IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
AN ORDINANCE setting the 2016 Jackson County, Missouri tentative tax levy.
ORDINANCE NO. 4794, November 9, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Scott Burnett, County Legislator
WHEREAS, chapter 5, section 539.00 of the Jackson County Code requires the County Legislature to adopt a tentative tax levy sufficient to provide for appropriations in the County budget; and,
WHEREAS, the proposed 2016 annual County budget would require the following tax levies on each hundred dollars of assessed valuation for the fiscal year 2016:
FUND LEVY
General Fund $0.2671
Health Fund 0.2283
Park Fund 0.1457
Special Road & Bridge Fund 0.2014
TOTAL ALL FUNDS $0.8395
and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to authorization granted by sections 67.500 through .545, RSMo, the qualified voters in Jackson County on November 6, 1979, approved Jackson County Proposition #1 which imposed a county-wide sales tax of one-half of one percent and required that the total county property tax levy be reduced by 70% of the total amount of the sales tax revenues in the tax year; and,
WHEREAS, section 67.505, RSMo, requires that after the 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, the tentative estimate of the sales tax revenues to be collected in 2016 is $45,611,800.00 and,
WHEREAS, this tentative estimate is subject to revision based upon actual sales tax revenues during the first six months of 2016 and the permanent levy to be adopted in September 2016 will reflect actual sales tax revenues during the first six months of 2016; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that, based upon tentative estimates of the sales tax revenues in 2016 and based upon the...
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