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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 17-08RESOLUTION NO. 17-08 A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA, AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF APACHE JUNCTION TO ENTER INTO AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FOR USE OF THE PHOENIX BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM. WHEREAS,in May 2012,former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer established a Transaction Privilege Tax Simplification Task Force; and WHEREAS, this task force recommended change to how both state and local sales taxes are administered in Arizona; and WHEREAS, these changes were adopted in 2013 under HB2111 with an effective date of January 1,2015 but not implemented until January 1, 2017; and WHEREAS, the city is responsible for paying a permanent annual charge to the Arizona Department of Revenue for costs related to the administration and collection of our sales and use tax at a rate of $75,041 for FY 15-16, $76,806 in FY 16-17 and $78,235 in FY 17-18; and WHEREAS, the City of Phoenix has offered to make available to Arizona municipalities a Phoenix hosted and developed municipal tax dashboard program that will provide reports and other data needed by the City of Apache Junction for ongoing tax payer information and activities. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA, AS FOLLOWS: 1)The mayor and city council approves the form of the intergovernmental agreement between the City of Apache Junction and the City of Phoenix for the Phoenix Business Intelligence System as set forth in Attachment A and the mayor is hereby authorized to sign the agreement on behalf of the city. 2)The city manager and/or his designee is authorized and directed to take all steps necessary to carry out the purpose and intent of this resolution and to fulfill all the duties required under the agreement. RESOLUTION NO.17-08 PAGE 1 OF 2 PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA, THIS cq/.5,7-DAY OF /441_ 2017. SIGNED AND ATTESTED TO THIS 02151r DAY OF A / 4 4 6 4 , 2017. JEFIWERDY Mayor ATTEST: KATHLEEN CONNELLY City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: 3 i 3 i7 R. JOEL STERN City Attorney RESOLUTION NO.17-08 PAGE 2 OF 2 ATTACHMENT A INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF APACHE JUNCTION AND THE CITY OF PHOENIX THIS AGRE:ENT is entered into this day of ,2016, pursuant to Arizona Revised St. utes (ARS) §11-952, between the CITY of APACHE JUNCTION acting by and throug its city council and the CITY OF PHOENIX ("PHOENIX"), acting by and through 'ts City Council.ARS. §42-6001 establishes that the Arizona Department of Revenue (DO'will collect and administer municipal privilege, transaction and use taxes ("Taxes"for all Arizona cities and towns.As part of their administration of the Taxes, DOR shall p evide each city or town access to data covering the amount of Taxes reported and the amo t of Taxes distributed to that specific city and town.The purpose of this Agreement •to provide PHOENIX the mechanism to allow other cities and towns to cooperative!) use the PHOENIX hosted and developed municipal tax dashboards on the PHOENIX B .iness Intelligence system ("System"). RECITALS 1.City of Apache Junction is authorized by \ .and the Apache Junction Tax Code Section Sec.-510 to enter into this Agreemen 2.PHOENIX is authorized by City Charter, Chapter 2, Section Aand PHOENIXçTax Code Sec. 14-510 to enter into this Agreement. 3.This Agreement establishes the structure whereby other cities and towns access the Syst m. reimburse PHOENIX for its cost of investment in the System, and share the costs of ft ure continued cooperative use of the System. THEREFVRE, in consideration of the mutual agreements expressed herein, it is agreed as follows: I.SCOPE OF AGREEME 1.System is alreacV in place with dashboards providing municipal tax data furnished by DOR. 2.Apache Junction agre4 that PHOENIX will maintain and administer the System. 3.PHOENIX will provide Syst* availability during the hours of 7 a.m. — 5 p.m. (MST), Monday -Friday, excluding holida 4. External users will have a City of P enix Active Directory and VPN account created for access to the dashboards.Tb requires that external users have the appropriate background checks from their 1ganizations that meet or exceed screening requirements established by ARS §4\4401. 5. Support services will be provided via telephone lpline during the hours of 7 a.m. —5 p.m. (MST), Monday -Friday, excluding holiday Users will report system errors to Support Services. 02/22/17 2 6. Outages due to scheduled or emergency network, software and/or hardware mai tenance will be broadcast to authorized users when possible in advance via email. All reason ble attempts will be made to get the System diagnosed and operational within twenty-four '?2\4)hours. 7.PHOENN will allow Apache Junction to only use System to access Apache Junction Taxes data sti lied by DOR. 8. Apache Junction 'Ube billed by and shall reimburse PHOENIX, in advance of its access to Apache unction data. the sum of 55,000.00 as its share of the cost for the System. 9. Apache Junction will be bill $900.00 annually as its share for the operational cost of cooperative use of the Systei which shall be due thirty (30) days from the invoice date. 10. All activities relating to the provision set forth in this Agreement are to be coordinated between the municipal tax officers or theirIçsignees. 11.Any failure of the System resulting from negliknce by Apache Junction is a breach this Agreement. 12. Municipal tax data hosted by PHOENIX and presente •the System is confidential information and may not be distributed or copied except as pehpitted by ARS §42-2003. The data sources are furnished by the DOR and are considere confidential information as defined in ARS §42-2001. PHOENIX does not controNn 02/22/17 3 callnot guarantee the relevance, timeliness, or accuracy of this data and provides no warra ty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of furnished a.Sample data types include, but may not be limited to: Reports New License Repo License Update Report City Payment Journal Detail Report No Money Report Deduction Report Description Demographic information about taxpayers that have completed a Joint Tax Application with DOR, that have a location or expect to have taxable activity within that city/town. Demographic information for Taxpayers that have had a ange made to their account and have a location or ha\e that city's/town's region code on their profile. Detd ed information about money that is distributed to the cit town, including the taxpayer, business code and , period c vered for each distribution. Detailed i ormation about a taxpayer that has filed a net zero return r that city/town or has not paid any money for the return or the period covered by GL Accounting month. , Detailed informa 'on about deductions that taxpayers have taken for acti ity within the city/town.The report will reflect the dedu ions taken for each location and ! each business code fo the city. Fund Distribution Report Detailed information ab ut money that is distributed to the city/town at the Fund evel, including the taxpayer, location code, business cod and tax period covered for . each distribution. 13. The System supports five TPT Simplification dashboards listed below: Centralized Dashboard Description This dashboard provides visualization and detailed informati 0 2 /2 2/17 4 PaXment A nilvsis Centraliied License Analysis Centralized Fund Analysis Centralized Deduction Analysis Centralized No Payment Analysis about money that is distributed to a city/town (City Payment Journal Detail from DOR) by DOR, including the taxpayer, business code and tax period covered for each distribution. This dashboard provides visualization and detailed demographic information (License Update Report and New License Report from DOR) for taxpayers that have a taxable location in Arizona. This dashboard provides visualization and detailed information bout money that is distributed to a city/town at the Fund Level (und Distribution Report from DOR), including the taxpayer, loc:tion code, business code and period covered for each distri pution. This da hboard provides visualization and detailed information about del ctions (Deduction Report from DOR) that taxpayers have taken on th r returns. The report reflects deductions taken for each location and :.ch business code by jurisdiction. This dashboar provides visualization and detailed information about a) taxpaye that have filed a no activity/zero return b) taxpayers that have ot filed a return for a location for a city and c) taxpayers that have ed a return but failed to remit payment. The source is the No Mone Report from DOR. 14. The System supports the three u r security models listed below. Each city/town will select one of the three security profi s below for each user that they designate for System access.Apache Junction ackno edges that each individual user should be assigned the lowest level of security needed dep nding on their job duties. Apache Junction also acknowledges that information obtaine rom DOR, and displayed by Phoenix, is confidential information and may only be disclosed s authorized by ARS§ 42-2003. Should PHOENIX become aware of unauthorized use disclosure of confidential information, all users shall be revoked and this agreement shal erminate upon notice to Apache Junction. 02/22/17 5 Seurity Model Security Model Description Re ricted This role for management staff allows access to the summary level data view for financial dashboards (Centralized Payment Analysis and Centralized Fund Analysis) for the user's jurisdiction. Mid -Level\This role for accounting staff allows access to the summary and detail level data views for financial dashboards (Centralized Payment Analysis and Centralized Fund Analysis) for the user's jurisdiction. Full Access \This role for audit/enforcement/supervisory user staff allows cess to the summary and detail level data views for financial da boards (Centralized Fund Analysis) for the user's juris iction and access to the Centralized Payment Analysis, CentràI.zed License Analysis, Centralized Deduction Analysis, and No \ayment Analysis dashboards for any jurisdiction, subject to\pre-existing limitations outside of this Agreement. II.MISCELLANEOUS PROVI IONS 1.This Agreement shall bz come effective on the date of execution and shall continue in full force and effect until i is terminated either by mutual agreement of the parties or by either party giving the other a least thirty (30) calendar days advance written notice of termination of the Agreement, w ich notice shall specify the date of termination. 2.Apache Junction or PHOENIX may can el this Agreement at any time without penalty or further obligation.No pro -rata refund will e returned. 3.This Agreement is subject to the cancellation pro •ions of ARS §38-511. 02/22/17 6 4.Cancellation pursuant to either Paragraphs 2 or 3 above shall be effective v1ken written notice from the chief executive officer of one city/town is received by the other p y to this Agreement, unless the notice specifies a later time. 5.0 the extent permitted by law, each party (as "Indemnitor") agrees to indemnify, defend, an hold harmless the other party (as "Indemnitee") from and against any and all claims, losses,iability, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) whether direct or indire (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Claims") arising out of System use, but only to the xtent that such Claims which result in vicarious/derivative liability to the In emnitee are caused by the act, omission, negligence, misconduct, or other fault o e Indemnitor, its officers, officials, agents, employees, or volunteers. 6.Apache Junction and PHOEN both have an intergovernmental agreement with the State of Arizona whereby each btains taxpayer information from the State subject to the conditions set forth in the intergov mental agreement, including those pertaining to confidentiality as defined in ARS §42-001, and that confidential information may not be disclosed except as provided by statu , ARS §42-2001(B).To the extent that information being utilized by Apache Junction an hosted by PHOENIX may have been obtained initially from the State, each agrees to abide y the terms and conditions set forth in their respective intergovernmental agreements wil the State of Arizona. 02/22/17 7 writi 7.All notices or demands upon any party to this Agreement shall be in g and shall be delivered in person or sent by mail addressed as follows: City of Apache Junction Attn: ITY OF PHOENIX ance Department, Tax Division At t :Tax Administrator 251 . Washington Street, 3rd Floor Phoen , AZ 85003 8.This Agree •ent contains the entire understanding between the parties, and no statements, promises or ind ements made by either party, their agents or employees that are not contained herein hall be valid or binding.This Agreement may not be altered except in writing and signed b each party hereto. 9.The failure to exercise any rig , power or privilege under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver thereof, nor s all a single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of that or a right, power or privilege. 10.In the event that any provision, or any po on of any provision, of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such invalidi illegality or unenforceability shall have no effect on the remaining portion of any e ovision or any other provision which can be given effect without the invalid provision an the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to be severable. this end 02/22/17 8 IN TNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement the day and year first abdve written. CITY OF PH9ENIX a municipal corporation ED ZUERCHE4ity Manager By ED ZUERCHER ATTEST: City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM AND WITHIN THE POWER AND AUTHORITY GRANTED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA TO THE CITY OF PHOENIX City Attorney City Of Apache Junction a municipal corporation NAME, City Manager By NAME ATTEST: City Clerk AP' 'OVEDAS TO FORM AND WIT THE POWER AND AUTHO'TY GRANTED UNDER THE LA OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA Te THE CITY OF APACHE JUNCTION City Attorney 02/22/17 9 INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF APACHE JUNCTION AND THE CITY OF PHOENIX THIS AGREEMENT is entered into this day of , 2017 pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS) §11-952, between the CITY of APACHE JUNCTION acting by and through its city council and the CITY OF PHOENIX ("PHOENIX"),acting by and through its City Council.ARS. §42-6001 establishes that the Arizona Department of Revenue (DOR) will collect and administer municipal privilege, transaction and use taxes ("Taxes") for all Arizona cities and towns.As part of their administration of the Taxes, DOR shall provide each city or town access to data covering the amount of Taxes reported and the amount of Taxes distributed to that specific city and town.The purpose of this Agreement is to provide PHOENIX the mechanism to allow other cities and towns to cooperatively use the PHOENIX hosted and developed municipal tax dashboards on the PHOENIX Business Intelligence system ("System"). RECITALS 1.City of Apache Junction is authorized by A.R.S. § 11-952(A)and the Apache Junction Tax Code Section Sec. 8A-510 to enter into this Agreement. 2.PHOENIX is authorized by City Charter, Chapter 2, Section 2, and PHOENIX Tax Code Sec. 14-510 to enter into this Agreement. 3.This Agreement establishes the structure whereby other cities and towns access the System, reimburse PHOENIX for its cost of investment in the System, and share the costs of future continued cooperative use of the System. THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements expressed herein, it is agreed as follows: I.SCOPE OF AGREEMENT I.System is already in place with dashboards providing municipal tax data furnished by DOR. 2.Apache Junction agrees that PHOENIX will maintain and administer the System. 