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Lee's Summit committee debates stormwater utility, leans toward sales-tax approach
Summary
City engineer presented three funding options — property tax, sales tax and an impervious-area user fee — estimating about $6.1–$6.2 million annually; council members requested a deeper dive and signaled preference for a sales-tax scenario but asked staff to return with comparative data and timelines.
City engineer George Binger delivered a detailed presentation on July 14 outlining options for dedicated stormwater funding in Lee's Summit and sketched the likely costs and administrative trade-offs of each approach.
Binger said the city's estimated annual need to add two operations crews, cover small capital projects and provide regulatory/administrative support is in the roughly $6.1–$6.2 million range. He described three primary options: a property-tax levy (roughly $0.22 per $100 of assessed valuation, which staff said equates to roughly $150–$160 per year for the median $350,000 home), a sales-tax approach (staff discussed an eighth-of-a-cent producing about $3.1 million and a quarter-cent approaching $6–7…
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