8.6 Support Senate Bill 165 CITY OF SALINA
REQUEST FOR CONNISSION ACTION DATE TIME
2/27/8~ ~:oo P.M.
AGENDA SECTION: Administration ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT: APPROVED FOR
NO. 8 -:~ City Manager AGENDA:
ITEM
NO. 6
BY:
Dennis Kissinger BY: ~
Consideration of Statement of Support For Kansas Senate Bill No. 165
Back~round:
This proposed legislation amends KSA 27-319, concerning the Salina Airport
Authority. The S.A.A. has held tax-exempt status as a public entity and political
subdivision since its inception in lg65. The State Board of Tax Appeals has
recently noted some lack of clarity in the statute relating to the S.A.A. This
amendment clarified the language so as to ensure the continued tax-exempt status of
Airport authority property. It is a clarification and neither adds nor takes away
anything from the status of the past 23 years.
Action:
Motion to authorize a letter of support for Senate Bill No. 165.
COMMISSION ACTION
HOTION BY SECOND BY
TO:
SENATE BILL No. 165
By Senator Vidricksen
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16 AN ACT concerning airport authorities; amending K.S.A. 27-319 and
17 repealing the existing secUon.
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Be it ~nucted by the Legislature of the State of Kan.~as:
19 Section 1. K.S.A. 27-319 is hereby amended to read as follows:
20 27-319. (a) The governing body of any city to which this act applies
21 is hereby authorized to establish and create, by adoption of an ap-
22 propriate ordinance tiring this act, an authority as herein provided
23 to acquire, own, maintain, operate, improve, develop, lease and
24 dispose of property in furtherance of the provisions of this act. An
25 authority created hereunde~ shall have all of the powers, and only
26 the powers, prescribed by this act. Such authority shall be a body
27 corporate and poliUe consUtuting a public corporation and a tax-
28 supported institution, agency and organizaUo~:nun ............ .~.A~! t._..c
" '~ Such authority shall be exempt
30 'from the payment of costs, damages, charges, taxes and fees es
&-~ ~ t~ '~: :'-'.~' levied by any other political or taxing subdtvbton'
32 of the state. Such authority shall be managed and controlled by a
33 board of directors consisting of five (~ directors to be appointed by
34 the governing body of the city. The original board of directors of
35 the authority shall be appointed at the time of the creation of the
36 authority
~':_ e~e e/:---'-'d. One of such directors shall be appointed
37 for a term of three (~ years, two for a term of two (~) years and
38 two for a term of one (4-) year, with the term of office of each such
39 director to commence on the date of kie e~ ke~ appointment
40 Each of :.~--'-?. the directors shall serve until the expiration of k/e
4~ .t..~.: such person*s term and until h/e e~ ..c.- a successor is appointed.
42 The governing body of the city shall appoint successors to the original
43 and succeeding directors as the respective term of each expires, each
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44 of whom shall serve for a term of three (4~) years and until ?-'~ o~
4~ ~cr a successor is appointed. No director shall serve as a director
46 for more than eight (~) consecutive years. Vacancies shall be filled
47 for unexpired terms.' Any director may be removed by a majority
46 vote of the governing body of the city from office for reasonable
49 cause. The directors shall not be compensated for services rendered
50 as such directors but shall be reimbursed in carrying out their duties
51 as such directors.
52 (b) Upon the creation of an authority hereunder, the governing
53 body of the city shall transfer all property and any funds belonging
54 to the city or to which the city may ~c:cA~.,~c: be entitled, which
55 are to be used for or are necessary for the operation of a public
56 airport, to the authority created hereunder.
57 Sec. 2. K.S.A. 27-319 is hereby repealed.
58 Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
59 its publication in the statute book.