Floor Amendment
January 24, 2000
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
A RESOLUTION appointing Terry Young to the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture Commission.
Intro
RESOLUTION # 13031, January 18, 2000
INTRODUCED BY Victor E. Callahan, 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 Supp. 1999, 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, Dennis Waits, the member previously appointed by the Legislature to the commission, has resigned as a commissioner effective January 3, 2000; 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, 2002; 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, 2002, under § 70.50...
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