Transportation Services Special Service Tax Levy By-law No. 5392 — full text

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## OBJECTIVES The objectives of this By-law are to: - authorize the Transportation Services Special Service Plan for the years 2025 to 2029 inclusive - : establish the authority to levy a Transportation Services Special Service tax annually establish the properties to which the Transportation Services Special Service Tax Levy will apply ## INDEX 1. By-law Title 2. Transportation Services Special Service Established and Plan No. 2025-01 Approved 3. Schedule "A" To Form Part of By-law 4. Schedule "B" To Form Part of By-law 5. Authority to Levy Special Service Tax 6. Annual Tax Levy By-law to Set Mill Rate 7. Municipal Board Review and Approval 8. Chief Administrative Officer Delegated Authority 9. By-law Review 10. Severability 11. Sunset 12. Effective Date 13. 13. 14. Authority The Council of the City of Selkirk enacts as follows: ## BY-LAW TITLE This By-law shall be known as the Transportation Services Special Service Tax Levy By-law. ## 2. TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SPECIAL SERVICE ESTABLISHED AND PLAN NO. 2025-01 APPROVED - 2.1 The City shall hereby establish Transportation Services as a Special Service. - 2.2 The Transportation Services Special Service Plan No. 2025-01 is hereby approved. ## SCHEDULE "A" TO FORM PART OF BY-LAW The Transportation Services Special Service Plan No. 2025-01, attached as Schedule "A", shall form part of this By-law. TITLE: TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SPECIAL SERVICE TAX LEVY BY-LAW NUMBER: 5392 PREAMBLE: TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SPECIAL SERVICE TAX LEVY DATE PASSED: JUNE 23, 2025 ## 4. SCHEDULE "B" TO FORM PART OF BY-LAW The Transportation Services Special Service Plan No. 2025-01 List of Excluded Properties, attached as Schedule "B", shall form part of this By-law. ## 5. AUTHORITY TO LEVY SPECIAL SERVICE TAX A Transportation Services Special Service Tax shall be levied annually, in 2025 to 2029 inclusive. ## 6. ANNUAL TAX LEVY BY-LAW TO SET MILL RATE The City of Selkirk's Tax Levy By-law shall establish the Transportation Services Special Service Tax Levy Mill Rate annually, in 2025 to 2029 inclusive. ## 7. MUNICIPAL BOARD REVIEW AND APPROVAL This By-law shall be subject to review and approval from The Municipal Board. ## 8. CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER DELEGATED AUTHORITY - 8.1 The Chief Administrative Officer is delegated the authority to, at their discretion, make regulations, policies, procedures and practices, initiate works, and establish fees and charges that they consider necessary to implement and carry out the purpose and responsibilities of this By-law. Such Chief Administrative Officer actions may refine and clarify clauses of this By-Law to ensure its practical application. - 8.2 The Chief Administrative Officer may use a reasonable interpretation of this By-Law to address specific situations where literal application of this By-Law may be inconsistent with its intention provided such interpretation is equitably and consistently applied. ## BY-LAW REVIEW This By-law shall not be subject to the By-law Review Schedule. ## 10. SEVERABILITY The invalidity of any provisions of this By-law with an Act or Regulation in force in the Province of Manitoba or a decision of Court, shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provisions of this By-law, which shall remain in full force and effect. ## 11. SUNSET This By-law shall continue in force and effect until December 31, 2029 after which this By-law shall be a record of the Corporation and has no other effect. ## 12. EFFECTIVE DATE The effective date of this By-law shall be the day after it is passed. ## 13. AUTHORITY The Municipal Act provides, in part, as follows: - 312 If approved by by-law, a municipality may provide, as a special service to all or part of a municipality, one or more of the following: - (a) highway construction and maintenance; - (b) snow removal and dust control; - (c) tree planting or control of a plant or tree disease; - (d) grass and weed cutting and control; - (h) street lighting; - (k) drainage construction and maintenance; - 320(1) Subject to subsections (2) to (6) and subsection 321(4), a council may by by- - (a) approve the local improvement or special service as set out in the plan or proposal; and - (b) authorize the municipality to impose taxes as set out in the plan or proposal. - 320(4) Before giving third reading to a proposed by-law to approve a local improvement plan or special services proposal, a council must - (a) give notice to each person who filed an objection under subsection 319(1) of its intention to give third reading, and of that person's right to object under subsection (5); and - (b) submit the by-law to The Municipal Board for its review and approval. - 321(4) A council may give third reading to a local improvement or special services bylaw only as amended or approved by The Municipal Board.    