IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
AN ORDINANCE setting the 2026 Jackson County Community Mental Health Fund Levy.
Intro
ORDINANCE NO. 6133, September 14, 2026
INTRODUCED BY Donna Peyton, County Legislator
Body
WHEREAS, pursuant to RSMo sections 205.975 through 205.990, as amended, and the vote of the qualified voters of November 4, 1980, and June 2, 1991, established for the Jackson County Community Mental Health Fund a tax levy at the annual rate not to exceed thirteen and three tenths (13.3) cents per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation on all taxable property in Jackson County, Missouri; and,
WHEREAS, RSMo sections 137.073 and 137.115, and Missouri Constitution, Article X, Section 22, require tax levies to be revised as a result of general reassessment; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri that, after calculation of the levy revision mandated by statute and the Constitution, there is hereby levied for the 2026 tax year, the rate of ten and eighteen hundredths (10.18) cents per one hundred (100) dollars of assessed valuation on all taxable property for the Jackson County Community Mental Health Fund.
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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County Counselor
I hereby certify that the attached ordinance, Ordinance No. 6133 introduced on September 14, 2026 was vetoed on September 29 and overridden on September 30, 2026 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas ______7_________ Nays ______0________
Abstaining ____0_______ Absent ______2_______
This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for his signature.
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Date Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature
I hereby approve the attached Ordinance No. 6133.
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Date Phil LeVota, County Executive