There is hereby created a Public Building Commission which shall be a municipal corporation, the governing body of which shall consist of five (5) commissioners who shall be same persons as are then serving as the Council Members on the governing body of the City. The commissioners of the Medicine Lodge, Kansas Public Building Commission shall serve terms simultaneous with their terms as members of the City’s governing body. The commissioners shall serve without compensation. The commissioners may from time to time appoint a Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and Secretary.

(K.S.A. 12-1757 et seq.; C.O. No. 17; Ord. 854; Code 2012; Ord. 882)

The Public Building Commission is hereby created for the following purposes and shall be and is hereby authorized to exercise the following functions and powers, to wit:

(a)   To acquire a site or sites for and to construct, reconstruct, equip and furnish a building or buildings or other facilities shall be maintained and operated for the housing and accommodation of City offices or activities or such other purposes as are commonly carried on in connection with such facilities and general City buildings or for other purposes as outlined in K.S.A. 12-1758, as amended, and supplemented and limited by City of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, Charter Ordinance No. 17.

(b)   To rent all or any part of its buildings or other facilities to any federal, state or county governmental agency, or any municipal corporation, quasi–municipal corporation, political subdivision or body politic, or agency thereof, doing business, maintaining an office or be needed by such governmental agencies for such service facilities as the Public Building Commission may determine will primarily serve the comfort and convenience of the occupants of its buildings or other facilities.

(c)   To issue revenue bonds of the Public Building Commission to provide funds for the purpose of acquiring, erecting, equipping, repairing, maintaining and operating buildings and other facilities and to acquire sites necessary and convenient therefor, and to pay all costs and expenses incident thereto, or to refund its outstanding bonds.

(d)   To establish and fix rates, rentals, fees and charges, for the use of any and all buildings or space therein or other facilities owned and operated by the commission, sufficient at all times to pay maintenance and operation costs of such buildings, or facilities, the principal of and interest on all bonds issued by the commission as the same shall become due and payable and to make all payments to any accounts created by any bond resolution.

(e)   To acquire the fee simple title to real property, including easements and reversionary interests in the streets, alleys and other public place and personal property required for its purposes, by purchase, gift, devise or by the exercise of the powers of eminent domain of the state, the title thereto shall be taken in the corporate name of the Public Building Commission.

(f)    To enter into written leases with tenants of its buildings or facilities under such terms and conditions as it shall deem appropriate, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Resolution and the laws of the State of Kansas.

(g)   To convey title to real estate it shall hold title to and sell, assign, transfer, trade any of its interest in personal property. Conveyance may be made of portions of the land as portions of the revenue bonds are paid or retired, or provision is made for their payment by the deposit of a like amount of money.

(h)   To do all things and acts necessary or convenient to carry out the powers granted to it under this section and under K.S.A. 12-1757, et seq., as amended, and supplemented and limited by the City of Medicine Lodge, Kansas Charter Ordinance No. 17, provided, however, that under no circumstance shall any income of the Public Building Commission inure to the benefit of any private person.

(K.S.A. 12-1757 et seq.; C.O. No. 17; Ord. 854; Code 2012; Ord. 882)