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 ofone hundred seventy-five thousand (175,000) or more is hereby authorizedto 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 theboard of county commissioners of such counties shall, by resolutionadopted unanimously by such board, determine that it is necessary tomake permanent repairs and improvements to a combined courthouse andjail building, or home for the aged, or juvenile detention home, ownedby such counties, including the remodeling, enlarging, modernizing andrepairing of any such buildings and the replacing of any deteriorated orobsolete equipment therein, it shall be the duty of such board toprogram and plan such permanent building repairs and improvements over afive (5) year period, and to incorporate the provisions of such plan inthe resolution herein referred to.

      Prior to the adoption of such plan, the board of county commissionersof such counties shall employ a competent licensed architect orarchitects to make surveys for such improvements, to prepare plans andspecifications therefor, to supervise all work to be performed and toassist it in preparing such plan for the permanent remodeling,enlarging, modernizing and repairing of such county buildings and thereplacing of deteriorated, obsolete equipment therein. Thereupon, theboard of county commissioners of such counties shall estimate, determineand fix the total cost of all such permanent repairs and improvementsto, and equipment for, such buildings which it deems advisable andnecessary to make under such plan as herein authorized, which totalamount shall not exceed one-half of one percent (1/2%) of the totalassessed tangible valuation of the county. The actual total cost ofmaking such permanent repairs and improvements to, and equipment for,such county buildings under such plan may be paid from the proceeds ofthe sale of general obligation, negotiable bonds issued by such countyin an aggregate amount not exceeding the sum stated in a resolutionadopting such plan authorizing the permanent repairing and improving ofsuch county buildings by the board of county commissioners of suchcounties, and shall not exceed one-half of one percent (1/2%) of thetotal assessed tangible valuation of the county at the date of theadoption of such resolution, but no contracts shall be awarded, norepairs or improvements shall be made, and no bonds shall be issued inpayment thereof, as provided for in this act, until the aforesaidresolution, incorporating the essential details and items of such planauthorizing the permanent repairing and improving of such countybuildings and the replacing of equipment therein, itemizing theestimated cost and type of the several permanent repairs andimprovements to be made to, and equipment for, each county building, andsetting forth the total aggregate cost of such repairs, improvements andequipment which shall not be exceeded under such plan, shall have beenunanimously adopted by the board of county commissioners of suchcounties and published for three (3) consecutive issues in the officialcounty newspaper. Whenever the board of county commissioners of anycounty having a population of three hundred thousand (300,000) or more,has, prior to the effective date of this act, adopted and published aresolution on a juvenile detention home as herein provided and nopetition in protest or opposition to the adoption of such plan was filedwith the county clerk as hereinafter provided and such board of countycommissioners hereafter determines in their sole discretion that thetotal aggregate cost of such repairs, improvements and equipment hasincreased in an amount not exceeding ten percent (10%) of the totalaggregate cost set out in such original resolution as adopted andpublished, such total aggregate cost shall thereupon be so redeterminedby such board of county commissioners and thereafter the additional costso incurred may be duly paid from general county funds, federal grants,gifts or any other funds which might be properly available for suchpurposes and the maximum total aggregate amount shall thereafter be theamount as so redetermined but nothing herein shall authorize theissuance of bonds beyond the amount stated in the original resolutionadopting the plan and as published and not protested.

      Whereupon, the board of county commissioners of such counties maythereafter advertise for proposals for the doing of such work at suchtimes during said five (5) year period as it deems advisable under suchplan for permanently improving, repairing and equipping such countybuildings, award contracts therefor in the manner now provided by law,and issue serial bonds of such county in payment thereof, payable in approximatelyequal annual installments over a periodof not to exceed fifteen (15) years, and bearinginterest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate of interest prescribedby K.S.A. 10-1009, unless a petition in protest or opposition to theadoption of such plan for permanently repairing, improving and equippingany or all such county buildings, signed by at least five hundred (500)qualified electors of such county, is filed with the county clerk ofsuch county within thirty (30) days following the date of the lastpublication of the resolution adopted by the board of countycommissioners of such counties. In the event such petition is filed, itshall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of such countiesto submit the question of the adoption of such plan for repairing,improving and equipping such county buildings, and paying the costthereof by the issuance of bonds, to the voters of such county at anelection 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.