3.PHOENIX will provide System availability during the hours of 7 a.m. — 5 p.m. (MST), Monday -Friday, excluding holidays. 4. External users will have a City of Phoenix Active Directory and VPN account created for access to the dashboards.This requires that external users have the appropriate background checks from their organizations that meet or exceed screening requirements established by ARS §41-4401. 5. Support services will be provided via telephone helpline during the hours of 7 a.m. — 5 p.m. (MST), Monday -Friday, excluding holidays. Users will report system errors to Support Services. 03/29/17 2 6. Outages due to scheduled or emergency network, software and/or hardware maintenance will be broadcast to authorized users when possible in advance via email. All reasonable attempts will be made to get the System diagnosed and operational within twenty-four (24) hours. 7.PHOENIX will allow Apache Junction to only use System to access Apache Junction Taxes data supplied by DOR. 8. Apache Junction will be billed by and shall reimburse PHOENIX, in advance of its access to Apache Junction data, the sum of $5,000.00 as its share of the cost for the System. 9. Apache Junction will be billed $900.00 annually as its share for the operational cost of cooperative use of the System, which shall be due thirty (30) days from the invoice date. 10. All activities relating to the provisions set forth in this Agreement are to be coordinated between the municipal tax officers or their designees. 11.Any failure of the System resulting from negligence by Apache Junction is a breach this Agreement. 12. Municipal tax data hosted by PHOENIX and presented in the System is confidential information and may not be distributed or copied except as permitted by ARS §42-2003. The data sources are furnished by the DOR and are considered confidential information as defined in ARS §42-2001. PHOENIX does not control and 03/29/17 3 cannot guarantee the relevance, timeliness, or accuracy of this data and provides no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of furnished data.Sample data types include, but may not be limited to: Reports Description New License Report Demographic information about taxpayers that have completed a Joint Tax Application with DOR, that have a location or expect to have taxable activity within that city/town. License Update Report City Payment Journal Detail Report No Money Report Deduction Report Fund Distribution Repor Demographic information for Taxpayers that have had a change made to their account and have a location or have that city's/town's region code on their profile. Detailed information about money that is distributed to the city/town, including the taxpayer, business code and period covered for each distribution. Detailed information about a taxpayer that has filed a net zero return for that city/town or has not paid any money for the return for the period covered by GL Accounting month. Detailed information about deductions that taxpayers have taken for activity within the city/town.The report will reflect the deductions taken for each location and each business code for the city. t Detailed information about money that is distributed to the city/town at the Fund Level, including the taxpayer, location code,business code and tax period covered for { each distribution. 13. The System supports five TPT Simplification dashboards listed below: i1 ; Dashboard DescriptionI!, 1 eC ntralized .This dashboard provides visualization and detailed information1 03/29/17 4 ' Payment 1 Analysis Centralized • License Analy_sis Centralized Fund Analysis Centralized Deduction Analysis Centralized No Payment Analysis about money that is distributed to a city/town (City Payment Journal . Detail from DOR) by DOR, including the taxpayer, business code and tax period covered for each distribution. This dashboard provides visualization and detailed demographic information (License Update Report and New License Report from DOR) for taxpayers that have a taxable location in Arizona. This dashboard provides visualization and detailed information about money that is distributed to a city/town at the Fund Level (Fund Distribution Report from DOR), including the taxpayer, location code, business code and period covered for each distribution. This dashboard provides visualization and detailed information about deductions (Deduction Report from DOR) that taxpayers have ' taken on their returns. The report reflects deductions taken for each location and each business code by jurisdiction. This dashboard provides visualization and detailed information about a) taxpayers that have filed a no activity/zero return b) taxpayers that have not filed a return for a location for a city and c) taxpayers that have filed a return but failed to remit payment. The , source is the No Money Report from DOR. 14. The System supports the three user security models listed below. Each city/town will select one of the three security profiles below for each user that they designate for System access.Apache Junction acknowledges that each individual user should be assigned the lowest level of security needed depending on their job duties. Apache Junction also acknowledges that information obtained from DOR, and displayed by Phoenix, is confidential information and may only be disclosed as authorized by ARS§ 42-2003. Should PHOENIX become aware of unauthorized use or disclosure of confidential information, all users shall be revoked and this agreement shall terminate upon notice to Apache Junction. 