Finance Committee Meeting, Public Hearing on Municipal Wheel Tax and Special Council Meeting

There will be a Finance Committee Meeting, Public Hearing and Special Council Meeting on Wednesday, July 22 at 5:00 pm in the City Council Chambers 3rd Floor. Should items be added to meetings, an update will be provided on Monday, July 20. Finance Committee Meeting:

· Pledge for Grant Match for Riverside Park (application due on August 1).

· Additional appropriations for Police and Fire for OT & PTO. Immediately Following Finance Committee Meeting: Public Hearing for Wheel Tax. Immediately following the Public Hearing: Special Council Meeting

· Wheel Tax – 2nd reading

· Resolution supporting Parks Department Grant application.

· Additional LIT appropriations for Police and Fire.

A public hearing on the proposed adoption of Ordinance 2026-17 will be held on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at approximately 5:00pm in the City Council Chamber on the third floor, 601 East Broadway, Logansport, Indiana. The public is invited to offer comments on the proposed Ordinance 2026-17 and appears immediately below this notice. ORDINANCE 2026-17 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOGANSPORT, CASS COUNTY, INDIANA IMPOSING A MUNICIPAL WHEEL TAX WHEREAS, Ind. Code §6-3.5-11 el seq. (the “Act”) authorizes the City Council of the City of Logansport, Cass County, Indiana (“City Council”) to impose, by ordinance, an annual wheel tax (“Wheel Tax”) of at least five dollars ($5.00) and not more than forty dollars ($40.00) on certain motor vehicles registered in the City of Logansport (“City”); WHEREAS, the Act authorizes the City Council to impose the Wheel Tax at a different rate for each class of vehicle subject to the Act. In addition, the Act authorizes the City Council to establish different rates within the classes of busses, recreational vehicles, semitrailers, trailers, tractors, and trucks based on weight classifications established by the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (“BMV”); WHEREAS, the Act prohibits the City Council from adopting an ordinance imposing a Wheel Tax unless the City Council concurrently adopts an ordinance under Ind. Code §6-3.5-10 to impose the annual license excise surtax; WHEREAS, pursuant to Ind. Code §6-3.5-10, the City Council plans to concurrently adopt the annual license excise surtax; WHEREAS, the City Council may not adopt an ordinance to impose the Wheel Tax unless the City uses a transportation asset management plan approved by the Indiana Department of Transportation (“INDOT”); WHEREAS, the City utilizes a transportation asset management plan approved by INDOT, as more specifically described in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein; and WHEREAS, the City may use the Wheel Tax revenues (1) to construct, reconstruct, repair, or maintain streets and roads under the City’s jurisdiction; (2) as a contribution to an authority established under Ind. Code §36-7-23; or (3) for the city’s contribution toward a grant from the local road and bridge matching grant fund under Ind. Code §8-23-30. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOGANSPORT, CASS COUNTY, INDIANA as follows: Section 1. Definitions. The definitions set forth in Ind. Code §6-3.5-11~1 are incorporated herein and shall apply throughout this ordinance. Section 2. Exempt Vehicles. A vehicle is exempt from the Wheel Tax if the vehicle is a) owned by the state; b) owned by a state agency of the state; c) owned by a political subdivision of the state; d) subject to the annual license excise surtax imposed under Ind. Code §6-3.5-10; or e) a bus owned and operated by a religious or nonprofit youth organization and used to transport persons to religious services or for the benefit of its members. Section 3. Imposition and Rate of Wheel Tax. In accordance with Ind. Code §6-3.5-11 et seq., the Common Council hereby imposes an annual Forty and no/100 Dollar ($40.00) Wheel Tax on the following classes of vehicles: (see Exhibit B) Section 4. Motor Vehicles Subject to Surtax. If an adopting entity adopts an ordinance imposing the surtax after December 31 but before September 1 of the following year the surtax applies after December 31 of the year in which the ordinance is adopted. However, in the first year the surtax is effective, the surtax does not apply to the registration year that commenced in the calendar year preceding the year the surtax is first effective. The Common Council hereby imposes an annual twenty five and no/100 Dollar ($25.00) surtax on the following classes of vehicles: (See Exhibit B) Section 5. Recission of Surtax. After January 1 but before September 1 of any year, the City Council may, subject to the limitations imposed by Ind. Code §6-3.5-11 et seq., adopts an ordinance to rescind the Wheel Tax , the Wheel tax does not apply to a vehicle registered after December 31 of the year in which the or~ance is adopted. The City Council may not adopt an ordinance to rescind the Wheel Tax unless the City Council concurrently adopts an ordinance under Ind. Code §6-3 .5-10 to rescind the annual license excise surtax. If the City Council adopts an ordinance to rescind the Wheel Tax, the City Council shall send a copy of the ordinance to the Commissioner of