Floor Amendment
August 23, 2004
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
AN ORDINANCE repealing sections 209. and 229., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the salary of certain elected officials, and enacting, in lieu thereof, two new sections relating to the same subject.
Intro
ORDINANCE 3522, August 9, 2004
INTRODUCED BY Fred Arbanas, Dennis Waits, Dan Tarwater, Scott Burnett,
Ronald E. Finley, Bob Spence, and Henry C. Rizzo, County Legislators
Body
WHEREAS, during their deliberations in 1970, the framers of the Constitutional Home Rule Charter of Jackson County set the compensation of the County Executive at 111% of the salary being paid to circuit court judges of the State of Missouri, then $22,500; and,
WHEREAS, by the time the charter became effective on January 1, 1973, the salary of circuit judges had risen to $25,000 pursuant to an act of the Missouri General Assembly; and,
WHEREAS, the salary for members of the Legislature, originally set by the charter at $6,000, has also declined compared to the salary of circuit judges, which is now $108,000; and,
WHEREAS, the Legislature now believes it appropriate that, for their upcoming term, the salaries of these officers be set at the same ratio as those salaries bore to that of a circuit judge in 1973, 100% for the County Executive and 24% for members of the Legislature; and,
WHEREAS, if these salaries were to be effective now, the County Executive would be paid $108,000 annually and the members of the Legislature $25,920 annually; now therefore,
WHEREAS, in Ordinance 3454, dated December 8, 2003, the Legislature used a similar formula to set new salaries for the Prosecuting Attorney and Sheriff, effective January 1, 2005; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Enacting Clause. Sections 209. and 229., Jackson County Code, 1984, is hereby repealed, and two ne...
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