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April 23, 2009 0 L
APR 2 3 2009
The Honorable Ann H. Campbell, Mayor CITY CLERK
and Members of the City Council CITY OF ANTES,IOWA
of The City of Ames, Iowa
Re: Ordinance to Attach Annexed Territory to Established Wards and Precincts,
and to Update Descriptions of Wards and Precincts
Dear Mayor Campbell and Council Members:
The Code of Iowa states that when territory is annexed,the City Council may attach all or any part of
the annexed territory to any established precinct. See§49.8(2). This proposed ordinance makes the
attachment for 1820 South Dayton, which was annexed into the City on October 28, 2008.
This ordinance also updates the descriptions of wards and precincts to incorporate into the boundary
descriptions all territories recently annexed and attached to wards and precincts by the City. The
descriptions of wards and precincts have not been updated since October 2003. Since that time,
several annexed territories have been attached to appropriate precincts and listed in the Ames
Municipal Code Section 6.14, but not incorporated into the boundary descriptions.
During the recent process of adding such annexed territory to the wards and precincts, corrections
and updates to boundary descriptions were also made. With the availability of Geographic
Information Systems (GIS), boundaries may now be described with much greater accuracy. This
process resulted in a relatively significant redraft of all descriptions,so that with this new ordinance
Ames residents will have a straight-forward,up-to-date resource for determining their voting wards
and precincts.
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City Attorney
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