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4. All City legislative decisions subject to the initiative power have been made, and only administrative decisions remain. 5. The actions of the City and of the PFD have irretrievably committed the City and the PFD to the Hewitt Avenue Site as the location for the Regional Center. 6. A considerable amount of public funds expended by the City and the PFD would be lost and not recovered if the Site for the Regional Center were changed at this late date. 7. The initiative seeks to prevent"the City of Everett/or the Everett PublicFacilities District . . . from building a Regional Center on Hewitt Avenue,"yet the City has no authority pursuant to RCW Chapter 35.57 to build the Regional Center and the PFD, which is a separate municipal corporation, is not subject to the initiative power under the City's Charter. 8. The sufficiency requirements for initiative petitions in the State of Washington require that the ordinance proposed by the petition be attached to the petition so that signers of the petition can review and understand what they are being asked to forward to the City Council. 9. In reaching its conclusions and decision, the City Council has carefully considered and reviewed the actions that the City Council and the PFD have taken in respect to the Regional Center, considered the time constraints for building the Regional Center which are imposed by statute and by circumstance, obtained independent legal review of the Petition and the law pertaining to the scope of the initiative power, and considered all public testimony and comment that have been received regarding the Hewitt Avenue Site and other potential sites for the Regional Center. NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EVERETT THAT: 1. The Petition exceeds the scope of the initiative power and, therefore, the City Council declines to submit the proposed Ordinance to vote at a special election. 2. The City Council directs special counsel Davis Wright Tremaine to represent the City in the pending litigation regarding the validity of the Petition in a manner that is consistent with this action of the Council. S:UIles\WINWORD\resolution re.initiative.doc 7