IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
AN ORDINANCE setting the 2015 Jackson County, Missouri, tax levy.
Intro
ORDINANCE NO. 4776, September 21, 2015
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 2015 annual County budget would require the following tax levies on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation for the fiscal year 2015 after calculation of the levy revision mandated by sections 137.073 and 137.115 and the Missouri Constitution:
LEVY
General $0.2671
Health $0.2283
Park $0.1427
Special Road and Bridge $0.2014
TOTAL $0.8395
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 based upon actual sales tax revenues during the calendar year of 2015, and the permanent levy adopted in September 2016 will reflect an adjustment based on actual sales tax revenues during the calendar year 2015; and,
WHEREAS, during the 2014 calendar year, the actual sales tax revenues exceeded the 2014 estimated sales tax revenues by $284,159.58 and, therefore, the 2015 Jackson County tax levy must be adjusted to reflect this increase from the 2014 estimated revenues; and,
WHEREAS, this adjustment is made by adding the $284,159.58 to the 2015 estimated sales tax revenues ($49,817,495.94) to produce $50,101,655.52, of which 70% is used to reduce the 2015 property tax levy; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that, based upon estimates of the 2015 sales tax revenues, including the increase in the actual sales tax revenues during 2014, based upon the appropriations in the 2015 annual County budget, and based upon the levy rollbacks required by law, the following amounts on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation be set as the Jackson County Tax Levy for the fiscal year 2015, on real and personal property within Jackson County, Missouri:
LEVY
General $0.1356
Health $0.1442
Park $0.0839
Special Road and Bridge $0.1319
TOTAL $0.4956
Enacted and Approved
Effective Date: This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Chief Deputy County Counselor County Counselor
I hereby certify that the attached Ordinance, Ordinance No. 4776 introduced on September 21, 2015, was duly passed on September 28, 2015 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas ______9_________ Nays _____0________
Abstaining ____0_______ Absent _____0______
This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for his signature.
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Date Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature
I hereby approve the attached Ordinance No.4776.
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Date Michael D. Sanders, County Executive