the BMV and the Department of State Revenue. Section 6. Increase or Decrease of Wheel Tax. The City Council may adopt an ordinance to increase or decrease the Wheel Tax rates. The new Wheel Tax rates must be within the range of amounts prescribed by Ind. Code §6-3 .5-11 et seq. A new rate that is established by an ordinance that is adopted after December 31 but before September 1 of the following year applies to vehicles registered after December 31 of the year in which the ordinance to change the rates is adopted. New rates that are established by an ordinance that is adopted after August 30 but before September 1 of the following year applies to motor vehicles registered after December 31 of the year following the year in which the ordinance is adopted. If the City Council adopts an ordinance to increase or decrease the Wheel Tax, the City Council shall send a copy of the ordinance to the Commissioner of the BMV and the Department of State Revenue. Section 7. Credit of Wheel Tax Upon Sale of Vehicle. Every owner of a vehicle for which the Wheel Tax has been paid for the owner’s registration year is entitled to a credit if, during that registration year, the owner sells the vehicle. The amount of the credit equals the Wheel Tax paid by the owner for the vehicle that was sold. The credit may be applied by the owner only against th~ Wheel Tax owed for a vehicle that is purchased during the same registration year. An owner of a vehicle is not entitled to a refund of any part of a credit that is not used under this section Section 8. Payment of Wheel Tax Required to Register Motor Vehicle. A person may not register a motor vehicle in the City unless the person pays the Wheel Tax due, if any, to the BMV. The amount of the Wheel Tax due is based on the wheel tax rate for that class of vehicle in effect at the time of registration. The BMV shall collect the Wheel Tax due, if any, at the time a motor vehicle is registered. Section 9. Apportioned Tax for Certain Commercial Vehicles. An owner of one (1) or more commercial vehicles paying an apportioned registration to the state under the International Registration Plan that is required to pay a Wheel Tax shall pay an apportioned Wheel Tax· calculated by dividing in-state actual miles by total fleet miles generated during the preceding year. If in-state miles are estimated for purposes of proportional registration, the in-state miles are divided by total actual and estimated fleet miles. The apportioned Wheel Tax under this section shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the commercial vehicle excise taxunder Ind. Code §6-6-5.5. A voucher from the Department of Revenue showing payment of the Wheel Tax may be accepted by the BMV instead of the payment required under this ordinance. Section 10. Remittance of Collected Wheel Tax. On or before the tenth (10th) day of the month following the month in which the Wheel Tax is collected, the BMV shall remit the Wheel Tax to the Clerk Treasurer’s Office. Concurrently with the remittance, the BMV shall file a Wheel Tax collections report prepared on forms prescribed by the State Board of Accounts with the Controller’s Office. If the Wheel Tax is collected directly by the BMV instead of at a branch office, the commissioner of the BMV shall (1) remit the Wheel Tax to, and file a Wheel Tax collections report with, the Clerk Treasurer’s Office. If the Wheel Tax for a commercial vehicle is collected directly by the Department of Revenue, the Commissioner of the Department shall: (1) remit the Wheel Tax to, and file a Wheel Tax collections report with, the Clerk Treasurer’s Office. Section 11. Municipal Wheel Tax Fund. The Council hereby instructs the Clerk Treasurer to create a “Municipal Wheel Tax Fund”(Fund# 467/4670), which shall be a non-reverting fund. The City may only use the Wheel Tax revenues to (1) construct, reconstruct, repair, or maintain streets and roads under the City’s jurisdiction; (2) as a contribution to an authority established under Ind. Code §36-7-23; or (3) for the City’s contribution to obtain a grant from the local road and bridge matching grant fund under Ind. Code §8-23-30. Section 12, Estimate of Anticipated Wheel Tax Revenues. On or before September 1 of each year, the Clerk Treasurer shall provide the City Council with an estimate of the Wheel Tax revenues to be received by the ity during the next calendar year. The City shall include the estimated Wheel Tax revenues in the City’s budget estimate for the calendar year. Section 13. Transmittal of Ordinance. The City Council hereby authorizes the Mayor or his designee to provide a copy of the ordinance to the Commissioner of the BMV and the Department of State Revenue. Section 14. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon passage. INTRODUCED, FILED AND APPROVED by the Common Council of the City of Logansport, Indiana by a vote of 6 in favor, 0 opposed, and abstained on this 1st day of June, 2026. ALL OF WHICH IS ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Logansport, Cass County, Indiana this __ day of _, 2026. In Favor David Morris, President Chris Howard, Member Suzy Wamsley, Member Cameron Austen, Member Scott Peattie, Member BJ Cox, Member Hayley Zinsmaster. Member ATTEST: _ Mike Stadjuhar, Clerk Treasurer L-227 7/10