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.-:~"'T!Ii"""'- ~ e e ""' THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED; That under the authority granted by Section 6,03(;) the Board of Aldermen (Governing body) of the City of Lomax, Texas (Taxing unit) hereby elects to proceed with the selection of the board of directors for the Harris County Appraisal District as set forth below: I. The number of directors which shall comprise the Board of Directors of the Harris County Appraisal District shall be nine (9), II. The method of selecting the members of the board of directors shall be as follows: (a) The voting entitlement of a taxing unit that is entitled to vote for directors is determined by relative population, The authority for determining the voting entitlement of cities and the county shall be the most current United States Bureau of Census population figures. The authority for determining the voting entitlement of school districts shall be the most current Gross Average Daily Attendance figures as published by the Texas Eduacation Agency in the Directory of Public Schools, Votes shall be apportioned to each taxing unit entitled to vote based on the following scale: Taxing Unit Population City, County School Districts or Average Daily Attendance Votes Vote~ . ..... 1-5,000 1 2 5,000-15,000 2 4 15,000-30,000 3 6 30,000-50,000 4 8 50,000-75,000 5 10 75,000-105,000 6 12 105,000-140,000 7 14 140,000-180,000 8 16 180,000-225,000* 9 18 *The County and cities or school districts having populations or average daily attendances in excess of 225~OOO shall accrue one additional vote for each 50,000 above 225,000, A taxing unit participating in two or more districts is entitled to vote in each district,in which it participates, but only the population in a district is used to calculate the voting entitlement in that district. (b) The county clerk shall c;:alculate the number of votes to which each taxin9 unit is entitled and shall 'deliver written notice to the presiding officer of the governing body of each unit of its voting entitle- ment before February], 1980, (c) Each taxing unit that is entitled to vote may nominate by resolution adopted by its governing body one candidate for each position to be filled on the board of directors. The presiding officer of the govern- inq body of the unit shall submit the names of the units' nominees to the county clerk before February 15th. Before February 2gth, the county clerk shall prepare a ballot, listing the candidates alphabetically according to the copy of the ballot to the presiding officer of the governing body of each taxing unit that is entitled to vote.