IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
AN ORDINANCE setting the 2018 Jackson County, Missouri, tax levy.
Intro
ORDINANCE NO. 5152, September 17, 2018
INTRODUCED BY Scott Burnett, County Legislator
Body
WHEREAS, section 540.00 of the Jackson County Code 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, 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 2018 annual County budget would require the following tax levies on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation for the fiscal year 2018 after calculation of the levy revisions mandated by sections 137.073 and 137.115 and the Missouri Constitution:
LEVY
General $0.2842
Health $0.3040
Park $0.1531
Special Road and Bridge $0.2842
TOTAL $1.0255
and,
WHEREAS, these levy rates include the reversal of prior voluntary reductions of levy rates, as authorized by section 137.073.5(3), RSMo, and Resolution 19965, dated August 20, 2018; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to authorization granted in sections 67.500 et seq., RSMo, 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, 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 ...
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