HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION NO 15 04 333STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF FULTON RESOLUTION NO. 15-04-333
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF MIL TON, GEORGIA
WAIVING CITY OF MILTON BUILDING PERMIT FEES FOR FRIENDS OF THE
MILTON LIBRARY FOR THE PURPOSE OF BUILDING A STORAGE FACILITY TO
HOUSE BOOKS FOR BOOK SALES BENEFITING THE MIL TON PUBLIC LIBRARY
WHEREAS, pursuant to its Charter and other laws of the State of Georgia, the City of
Milton, Georgia (the "City) has the power to provide for library facilities; and
WHEREAS, the Georgia Constitution, Art. 9, Section 2, Paragraph 3, provides that a
municipality shall have the right to provide "libraries;"
WHEREAS, the Charter for the City of Milton provides that the City may provide for
the "acquisition, construction, building. operation, and maintenance of ... libraries ... "
WHEREAS, the Charter for the City of Milton further provides that the City may
"exercise and enjoy all other powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities necessary or
desirable to promote or protect the safety, health, peace, security, good order, comfort,
convenience, or general we!fare of the city and its inhabitants; [and} to exercise all implied
powers necessary to carry into execution all powers granted in this Charter as fully and
completely as if such powers were fully stated in this Charter .... ;"
WHEREAS, Friends of the Milton Library ("FOML") is a nonprofit organization
established to support the Milton Public Library (the "Library") and Library programming; and
WHEREAS, FOML uses proceeds from the sales of donated books to purchase new
books and other materials for the Library and to support various community efforts aimed at
enhancing Library services; and
WHEREAS, FOML desires to construct a building (the "Storage Facility") dedicated to
storing donated books to be sold in book sales benefiting the Library; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that construction of the Storage Facility will directly
enhance and support the Library, and therefore the delivery of same by FOML to the Library
provides a direct and material benefit to the residents of the City of Milton and otherwise
advances the public health, safety and general welfare; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to facilitate FOML's construction of the Storage
Facility to advance the public welfare -and -one way of assisting in this endeavor is to waive
those City of Milton building permit fees that would otherwise be imposed.
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF MILTON, GEORGIA that any City of Milton building permit fees that would
otherwise be imposed as part of FOML's permitting related to construction of the Storage
Facility shall be and are hereafter waived.
This waiver of building permitting fees related to the Storage Facility shall be on a one-
time basis and is not intended nor should it be construed as establishing precedent for any future
waiver of fees. The City of Milton is waiving fees in this instance because the Storage Facility
directly and materially advances the public health and welfare of the citizens and residents of
Milton as well as the interests of the Library, and is otherwise a project for which the City of
Milton would otherwise be authorized to undertake on its own.
This Resolution shall be effective upon a majority vote by the City Council as ratified by
the Mayor of the City of Milton, Georgia.
SO RESOLVED, the public's health, safety, and welfare demanding it, this 131h day of
April, 2015.
Approved:
Attest:
Sudie AM Gordon, City Clerk
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