READ A FIRST TIME THIS DAY OF \_, 2025. READ A SECOND TIME THIS 23 id DAY OF d READ A THIRD TIME THIS A2. \_DAY OF \_ Прил , 2025. - 2025. DONE AND PASSED by the Council of the City of Selkirk, assembled at Selkirk, Manitoba, this 23 raday of \_ fuse, 2025. Ala HANNSON, MAYOR D. NICOL, CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER   ## CITY OF SELKIRK ## SCHEDULE "A" TO BY-LAW NO. 5392 ## Special Service Plan No. 2025-01 (Pursuant to subsection 314 of The Municipal Act) ## Establishing a Special Service Plan for Transportation Services within the City of Selkirk ## (a) Description of the Proposed Special Service The City of Selkirk currently provides Transportation Services within the City of Selkirk. Transportation Services includes Snow Removal and Dust Control, Boulevard Grass Cutting and Weed Control, Street Tree Planting or Control of Tree Disease, Storm Sewer Maintenance, City Transportation Network Maintenance, and Street Lighting. Under this proposed Special Service Plan, there is no change to the services already being provided. ## (b) Area of the City to which the Service is to be Provided and in respect of which the Special Service Tax is to be Levied All properties within the City's limits are served by Transportation Services. Council is proposing to shift the tax levy for Transportation Services from the General Municipal Levy - City At Large to a Special Service Tax Levy. The Special Service area to be levied will apply against all real properties within the City including Taxable, Grants in Lieu of Taxes, and Otherwise Exempt, which also benefit from these services. Exempt from this Special Service Tax Levy will be certain Otherwise Exempt Real properties that are specifically and individually identified in Schedule "B" and which are generally consistent with the following sections of The Municipal Assessment Act (C.C.S.M. c. M226): - 22(1)(g) is owned or used by a municipality, religious denomination or non-profit corporations as a cemetery, to a maximum exemption of 8.09 hectares; - 22(1)(i) is owned by a religious denomination and is occupied and used by the denomination primarily - (i) as a church, synagogue or place of religious worship, to a maximum exemption of 0.81 hectare; - 22(1)(n.1) is used primarily by The Royal Canadian Legion or The Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada, to a maximum exemption of 0.81 hectare; The Special Service Tax Levy for Transportation Services will be shown as a separate line on the Property Tax Bill, in order to transparently inform property owners of the annual cost of these services. ## (c) Estimated Cost of the Special Service The Special Service Tax Levy for Transportation Services will be for a five-year period, starting in 2025. The estimated Expenditure has been offset by estimated Revenue to reflect the estimated Transportation Services Net Expenditure amount, shown in the table below: | | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | |------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------| | Transporation Services | | | | | | | Expenditure | 3,222,725 | 3,417,086 | 3,107,848 | 3,247,795 | 3,418,426 | | Revenue | (625,991) | (504,600) | (55,212) | (55,836) | (56,473) | | Net Expenditure | 2,596,734 | 2,912,486 | 3,052,636 | 3,191,959 | 3,361,953 | ## (d) Method and Rate to be Used for Calculating the Special Service Tax Under this plan, the Special Service Tax Levy is to be phased in gradually over four years of the five-year period. The table below represents the phasing-in of the Special Service Tax Levy for the estimated Net Expenditure in (c) above: | | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | |----------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------| | Transporation Services | | | | | | | Phase-In Percentage | 25% | 50%. | 75% | 100% | 100% | | Special Service Tax Levy - Phased-In | 649,184 | 1,456,243 | 2,289,477 | 3,191,959 | 3,361,953 | | General Municipal Levy - City At Large | 1,947,550 | 1,456,243 | 763,159 | | | | Net Expenditure | 2,596,734 | 2,912,486 | 3,052,636 | 3,191,959 | 3,361,953 | The method of taxation to be applied will be based on each property's portioned assessment value. The property's assessment values are provided to the City by Manitoba Assessment Services. The actual mill rate for the Special Service Tax Levy shall be determined by Council annually, based on the Transportation Services Net Expenditure amount within the City's Financial Plan to a maximum annual levy as per the estimated Special Service Tax Levy - Phased-In amounts in the table above. Transportation Services Net Expenditure that exceeds the amount raised through the Special Service Tax Levy will be funded through the General Municipal Levy - City At Large. Based on the 2025 portioned assessment value of 895, 707,500 for all real properties identified in (b) above and the estimated Phase-In Net Expenditure of $649,184, a 0.725 mill rate ($649,184/895, 707,500 x 1,000) will be required. Calculated on a residential property, for each $100,000 of the property's assessment value, the shift in tax levy from the General Municipal Levy - City At Large to the Special Service Tax Levy is estimated to be $32.63 in 2025. ## Property Roll No. 0050100.000 0070600.000 0072800.000 0073500.000 0077100.000 0081200.000 0083700.000 0083800.000 0087000.000 0089500.000 0097900.000 0155500.000 0158100.000 0158200.000 0168500.000 0169700.000 0176800,000 0181900.000 0204400.000 0272000.000 0286500.000 0290240.000 ## CITY OF SELKIRK SCHEDULE "B" TO BY-LAW NO. 5392 ## Special Service Plan No. 2025-01 (Pursuant to subsection 314 of The Municipal Act) ## List of Excluded Properties