IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
A RESOLUTION appointing Dan Tarwater to the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture District Commission.
Intro
RESOLUTION #17538, March 14, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits and Scott Burnett, County Legislators
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 17387, dated October 4, 2010, appoint a member of the Legislature, Dan Tarwater, to an unexpired term to expire December 31, 2010; and,
WHEREAS, Mr. Tarwater's term has now expired; 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, 2014; 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 District Commission for a term to expire December 31, 2014, 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:
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Chief Deputy County Counselor County Counselor
Certificate of Passage
I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #17538 of March 14, 2011 was duly passed on March 14, 2011 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas ________8_______ Nays ______0________
Abstaining ______0_____ Absent ______1______
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Date Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature