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3177 ORDINANCE NO. 3177 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 3160 ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR AND ESTABLISHING A REDEVELOPMENT TRUST FUND PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 163.38, FLORIDA STATUTES; PROVIDING FOR CITY REVENUES TO BE APPROPRIATED INTO SAID TRUST FUND; PROVIDING CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; AND PROVIDINGANEFFECTIVE DATE" BY AMENDING SECTION 1 THEREOF TO CLARIFY THE DATE ON WHICH PAYMENTS TO SUCH REDEVELOPMENT TRUST FUND SHALL TERMINATE; AND PROVIDING A/~ EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF SANFOPJ): SECTION 1. Section 1 of Ordinance No. 3160 is hereby amended to read as follows: "SECTION 1. There is hereby established and created in accordance with the provisions of Section 163.387, Florida Statutes, a 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 "Seminole Towne Center Community Redevelopment Area") created by Resolution 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. 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 an amount equal to 47.5% (forty-seven and one-half percent) of the difference between: (a) The amount of ad valorem taxes levied each year by the City on taxable real property contained within the geographic boundaries of the 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 upon the total of the assessed value of the taxable property in the redevelopment area as shown upon the most recent assessment roll used in connection With the taxation of such property by the City prior to the effective date of the Ordinance or resolution of the City approving the community redevelopment plan. In calculating the increment, the amount of the ad valorem taxes levied based on the City-wide debt service on general obligation bonds of the City shall be totally excluded from the calculation. All increment in this amount shallcontinue to be used for its voter approved purpose and shall not be appropriated in any part-of the 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 the effective date of this Ordinance and continue until all loans, advances and indebtedness, if any, and interest thereon incurred by the Agency as a result of the projects have been paid and only to the extent that the tax increment recited above accrues. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any provision of this ordinance to the contrary, the obligation of the City to annually appropriate to such Fund sh~ll terminate on December 31, 2011, whether or not obligations of the Agency or the City payable from such Fund remain outstanding. However, payments received after December 31, 2011 with respect to the tax year ending December 31, 2011 shall be deposited to such Fund. 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 establishment and the maintenance of books and records and adoption of procedures whereby the Agency may, expeditiously and without undue delay, utilize said funds for their allocated statutory purpose. The Agency is vested with full responsibility for the receipt, custody, disbursement, accountability, management and proper application of all moneys paid into the Fund. Moneys in the Fund may not be spent for community redevelopment projects without the approval of the City Commission of the City of Sanford." 2 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 S~nford, 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. SECTION 5. It is the intention of the City Commission, and it is hereby ordained that the provisions of this ordinance shall become and be made a part of the Code of the City of Sanford. The sections of this Ordinance may be ren~bered or relettered to accomplish such intention, and the word "Ordinance" may be changed to "Section," "Article," or other appropriate word. Passed on first reading On th~27~day of~993. 1993. AS THE CITY COM}4ISSION OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, FLORIDA ATTEST: 3 CERTIFICATE I, Janet R. Donahoe, City Clerk of the City of Sanford, Florida, do hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the attached Ordinance No. 3177, PASSED and ADOPTED by the City Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, on the llth day of October, 1993, was POSTED at the front door of the City Hall in the City of Sanford, Florida, on the 12th day of October, 1993. clerk of City of Sanford, Florida