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Record #: O2017-7039   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 10/11/2017 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Finance
Final action: 11/8/2017
Title: Scope of services, budget and management agreement for Special Service Area No. 28-2014, Six Corners (Year 2018)
Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
Topic: SPECIAL SERVICE AREAS - S.S.A. No. 28-2014 (Six Corners)
Attachments: 1. O2017-7039 (V1).pdf, 2. O2017-7039.pdf

ORDINANCE

 

WHEREAS, special service areas may be established pursuant to Article VII, Sections 6(1) and 7(6) of the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and pursuant to the provisions of the Special Service Area Tax Law, 35 ILCS 200/27-5 et seq., as amended from time to time (the "Act") and pursuant to the Property Tax Code, 35 ILCS 200/1-1 et seq., as amended from time to time; and

 

WHEREAS, on December 10, 2014, the City Council of the City of Chicago (the "City Council") enacted an ordinance (the "Establishment Ordinance") which established an area known and designated as City of Chicago Special Service Area Number 28-2014 (the "Area") and authorized the levy of an annual tax, for the period beginning in 2014 through and including 2028, not to exceed an annual rate of 0.750% of the equalized assessed value of the taxable property therein (the "Services Tax") to provide certain special services in and for the Area in addition to the services provided by and to the City of Chicago generally (the "Special Services"); and

WHEREAS, certain funds in Fund 947 ("Fund 947") in the amount of $23,233 are available for use in connection with the Area; and

 

WHEREAS, the Establishment Ordinance established the Area as that territory consisting approximately of the properties at and near the intersection of Irving Park Road and Milwaukee, extending west along Irving Park Road to Lavergne Avenue, with the inclusion of two commercial properties at the northwest and southwest corners of Irving Park Road and Lavergne Avenue; south along Cicero and Milwaukee Avenues to Byron Street, with the exception of residential properties located along Byron Street between service alleys just south of the former Bank of America parking areas and other commercial uses between Cicero and Milwaukee Avenues; north aiong Cicero to Warner Avenue excluding the residential properties on the east side of street; Milwaukee Avenue south to Byron Street and incorporating the parking lots to the Canadian Pacific/Metra train tracks to the east; Milwaukee Avenue north to Warner Avenue and extending to Lavergne Avenue to the west including the condominium parcels in the Klee Plaza Building and the commercial parcel northwest of the Milwaukee and Warner Avenue intersection while excluding the Lavergne Avenue parking lot and residential properties along West Cuyler Avenue; and east along Irving Park Road to the Canadian Pacific/Metra railroad viaduct and north to Belle Plaine Avenue and the alley servicing the Six Corners Shopping Center Development; and

 

WHEREAS, the Special Services authorized in the Establishment Ordinance include, but are not limited to: customer attraction, public way aesthetics, sustainability and public place enhancements, economic/business development, safety programs, and other activities to promote commercial and economic development; and

 

WHEREAS, the Establishment Ordinance provided for the appointment of the Six Corners Special Service Area Commission (the "Commission") to advise the City Council regarding the amount of the Services Tax to be levied and for the purpose of recommending to the City Council: (1) a yearly budget based upon the cost of providing the Special Services; (2) an entity to serve as a service provider (the "Service Provider"); (3) an agreement between the City and the Service Provider for the provision of Special Services to the Area (the "Service Provider Agreement"); and (4) a budget to be included in the agreement between the City and the Service Provider (the "Budget") (the aforementioned items 1 through 4 shall be known collectively herein as the "Recommendations"); and

 

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WHEREAS, the Commission has heretofore prepared and transmitted to the Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development (the "Commissioner") its Recommendations to the City Council, including the Budget attached hereto as Exhibit A and hereby made a part hereof; now, therefore

 

 

Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of Chicago:

 

SECTION 1. Incorporation of Preambles. The preambles of this ordinance are hereby incorporated into this text as if set out herein in full.

 

SECTION 2. Appropriations. There is hereby appropriated the following sums in the amounts and for the purposes necessary to provide the Special Services in and for the Area, the estimated amounts of miscellaneous income and the amounts required to be raised by the levy of the Services Tax indicated as follows:

SIX CORNERS SPECIAL SERVICE AREA COMMISSION SPECIAL SERVICE AREA BUDGET

 

For the fiscal year commencing January 1, 2018 and ending December 31, 2018.

 

EXPENDITURES

 

$341,745

Service Provider Agreement for the provision of Special Services

 

$341,745

TOTAL BUDGET REQUEST

 

SOURCE OF FUNDING

 

$299,521

Tax levy at an annual rate not to exceed 0.750 % of the equalized assessed value, of the taxable property within Special Service Area Number 28-2014

 

$23,233

Fund 947

 

$18,991

Carryover funds currently available from prior tax years

 

$0

Late collections received by the City of Chicago attributable to the levy of the Services Tax in prior tax years, along with interest income thereon, if any.

