IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
AN ORDINANCE setting the 2014 Jackson County, Missouri tentative tax levy.
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ORDINANCE NO. 4586, November 18, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Scott Burnett, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, chapter 5, 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 proposed 2014 annual County budget would require the following tax levies on each hundred dollars of assessed valuation for the fiscal year 2014:
FUND LEVY
General Fund $0.2635
Health Fund 0.2267
Park Fund 0.1412
Special Road & Bridge Fund 0.2000
TOTAL ALL FUNDS $0.8314
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 of 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 2014 is $39,625,000.00 and,
WHEREAS, this tentative estimate is subject to revision based upon actual sales tax revenues during the first six months of 2014 and the permanent levy to be adopted in September 2014 will reflect actual sales tax revenues during the first six months of 2014; therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that, based upon tentative estimates of the sales tax revenues in 2014 and based upon the appropriations in the 2014 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 2014 on real and personal property within Jackson County, Missouri:
FUND LEVY
General Fund $0.1481
Health Fund 0.1529
Park Fund 0.0897
Special Road & Bridge Fund 0.1391
TOTAL ALL FUNDS $0.5298
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 No. 4586 introduced on November 18, 2013, was duly passed on December 9, 2013 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas ________9_______ Nays ______0_______
Abstaining _____0______ Absent ______0______
This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for his signature.
December 9, 2013 ________________________________
Date Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature
I hereby approve the attached Ordinance No. 4586.
___________________ ________________________________
Date Michael D. Sanders, County Executive