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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 69086: 21 IT C L>}. 113 West Mountain Street t t; `'r; rid 1'0 Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479) 575-8323 Ordinance: 6908 File Number: 2025-1547 AN ORDINANCE LEVYING A TAX ON THE REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, FOR THE YEAR 2025 FIXING THE RATE THEREOF AT 2.3 MILLS FOR GENERAL FUND OPERATIONS, 0.4 MILLS FOR THE FIREMEN'S PENSION AND RELIEF FUND, 0.4 MILLS FOR THE POLICEMEN'S PENSION AND RELIEF FUND, 2.5 MILLS FOR FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY OPERATIONS AND 1.2 MILLS FOR THE FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY EXPANSION; AND CERTIFYING THE SAME TO THE COUNTY CLERK OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS: Section 1: That a tax is hereby levied on the real and personal property within the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the year 2025 to be collected in 2026 for the following purposes at the following rates: REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Purpose Levy General Fund — Operations 2.3 mills Fayetteville Public Library - Operations 2.5 mills Fayetteville Public Library — Expansion 1.2 mills Policemen's Pension and Relief Fund 0.4 mills Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund 0.4 mills TOTAL 6.8 mills Section 2: That the real and personal property tax so levied and the rates provided therefor are hereby certified to the County Clerk of Washington County, Arkansas, to be placed in the tax book and collected in the same manner that the county and school district taxes are collected. Section 3: The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to file a certified copy of this Ordinance in the Office of the County Clerk for Washington County, Arkansas. Page 1 Ordinance: 6908 File Number: 2025-1547 PASSED and APPROVED on September 16, 2025 Approved: Molly Rawn, Mayor Attest: m= �FHVEiTEVIILE:v `v �9hA NSP : •i'a Kara Paxton, City Clerk Treasurer This publication was paid for by the City Clerk -Treasurer of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Amount Paid: $ 395.64 Page 2 CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE ARKANSAS MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2025 TO: Mayor Rawn and City Council THRU: Steven Dotson, Chief Financial Officer FROM: Kevin Springer, Budget Director SUBJECT: 2026 Millage Levy RECOMMENDATION: CITY COUNCIL MEMO 2025-1547 City staff recommends that City Council approve the millage levy ordinance which includes 0.4 mils for the Policemen's Pension and Relief Fund, 0.4 mils for the Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund, 3.7 mils for the Fayetteville Public Library, and 2.3 mils for General Fund operations. BACKGROUND: Each year the City must approve an ordinance to renew the levy of ad valorem taxes on real and personal property within the City. This request will provide for such levy on property assessed in 2025. As of August 1, 2025, the total assessed value of real and personal property located within the city limits of Fayetteville is approximately $2.8 billion. The assessed valuation comes before the Washington County Board of Equalization has made all changes to the County Assessors Abstract. DISCUSSION: City Council must approve a millage levy ordinance to continue collecting property taxes for the Policemen's and Firemen's Pension and Relief Funds. The funds are set at 0.4 mils for real property and 0.4 mils for personal property. A millage levy ordinance must also be approved for the operation of the Fayetteville Public Library. A millage levy for the library was first approved by voters on October 1, 2002 at 1.0 mil for real and personal property. On August 9, 2016, voters increased operations funding by 1.5 mils (for a total of 2.5 mils) and added 1.2 mils for bond debt service on the library expansion. The total levy is 3.7 mils, with the 1.2 mils ending when the bonds are retired. Finally, City staff is requesting that City Council approve a millage levy ordinance for General Fund operations in the amount of 2.3 mils for both real and personal property. The millage levy must be at Washington County in time to be included in their consolidated levy ordinance, which is anticipated to be approved at the November Quorum Court meeting. The deadline for receipt of the City's levy by the County is October 31 each year. The City levy will be added to the levies by Washington County, the various school districts, improvement districts and other cities within the County when the Washington County Quorum Court adopts its millage levy. Mailing address: 113 W. Mountain Street www.fayetteville-ar.gov Fayetteville, AR 72701 A summary of the millage request is below. • 2.3 mils for General Fund Operations. • 