IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
AN ORDINANCE setting the 2006 Jackson County, Missouri tentative tax levy.
Intro
ORDINANCE #3718, November 21, 2005
INTRODUCED BY Henry C. Rizzo, County Legislator
Body
WHEREAS, Section 539.00 of the Jackson County Code requires the County Legislature to adopt a tentative tax levy sufficient to provide for appropriations in the county budget; and,
WHEREAS, the 2006 annual county budget would require the following tax levies on each hundred dollars of assessed valuation for the fiscal year 2006:
FUND LEVY
General Fund $0.2695
Health Fund 0.2327
Park Fund 0.1483
Special Road & Bridge Fund 0.2016
TOTAL ALL FUNDS $0.8521
and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to authorization granted by Sections 67.500 through .545, RSMo, the qualified voters in Jackson County on November 6, 1979, approved Jackson County Proposition #1 which imposed a county-wide sales tax on one-half of one percent and required that the total county property tax levy be reduced by 70% of the total amount of the sales tax revenues in the tax year; and,
WHEREAS, Section 67.505, RSMo, requires that after the County has determined its budget, the total property tax levy must be reduced in an amount sufficient to decrease the total property taxes it will collect by an amount equal to 70% of the sales tax revenue in the same tax year; and,
WHEREAS, the tentative estimate of the sales tax revenues to be collected in 2006 is $40,300,000.00; and,
WHEREAS, this tentative estimate is subject to revision based upon actual sales tax revenues during the first six months of 2006 and the permanent levy to be adopted in September 2006 will reflect actual sales tax revenues during the first six months of 2006; therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that, based upon tentative estimates of the sales tax revenues in 2006 and based upon the appropriations in the 2006 annual county budget, the following amounts on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation be set as the Jackson County tentative tax levy for the fiscal year 2006 on real and personal property within Jackson County, Missouri:
FUND LEVY
General Fund $0.1560
Health Fund 0.1555
Park Fund 0.0880
Special Road & Bridge Fund 0.1380
TOTAL ALL FUNDS $0.5375
Enacted and Approved
Effective Date: This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Chief Deputy County Counselor County Counselor
I hereby certify that the attached Ordinance, Ordinance #3718 introduced on November 21, 2005 was duly passed on ___________December 12_________________, 2005 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas _______9________ Nays ______0_______
Abstaining _____0______ Absent ____0_______
Fiscal Note
This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for her signature.
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Date Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature
I hereby approve the attached Ordinance #3718.
___________________ ___________________________________
Date Katheryn J. Shields, County Executive