AMENDMENT TO BILL NO. 17 – 2011

Final Reading – July 19, 2011

Proposed by Council Member DiGiacinto

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BETHLEHEM,

COUNTIES OF LEHIGH AND NORTHAMPTON,

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, AMENDING

THE TAX ORDINACE FOR THE YEAR 2011.

That the following paragraph in SECTION 1 which reads as follows:

For the construction of an EMS facility and acquisition of a fire pumper, the

sum of seventy-five hundreds (.75) mills on each dollar of assessed value

[or the sum of seven and five tenths (7.50) cents on each one hundred dollars

of assessed valuation]; The sum of seventy-five hundreds (.75) mills on each

dollar of assessed value (or the sum of seven and five tenths (7.50) cents on

each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation] shall be placed in a separate

bank account, to be controlled by City Council under a line item in City

Council’s Budget, separated and segregated from all other monies, entitled

EMS Facility/Fire Pumper and shall not be co-mingled with any other monies

whatsoever. All disbursements from this EMS Facility/Fire Pumper account

shall be subject to City Council approval prior to disbursement to assure that

these funds are utilized for the construction of an EMS facility and

acquisition of a fire pumper only.

be amended to read as follows:

For the construction of an EMS facility and acquisition of a fire pumper, the

sum of seventy-five hundreds (.75) mills on each dollar of assessed value [or the

sum of seven and five tenths (7.50) cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation]; The total dollar amount of the sum of seventy-five hundreds (.75) mills

on each dollar of assessed value (or the sum of seven and five tenths (7.50) cents on

each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation] received for this purpose from

the Taxes for the year 2011 effective from January 1, 2011shall be placed in

a separate bank account, to be controlled by City Council under a line item in City Council’s Budget, separated and segregated from all other monies, entitled EMS Facility/Fire Pumper, within two business days after passage of this Ordinance,

and shall not be co-mingled with any other monies whatsoever. All disbursements

from this EMS Facility/Fire Pumper account shall be subject to City Council approval

prior to disbursement to assure that these funds are utilized for the construction of

an EMS facility and acquisition of a fire pumper only.

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