File #: 211060    Version: Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 12/1/2021 In control: Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
On agenda: 12/8/2021 Final action: 12/16/2021
Title: Providing for submission to the qualified voters of the City for their approval at an election called for Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 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 as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsors: Quinton Lucas, Melissa Robinson
Attachments: 1. No Fact Sheet, 2. Fiscal Note_211060, 3. Kansas City, MO Health Commission Hlth Commisn_HlthLvy_Ordiance 211060_Final, 4. Hlth Commisn_HlthLvy_Ordiance 211060_Final, 5. Hlth Commisn_HlthLvy_Ordiance 211060_Final 12.15.2021, 6. 12.15.2021Hlth Commisn_HlthLvy_Ordiance 211060_Final, 7. 211060 Compared Version 12.15.pdf, 8. Authenticated Ordinance 211060
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 211060

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Providing for submission to the qualified voters of the City for their approval at an election called for Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 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 as having an accelerated effective date.

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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 Council's intent that whenever revenues...

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