3876913 Resolution 19-628, "Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2012"

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

19-628  

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

October 2, 2012

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the District of Columbia Regional Airports Authority Act of 1985 to increase the total number of members of the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority to 17 members, the number of members appointed by Virginia to 7, by the District of Columbia to 4, and by Maryland to 3, to provide that any member of the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority shall be eligible for reappointment for one additional term and may not serve beyond the expiration of his or her term, to increase the quorum requirement to 9 members, and to increase the number of votes required to approve bond issues and the annual budget of the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority to 10.

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the "Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2012".           

 

            Sec. 2. (a) The Congress of the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia have recently approved amendments affecting the membership of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (“MWAA”), which is the instrumentality that was established in 1985 to govern the operations of Reagan National and Dulles International Airports pursuant to a lease from the federal government and an interstate compact between the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

            (b) Among the amendments is an increase in the number of MWAA members

appointed by the District of Columbia from 3 to 4, by the Commonwealth of Virginia from 5 to 7, and by the State of Maryland from 2 to 3.

            (c)  There exists an immediate need to ratify the Congressionally approved changes affecting the composition of MWAA board of directors to ensure that the District’s additional MWAA member is appointed and seated as soon as possible.

 

            Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Metropolitan Washington Airports Emergency Amendment Act of 2012 be adopted after a single reading.

 

            Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.