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HomeMy WebLinkAbout3285 ORDINANCE NO. 3285 ~N ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR AND ESTABLISHING A LAKE MONROE WATERFRONT AND DOWNTOWN SANFORD ~OMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT TRUST FUND PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 163.387, FLORIDA STATUTES; PROVIDING FOR CITY AND COUNTY REVENUES TO BE APPROPRIATED INTO SAID TRUST FUND; PROVIDING A DATE ON WHICH PAYMENTS TO SUCH REDEVELOPMENT TRUST FUND SHALL TERMINATE; PROVIDING CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF SANFORD: SECTION 1. There is hereby established and created in accordance with the provisions of Section 163.387, Florida Statutes (1994), a Lake Monroe Waterfront and Downtown Sanford Community Redevelopment Trust Fund hereafter referred to as the "Fund." The funds allocated to, and deposited into the Fund are hereby appropriated to the Sanford Community Redevelopment Agency, hereafter referred to as the "Agency," to finance the City of Sanford Community Redevelopment Projects within the redevelopment area (hereinafter referred to as the "Lake Monroe Waterfront and Downtown Sanford Community Redevelopment Area") created by Resolution 1715 of the City of Sanford. The Agency shall utilize the funds and revenues paid into and earned by the Fund for all and every community redevelopment purpose delegated to it in the aforementioned Resolution, as amended, and as contained in the plan for redevelopment as provided by law dated December 11, 1994. Said Fund shall exist for a period not exceeding twenty (20) years. There shall be paid into the Fund, and the City hereby appropriates, commits and sets over for payment into the Fund, a sum equal to that increment from the income proceeds, revenues and funds of the City derived from or held in connection with the community redevelopment project area, and the Agency's undertaking and carrying out of the community redevelopment project therein. Said increment shall be determined and appropriated annually and shall be as set forth in §163.387, Fla. Stat. (1994). It shall be in an amount equal to 95% (ninety five percent) of the difference between: (a) The amount of ad valorem taxes levied each year by the City of Sanford and by Seminole County, exclusive of any amount from any debt service millage, on taxable real property contained within the geographic boundaries of the community redevelopment area; and (b) The amount of ad valorem taxes which would have been produced by the rate upon which the tax is levied each year by the City of Sanford and by Seminole County, exclusive of any debt service millage, upon the total of the assessed value of the taxable real property in the community redevelopment area as shown by the most recent assessment roll used in connection with the taxation of such property by the City of Sanford and Seminole County prior to the effective date of this Ordinance, providing for the funding of the trust fund. The City will annually appropriate to the Fund the aforestated sum at the beginning of the City's fiscal year. The fund shall receive the tax increment above described only as, if and when, such taxes may be collected by the City. The City's obligation to annually appropriate to the fund shall commence immediately upon 2 ~he effective date of this Ordinance and continue to the extent permitted by state law, until all loans, advances and indebtedness, if any, and interest thereon incurred bythe Agency as a result of the projects have been paid, and only to the extent that the tax increment recited above accrues. The Agency is directed to establish and set up the Fund and to develop and promulgate rules, regulations and criteria whereby the Fund may be promptly and effectively administered, including the ~tablishment and the maintenance of books and records and adoption of procedures whereby the Agency may, expeditiously and without undue delay, utilize said fund for its allocated statutory purpose. The Agency is vested with full responsibility for the receipt, custody, disbursement, accountability, management and proper application of all monies paid into the Fund. The governing body of the Agency shall be the Trustee of the fund. Monies in the Fund may not be spent for community redevelopment projects without the approval of the City Commission of the City of Sanford. SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This Ordinance being for a public purpose and for the welfare of the citizens of the City of Sanford, Florida shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes thereof. SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or provision of this Ordinance is held invalid, the remainder of this Ordinance shall not be affected by such invalidity. 3 SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall take effect iEediately upon its final passage and adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 18th day of Dece~er, 1995. MAYO~ ATTEST: AS THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, FLORID CERTIFICATE I, Janet R. Dougherty, City Clerk of the City of Sanford, Florida, do hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing Ordinance No. 3285, PASSED AND ADOPTED~the City Co issi n of the City of Sanford, Florida, on the _day of 1995. As~'Cle~rk~ft~City of Sanford, Florida 4