2.5 mils for the Fayetteville Public Library Operations • 1.2 mils for the Fayetteville Public Library Expansion • 0.4 mils for the Police Pension Fund • 0.4 mils for the Fire Pension Fund This keeps the millage rate at the same level as the current 2025 levy. BUDGET/STAFF IMPACT: The total of 6.8 mils funds the Policemen's and Firemen's Pension and Relief Funds, the Fayetteville Public Library operations and debt service, and the City's General Fund operations. ATTACHMENTS: 3. Staff Review Form, City Attorney - Scrivenors Error Memo Mailing address: 113 W. Mountain Street www.fayetteville-ar.gov Fayetteville, AR 72701 City of Fayetteville, Arkansas 113 West Mountain Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479) 575-8323 Legislation Text File #: 2025-1547 AN ORDINANCE LEVYING A TAX ON THE REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, FOR THE YEAR 2025 FIXING THE RATE THEREOF AT 2.3 MILLS FOR GENERAL FUND OPERATIONS, 0.4 MILLS FOR THE FIREMEN'S PENSION AND RELIEF FUND, 0.4 MILLS FOR THE POLICEMEN'S PENSION AND RELIEF FUND, 2.5 MILLS FOR FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY OPERATIONS AND 1.2 MILLS FOR THE FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY EXPANSION; AND CERTIFYING THE SAME TO THE COUNTY CLERK OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS: Section 1: That a tax is hereby levied on the real and personal property within the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the year 2025 to be collected in 2026 for the following purposes at the following rates: REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Purpose Levy General Fund — Operations 2.3 mills Fayetteville Public Library — Operations 2.5 mills Fayetteville Public Library — Expansion 1.2 mills Policemen's Pension and Relief Fund 0.4 mills Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund 0.4 mills TOTAL 6.8 mills Section 2: That the real and personal property tax so levied and the rates provided therefor are hereby certified to the County Clerk of Washington County, Arkansas, to be placed in the tax book and collected in the same manner that the county and school district taxes are collected. Section 3: The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to file a certified copy of this Ordinance in Page 1 Ordinance: 6908 File Number: 2025-1547 the Office of the County Clerk for Washington County, Arkansas. Page 2 Kevin Springer Submitted By City of Fayetteville Staff Review Form 2025-1547 Item ID 9/16/2025 City Council Meeting Date - Agenda Item Only N/A for Non -Agenda Item 8/26/2025 BUDGET & INFORMATION MGMT (133) Submitted Date Division / Department Action Recommendation: City staff recommends that City Council approve the millage levy ordinance which includes 0.4 mils for the Policemen's Pension and Relief Fund, 0.4 mils for the Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund, 3.7 mils for the Fayetteville Public Library, and 2.3 mils for General Fund operations. Account Number Project Number Budgeted Item? No Does item have a direct cost? No Is a Budget Adjustment attached? No Purchase Order Number: Change Order Number: Original Contract Number: Comments: Budget Impact: Fund Project Title Total Amended Budget $ - Expenses (Actual+Encum) $ - Available Budget Item Cost $ - Budget Adjustment $ - Remaining Budget V20221130 Previous Ordinance or Resolution # 6792 Approval Date: Additional Information Received Date Received: 09/17/2025 M M/D D/YYYY From: City Attorney Kit Williams Name & Title To: City Clerk's Office Name & Title Agenda Meeting Date: 09/16/2025 M M/D D/YYYY Agenda Item: C.1 Ex. 63, CA Civic Clerk Number: 2025-1547 Ex. 2025-994 41 DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY TO: City Clerk/Treasurer Kara Paxton i FROM: Kit Williams, City Attorney DATE: September 17, 2025 RE: Typo in levying ordinance Kit Williams City Attorney Blake Pennington Senior Assistant City Attorney Hannah Hungate Assistant City Attorney Stacy Barnes Paralegal There is a typo in the levying ordinance passed last night that needs to be corrected. The body of the ordinance which is the operative part of the ordinance and controls the effect of the ordinance is absolutely correct. It states: "Section 1: That a tax is hereby levied on the real and personal property within the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the year 2025 to be collected in 2026 for the following purposes at the following rates:..." Unfortunately, the title of the ordinance which should accurately describe the ordinance, but is subservient to the operative body of the ordinance, has a typo as follows: AN ORDINANCE LEVYING A TAX ON THE REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE FOR THE YEAR OF 2026 .... This should have said for the year of 2025 just like the operative section of the ordinance. This