Explanation
This resolution appoints an Assessment Equalization Board to hear objections that have been made to the assessment for the Discovery Special Improvement District and to declare an emergency.
Chapter 1710 of the Ohio Revised Code governs the creation and operation of special improvement districts. Section 1710.06 provides that each participating political subdivision shall levy, by special assessment upon specially benefited property located within a special improvement district, the costs of any public improvements or public services plan contained in a petition approved by the participating political subdivisions, and also that the levy shall be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Chapter 727 of the Revised Code. That section further provides that all rights and privileges of property owners who are assessed under Chapter 727 shall be granted to property owners assessed under Chapter 1710, including those rights and privileges specified in sections 727.15 to 727.17. Those sections, in turn, provide for the right of assessed property owners to object to the assessment and for the appointment of an assessment equalization board to hear any objections and make a report to the legislative authority. Such an objection having been filed to the assessment to be collected for the Discovery Improvement District, it is necessary to establish an assessment equalization board.
Fiscal Impact: No funding is needed for this legislation.
Title
To establish an Assessment Equalization Board to hear the objections to the assessment for the Discovery Special Improvement District and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Clerk's Office in that it is immediately necessary to appoint an Assessment Equalization Board to hear objections to the assessment for the Discovery Special Improvement District, as required by Chapter 1710 of the Ohio Revised Code and for the immediate preservation of the public property, peace, health, and safety; now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That Trent Smith, David Paul, and Annie Womack, disinterested freeholders of the City of Columbus, Ohio be and they are hereby appointed an Assessment Equalization Board to hear all objections to the estimated assessments to be collected for the Discovery Special Improvement District.
The Board shall report to this Council its recommendations including any changes which should be made in the estimated assessment.
Said hearing will be held in the City Council Chambers at 5:00 P.M. on June 18, 2015.
SECTION 2. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part of hereof, this resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its adoption and approval by the Mayor or ten days after adoption if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.