City Council
259 N. Wilma Avenue
Ripon, CA 95366
MEMO
To: Honorable City Council
From: Lisa Roos, City Clerk & Finance Director
Date: 07/09/2024
Subject: Amount of money raised by taxation
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Staff is requesting that Council waive the reading and adopt this ordinance.
Per Government Code Section 36937, this ordinance will take effect immediately because it relates to “taxes for the usual and current expense of the City.” BACKGROUND:
This is an annual ordinance required to certify the 2024/2025 appropriation limits also known as the GANN limits.
In essence, it is saying that the taxes that we collect are below the ceiling that we are allowed to collect based upon the rates set by Proposition 4 passed in 1979.
ORDINANCE NO. 927
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RIPON FIXING THE
AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BE RAISED BY TAXATION AND
THE RATE OR RATES OF TAX THEREFORE NECESSARY
TO CARRY ON THE VARIOUS FUNCTIONS AND
DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY OF RIPON AND REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH
The City Council of the City of Ripon does ordain as follows:
Section 1: It is hereby found, determined and declared that the amount of money to be raised by taxation of all property in the City of Ripon, subject to taxation for municipal purposes, necessary to carry on the various departments of the City of Ripon is as follows:
For General Fund: $-0-
For Planning Department: $-0-
A total sum of: $-0-
Section 2: For the purposes named in Section 1 hereof, taxes for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, are hereby levied on all property in the City of Ripon, subject to municipal taxation at the following rates on each ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) of the assess valuation thereof as assessed and equalized by the County of San Joaquin, State of California, as follows:
For General Fund at a rate: $-0-
A total tax rate of: $-0-
Section 3: It is further ordered that for the purposes outlined in Section 1 hereof for defraying the lawful expenses incurred by the Planning Department in carrying out a planning program in the City of Ripon, the following rate on each ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) of assessed valuation thereof as assessed and equalized by the County of San Joaquin, State of California, as follows:
For the Planning Department of the City of Ripon $-0-
A total tax rate of: $-0-
Section 4: It is further ordered that for maintenance and costs for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2024, of the combined District consisting of the former Ripon Municipal Sewer District No. 1 and the Ripon Sanitary District, now designated and merged into one District known as Ripon Municipal Sewer District No. 1 of the City of Ripon, that the following rate on each ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) of assessed valuation thereof, as assessed and equalized by the County of San Joaquin,
State of California be fixed as follows:
For the Municipal Sewer District No. 1 of the City of
Ripon maintenance and costs at a tax rate of: $-0-
Section 5: The City Clerk of the City of Ripon hereby certifies that the 2024/2025 appropriation limit of the City of Ripon is hereby determined to be the sum of TWENTYTHREE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED NINETY-SIX DOLLARS AND NO CENTS ($23,298,996.00) and the 2024/2025 appropriation subject to appropriation limitations is the sum of NINE MILLION, SIX HUNDRED TWENTYFOUR THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND NO CENTS ($9,624,187.00).
Section 6: The City Clerk of the City of Ripon shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and cause the same to be published in the newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Ripon, and it shall take effect and be in full force immediately as a taxing ordinance of the City of Ripon.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Ripon this 9th day of July, 2024, by the following vote:
RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Daniel de Graaf, Vice Mayor
SECONDER:Michael Restuccia, Council Member
AYES: Zuber, de Graaf, Barton, Uecker, Restuccia
THE CITY OF RIPON,
A Municipal Corporation
By _______________________________
LEO ZUBER, Mayor
ATTEST:
By: ___________________________
LISA ROOS, City Clerk