ORDINANCE NO. 150143
Pursuant to
Section 68-582 of the Code of Ordinances, setting the rates for the trafficway
maintenance tax, the park and boulevard maintenance tax, and the boulevards and
parkways front foot assessment at $0.00 for Fiscal Year 2015-16.
WHEREAS, at the
election held on August 7, 2012 the voters of the City of Kansas City, Missouri
approved a park sales tax of ½ cent authorized by Section 644.032 of the
Revised Statutes of Missouri for the purpose of providing for the maintenance
and operations of local parks, parkways, boulevards and community centers, to
become effective January 1, 2013;
WHEREAS, in
approving the park sales tax at the August 7, 2012 election, the voters
directed that the City cease billing and collecting
the trafficway maintenance tax, the park and boulevard maintenance tax, and the
boulevards and parkways front foot assessment by setting the assessment for
each at $0.00 effective January 1, 2013 and for each following year for as long
as the park sales tax is in effect;
WHEREAS, upon approval of the park sales tax on August 7,
2012, Section 68-582 of the Code of Ordinances was adopted, requiring that,
beginning January 1, 2013 and each year thereafter when levies are set by the
City Council as part of its annual budget deliberations, the City Council will
adopt appropriate ordinances that establish the park and boulevard maintenance
taxes and trafficway maintenance taxes at $0.00, and establish the boulevards
and parkways front foot assessments at $0.00.
WHEREAS, at their meeting held on March 3, 2015, the Board
of Parks and Recreation Commissioners passed a resolution recommending to the
City Council that the assessment for the park and boulevard maintenance tax and
the boulevards and parkways front foot assessment each be set as $0.00 for
Fiscal Year 2015-16.
BE IT ORDAINED
BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That
for the purpose of maintaining, adorning, constructing, repairing and otherwise
improving the parks, parkways, boulevards, roads and grounds located in the
City under the control and management of the Board of Parks and Recreation
Commissioners, a maintenance tax of $0.00 on each hundred dollars of the
assessed value upon real estate, exclusive of buildings and improvements, not
exempted by law from taxation is imposed and levied according to the valuation
and assessment of real estate for Fiscal Year 2015-16.
Section 2. That
for the purpose of maintaining, repairing, and otherwise improving the
boulevards, parkways, roads, streets, avenues and highways under the control
and management of the Board of Parks and Recreation, there is levied for Fiscal
Year 2015-16, a special assessment of $0.00 per lineal foot on all lots,
tracts, and parcels of land, abutting the boulevards, parkways, roads, streets,
avenues and highways under the control and management of the Board of Parks and
Recreation Commissioners.
Section 3. That
there is hereby levied upon all real estate, exclusive of all improvements, not
exempt by law from general taxation in the North, East and West Trafficway
Districts, as established in section 2-1934, 2-1935 and 2-1936, respectively,
of the Code of Ordinances, a special assessment of $0.00 on each hundred
dollars of the assessed value of real estate, exclusive of improvements, the
assessed value to be the same as shown by the books of the Director of Finance
for the assessment of real estate in the North, East and West Trafficway
Districts made for general City purposes for Fiscal Year 2015-16 as to all real
estate listed on the books for taxation for general City purposes.
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I hereby certify that
there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation
to which the foregoing expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance,
otherwise unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which
payment is to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligation hereby incurred.
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Randall
J. Landes
Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
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Stephen
Walsh
Assistant City Attorney