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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2131• ORDINANCE NO. /8/ AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Angeles providing for a reduction in contri- butions to the Perpetual Care Fund, establishing procedures for periodic analysis of the Endowment Care Fund, and amending Sections II(a), TI(h), II(c) and III of Ordinance 1864 and Sections 3.20.010 through 3.20.040 of the Port Angeles Municipal Code. WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1864 established a Cemetery Fund and a Perpetual Care Fund in the City Treasury; and, WHEREAS, the purposes for which the Cemetery Fund were created are now assumed by the Parks and Recreation Department Budget in the Municipal General Fund; and, WHEREAS, the Pepetual Care Fund was created to provide funds for the perpetual care of the Ocean View Cemetery once said cemetery was filled to capacity; and, WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the present irreducible fund balance in the Perpetual Care Fund invested in safe invest- ments will provide sufficient earnings to provide perpetual care when the facility reaches capacity. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles as follows: Section 1. Section II(a) of Ordinance No. 1864, and Section 3.20.010 of the Port Angeles Municipal Code are hereby amended to read as follows: Creation. There is hereby created in the treasury of the City a fund to be designated as the "Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund." Said fund is comprised of receipts from the sale of cemetery lots, tracts, parcels, donations, bequests, or grants received or allocated prior to April 1, 1981. Section 2. Section II(b) of Ordinance No. 1864 and Section 3.20.020 are each amended to read as follows: Use of Fund. The principal of the Cemetery Prepetual Care shall be irreducible and shall be invested in safe invest- ments until the present cemetery is filled to capacity. Thereafter, these earnings shall be used for the perpetual care of the lots, tracts or parcels of land so sold. • • Section 3. Section II(c) of Ordinance 1864 and Section 3.20.030 of the Port Angeles Municipal Code are amended to read as follows: Maintenance Until Fund Maturity. Funds for the maintenance of the Ocean View Cemetery shall be paid for from the Parks and Recreation Department Budget of the Current Expense Fund, until such time as the earnings of the Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund become available for this purpose as provided by Section 2 of this ordinance. Section 4. Section III of Ordinance 1864 and Section 3.20.040 of the Port Angeles Municipal Code are each amended to read as follows: Additions to Perpetual Care Fund. (1) The City Council may, from time to time, place addi- tional funds in the Perpetual Care Fund from sources which may be designated for Perpetual Care purposes. (2) (a) The City Council may establish an on -going alloca- tion to the Perpetual Care Fund if, in its opinion, the current or future earnings of the Perpetual Care Fund are not sufficient to provide on -going funds for maintenance of the cemetery once it is filled to capacity. (b) The determination to establish an on -going alloca- tion to the care fund shall be made after financial analysis which shall include the following considera- tions: 1) a forecast of the service life of the cemetery made by examining past and future sales trends in lots, parcels, etc., and an estimate of the developed and undeveloped lots remaining to be sold in the ceme- tery; 2) an estimate of the year at which capacity will be attained in the cemetery, computed by comparing fore- casted sales rate to the number of developed and un- developed lots remaining to be sold; 3) an analysis of the estimated future value of the care fund using cur- rent and estimated earnings rates through the year at which capacity will be attained; 4) an estimate of the care funds earning potential after capacity is reached; 5) any other actuarial data pertinent to the analysis. Section 5. This ordinance shall take effect April 1, 1981. PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles at a regular meeting held on the 3,, day of A,tpl� , 1981. ■ ATTEST: Marian C. Parrish, City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: Miller, City Attorney ISHED: V)isze-,C /42, .98i