Title
Incorporated County of Los Alamos Ordinance No. 684, an Ordinance Amending the Delayed Repeal of the County Regional Transit Gross Receipts Tax and Reauthorizing the Tax.
Recommended Action
I move that Council adopt Incorporated County of Los Alamos Ordinance No. 684, an Ordinance Amending the Delayed Repeal of the County Regional Transit Gross Receipts Tax and Reauthorizing the Tax; I further move that, upon passage, the Ordinance be published in summary form.
County Manager's Recommendation
The County Administrator recommends that Council adopt Incorporated County of Los Alamos Ordinance No. 684.
Board, Commission or Committee Recommendation
The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) has passed a resolution calling for this action.
Body
The County is part of the NCRTD and has adopted Ordinance 534 which imposes a 1/8% GRT increment for the operation of the NCRTD. That ordinance has a delayed repeal clause which states that the ordinance would be repealed in 2024. The ordinance being introduced, No. 684, amends Ordinance 534 by replacing the existing repeal clause with the following:
Ordinance Number 534 is reauthorized at the current rate one eighth of one percent (.125%) in perpetuity (if it becomes law).
This effectively removes that sunset provision and the increment will stay in place until otherwise changed by members of the district.
The "(if it becomes law)" portion is included because the ordinance is not effective until approved by a majority of voters in the district. A separate ordinance, No. 685, would call for that election locally.
The governing State statute is included below for reference.
7-20E-23. County regional transit gross receipts tax; authority to impose; rate; election required.
A. Upon a request by resolution of the board of directors of a regional transit district, a majority of the members of the governing body of each county that is within the district shall impose by identical ordinances an e...
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