 

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SECTION 3. Levy of Taxes. There is hereby levied pursuant to the provisions of Article VII, Sections 6(a) and 6(l)(2) of the Constitution of the State of Illinois and pursuant to the provisions of the Act and pursuant to the provisions of the Establishment Ordinance, the sum of $299,521 as the amount of the Services Tax for the tax year 2017.

 

SECTION 4. Filing. The City Clerk of the City (the "City Clerk") is hereby ordered and directed to file in the Office of the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois (the "County Clerk") a certified copy of this ordinance on or prior to December 26, 2017, and the County Clerk shall thereafter extend for collection together with all other taxes to be levied by the City of Chicago, the Services Tax herein provided for, said Services Tax to be extended for collection by the County Clerk for the tax year 2017 against all the taxable property within the Area, the amount of the Services Tax herein levied to be in addition to and in excess of all other taxes to be levied and extended against all taxable property within the Area.

 

SECTION 5. Service Provider Agreement. The Commissioner, or a designee of the Commissioner (each, an "Authorized Officer"), are each hereby authorized, subject to approval by the Corporation Counsel as to form and legality, to enter into, execute and deliver a Service Provider Agreement as authorized herein with Six Corners Association, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, as the Service Provider, for a one-year term in a form acceptable to such Authorized Officer, along with such other supporting documents, if any, as may be necessary to carry out and comply with the provisions of the Service Provider Agreement. The Budget shall be attached to the Service Provider Agreement as an exhibit. Upon the execution of the Service Provider Agreement and the receipt of proper documentation the Authorized Officer and the City Comptroller are each hereby authorized to disburse the sums appropriated in Section 2 above to the Service Provider in consideration for the provision of the Speciai Services described in the Budget. The Department of Planning and Development shall promptly make a copy of the executed Service Provider Agreement readily available for public inspection.

 

SECTION 6. Enforceability. If any section, paragraph or provision of this ordinance shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the invalidity or unenforceability of such section, paragraph or provision shall not affect any of the remaining provisions of this ordinance.

 

SECTION 7. Conflict. This ordinance shall control over any provision of any other ordinance, resolution, motion or order in conflict with this ordinance, to the extent of such conflict.

 

SECTION 8. Publication. This ordinance shall be published by the City Clerk, in special pamphlet form, and made available in her office for public inspection and distribution to members of the public who may wish to avail themselves of a copy of this ordinance.

 

SECTION 9. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect 10 days after its passage and publication.

 

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EXHIBIT A.

 

Budget

 

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Exhibit A Budget

 

 

Special Service Area #

28-2014

Service Provider Agency:

Six Corners Association

2018 BUDGET SUMMARY

Budget and Services Period: January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018

 

 

2017 Levy

 

CATEGORY

Collectable Levy

Estimated

Loss Collection

Carry Over

TIF Rebate Fund # 947

Estimated

Late Collections and Interest

Total All Sources 2018 Budget

1.00 Customer Attraction

(TOO COG

 

 

 

 

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2.00 Public Way Aesthetics

$88,776

$0

$18,991

$23,233

$0

$131,000

3.00 Sustainability and Public Places

$2,000

$0

$0

$0

$0

$2,000

4.00 Economic/ Business Development

$14,500

$0

$0

$0

$0

$14,500

5.00 Safety Programs

$6,000

$0

$0

$0

$0

$6,000

6.00 SSA Management

$14,900

$0

$0

$0

$0

$14,900

7.00 Personnel

$74,810

$0

 

$0

 

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Sub-total

; $299,521

$0

 

 

GRAND TOTALS

Levy Total

$299,521

$18,991

$23,233

$0

$341,745

 

LEVY ANALYSIS

Estimated 2017 EAV:

$42,500,720

Authorized Tax Rate Cap:

0.750%

Maximum Potential Levy limited by Rate Cap.

$318,755

Requested 2017 Levy Amount:

$299,521

Estimated Tax Rate to Generate 2017 Levy:

0.70%

 

 

OFFICE  OF  THE MAYOR

CITY OF CHICAGO

RAHM EMANUEL MAYOR

October 11,2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

At the request of the Commissioner of Planning and Development, 1 transmit herewith ordinances authorizing a scope of services, budget and management agreement for various Special Service Areas.

 

Your favorable consideration of these ordinances will be appreciated.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

Mayor

 

 

 

To the President and Members of the City Council:

 

Your Committee on Finance having had under consideration

 

An ordinance authorizing the imposition of a tax levy, the approval of the 2018 budget, and the approval of the Service Provider Agreement for Special Service Area Number 28-2014.

02017-7039 Amount to be levied: $299,521

 

 

 

 

 

 

Having had the same under advisement, begs leave to report and recommend that your Honorable Body pass the proposed Ordinance Transmitted Herewith

 

 

This recommendation was concurred in by                     (a(wva voce vote")

of members of the committee with                     dissenting vote(s£                     

 

(signed'

 

 

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted

Chairman