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Providing for submission to the
qualified voters of the City for their approval at an election called for
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, the question of renewing the ad valorem tax levy for a
period of nine years for ambulance services, emergency medical services,
hospital and public health purposes at the current level of twenty-two cents
($.22) per one hundred dollars ($100.00) assessed valuation on real and
tangible personal property within the City; directing the City Clerk to notify
the responsible election authorities of this election; and recognizing this
ordinance to be an emergency measure.
WHEREAS, the
City Charter empowers the City to provide for the medical and other care of
sick, aged or mentally ill poor persons, to provide for the public health of
its citizens and provide for the protection of the public health through a
variety of means; and
WHEREAS, as part
of this charge, the City Council intends to use this charge to provide its
citizens with access to acute, primary and emergency care; and
WHEREAS, Section
92.031, RSMo, authorizes the submission of a renewal in the current rate of the
levy for the ad valorem tax levied on real and tangible personal property
within the City for ambulance services, emergency medical services, hospital
and public health purposes by twenty-two cents ($.22) per one hundred dollars
($100.00) assessed valuation to a vote of the people; and
WHEREAS, the number
of indigent City residents has increased while both the State of Missouri and
the federal government have reduced the amounts they reimburse medical care
providers for medical care provided to indigent persons; and
WHEREAS, the work of,
and the costs associated with, protecting and preserving the public health
continue to increase and have outpaced the revenues generated by the City’s
existing health tax levy; and
WHEREAS, it is the
Councils intent that whenever revenues generated by the health tax levy are
used to provide health care or preventative health care through medical care
providers, those revenues will be made available only through contracts
providing clear performance measures and standards for demonstrated or
documented indigent health care costs for which other funding or compensation
cannot be identified or for preventive health care costs; and
WHEREAS, in recent
years, the unsubsidized costs of providing adequate medical care to the
indigent citizens of the City have also outpaced the revenues generated by the
City’s existing health tax levy; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED
BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. ELECTION
CALLED. An election is called and shall be held in Kansas City, Missouri,
on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at which election there shall be submitted to the
qualified electors of Kansas City, Missouri, a proposition set out below to
authorize a renewal of the special tax levy of twenty-two cents ($.22) per one
hundred dollars ($100.00) assessed valuation for a period of nine years for
ambulance services, emergency medical services, hospital and public health
purposes at the current total level of seventy-two cents ($.72) per one hundred
dollars ($100.00) assessed valuation on real and tangible personal property
within the City.
Section 2. BALLOT
LANGUAGE. The ballot language shall be in substantially the following form:
QUESTION _____
SHALL THE FOLLOWING
BE APPROVED?
Shall the City of
Kansas City, Missouri be authorized to renew the current tax levy of 22 cents
per $100.00 assessed valuation dedicated to ambulance services, emergency
medical services, hospital and public health purposes for a period of nine
years with the additional revenues to continue to be distributed as follows:
the revenue derived from 3 1/2 cents of the levy to ambulance services, the
revenue derived from 3 1/2 cents of the levy to non-for-profit neighborhood
health centers, and the revenue derived from 15 cents of the levy to Truman
Medical Center?
Section 3. ELECTION
NOTICE. That the notice of election shall read as follows:
_____________________________________________
NOTICE OF ELECTION
CITY OF KANSAS CITY,
MISSOURI
Notice is hereby
given that the City of Kansas City has called an election to be held in the
City on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. at
which election all qualified voters residing within the City of Kansas City,
Missouri, will be given the opportunity to vote.
The official ballot will be in
substantially the following form:
_____________________________________________
QUESTION _____
SHALL THE FOLLOWING
BE APPROVED?
Shall the City of Kansas City, Missouri be authorized to
renew the current tax levy of 22 cents per $100.00 assessed valuation dedicated
to ambulance services, emergency medical services, hospital and public health
purposes for a period of nine years with the additional revenues to continue to
be distributed as follows: the revenue derived from 3 1/2 cents of the levy to
ambulance services, the revenue derived from 3 1/2 cents of the levy to
non-for-profit neighborhood health centers, and the revenue derived from 15
cents of the levy to Truman Medical Center?
_____ Yes
_____ No
[Instructions to voters will
be supplied by the election authorities]
_____________________________________________
A full and complete copy of Ordinance No. ______, (as it may
be amended) submitting this question to the electorate is on file in the office
of the City Clerk of Kansas City, Missouri and is open for inspection and
copying.
The election will be held at the following polling places in
the City of Kansas City, Missouri: [insert list in last publication only].
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I hereby certify that the
foregoing is the legal notice to be published pursuant to Section 115.127,
RSMo.
Given under my hand and the
official seal of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, this _________ day of
___________, 20__.
(SEAL)
______________________________
MARILYN SANDERS
City Clerk of
Kansas City, Missouri
Before me, a notary public,
personally appeared Marilyn Sanders, to me known to be the City Clerk of the
City of Kansas City, Missouri, and the person who acknowledged to me that she
executed the same for the purposes therein stated.
_________________________________
Notary
Public
My
commission expires:_____________________________
Section 4.
NOTICE TO ELECTION AUTHORITIES BY CITY CLERK. That following passage of
this ordinance the City Clerk shall deliver certified copies of this ordinance
and notice of election to the Clerk of Cass County,
Board of Election Commissioners of Clay County, Board of Election Commissioners
of Kansas City, and Board of Election Commissioners of Platte County,
not later than January 22, 2013, which shall be the authority of each election
authority of the City to submit the foregoing question to the electors of the
City and to give public notice as provided by law.
Section 5. EFFECT
OF INVALIDITY. This ordinance presents a proposed renewal of a special
addition in the health tax levy. Should the proposed renewal of the special
twenty-two cents ($.22) health tax levy authorized in this ordinance be found
to be unlawful or if it is not approved by a simple majority of the voters, the
basic levy of fifty cents ($.50) will remain in effect.
Section 6.
EMERGENCY RECOGNIZED. This ordinance, providing for the submission of a
question to the people of Kansas City, Missouri, is hereby recognized to be an
emergency measure within the meaning of Section 503(a)(3)(A) of the Charter
because it calls an election and provides for the submission of proposals to
the people; and as such shall become effective immediately following approval
by the Mayor, or five days after passage if no action is taken by the Mayor to
approve or veto the ordinance.
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Approved as to
form and legality:
______________________________
William Geary
City Attorney