57-25 2026 TRANSPO Budget Appropriation and Property Tax Levy

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Filed in Clerk's Office BILL NO. 57-25 Bianca Tirado ORDINANCE NO. City Clerk, South Bend, IN AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA,APPROPRIATING, ADOPTING AND APPROVING THE SOUTH BEND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION'S 2026 BUDGET AND LEVYING THE TAX AND FIXING THE RATE OF THE TAXATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING REVENUE TO FUND THE SOUTH BEND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2026 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT Pursuant to Indiana law, the South Bend Public Transportation Corporation is required to submit its proposed budget and tax levy to the Common Council of the City of South Bend for adoption. Specifically, Indiana Code § 6-1.1-17-20 requires that the South Bend Public Transportation Corporation, as a political subdivision governed by a majority of unelected officials, submit its proposed budget and property tax levy to the Common Council of the City of South Bend. Pursuant to Indiana Code § 6-1.1-17-20(e), the Common Council of the City of South Bend is required to review the South Bend Public Transportation Corporation's budget and proposed tax levy and adopt a final budget and tax levy for the South Bend Public Transportation Corporation. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, as follows: SECTION I. The South Bend Public Transportation Corporation's budget for the year ending December 31, 2026, in the sum of$13,532,365, as shown in the budget filed with the Common Council on September 3,2025, and attached to this Ordinance as Exhibit A, is appropriated, adopted, approved and ordered set apart out of the several funds herein named and for the purposes herein specified, subject to the laws governing the same. Such sums herein appropriated shall be held to include all expenditures authorized to be made during the year,unless otherwise expressly stipulated and provided for by law. By adoption of and consistent with this Ordinance, the State-mandated Budget Form No. 4 attached to this Ordinance as Exhibit B is hereby approved and adopted. SECTION II. For the purpose of raising revenue to meet the necessary expenses of the South Bend Public Transportation Corporation, there shall be levied a property tax upon each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation of taxable property within the City of South Bend, Indiana, for the fiscal year 2025 to be collected in the year 2026, as shown and described in Exhibit B. SECTION III. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Common Council of the City of South Bend and approved by the Mayor.