Label
Downtown SID - Resolution Approving Petition
Law Department
Paul F. Syring (x1025)
Revised
Title
Appointing an Assessment Equalization Board to hear objections relative to the provision of enhanced public services by assessment in the proposed Downtown Toledo Improvement District and setting a board hearing date; and declaring an emergency.
Summary
SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
In connection with the establishment and continuance of the Downtown Toledo Special Improvement District, Ohio Revised Code Section 727.16 provides that the legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall appoint an Assessment Equalization Board, consisting of three disinterested freeholders of the municipal corporation, and that the city shall fix the time and place for a hearing by the board to hear objections by any owners of land subject to such assessments.
NOW THEREFORE, Be it resolved that:
SECTION 1. That Mike Beazley, Bill Thomas and Ryan Bunch, three disinterested freeholders of this City, are appointed to act as an Assessment Equalization Board (i) to hear and determine all timely written objections to the estimated special assessments for the costs of providing certain enhanced public services along with the Plan and Budget in the proposed Downtown Toledo Improvement District as described in Res. 216-25, and adopted by this Council (collectively, the Comprehensive Plan), and (ii) to recommend equalization of those special assessments as to them seems proper in accordance with law and this Resolution.
SECTION 2. That the Assessment Equalization Board shall first meet for that purpose in the City Council Chamber in One Government Center, first floor, Toledo, Ohio on July 9, 2025 at 1:00 p.m., and upon the completion of its hearings shall report the equalized special assessments to Council. The Clerk of Council shall, at least five days prior to the first meeting, send a notice of the hearing by certified mail to all persons who filed timely written objections.
SECTION 3. That this Council finds and determines that all formal actions of this Council and of any of its committees concerning and relating to the adoption of this Resolution were taken, and all deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in those formal actions were held, in meetings open to the public in compliance with the law.
SECTION 4. That this Resolution is declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety and property of the City, and for the further reason that this Resolution is required to be immediately effective to enable the Board to hear objections timely and to permit enhanced public services to be provided in the District at the earliest time practicable, which services are intended to maintain and improve the District as a business, cultural, residential and recreational community; wherefore, this Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and immediately after its adoption by the required number of votes, otherwise, at the earliest time permitted by law.
Vote on emergency clause: yeas _____, nays _____.
Passed: _________________, as an emergency measure: yeas _____, nays _____.
Attest: ________________________ __________________________________
Clerk of Council President of Council
Approved: _____________________ __________________________________
Mayor
I hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of an Ordinance passed by Council ________________________.
Attest: ________________________
Clerk of Council