IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
AN ORDINANCE setting the 2003 Jackson County, Missouri, tax levy.
Intro
ORDINANCE # 3409, September 8, 2003
INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits, County Legislator
Body
WHEREAS, chapter 5, section 540.00 of the Jackson County Code, 1984 requires the County Legislature to adopt a tax levy sufficient to provide for appropriations in the County budget; and,
WHEREAS, sections 137.073 and 137.115, RSMo 2000, and Missouri Constitution, article X section 22, require political subdivisions, including counties, to revise their tax levies as a result of general reassessment; and,
WHEREAS, the 2003 annual County budget would require the following tax levies on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation for the fiscal year 2003 after calculation of the levy revision mandated by sections 137.073 and 137.115 and the Missouri Constitution:
LEVY
General $0.2795
Health $0.2588
Park $0.1538
Special Road and Bridge $0.2195
TOTAL $0.9116
and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to authorization granted in sections 67.500 et seq., RSMo 2000, the qualified voters in Jackson County on November 6, 1979, approved Jackson County Proposition #1 which provided for a county-wide sales tax of one-half cent and a corresponding reduction of the County's total property tax levy annually by seventy percent of the total amount of sales tax revenue in the same tax year; and,
WHEREAS, section 67.505, RSMo 2000, requires that after a 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, this estimate is subject to revisions based upon actual sales tax revenues during the calendar year of 2003, and the permanent levy adopted in September 2004, will reflect an adjustment based on actual sales tax revenues during the calendar year 2003; and,
WHEREAS, during the 2002 calendar year, the estimated sales tax revenues exceeded the 2002 actual sales tax revenues by $1,456,769.90 and, therefore, the 2003 Jackson County tax levy must be adjusted to reflect this decrease from the 2002 estimated revenues; and,
WHEREAS, this adjustment is made by deducting the $1,456,769.90 from the 2003 estimated sales tax revenues ($40,416,218.00) to produce $38,959,448.10, of which 70% is used to reduce the 2003 property tax levy; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri that, based upon estimates of the 2003 sales tax revenues, including the decrease in the actual sales tax revenues during 2002, based upon the appropriation in the 2003 annual County budget, and based upon the levy rollbacks required by law, the following amounts on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation be set as the Jackson County Tax Levy for the fiscal year 2003, on real and personal property within Jackson County, Missouri:
LEVY
General $0.1800
Health $0.1600
Park $0.0900
Special Road and Bridge $0.1400
TOTAL $0.5700
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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Acting County Counselor
I hereby certify that the attached Ordinance, Ordinance # 3409 introduced on September 8, 2003 was duly passed on _________September 15________________, 2003 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas _______8________ Nays ______0_______
Abstaining _____0______ Absent _____1______
This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for her signature.
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Date Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature
I hereby approve the attached Ordinance # 3409.
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Date Katheryn J. Shields, County Executive