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Prairie Mountain Media, LLC NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ORDINANCE No. 1797, SERIES 2020 AN ORDINANCE IMPOSING A DISPOSABLE BAG TAX OF TWENTY- FIVE CENTS PER BAG BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2022 AND PROVIDING FOR THE SUBMISSION OF THE ORDINANCE TO A VOTE OF THE REG- ISTERED ELECTORS AT THE REGULAR ELECTION TO BE HELD NO- VEMBER 3, 2020 INTRODUCED, READ, PASSED ON FIRST READING, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED THIS 14TH DAY OF JULY. 2020. Ashley Stolzmann, Mayor ATTEST: Meredyth Muth, City Clerk PASSED AND ADOPTED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING, THIS 28TH DAY OF JULY, 2020 WITH THE FOLLOWING CHANGES. Ordinance No. 1797, Series 2020 is revised to read as follows (amendments are shown in bold underline and bold strikeout): SECTION 3 NOW READS: Section 3. The following ballot issue, certified in substantially the form set forth below, is hereby referred to the registered electors of the City and shall appear on the ballot of the Election: BALLOT ISSUE NO. DISPOSABLE BAG TAX SHALL CITY OF LOUISVILLE TAXES BE INCREASED BY $2,000,000 IN THE FIRST FULL FISCAL YEAR AND BY WHATEVER ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS ARE RAISED ANNUALLY THEREAFTER, BY IMPOSING, EF- FECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2022, A NEW TAX ON DISPOSABLE BAGS PRO- VIDED TO A CUSTOMER BY A RETAILER AT THE RATE OF UP TO TWENTY-FIVE CENTS ($025) PER BAG, WITH THE TAX REVENUES BEING USED TO PAY FOR OR REIMBURSE THE CITY FOR DIRECT AND INDIRECT COSTS INCURRED FOR ADMINISTERING THE TAX OR EX- PENDED BY THE CITY FOR OTHER SUSTAINABILITY-RELATED INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMS, ANDFOROTHER GENERAL PURPOSES OF THE CITY; WITH THE AMOUNT OF THE TAX BEING ALLOWED TO BE INCREASED OR DECREASED WITHOUT FURTHER VOTER APPRO- VAL SO LONG AS THE AMOUNT OF THE TAX DOES NOT EXCEED $0. 25 PER BAG, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY ORDINANCES HEREAFTER APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE; AND WITH THE CITY COUNCIL BEING AUTHORIZED TO MAKE SUCH CHANGES TO THE DISPOSABLE BAG TAX PROGRAM AS MAY BE IM- PLEMENTED BY ORDINANCES HEREAFTER ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, INCLUDING CHANGING WHICH RETAILERS MUST COLLECT THE TAX, PROVIDING FOR OR REPEALING EXEMPTIONS FROM THE TAX OR TAX CREDITS, OR CHANGING THE RATE OF THE TAX, SO LONG AS THE TAX DOES NOT EXCEED TWENTY-FIVE CENTS ($0.25) PER BAG; AND SHALL THE CITY BE AUTHORIZED TO COLLECT AND SPEND SUCH REVENUE AS A VOTER APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE UNDER ARTICLE X SECTION 20 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION, AND SHALL ORDINANCE NO. 1797, SERIES 2020, WHICH IMPOSES THE TAX, BE APPROVED? YES NO Ashley Stolzmann, Mayor ATTEST: Meredyth Muth, City Clerk FULL COPIES OF THE ORDINANCE ARE AVAILABLE FORM THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE AT LOUISVILLE CITY HALL, 749 MAIN STREET, LOUISVILLE, COLORADO Published: Boulder Daily Camera August 2, 2020-1725141 PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT County of Boulder State of Colorado The undersigned Elizabeth Maes . being first duly sworn under oath, states and affirms as follows: 1. He/she is the legal Advertising Reviewer of Prairie Mountain Media LLC, publisher of the Daily Camera. 2. The Daily Camera is a newspaper of general circulation that has been published continuously and without interruption for at least fifty-two weeks in Boulder County and meets the legal requisites for a legal newspaper under Colo. Rev. Stat 24-70-103. 3. The notice that is attached hereto is a true copy, published in the Daily Camera in Boulder County on the following date(s): Aug 2, 2020 Signature Subscribed and swom me before me this CX day of (SEAL) MELISSA L NAJERA NOARY PUBLIC STATE TOF COLORADO NOTARY ID 20064049936 MY COMMISSION EXPIRES DECEMBER 11, 2022 Account: Ad Number: Fee: 1048836 1725141 $102.52 1.4