ORDINANCE NO. 240083
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Sponsor: Director of Finance Department
Consenting to the rate of front foot special assessment to be levied by the Union Hill Special Business District; consenting to the proposed uses of the revenues produced therefrom; estimating and appropriating revenue in the amount of $65,000.00 in the Union Hill Special Business District Fund; re-estimating and re-appropriating the remaining uncollected revenues and unexpended and unencumbered appropriations to the 2024-25 Fiscal Year; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the Union Hill Special Business District (the “District”) was established pursuant to Ordinance No. 900675, passed December 6, 1990; and
WHEREAS, each year the Union Hill Special Business District Board establishes the rate of front foot special assessment for the purpose of generating revenue to insure, maintain, and operate the pedestrian lighting fixtures and brick entry monuments within the District and the City Finance Department facilitates the billing and collection of said assessments; and
WHEREAS, the District Board has established the 2024 assessment rate at $3.50 per front foot and this ordinance provides the mechanism by which the City will collect the assessment revenue and remit it to the District Board; NOW THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the City Council consents to a front foot special assessment of $3.50 per abutting foot of the lots, tracts and parcels of and land within the Union Hill Special Business District abutting on public streets, roads and highways therein.
Section 2. That the City Council consents to the use of the revenue derived from such front foot special assessment for the maintenance and operation of the lighting fixtures, brick entry monuments, and related purposes, as set forth in the Budget submitted by the Union Hill Special Business District.
Section 3. That the revenue in the following account of the Union Hill Special Business District Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:
24-6810-120000-484000 Collections from Assessments $65,000.00
Section 4. That the sum of $65,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Union Hill Special Business District Fund to the following account in the Union Hill Special Business District Fund:
24-6810-121070-B Union Hill SBD - Admin $65,000.00
Section 5. That any remaining uncollected revenue estimates in the 2023-24 Fiscal Year in the Union Hill Special Business District Fund are authorized to be re-estimated to the same accounts in the 2024-25 Fiscal Year except for the following revenue account:
24-6810-129921-484000 Collections from Assessments
Section 6. That the unexpended and unencumbered balances in the following account for the 2023-24 Fiscal Year in the Union Hill Special Business District Fund are appropriated to the same account in the 2024-25 Fiscal Year except for the following account:
24-6810-129921 Finance
Section 7. That the Director of Finance is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 24-6810-121070.
Section 8. That this ordinance is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(C) of the City Charter in that it appropriates money and shall take effect in accordance with that section.
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I hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation to which the foregoing expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligation hereby incurred.
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Tammy L. Queen
Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Samuel Miller
Assistant City Attorney