ordinances-1978-76

RESOLUTION CALLING A SPECIAL ELECTION TO VOTE ON FRANCHISE ORDINANCE WHEREAS, the City of Tiffin, Iowa, in the County of Johnson, and State of Iowa, is a municipal corporation duly organized and existing under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Iowa and having a Mayor-Council form of government; and WHEREAS, the City Council of said municipality has this date enacted*and the Mayor has signed Ordinance No. 76-1978 granting to GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF THE MIDWEST, a Corporation, a franchise to construct, operate and maintain within said city a telephone system and to conduct a general telephone business therein; and WHEREAS, to become effective a franchise of this nature requires ratification by the favorable vote of a majority of the legal electors of the municipality voting thereon at a special election. NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Tiffin, Iowa, that the question of granting GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF THE MIDWEST, its successors and assigns; the franchise provided in Ordinance No. 76-1978 to construct, operate and maintain a telephone system in the City of Tiffin, Iowa, be submitted to a vote of the legal electors of the municipality at a special election hereby called to be held on the _____ day of ____________, 19___, and the Mayor of the municipality is directed to give notice thereof to the County Commissioner of Elections not less than thirty days in advance of said date and to provide said officer with a copy of the Franchise Ordinance. PASSED, APPROVED* and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Tiffin, Iowa, this 14th day of June, 1978. ATTEST: ______________________________ MAYOR. ______________________________ City Clerk.