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ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE 10102 LEVYING A TAX TO FUND THE CITY'S PARK FUND AND SETTING FORTH THE PROCESS APPLICABLE THERETO, SUBJECT TO REFERENDUM PROVIDED FOR IN LAWS OF MINNESOTA, 1953, CHAPTER 560, SECTION 1.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
The city of Duluth does ordain:
Section 1. That Section 2 of Ordinance 10102 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 2. That pursuant to the authority contained in Laws of Minnesota, 1953, Chapter 560, Section 1, there is hereby established a special levy against the referendum market value of all real property in the city of Duluth subject to the following:
(a) The amount of said levy shall be $2,600,000 a fixed rate of .0472654% on the referendum market value of all taxable property within the city per year for each year commencing with the first tax levy adopted after this ordinance becomes effective;
(b) The proceeds of said levy shall be used for the purpose of providing a dedicated funding source for parks and recreation facilities, recreation activities, and implementation of the concepts addressed in the most recent Duluth parks and recreation master plan approved by the City Council dated December 2010;
(c) Said levy shall be certified to the St. Louis County auditor for collection with other taxes levied against said property and shall be collected by the county auditor in the same manner as other general taxes levied against such property;
(d) The fixed rate levy of .0472654% will be effective until December 31, 2047.
(e) The proceeds of said levy shall be allocated and distributed for allowable purposes within the parks fund by the city council in the manner prescribed for other expenditures of city funds;
(f) Any proceeds of said levy determined to have been erroneously paid shall be refunded to the taxpayer who paid them.
Section 3. This ordinance shall not take effect until its passage and publication and until approved by a majority of electors voting in the genera...
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