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HomeMy WebLinkAboutresolution.council.128A-22AMENDED RESOLUTION NO. 128-A (SERIES OF 2022) AN AMENDED RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO SETTING THE 2022 MUNICIPAL MILL LEVY RATES AND CERTIFYING SAME TO TIIE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR PITKIN COUNTY. WHEREAS, the City Manager, designated by Charter to prepare the budget, has prepared and submitted to the Mayor and City Council the Annual Budget for the City of Aspen, Colorado for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2023 and ending December 31, 2023; and WHEREAS, the net assessed valuation of the taxable property for the year 2022 in the City of Aspen returned by the County Assessor of Pitkin County was certified on November 22, 2022, is the sum of $2,008,903,130; and WHEREAS, the net assessed valuation of taxable property in Aspen decreased approximately 0.3% between 2021 and 2022 assessment years; and WHEREAS, under section 9.9 of its Home Rule Charter, the City of Aspen shall constitute a levy of the property taxes incorporated into its adopted budget; and WHEREAS, a general purpose mill levy has been established at an amount not to exceed 5.410 mills, and is calculated to produce gross ad valorem tax proceeds in the amount of $10,868,166 for collection year 2023; based upon the assessed valuation as determined by the County Assessor, and WHEREAS, a temporary reduction in general property tax collections is desired by the City Council in order to reduce the tax burden on owners of taxable property within the City of Aspen while preserving the City's ability to increase property taxes to levels previously authorized by City of Aspen voters as described above, and WHEREAS, C.R.S. section 39-1-111.5 authorizes a local government to certify a refund in the form of a temporary property tax credit or a temporary mill levy rate reduction, provided that the certification includes the gross mill levy, the temporary property tax credit or temporary mill levy rate reduction expressed in mill levy equivalents, and the net mill levy and under C.R.S. section 39-1-111.5(4), the Assessor shall, concurrent with delivery of tax warrants to the Treasurer, itemize duly certified temporary property tax credits or temporary mill levy rate reductions in the manner set forth in C.R.S. section 39-1-111.5(2), and under C.R.S. section 39-1-111.5(5) the tax statements shall indicate by footnote which local government mill levies reflect a temporary property tax credit or temporary mill levy rate reduction for the purpose of effecting a refund; and WHEREAS, voter approval on November 6, 2007 established the separate City's Stormwater Fund mill levy rate at an amount not to exceed 0.650 mils upon each dollar of assessed valuation on all taxable property within the City annually with no date of expiration, permitting collection of property tax revenues in excess of the mill levy limitation provided in Article X, Section 20 or the Colorado Constitution for property tax collection in all future years beginning in 2008; and WHEREAS, said mill levy rate is calculated to produce gross ad valorem tax proceeds in the amount of $1,305,787 for collection year 2023; based upon the net assessed valuation of the City of Aspen as determined by the County Assessor. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ASPEN, Colorado hereby approves and adopts the following: SECTION 1 For the purpose of balancing the 2023 budget, and providing a reasonable closing fund balance for said fiscal year, levies the following taxes upon each dollar of the total valuation for assessment of all taxable property within the City of Aspen for the year 2022; that a temporary mill levy rate reduction is authorized; and that the individual mill levies are expressed in terms of the gross mill levy, the temporary mill levy rate reduction shown in mill levy equivalents, and the net mill levy as shown below, which includes a temporary credit of 1.069 mills for the General Purpose mill levy: 2023 Temporary 2023 Mill Lev 2023 Tax Rate Credit Rate General Property Tax 5.410 1.069 4.341 Stormwater Fund _ 0.650 0.000 0.650 Total 6.060 1.069 4.991 2022 Assessed Updated Mill 2023 Property Valuation Levy Rate Tax General Fund $2,008,903,130 2.171 $4,361,329 Asset Management Fund $2,008,903,130 2.170 $4,359,320 Total General Mill Levy 4.341 $8,720,648 Total Stormwater Mill Levy $2,008,903,130 0.650 $1,305,787 Refund/Abatements $2,008,903,130 0.013 $26,116 Total 2023 Property Tax 5.004 $10,052,551 SECTION 2 The City is hereby directed to ccrtify and dclivcr this Amended Resolution to the Board of County Commissioners for Pitkin County on or before December 15, 2022. AMENDED AND RE -ADOPTED THIS 6th day of December 2022, Torre, Mayor I, Nicole Henning, duly appointed and acting City Clerk of the City of Aspen, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of this Amended Resolution #128, adopted by the City Council at its meeting held on December 6, 2022, which Amended Resolution was adopted subsequent to public hearings on the City of Aspen's 2023 Municipal Budget and prior to the final day established by law for the certification of the tax levy to Pitkin County, all was required by the Sections 9.8 and 9.9 of the Aspen Home Rule Charter. U-6 Nicole Henning, City Clerk