19-1594. Counties over 175,000; repairs and improvements to county buildings; replacing of equipment; plan; limitation; resolution; publication; bonds; election, when.
19-1594
19-1594. Counties over 175,000; repairs and improvements to county buildings;
replacing of equipment; plan; limitation; resolution; publication; bonds;
election, when.
The board of county commissioners of any county having a population of
one hundred seventy-five thousand (175,000) or more is hereby authorized
to plan and make permanent repairs and improvements to county buildings,
and to replace deteriorated, obsolete equipment therein over a five (5)
year period in accordance with the provisions of this act. Whenever the
board of county commissioners of such counties shall, by resolution
adopted unanimously by such board, determine that it is necessary to
make permanent repairs and improvements to a combined courthouse and
jail building, or home for the aged, or juvenile detention home, owned
by such counties, including the remodeling, enlarging, modernizing and
repairing of any such buildings and the replacing of any deteriorated or
obsolete equipment therein, it shall be the duty of such board to
program and plan such permanent building repairs and improvements over a
five (5) year period, and to incorporate the provisions of such plan in
the resolution herein referred to.
Prior to the adoption of such plan, the board of county commissioners
of such counties shall employ a competent licensed architect or
architects to make surveys for such improvements, to prepare plans and
specifications therefor, to supervise all work to be performed and to
assist it in preparing such plan for the permanent remodeling,
enlarging, modernizing and repairing of such county buildings and the
replacing of deteriorated, obsolete equipment therein. Thereupon, the
board of county commissioners of such counties shall estimate, determine
and fix the total cost of all such permanent repairs and improvements
to, and equipment for, such buildings which it deems advisable and
necessary to make under such plan as herein authorized, which total
amount shall not exceed one-half of one percent (1/2%) of the total
assessed tangible valuation of the county. The actual total cost of
making such permanent repairs and improvements to, and equipment for,
such county buildings under such plan may be paid from the proceeds of
the sale of general obligation, negotiable bonds issued by such county
in an aggregate amount not exceeding the sum stated in a resolution
adopting such plan authorizing the permanent repairing and improving of
such county buildings by the board of county commissioners of such
counties, and shall not exceed one-half of one percent (1/2%) of the
total assessed tangible valuation of the county at the date of the
adoption of such resolution, but no contracts shall be awarded, no
repairs or improvements shall be made, and no bonds shall be issued in
payment thereof, as provided for in this act, until the aforesaid
resolution, incorporating the essential details and items of such plan
authorizing the permanent repairing and improving of such county
buildings and the replacing of equipment therein, itemizing the
estimated cost and type of the several permanent repairs and
improvements to be made to, and equipment for, each county building, and
setting forth the total aggregate cost of such repairs, improvements and
equipment which shall not be exceeded under such plan, shall have been
unanimously adopted by the board of county commissioners of such
counties and published for three (3) consecutive issues in the official
county newspaper. Whenever the board of county commissioners of any
county having a population of three hundred thousand (300,000) or more,
has, prior to the effective date of this act, adopted and published a
resolution on a juvenile detention home as herein provided and no
petition in protest or opposition to the adoption of such plan was filed
with the county clerk as hereinafter provided and such board of county
commissioners hereafter determines in their sole discretion that the
total aggregate cost of such repairs, improvements and equipment has
increased in an amount not exceeding ten percent (10%) of the total
aggregate cost set out in such original resolution as adopted and
published, such total aggregate cost shall thereupon be so redetermined
by such board of county commissioners and thereafter the additional cost
so incurred may be duly paid from general county funds, federal grants,
gifts or any other funds which might be properly available for such
purposes and the maximum total aggregate amount shall thereafter be the
amount as so redetermined but nothing herein shall authorize the
issuance of bonds beyond the amount stated in the original resolution
adopting the plan and as published and not protested.
Whereupon, the board of county commissioners of such counties may
thereafter advertise for proposals for the doing of such work at such
times during said five (5) year period as it deems advisable under such
plan for permanently improving, repairing and equipping such county
buildings, award contracts therefor in the manner now provided by law,
and issue serial bonds of such county in payment thereof, payable in approximately
equal annual installments over a period
of not to exceed fifteen (15) years, and bearing
interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate of interest prescribed
by K.S.A. 10-1009, unless a petition in protest or opposition to the
adoption of such plan for permanently repairing, improving and equipping
any or all such county buildings, signed by at least five hundred (500)
qualified electors of such county, is filed with the county clerk of
such county within thirty (30) days following the date of the last
publication of the resolution adopted by the board of county
commissioners of such counties. In the event such petition is filed, it
shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of such counties
to submit the question of the adoption of such plan for repairing,
improving and equipping such county buildings, and paying the cost
thereof by the issuance of bonds, to the voters of such county at an
election called for such purpose or at the next general election.
History: L. 1957, ch. 195, § 1; L. 1970, ch. 64, §
49; L. 1975, ch. 160, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 99, § 23; April 25.