File #: 17387    Version: 0 Name: Kansas & Missouri Metropolitan Culture District
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 10/4/2010 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 10/4/2010 Final action: 10/4/2010
Title: A RESOLUTION appointing Dan Tarwater to the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture Commission.
Sponsors: Henry C. Rizzo
Indexes: METROPOLITAN CULTURE COMMISSION
Attachments: 1. 17387adopt.pdf
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
 
Title
A RESOLUTION appointing Dan Tarwater to the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture Commission.  
 
 
Intro
 
RESOLUTION  #17387, October 4, 2010
 
INTRODUCED BY Henry Rizzo, County Legislator
 
 
Body
 
WHEREAS, by Ordinance 2566, dated July 22, 1996, the Legislature did submit to the qualified voters of the County at the general election held on November 5, 1996, a question authorizing participation in the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture District and approving a retail sales tax of one-eighth (1/8) of one cent for the restoration Kansas City's Union Station and the construction of a science museum at Union Station; and,
 
WHEREAS, at that election, the voters of Jackson County, as well as those of Platte and Clay Counties, Missouri, and Johnson County, Kansas, approved the question submitted, and thus authorized the creation of the district and the imposition of the sales tax; and,
 
WHEREAS, article V(a) of § 70.500, RSMo 2000, the enabling legislation in Missouri for the creation of the district, provides that the district be governed by a commission whose membership is to include a member of the governing body of each county which is  a part of the district, who shall be appointed by majority vote of such governing body; and,
 
WHEREAS, the Legislature did, by Resolution #16127, dated October 8, 2007, appoint a member of the Legislature, Henry Rizzo, to an unexpired  term to expire December 31, 2010; and,
 
WHEREAS, the Mr. Rizzo has notified the Clerk of the Legislature of his resignation  from said office effective October 4, 2010; and,
 
WHEREAS, it is now appropriate that the Legislature adopt  this Resolution appointing one of its members to the commission as a successor appointee, for a term to expire December 31, 2010; now therefore,
 
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following-named member of the Legislature be and hereby is appointed to the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture Commission for a term to expire December 31, 2010, under § 70.500, art. V(a)(1)and art. V(a)(5), RSMo 2000:
 
Dan Tarwater
 
 
Enacted and Approved
Effective Date:  This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.
 
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
 
______________________________        ________________________________
Chief Deputy County Counselor            Acting County Counselor
 
Certificate of Passage
 
      I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #17387 of October 4, 2010 was duly passed on October 4, 2010 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:
 
 
      Yeas _______6________                  Nays ______0________
 
      Abstaining _____0______                  Absent _____3_______
 
 
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Date                                     Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature