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• • the City that her Office can assist the City with programming voting machines, printing ballots, tabulating ballots, and with other administrative aspects of the referendum; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VERO BEACH, FLORIDA, THAT: Section 1. The foregoing "WHEREAS" clauses are hereby found true and correct and are adopted as findings of the City Council of the City of Vero Beach, Florida. Section 2. The City Council of the City of Vero Beach, Florida, hereby authorizes the City's administrative Staff to develop, in consultation and cooperation with the Indian River County Supervisor of Elections, a proposed ordinance setting forth a definitive, detailed proposal for conducting a referendum of the City's named retail electric customers, with the ballot question being whether each customer desires the City to establish a utility authority to operate the business of the City's electric utility system. The City Council further authorizes Staff to bring such definitive, detailed ordinance before the City Council no later than the first Council meeting in March 2015. Section 3. The City Council further authorizes the Staff to include in the proposed ordinance the requirement that the referendum is to be held no later than the date of the next City general election, which is November 3, 2015, and to work cooperatively with representatives of the Town of Indian River Shores and Indian River County, and with other interested customers, to determine whether those customers would desire that the referendum be held at a special election earlier than November 3, 2015. Section 4. The City Clerk is directed to provide a certified copy of this Resolution to Florida State Senators Thad Altman and Joe Negron; Florida State Representatives Debbie Mayfield and Gayle B. Harrell; the Mayor and Town Council of the Town of Indian River Shores; and the Chairman and Commissioners of the Indian River County Board of County Commissioners. Section 5. This Resolution shall become effective upon adoption by the City Council. ********************************************* [REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] Page2of3 4 L!