5-2.5-15: USE OF TAX PROCEEDS AND EXPENDITURE PLAN:
All proceeds of the tax levied and imposed hereunder shall be accounted for and paid into a public safety fund or special account designated for use by the city of Selma only for the public safety services set forth in the program guidelines and public safety expenditure plan for the administration and expenditure of the tax proceeds, attached to the ordinance codified herein as exhibit 1. The public safety expenditure plan may be amended from time to time by a majority vote of the city council, so long as the funds are exclusively utilized for public safety, police and fire protection services within the city of Selma. No funds can be taken by the state or another government agency; all funds can only be spent within the city of Selma for the purposes designated in the public safety expenditure plan. These purposes include: a) obtaining, furnishing, operating, and/or maintaining police protection equipment or apparatus, paying the salaries and benefits of police protection personnel, and such other police protection service expenses as are deemed necessary by the city council for the benefit of the safety of residents of the city, consistent with the public safety expenditure plan; b) obtaining, furnishing, operating, and/or maintaining fire protection equipment or apparatus, paying the salaries and benefits of fire protection personnel, and such other fire protection service expenses, including capital expenses, as are deemed necessary by the city council for the benefit of the safety of residents of the city and consistent with the public safety expenditure plan. No revenues collected pursuant to the tax levied herein may be spent on department administrators' salaries, general fund operating expenses in effect at the time this chapter becomes effective, or projects not a part of the public safety measure police and fire expenditure plan. It is the intent of the people that revenues collected hereunder shall supplement, rather than supplant, existing city expenditures for public safety. (Ord. 2007-8, 11-6-2007)