File #: O-355-22    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Approved
File created: 7/5/2022 In control: Finance Department
On agenda: 8/16/2022 Final action: 8/16/2022
Title: Levying special assessments for sprinkling, sweeping, cleaning and snow removal services for the municipal streets, alleys and public ways in the City during the calendar year 2021; and declaring an emergency.
Attachments: 1. Comparison Charts 2020-2021 Actuals, 2. 2018-2021 Actuals and 2018-2022 Estimates

Label

FIN LEVY 2021 STREET SERV

Taxation and Treasury

R. Martinez (x1653)

Revised

 

Title

Levying special assessments for sprinkling, sweeping, cleaning and snow removal services for the municipal streets, alleys and public ways in the City during the calendar year 2021; and declaring an emergency.

 

Body

SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:

This is the Ordinance to levy the assessments for the cost and expense of sprinkling, sweeping, cleaning and removing snow from municipal streets, alleys and public ways in the City of Toledo performed during the year ending December 31, 2021.  The services described in Section 1 have been completed and the final cost of those services has been determined.

 

Summary

NOW, THEREFORE, Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:

 

                     SECTION 1.  That the revised special assessments for the cost and expense of providing sprinkling, sweeping, cleaning and snow removal services in the calendar year 2021 for the municipal streets, alleys and public ways in the City, pursuant to and as described in Ordinance No. 482-20 passed December 15, 2020, amounting in the aggregate to ($17,793,527) Seventeen Million, Seven Hundred Ninety-three thousand, Five Hundred Twenty-seven Dollars, which were filed in the office of the Clerk of Council on July 5, 2022, and are now on file in his office, are adopted and confirmed.  Those special assessments are levied and assessed upon the lots and lands bounding and abutting upon those streets, alleys and public ways as provided in Ordinance No. 482-20, in the respective amounts set forth in the schedule of special assessments on file, which special assessments are in proportion to the special benefits and not in excess of any applicable limitation.

 

                     SECTION 2.  That the special assessment against each lot or parcel of land shall be payable in cash within 30 days after the passage of this Ordinance, or at the option of the owner in one annual installment (two semi-annual installments) with interest at the same effective fixed rate as borne by the notes issued in anticipation of the collection of the special assessments, taking into consideration any related interest rate exchange transactions.  All cash payments shall be made to the Commissioner of Treasury of this City.  All special assessments remaining unpaid at the expiration of those 30 days shall be certified by the Clerk of Council to the County Auditor as provided by law to be placed on the tax duplicate and collected as taxes are collected.

 

                     SECTION 3.  That the Clerk of Council shall cause a notice of the passage of this Ordinance to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in this City and shall keep on file in his office the revised assessments.

 

                     SECTION 4.  That the Clerk of Council shall deliver a certified copy of this Ordinance to the County Auditor within 20 days after its passage.

 

                     SECTION 5.  That this Council finds and determines that all formal actions of this Council and any of its committees concerning and relating to the passage of this Ordinance were taken, and that 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 6.  That this Ordinance 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 Ordinance must be effective immediately to permit the City to timely certify unpaid special assessments to the County Auditor and to comply with timely agreements of the City entered into in connection with the issuance of the notes issued in anticipation of the special assessments; wherefore, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and immediately after its passage, or at the earliest time allowed by law.

 

                     Vote on emergency clause:  yeas 12, nays 0.

 

Passed:  August 16, 2022 as an emergency measure:  yeas 12, nays 0.

 

Attest:                                          

Gerald E. Dendinger                                          Matt Cherry

Clerk of Council                                          President of Council

 

Approved:                                                               August 16, 2022

Wade Kapszukiewicz

Mayor