IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE submitting to the qualified voters of Jackson County, Missouri, at a special election to be held on April 2, 2024, a question authorizing Jackson County to impose a countywide parks sales tax of three-sixteenths of one percent for a period of twenty-five years for the purpose of retaining the Kansas City Chiefs sports team in Jackson County, Missouri.
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ORDINANCE NO. 5826 January 8, 2024
INTRODUCED BY Manuel Abarca IV, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Kansas City Chiefs Football Club is a County and area-wide asset that has made and will continue to make significant contributions to the economic well-being and quality of life in Jackson County and the Kansas City metropolitan area; and,
WHEREAS, this professional league team has been the County's tenant at Arrowhead Stadium at the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex since the early 1970s; and,
WHEREAS, improvements to and modernization of Arrowhead Stadium is necessary to ensure that the stadium is in nationally competitive physical condition in the marketplace of professional sports, for the foreseeable future; and,
WHEREAS, to achieve a development plan to make the stadium nationally competitive and to guarantee the teams' continued presence in Jackson County, representatives of the team, the Jackson County Sports Complex Authority, and the County have been working diligently to negotiate and develop a plan for improvements and additions to the existing Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs, in Jackson County, Missouri; and,
WHEREAS, as an express condition of negotiating possible financial support of the stadium, Jackson County, Missouri, requires and is negotiating (a) a lease and development agreement with the Chiefs which incorporates the terms and conditions under which the Chiefs will develop, renovate, furnish, equip, repair, maintain, operate, and occupy Arrowhead Stadium, and (b) one or more community benefits agreeme...
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