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File #: 22077    Version: 0 Name: Special Election cost November 2025
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 10/7/2025 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 10/13/2025 Final action: 10/20/2025
Title: A RESOLUTION transferring $1,922,790.00 within the 2025 General Fund to cover costs to be incurred in connection with the Special Election to be held November 4, 2025.
Sponsors: DaRon McGee
Attachments: 1. 22077 Adopted, 2. Fiscal Note 25-478 - Nov Special Election, 3. RLA, 4. KCEB - 11-4-25-Election Letter, 5. JCEB - November 4, 2025 - Jackson County Check Request
Related files: 5989

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

A RESOLUTION transferring $1,922,790.00 within the 2025 General Fund to cover costs to be incurred in connection with the Special Election to be held November 4, 2025.

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 22077, October 13, 2025

 

INTRODUCED BY DaRon McGee, County Legislator

 

 

Body

 WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 5989, dated July 18, 2025, the Legislature did authorize a submission to the qualified voters of Jackson County a ballot question; and,

 

WHEREAS, the Jackson County and Kansas City Boards of Election Commissioners have requested advance payment of the estimated costs incurred in connection with the November 4, 2025 Special Election; and,

 

WHEREAS, the estimated costs for the Special Election are allocated proportionately based on the population of jurisdictions which placed ballot measures on the November 4, 2025, ballot; and,

 

WHEREAS, a transfer of funds within the 2025 General Fund is necessary in order  to cover the costs of the Special Election to be held November 4, 2025, incurred by Jackson County; now therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfers be and hereby are made:

 

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION

CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION

FROM

TO

General Fund

 

 

 

Contingency - State Mandated 3%

 

 

 

001-8003

56830 - Contingency 

$1,922,790

 

 JCEB - General Election

 

 

 

001-5006

56071 - Election Board Expense 

 

$ 952,450

KCEB - General Election

 

 

 

001-5004

56071 - Election Board Expense

 

$ 970,340

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date: This resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

 

________________________________

County Counselor

 

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 22077 of October 13, 2025, was duly passed on ______________________, 2025 by Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

                     Yeas _________________                                          Nays ______________

 

 

Abstaining _____________                     Absent ____________

 

 

 

_________________                                                                                    ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiscal Note

Funds sufficient for this transfer are available from the sources indicated below.

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     001                     8003                     56830

ACCOUNT TITLE:                     General Fund

                                                                                    Contingency - State Mandated 3%

                                                                                    Contingency 

NOT TO EXCEED:                     $1,922,790.00

 

 

There is a balance otherwise unencumbered to the credit of the appropriation to which the expenditure is chargeable and there is a cash balance otherwise unencumbered in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made each sufficient to provide for the obligation herein authorized.

 

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                      001                     5006                     56071

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          General Fund

                                                                                    JCEB - General Election 

                                                                                    Election Board Expense

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $952,450.00

 

 ACCOUNT NUMBER:                      001                     5004                     56071

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          General Fund

                                                                                    KCEB - General Election 

                                                                                    Election Board Expense

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $970,340.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

_________________                     ________________________________

Date                     Chief Administrative Officer