03/29/17 5 Security Model Security Model Description Restricted Mid -Level Full Access This role for management staff allows access to the summary level data view for financial dashboards (Centralized Payment • Analysis and Centralized Fund Analysis) for the user's jurisdiction. This role for accounting staff allows access to the summary and detail level data views for financial dashboards (Centralized Payment Analysis and Centralized Fund Analysis) for the user's jurisdiction._ This role for audit/enforcement/supervisory user staff allows access to the summary and detail level data views for financial dashboards (Centralized Fund Analysis) for the user's jurisdiction and access to the Centralized Payment Analysis, Centralized License Analysis, Centralized Deduction Analysis, and No Payment Analysis dashboards for any jurisdiction, subject to pre-existing limitations outside of this Agreement. II.MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 1.This Agreement shall become effective on the date of execution and shall continue in full force and effect until it is terminated either by mutual agreement of the parties or by either party giving the other at least thirty (30) calendar days advance written notice of termination of the Agreement, which notice shall specify the date of termination. 2.Apache Junction or PHOENIX may cancel this Agreement at any time without penalty or further obligation.No pro -rata refund will be returned. 3.This Agreement is subject to the cancellation provisions of ARS §38-511. 03/29/17 6 4.Cancellation pursuant to either Paragraphs 2 or 3 above shall be effective when written notice from the chief executive officer of one city/town is received by the other party to this Agreement, unless the notice specifies a later time. 5.To the extent permitted by law, each party (as "Indemnitor") agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the other party (as "Indernnitee") from and against any and all claims, losses, liability, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) whether direct or indirect (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Claims") arising out of System use, but only to the extent that such Claims which result in vicarious/derivative liability to the Indemnitee are caused by the act, omission, negligence, misconduct, or other fault of the Indemnitor, its officers, officials, agents, employees, or volunteers. 6.Apache Junction and PHOENIX both have an intergovernmental agreement with the State of Arizona whereby each obtains taxpayer information from the State subject to the conditions set forth in the intergovernmental agreement,including those pertaining to confidentiality as defined in ARS §42-2001, and that confidential information may not be disclosed except as provided by statute, ARS §42-2001(B). To the extent that information being utilized by Apache Junction and hosted by PHOENIX may have been obtained initially from the State, each agrees to abide by the terms and conditions set forth in their respective intergovernmental agreements with the State of Arizona. 03/29/17 7 7.All notices or demands upon any party to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be delivered in person or sent by mail addressed as follows: City of Apache Junction Attn: Kathleen Connelly, City Clerk 300 E. Superstition Boulevard Apache Junction, AZ 85119 CITY OF PHOENIX Finance Department, Tax Division Attn:Tax Administrator 251 W. Washington Street, 3rd Floor Phoenix, AZ 85003 8.This Agreement contains the entire understanding between the parties, and no statements, promises or inducements made by either party, their agents or employees that are not contained herein shall be valid or binding.This Agreement may not be altered except in writing and signed by each party hereto. 9.The failure to exercise any right, power or privilege under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of that or any right, power or privilege. 10.In the event that any provision, or any portion of any provision, of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall have no effect on the remaining portion of any provision or any 03 / 29 /17 8 other provision which can be given effect without the invalid provision and to this end the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to be severable. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement the day and year first above written. CITY OF PHOENIX a municipal corporation ED ZUERCHER, City Manager By ED ZUERCHER ATTEST: City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM AND WITHIN THE POWER AND AUTHORITY GRANTED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA TO THE CITY OF PHOENIX City Attorney City Of Apache Junction a municipal corporation Jeff Serdy, Mayor By JEFF SERDY ATTEST: City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM AND WITHIN THE POWER AND AUTHORITY GRANTED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA TO THE CITY OF APACHE JUNCTION City Attorney 03/29/17 9