Floor Amendment
March 18, 2003
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
A RESOLUTION appointing Robert Stringfield to the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture Commission.
Intro
RESOLUTION # 14490, March 10, 2003
INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits, 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 term of the member previously appointed by the Legislature, Terry Young, expired on December 31, 2002; and,
WHEREAS, it is now appropriate that the Legislature adopt this Resolution appointing one of its members to the commission, for a term to expire December 31, 2006; 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, 2006, under § 70.500, art. V(a)(1), RSMo 2000:
Robert Stringfield.
Enacted and Approved
Effective Date: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
______________________________ ________________________________
Acting County Counselor
Certificate of Passage
I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #14490 of March 10, 2003 was duly passed on ____________March 18_________________, 2003 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas ________6_________ Nays _____0______ Vacancy _____1_____
Abstaining _____0______ Absent _____2_______
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Date Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature