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COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, INDIANA
ORDINANCE NO.70-2015
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES (PILOT)
WITH THE RICHMOND SANITARY DISTRICT AND AN ADDITIONAL
APPROPRIATION TO THE RICHMOND SANITARY DISTRICT'S 308
LANDFILL ACCOUNT
WHEREAS, The Board of Sanitary Commissioners (hereinafter "Board") for
the Richmond Sanitary District (hereinafter "RSD") owns, operates
and collects revenue for the City of Richmond, Indiana's
(hereinafter "City") landfill (hereinafter "Landfill"); and
WHEREAS, The revenues collected from the Landfill are placed into and
disbursed out of the RSD's 308 Landfill account, which account is
funded by user fees; and
WHEREAS, Employees of the City, including employees of the Richmond
Sanitary District, have gone without any pay raises for at least
seven (7) years and over that same period of time have only been
granted two (2) stipends of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) each
in 2013 and in 2014; and
WHEREAS, Common Council believes that the City does not currently have,
nor does it anticipate having, an operating cash surplus in its 2015
budget in which to grant City employees any stipends for 2015;
and
WHEREAS, Council believes that there are sufficient cash assets available in
RSD's 308 Landfill account, which is funded by user fees, that
could help assist and augment the General Fund of City for the
purpose of granting all City employees stipends for the year 2015,
all of which would not impair RSD's ability to operate the Landfill or to
meets its obligations thereto; and
WHEREAS, The Common Council (hereinafter "Council") of the City of
Richmond, Indiana Board of RSD believes it is in the best interests
of the City and the RSD that RSD enter into a Payment in Lieu of
Taxes (hereinafter "PILOT") with City; and
WHEREAS, There are not sufficient funds at the present time in RSD's budget
in its 308 Landfill account to make a payment to the City's General
Fund for stipends for City employees for 2015 through a PILOT;
and
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WHEREAS, The Board of RSD has recommended that its PILOT payment to
City be in the amount of $254,000, only for calendar year 2015;
and
WHEREAS, Council is willing to make an additional appropriation of $254,000
to the 2015 budget of RSD's 308 Landfill account with said
additional appropriation of $254,000 being the amount that RSD
will pay from its 308 Landfill account to the City's General Fund
to be used for stipends for 2015.
WHEREAS, Common Council of the City of Richmond, Indiana passed an
annual budget for calendar year 2015 on October 21 st, 2014
(Ordinance No. 42-2014); and
WHEREAS, It has been determined it is now necessary to appropriate additional
sums of money to certain funds.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of
Richmond, Indiana, which said Council, having reviewed and discussed the PILOT
concept and the recitals forth above, now adopts the findings of fact set forth above and
hereby incorporates the recitals into this ordinance and findings of fact, and now
approves entering into, and does hereby enter into, a PILOT with the Richmond Sanitary
District for 2015 only as set forth in the above recitals.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City
of Richmond, Indiana, that the following additional sums of money are hereby
appropriated to the following funds:
Richmond Sanitary District 308 Landfill Account $ 254,000.00
Passed and adopted this & day by the Common
Council of the City of Richmond, Indiana.
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Karen Chasteen
RICHMOND COMMON COUNCIL
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PRESENTED to the Mayor of the City of Richmond, Indiana, this /% day of November,
2015, at 9:00 a.m.
APPROVED by me, Sarah L. Hutton, Mayor of the City of Richmond, Indiana, this 1Z
day of November, 2015, at 9:05 a.m.
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