File #: 5822    Version: Name: Stadium Sales Tax
Type: Ordinance Status: veto overridden
File created: 12/13/2023 In control: Legislature As A Whole
On agenda: 12/18/2023 Final action: 1/8/2024
Title: AN ORDINANCE submitting to the qualified voters of Jackson County, Missouri, at a special election to be held on April 2, 2024, a question authorizing Jackson County to impose a countywide sales tax of three-eighths of one percent for a period of forty years for the purpose of retaining the Kansas City Royals and Kansas City Chiefs sports teams in Jackson County, Missouri.
Sponsors: DaRon McGee
Indexes: FLOOR SUBSTITUTE, SALES TAX, SPECIAL ELECTION
Attachments: 1. 5822 Veto Message.pdf, 2. Jackson County Legislators Joint Statement.pdf, 3. 5822 Veto Override.pdf, 4. 5822 Sean Smith Statement Stadium_Ballot_PR.pdf, 5. 5822 Jalen Anderson Statement re Veto Override of Stadiums Tax.pdf, 6. 5822 SEAN SMITH Override Statement Stadium Tax.pdf, 7. 5822 DaRon McGee 4th District Statement.pdf
Related files: 3732, 21525, 21577
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE submitting to the qualified voters of Jackson County, Missouri, at a special election to be held on April 2, 2024, a question authorizing Jackson County to impose a countywide sales tax of three-eighths of one percent for a period of forty years for the purpose of retaining the Kansas City Royals and Kansas City Chiefs sports teams in Jackson County, Missouri.

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ORDINANCE NO. 5822, December 18, 2023

INTRODUCED BY DaRon McGee, County Legislator


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WHEREAS, the Kansas City Royals Baseball Club, LLC and the Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, Inc. are County and area-wide assets that have made and will continue to make significant contributions to the economic well-being and quality of life in Jackson County and the Kansas City metropolitan area; and,

WHEREAS, these major league teams have been tenants at Kauffman and Arrowhead Stadiums in the County's Harry S. Truman Sports Complex since the early 1970s; and,

WHEREAS, improvements to and modernization of Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs, and development of a new Major League Baseball stadium for the Royals at a location in Jackson County which is acceptable to the County, are necessary to ensure that each of these stadiums are in nationally competitive physical condition in the marketplace of professional sports, for the foreseeable future; and,



WHEREAS, in order to achieve a development plan to make the stadiums nationally competitive and to guarantee the teams' continued presence in Jackson County for the long term, representatives of the teams, the Jackson County Sports Complex Authority, and the County have been working diligently to negotiate and develop a plan for funding the construction of, and improvements and additions to, the existing Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs, and to a new Major League Baseball stadium for the Royals in Jackson County, Missouri, at a site acceptable to the County; and,

WHEREAS, as an ...

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