File #: 4716    Version: 0 Name: Jackson County Code repealing sections 7506 and 9305
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/12/2015 In control: Finance and Audit Committee
On agenda: 2/17/2015 Final action: 3/9/2015
Title: AN ORDINANCE repealing sections 7506. and 9305., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the compensation of certain County board and commission members, and enacting, in lieu thereof, two new sections relating to the same subject.
Sponsors: Dennis Waits
Indexes: JACKSON COUNTY CODE
Code sections: Sections 7506 and 9305, Jackson County Code, 1984 - Compensation of certain County Boards and Commissions
Attachments: 1. 4716adopt
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

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AN ORDINANCE repealing sections 7506. and 9305., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the compensation of certain County board and commission members, and enacting, in lieu thereof, two new sections relating to the same subject.


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ORDINANCE NO. 4716, February 17, 2015

INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits, County Legislator


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WHEREAS, the compensation for members of the Merit System Commission has not been adjusted since 2001, and that for members of the Drug Commission has not been adjusted since at least 2008; and

WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the health, welfare and safety of the citizens of Jackson County that the compensation of the members of these commissions be adjusted at this time; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Enacting Clause. Section 7506. and 9305. ,Jackson County, 1984, is hereby repealed, and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 7506. and 9305., to read as follows:



7506. Compensation.

Each commissioner[s] shall receive [fifty dollars ($50)] seven hundred dollars ($700) per [meeting] month, for each month he or she personally attends scheduled meetings and/or hearings, but shall not receive [less] more than [two thousand dollars ($2,000)] eight thousand four hundred ($8,400) for any calendar year. For each month in which a commissioner attends one or more, but not all, scheduled meetings and/or hearings, that commissioner's compensation for that month shall be reduced by the amount of two hundred dollars ($200) for each meeting or hearing not attended.

9305. Drug Commission.
A Drug Commission shall be established and organized as follows:

9305.1 Composition
The County Executive shall appoint, as members of the commission, nine residents of Jackson County from among those recommended by the County Legislature or from among th...

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