File #: O-8-14    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 3/4/2014 In control: City Council
On agenda: 6/16/2014 Final action: 6/23/2014
Title: Annual Operating Budget: Fiscal Year 2015 - For the purposes of adopting an operating budget for the City of Annapolis for Fiscal Year 2015; appropriating funds for expenditures for Fiscal Year 2015; defraying all expenses and liabilities of the City of Annapolis and levying same for the purposes specified; specifying certain duties of the Director of Finance; and specifying a rate of interest to be charged upon overdue property taxes.
Sponsors: Michael J. Pantelides
Indexes: Finance Committee, Financial Advisory Commission
Attachments: 1. O-8-14 Signed.pdf, 2. O-8-14.pdf, 3. FY2015 Mayors Proforma.pdf, 4. FY 2015 Amended Proforma of 5-19-14, 5. O-8-14 Pantelides and Budge Amendment.pdf, 6. Finance Committee Amendment.pdf, 7. Budge Amendment #3 - Trash Fees.pdf, 8. Littmann Amendment #1 - Refuse Fee, 9. Finlayson Amendment #5 - AEDC, 10. Littmann Amendment #3 - AEDC-City Staffing, 11. Pindell-Charles Amendment #1- restore DNEP position, 12. Finlayson Amendment #2A- HR Admin Position, 13. Finlayson Amendment #2B- Admin Positions, 14. Budge Amendment #1 - Parking Specialist.pdf, 15. Finlayson Amendment #1 Eparm, 16. Finlayson Amendment #3 - Community Grants, 17. Finlayson Amendment #4 - Public Works, 18. Finlayson Amendment #6 - Police, 19. Finlayson Amendment #7 - Fire, 20. Finlayson Amendment #8 - transportation, 21. Finance Committee Budget Report FY2015, 22. Financial Advisory Commission on FY 2015 Budget.pdf, 23. Fiscal Impact Note.pdf, 24. State of MD Constant Yield Tax Rate Certification.pdf
Title
Annual Operating Budget: Fiscal Year 2015 - For the purposes of adopting an operating budget for the City of Annapolis for Fiscal Year 2015; appropriating funds for expenditures for Fiscal Year 2015; defraying all expenses and liabilities of the City of Annapolis and levying same for the purposes specified; specifying certain duties of the Director of Finance; and specifying a rate of interest to be charged upon overdue property taxes.
 
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
 
Ordinance 8-14 Amended
 
Introduced by: Mayor Pantelides
Referred to
Finance
 
A ORDINANCE concerning
Annual Operating Budget: Fiscal Year 2015
      
FOR      the purposes of adopting an operating budget for the City of Annapolis for Fiscal Year 2015; appropriating funds for expenditures for Fiscal Year 2015; defraying all expenses and liabilities of the City of Annapolis and levying same for the purposes specified; specifying certain duties of the Director of Finance; and specifying a rate of interest to be charged upon overdue property taxes.
 
WHEREAS,            pursuant to Section 6.16.010 of the Annapolis City Code, on March 10, 2014, the Mayor submitted to the City Council the proposed annual operating budget for Fiscal Year 2015; and
 
WHEREAS,            on April 7, 2014 the Annapolis City Council held a public hearing on the operating budget for the City of Annapolis for Fiscal Year 2015 and the constant yield tax rate; and
 
WHEREAS,            the citizens of Annapolis, employees of the City of Annapolis and all interested persons have been given an opportunity to express their views concerning the Fiscal Year 2015 budget; and
 
NOW THEREFORE:
 
SECTION I:  BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the annual operating budget for Fiscal Year 2015 available at <http://www.annapolis.gov/government/city-departments/finance/budgets-proposed-and-adopted> is hereby approved and finally adopted for such fiscal year; and funds for all expenditures for the purposes specified in the budget for Fiscal Year 2015 are hereby appropriated in the amounts therein specified and will be used by the City in the sums itemized in said budget hereby adopted for the principal objectives and purposes thereof, and the total sum of funds herein provided for the respective departments and major operating units thereof, boards, commissions and agencies.
 
SECTION II:  AND BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that a tax rate of sixty-five ($0.65) ($0.649) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of assessable property in the City of Annapolis be and the same is hereby imposed on all assessable property for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, to be collected pursuant to the provisions contained in Article VII of the Charter of the City of Annapolis and all other provisions pertaining to tax levies in said Charter, the said tax rate of sixty-five ($0.65) ($0.649) on each one hundred dollars ($100) shall be used for the operation of the General Fund of the City of Annapolis.  
 
SECTION III:  AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that a tax rate of one dollar sixty-six cents ($1.66) one dollar ninety-four cents ($1.94) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of personal and operating property in the City of Annapolis be and the same is hereby imposed on all personal and operating property for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, to be collected pursuant to the provisions contained in Article VII of the Charter of the City of Annapolis and all other provisions pertaining to tax levies in said Charter, the said tax rate of one dollar sixty-six cents ($1.66) one dollar ninety-four cents ($1.94) on each one hundred dollars ($100) shall be used for the operation of the General Fund of the City of Annapolis.
 
SECTION IV: AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL  that it shall be the duty of the Director of Finance of the City of Annapolis to collect the sums set apart for the several funds, to keep separate receipts and amounts thereof, to deposit the same to the credit of funds as required by the several Acts and Ordinances relating to and providing for the several bonds issued, and to receive on account thereof only current money and legal tender of the United States.
 
SECTION V:  AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that taxes levied by this Ordinance remaining unpaid on October 1, 2015, except for taxpayers who elect to make a partial payment before October 1 with the balance due later as allowed by State law, shall be overdue, and from and after that date shall bear interest, to be collected with said taxes, at the rate of one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month until paid.
 
SECTION VI:  AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this Ordinance shall take effect on July 1, 2014.
 
ADOPTED this 23rd day of June, 2014.
 
EXPLANATION
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