IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE setting the 2020 Jackson County, Missouri tentative tax levy.
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ORDINANCE NO. 5293, November 18, 2019
INTRODUCED BY Theresa Galvin, County Legislator
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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 2020 annual County budget would require the following tax levies on each hundred dollars of assessed valuation for the fiscal year 2020:
FUND LEVY
General Fund $0.2446
Health Fund 0.2616
Park Fund 0.1317
Special Road & Bridge Fund 0.2446
TOTAL ALL FUNDS $0.8825
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 in 2020, after economic activity taxes are paid, is $49,434,000.00; and,
WHEREAS, this tentative estimate is subject to revision based upon actual sales tax revenues during the first six months of 2020 and the permanent levy to be adopted in September 2020 will reflect actual sales tax revenues during the first six months of 2020; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that, based upon tentative estimates of the sales tax revenues in 2020 and based upon the appropriations in the 2020 annual county budget, the following amounts on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation be set as the Jackson County tentative tax levy for the fiscal year 2020 on real and personal property within Jackson County, Missouri:
FUND LEVY
General Fund $0.2446
Health Fund 0.1801
Park Fund 0.1203
Special Road & Bridge Fund 0.0660
TOTAL ALL FUNDS $0.6110
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. 5293 introduced on November 18, 2019, was duly passed on December 16, 2019 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. 5293.
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Date Frank White, Jr., County Executive