HomeMy Public PortalAboutResolutions_23-26_8/14/2023 RESOLUTION 23-26
APPROVING A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE IOWA
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE AND THE CITY OF MARCUS,IOWA,FOR
PARTICIPATION IN THE STATE SETOFF PROGRAM
WHEREAS,the City of Marcus, Cherokee County, State of Iowa, is a duly organized
Municipal Organization; and,
WHEREAS, Section 421.65 of the Code of Iowa provides for the offsetting of payments
made by the State to satisfy liabilities to the State(the Program),with the Department of
Revenue(IDR) directed to establish and maintain a procedure to collect any claim owed to a
person by a state agency and apply money owed to the person against the debt owed by the
person to the State of Iowa; and,
WHEREAS,the Program allows IDR to enter into agreements with political
subdivisions of the state for the collection of monies owed to those subdivisions; and,
WHEREAS,the City of Marcus previously approved participation in this program with
Resolution 17-15 on April 10th of 2017 when it was thru the Iowa Department of Administrative
Services; and,
WHEREAS,law changes have moved this program to Iowa Department of Revenue
(IDR) and changed the name from Iowa Offset Program to State Offset Program and is requiring
a new Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) as a result of changes in the Iowa Administrative
Rules governing the Setoff Program;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED,that the City Council of the City of Marcus,
Iowa,hereby approves the attached Memorandum of Understanding between the Iowa
Department of Revenue and the City of Marcus, Iowa, for participation in the State Setoff
Program and authorizes the Mayor to execute said agreement.
PASSED,APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 14th day of August, 2023,by the Marcus
City Council.
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Pat Bunt,Mayor
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