2006/07/19 Council Agenda Packet

3 CHARTER CHANGE NO El Section 18: Change to Section 15.8. Section 15.8 of the Everett City Charter, which reads as follows: Sale or Lease of Property. (a) Real Property. The council shall not authorize the sale of property belonging to the city unless it first determines, by a majority plus one vote of the council, that the property is not and will not be needed for city purposes, and the council gives notice of intention to sell as in this section provided. The council shall not so determine until it has received the approval of the mayor, and shall have given three (3) days' notice to all departments and shall have reviewed any recommendations received from such departments. All sales shall be public in an initial offering, except that sales to other government entities may be by private sales. If a public sale initial offering results in no acceptable bids to the city, the city may sell the property through a private sale within six (6) months of the initial offering, for a price greater than or equal to the appraised value relied upon when it was offered in the public sale. The notice of intention to sell shall be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in the city's official newspaper. The last publication shall be at least seven (7) days, but not more than thirty(30) days before the date of sale. The notice shall describe the property and state the time and place at which it will be sold or offered for sale, the terms of sale, whether the property is to be sold at public or private sale, and if at public sale the notice shall call for bids, fix the conditions thereof and shall reserve the right to reject any and all bids. No real property of the city shall be sold for less than ninety (90) percent of the appraised value thereof as established by a written appraisal made not more than six (6) months before the date of sale by a disinterested person qualified in real estate valuations and meeting the appraisal certification requirements acceptable to council. The appraisal shall be signed by that person making the appraisal and filed with the city clerk, who shall keep it available and open to public inspection, from the period of publication of the notice of intention to sell until the date specified therein for the sale or offering of sale. Any notice of intention to sell real property of the city shall recite the appraised value thereof. Any lease or conveyance of property other than by sale shall be made by the council only after publication of notice as provided by council or once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, which shall describe the property and state the time and place at which the leasing or conveyance decision will be made, the nature of such lease or conveyance, the party to receive it, and the compensation being paid. (b) Personal Property. The council shall not authorize the sale of personal property belonging to the city unless it first determines, by a majority plus one vote of the council, that the property is not and will not be needed for city purposes, and the council gives notice of intention to sell as in this section provided. All sales shall be public, except for scrap or sales to other government entities which may be by private sales. Sales to other government entities shall be at fair market value unless otherwise declared by council to be in the best interests of the public. Scrap is equipment or material which cannot serve its original purpose. Scrap may be sold by private sale at prices established by current market conditions. Trade-ins of old equipment to upgrade equipment of the same or reasonably related 2 2 kind are permitted when it is in the best interests of the city. 15