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Jefferson County Council finalizes flood maps, budget amendment, property sale and tax rates; rezoning moved to perfection
Summary
Council perfected and in many cases finally passed several ordinances including adoption of updated flood-hazard maps (Bill 25‑09241), authorization of delinquent tax trustee sales (25‑09242), a 2025 law-enforcement budget transfer (25‑09243) and an ordinance setting tax rates (25‑09244); rezoning bill 25‑09259 was approved on first reading and moved to perfection.
The Jefferson County Council voted on a package of ordinances Tuesday covering flood-hazard mapping, delinquent tax sales, a law-enforcement budget transfer and county tax rates.
Flood maps and prevention ordinance (Bill 25‑09241): Council placed the ordinance adopting updated flood-hazard maps on second reading, perfected it and moved it toward final passage. The clerk read the bill by title and, with no discussion, the council perfected and later approved the bill by recorded vote (7–0).
Delinquent tax sale authorization (Bill 25‑09242): The council perfected and finally passed an ordinance authorizing the delinquent tax trustee, pursuant to RSMo section 140.26, to sell specified real property and execute deeds to Eagle View Financial LLC. The measure passed without discussion (7–0).
Budget amendment (Bill 25‑09243): An ordinance to amend the 2025 budget to transfer funds between the law-enforcement reserve account and the reserve revenue account was perfected and finally passed after a motion and second with no recorded dissent (7–0).
Tax-rate ordinance (Bill 25‑09244): Council reviewed tax-ceiling and rollback calculations provided by the county clerk and confirmed that the general-revenue effective rate certified as zero due to sales-tax offsets while the road-and-bridge levy was certified at 0.1969; the tax-rate ordinance was perfected and finally passed (7–0).
Rezoning (Bill 25‑09259): Council introduced Bill 25‑09259 on first reading — an application (CC225047) to rezone part of parcel 09‑4‑19‑1‑002‑002 from R‑20 (single-family residential) to Community Commercial CC2 in Council District 4 — describing it as a cleanup for property held by the ambulance district. The motion to approve and move the bill to perfection passed unanimously.
Votes at a glance: The items above were typically approved by unanimous or near-unanimous roll-call votes; specific tallies were recorded in the meeting minutes and read aloud by the clerk.