typo or scrivener's error needs to be corrected in Civic Clerk prior to the Mayor's signature and your attesting her signature and your transmittal of the levying ordinance to the Washington County Clerk. Please consider this legal memo as my request to correct the typo or scrivener's error that was committed by the City Attorney's Office which needs to be corrected before the ordinance can be transmitted to the Washington County Clerk's Office. Please let me know when this item has been unlocked so that I can correct this typo. Attached is the ordinance as it appears in Civic Clerk. �La City of Fayetteville, Arkansas 113 West Mountain Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 °? (479)575-8323 Legislation Text File #: 2025-1547 AN ORDINANCE LEVYING A TAX ON THE REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, FOR THE YEAR 2026 FIXING THE RATE THEREOF AT 2.3 MILLS FOR GENERAL FUND OPERATIONS, 0.4 MILLS FOR THE FIREMEN'S PENSION AND RELIEF FUND, 0.4 MILLS FOR THE POLICEMEN'S PENSION AND RELIEF FUND, 2.5 MILLS FOR FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY OPERATIONS AND 1.2 MILLS FOR THE FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY EXPANSION; AND CERTIFYING THE SAME TO THE COUNTY CLERK OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS: Section 1: That a tax is hereby levied on the real and personal property within the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the year 2025 to be collected in 2026 for the following purposes at the following rates: REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Purpose Lev General Fund — Operations 2.3 mills Fayetteville Public Library — Operations 2.5 mills Fayetteville Public Library — Expansion 1.2 mills Policemen's Pension and Relief Fund 0.4 mills Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund 0.4 mills TOTAL 6.8 mills Section 2: That the real and personal property tax so levied and the rates provided therefor are hereby certified to the County Clerk of Washington County, Arkansas, to be placed in the tax book and collected in the same manner that the county and school district taxes are collected. Section 3: The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to file a certified copy of this Ordinance in Page 1 Form v1 55 N\/\IdiAoama Account #: NWCL5004205 Company: CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE-CLERKS OFFI 113 W MOUNTAIN FAYETTEVILLE, AR 72701 Ad number #: 540677 PO #: Matter of. ORD 6908 AFFIDAVIT • STATE OF ARKANSAS Maria Hernandez -Lopez , do solemnly swear that I am the Legal Clerk of the NWA Democrat Gazette, a daily newspaper printed and published in WASHINGTONBENTON county, State of ARKANSAS; that I was so related to this publication at and during the publication of the annexed legal advertisement in the matter of: ORD 6908 Pending in the court, in said County, and at the dates of the several publications of said advertisement stated below, and that during said periods and at said dates, said newspaper was printed and had a bona fide circulation in said County, that said newspaper had been regularly printed and published in said county, and had a bona fide circulation therein for the period of one month before the date of the first publication of said advertisement; and that said advertisement was published in the regular daily issues of said newspaper as stated below. And that there is due or has been paid the NWA Democrat Gazette for publication the sum of $395.64. (Includes $0.00 Affidavit Charge). NWA Democrat Gazette 09121125 Legal C l c State of ARKANSAS, County of Sebastian Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 22nd day of September. 2025 _-s•� i NOT BLIC IF • SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 21 2025 A To place an ad AI 1-866-296-3666 V+rm+w �sr Antia Daromt �'t5ue11a x E a m z' �i n F WASHINGTON COUNTY STATE OF ARKANSAS Washington County Courthouse 280 North College Avenue. Suite 300 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 Telephone: (479) 444-1711 Fax: (479) 444-1994 BECKY LEWALLEN County And Probate Derk City Clerk rn Dear Clerk: = `°: ~► ± # Please submit the tax le,.ry figures for your Cite for the year 2025. The QuoruA�t nests o>h'° ' November 20th. I need this information by the end of October. Please give us thapp " levt figur "`"F and complete breakdown of tax in the space provided belov. . This information nlunl'�bdro$Med on� this form. m Sincere]y yours. Becky Lewallen Washington County Clerk TO7 AL 6.8 MILLS BREAKDO'A"NGeneral Fund - Operations 2.3 - Mills Fayetteville Public Library - Operations - 2.5 Mills Fayetteville Public Library Expansion -1.2 Mills Policemen's Pension & Relief Fund - 0.4 Mills Firemen's Pension & Relief Fund - 0.4 Mills (O� Y C—, f 0 - - G rh et Folclte -', Ilse A(c SIGNATURE AND TITLE OF PERSON At TO St'BMIT TAX