JOPLIN CITY HALL 602 S. MAIN JOPLIN MISSOURI
AUGUST 12, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Notice is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Joplin, Missouri, will hold a Special Meeting beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, August 12, 2019 at Joplin City Hall, in the 5th floor Council Chambers, 602 S. Main. The purpose of the Special Meeting is for the City Council to consider calling an election on November 5, 2019.
SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA
1. Reading of the Special Call
2. Invocation
3. Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America
4. Roll Call
5 Emergency Ordinance
1.COUNCIL BILL NO. 2019-006 - AN ORDINANCE calling an election on November 5, 2019, in the City of Joplin, Missouri, to submit to the qualified voters, a question as to whether to impose a one-half of one percent (1/2 percent) general sales tax on retail sales within the City of Joplin, Missouri, for the purpose of providing revenues to close the City of Joplin Police and Fire Pension Plan to new hires, migrating new hires to the Missouri Local Government Employees Retirement System (LAGERS), and declaring an emergency.
6. Any other business
5 comments:
The total sales tax is already at 8.075%. Joplin has always been a low cost of living area - if sales tax keeps going up - then Joplin will loose its advantage. If you buy a car for $20,000 the sales tax is $20,000 x .08075 = $1,615 (A 1/2% sales tax increase would add $100).
What about the cost savings proposed by Leslie Hasse (clothing allowances for detectives, taking cars home, reducing number of people on a fire truck) - have any of these been implemented?
Anytime a tax is proposed with an expiration date - it is ALWAYS EXTENDED. The logic is that "you are used to paying it". What will happen is that we will end up with a 1% safety tax forever.
Bring back Pizza Inn they were the best pizza in Joplin.
Taxation is theft, I will vote NO!.
Yeah!
I agree on the firemen 555 total bullshit that it takes 4 of them to go grocery shopping at wal mart
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