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Harrisonville board adopts tax levy, approves budget amendment for equipment and safety repairs
Summary
The Harrisonville Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to adopt a tax levy ordinance and approved an administrative amendment to the 2024 operating budget to cover an estimated $43,000 loader engine rebuild and other unplanned general-fund expenses; the meeting adjourned to executive session on real estate.
The Harrisonville Board of Aldermen on Monday adopted a city tax-levy ordinance and approved an amendment to the 2024 operating budget to cover several unexpected general-fund expenses.
During a public hearing the board opened and then closed comment before reading Council Bill 51 into the record. The ordinance text, read aloud by the meeting reader, stated a total tax levy of "0.6367¢." After a motion to suspend the rules and advance the measure, the board conducted a roll-call vote and adopted the measure; the clerk announced the ordinance number as 3705.
City Administrator Jeremy told the board the budget amendment (Council Bill 52) was prompted by two unplanned costs. He said the street department's wheel loader requires an engine rebuild and "the estimate for that is about $43,000 to cover the engine rebuild." He also said the police dispatch server-room fire suppression system discharged and required service, a "pretty significant cost" that he did not quantify on the record. Jeremy said both items would be paid from the city's general fund and discussed trade-in values and timing ahead of winter needs.
After brief questions from aldermen about warranty length (Jeremy said he believed the rebuild carried a one-year warranty) and the funding source, the board voted to suspend the rules and adopt Council Bill 52; the clerk announced that measure as ordinance 3706.
Alderman Davidson used his member report to call attention to a recent officer fatality in another jurisdiction and to the new "Valentine's Law," saying the statute increases penalties for certain pursuit-related offenses. City Administrator Jeremy noted the city has already applied the new law locally in a recent apprehension. The board also heard routine project updates from Jeremy, including progress on the airport runway, sewer projects and an expected resubmittal for the Cedar Crossing development, described in the record as 203 single-family homes and 24 duplexes.
Before leaving open session, Alderman Milner moved—and Alderman Davidson seconded—that the board adjourn to executive session to discuss leasing, purchase or sale of real estate under Missouri's closed-meeting statute cited in the record; the motion passed on a roll call and the board moved to a conference-room executive session.
Votes at a glance - Council Bill 51 (ordinance levying 2024 tax levy): motion to suspend rules and adopt passed by roll call; recorded as Ordinance 3705. - Council Bill 52 (administrative amendment to 2024 operating budget): motion to suspend rules and adopt passed by roll call; recorded as Ordinance 3706. - Motion to adjourn to executive session to discuss real estate: passed by roll call.
What to know next The ordinances were adopted on the record; for the formal ordinance texts and any precise tax-rate language the city posts the official documents and ordinance files. The board planned to meet in executive session immediately after the open meeting to discuss a real-estate matter.
