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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