(a)   Fund Established. In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 65, 1985 Session Laws of Kansas, there is hereby established a municipal equipment reserve fund, which shall be used by the City to finance the acquisition of equipment necessary for the performance of various functions and services of the City. For the purpose of this section, the word “equipment” shall mean machinery, vehicles and other equipment or personal property which has an estimated future purchase or replacement cost in excess of ($5,000.00) and a life expectancy of not less than three (3) years.

(b)   Policy Objective. It is the policy objective of the Governing Body that such equipment reserve fund shall be used as a financing mechanism to secure the planned and orderly acquisition and replacement of equipment necessary for the efficient and effective operation of the City. It is the further intent of the Governing Body to annually approve in the future the budgeting of current revenues sufficient (a) to finance the acquisition of new equipment needed in the following year, and (b) to finance needed future replacements and acquisitions by setting aside a reserve amount. It is the planned intent of the Governing Body that the amount annually reserved shall be not less than the current use value of existing city equipment covered by the reserve fund.

(c)   Plan of Operation.

(1)   The City Clerk shall prepare a plan of operation for the implementation of this section and for the achievement of the policy objectives of the Governing Body.

(2)   In the year 1992, the City Clerk shall include in the proposed budget for 1993 an amount sufficient to cover necessary 1993 equipment acquisition costs, plus an amount approximately equal to the average annual expenditures of the City for equipment purchases during the past five (5) years.

(3)   Beginning in 1993, the City Clerk shall annually submit, at the same time the proposed annual budget is submitted, a proposed equipment acquisition program for each of the following three (3) years. The proposed budget shall include an amount sufficient to finance proposed equipment acquisitions for the following year, plus an amount to be reserved as set forth in the annually revised and extended equipment acquisition program.

(d)   Investing. Moneys in the equipment reserve fund shall be invested in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 10-131 and amendments thereto with interest earnings credited to each fund.

(Ord. 574)

(a)   The Governing Body of the City of Hanover, Kansas has determined that it would be in the best interest of the community to establish a trust fund to be used solely for the purpose of constructing, improving, maintaining, equipping and operating a Senior Citizens Center to be known in perpetuity as the “Kloppenberg Center” at the corner of North and Highland Streets in the City.

(b)   There is hereby created in the treasury of the City a fund to be known as the Senior Citizens Center Fund. No tax or revenue funds of the City will ever be transferred to the fund. All earnings on investment of the fund will be added to the fund.

(c)   The Governing Body is hereby authorized to accept contributions from one or more donors to be deposited in the Senior Citizens Center Fund upon the condition that the funds in the account and interest earned thereon will be used solely for the construction, improvement, maintenance, equipping and operation of the Senior Citizens Center. No part of the funds will ever be used for any other purpose.

(Ord. 575)

(a)   The costs of certain improvements authorized under Chapter 12, Article 6a of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and the amendments thereto shall be apportioned as follows:

(1)   Street improvements: For street improvements initiated by the action of the governing body or by petition, including but not limited to paving, curbing, guttering and intersection work which confers a special benefit upon property within a definable area of the city, the cost of such improvements shall be assessed equally, either equally per square foot against all such lots and pieces of land within such improvement district or assessed against such property according to the value of said lots and pieces of land therein, such value to be determined by the governing body of the City of Hanover, Kansas, with regard or without regard to the buildings and improvements thereon or said cost may be determined and fixed on the basis of any other reasonable assessment plan which will result in the imposing equal burdens or shares of the cost upon property similarly benefited.

(2)   Storm Sewer Improvements: For storm sewer improvements initiated by the action of the governing body or by petition, which confer a special benefit upon property within a definable area of the city, the cost of such improvements shall be assessed equally, either within such improvement district or assessed against such property according to the value of said lots and pieces of land therein, such value to be determined by the governing body of the City of Hanover, Kansas, with or without regard to the buildings or improvements thereon or said cost may be determined and fixed on the basis of any other reasonable assessment plan which will result in imposing substantially equal burdens or shares of the cost upon property similarly benefited.

(3)   Water or Sanitary Sewer Line Improvements: For water or sanitary sewer line improvements initiated by the action of the governing body or by petition which confer a special benefit upon property within a definable area of the city, the cost of such improvement shall be assessed equally either equally per square foot against all such lots and pieces of land within such improvement district or assessed against such property according to the value of said lots and pieces of land therein, such value to be determined by the governing body of the City of Hanover, Kansas, with or without regard to the buildings or improvements thereon or said cost may be determined and fixed on the basis of any other reasonable assessment plan which will result in imposing equal burdens or shares of the cost upon property similarly benefited.

(4)   Sidewalk Improvements: For sidewalk improvements initiated by the action of the governing body or by petition which confer a special benefit upon property within a definable area of the city, the cost of such improvements shall be assessed equally either equally per square foot against all such lots and pieces of land within such improvement district or assessed against such property according to the value of said lots and pieces of land therein, such value to be determined by the governing body of the City of Hanover, Kansas, with or without regard to the buildings and improvements thereon or said cost may be determined and fixed on the basis of any other reasonable assessment plan which will result in imposing equal burdens or shares of the cost upon property similarly benefited.

(5)   For any other municipal works or improvements initiated by the governing body or by petition, and mentioned in Chapter 12, Article 6a of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and the amendments thereto, other than culvert improvements, which confer a special benefit upon property within a definable area of the city, the apportionment, if any of the City of Hanover, Kansas, but the City may in no event pay more than ninety-five per cent (95%) of the total cost of such improvements.

(b)   This section is intended to cover the apportionment of costs involved in street, storm sewer, water and sanitary sewer line improvements, sidewalk improvements as well as any other improvements (other than culvert improvements), authorized under 12-6a01 et. seq., of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and the amendments thereto, which confer a special benefit upon property within a definable area of the City, but is not intended to prohibit the making of such improvement or the adoption of an assessment plan under statutory authority other than that above set forth.

(c)   This section as it pertains to improvements and to the apportionment of the costs of said improvements shall supersede any prior existing ordinances concerning improvements authorized herein and the apportionment of the costs thereof and shall control to the extent the provisions of this section conflict with any prior existing ordinances relating to improvements initiated by the City of Hanover, Kansas, or by petition, pursuant to statutory authority authorized by this section, for which special assessments are to be levied. Where such a conflict exists between this section and a prior existing ordinance as it relates to the subject matter herein, the effect shall be to repeal that portion of the ordinance in conflict herein.

(Ord. 517)