A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF TOWANDA, KANSAS, FROM THE PROVISIONS OF K.S.A. 12-1758 AND PROVIDING FOR SUBSTITUTE PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT RELATING TO PUBLIC BUILDING COMMISSIONS.

Section 1. The City of Towanda, Kansas (the “City”), pursuant to Article 12, Section 5 of the constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt itself from and make inapplicable to it the provisions of K.S.A. 12-1758, and to provide such substitute provisions as hereinafter set forth in this charter ordinance. Such statute is applicable to the city, but is part of an enactment which is not uniformly applicable to all cities.

Section 2. The city, by ordinance, may create a public building commission (the “commission”) for the purpose of acquiring a site or sites within the city for construction, reconstruction, equipping and furnishing a building or buildings or other facilities of a revenue producing character, including parking facilities, and for purchasing or otherwise acquiring such building or buildings of facilities. Such building or buildings or other facilities shall be maintained and operated for the affairs and activities of any federal, state, city, school district or county governmental agency, or any municipal corporation, quasi-municipal corporation, political subdivision or body politic, or agency thereof, doing business, maintaining an office or rendering a public service within the county. Without in any way limiting the generality or scope of the foregoing, such buildings or facilities may specifically include buildings or other facilities, including all furnishings and equipment, maintained and operated by the city as a community building.

(4-14-1999)