Aug. 3 ballot language

Amendment 1: Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to authorize floating gambling facilities on or adjacent to the White River in Rockaway Beach, Missouri, to be licensed and regulated consistent with all other floating facilities in the State of Missouri, with 50 percent of the state revenues generated in the current year to be used for uniform salary supplement grants to all high quality teachers employed in priority schools, and the remaining state revenues generated in the current year to be distributed to all priority school districts on a per pupil basis for capital improvements to educational facilities?

This constitutional amendment will generate annual direct gaming revenue ranging from $39.9 to $49 million for the state and $10.2 to $12.4 million for the local government, subject to local voter approval and licensing by the State Gaming Commission. The amount of indirect revenue or expense, if any, is unknown.

Amendment 2: Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended so that to be valid and recognized in this state, a marriage shall exist only between a man and a woman?

The estimated fiscal impact of this proposed measure to state and local governments is $0.

City of Springfield

Question 1: Shall the city of Springfield, Missouri, continue a sales tax of one-eighth of 1 percent for transportation purposes to fund high priority street and transportation improvements which include the following: improvements to major interchanges and intersections on Glenstone Avenue at James River Freeway, at Primrose Street, at Interstate 44, at Valley Watermill Road, and at Chestnut Expressway and National Avenue; traffic management improvements, including the Traffic Management Center, Intelligent Transportation projects and parking improvements; shared funding with County, State, Federal, and Developers to advance high-priority transportation investments (street and parking), design and partial right-of-way acquisitions for high-priority interchanges/intersection improvements; pavement preservation on Sunshine, Glenstone, and Kansas; and including the repayment of bonds which may be used to pay for the improvements, with the tax to sunset in four years?

This will not increase the current one-eighth of one percent transportation sales tax.

Question 2: Shall the City of Springfield annex approximately 119.02 acres of unincorporated territory adjacent to the west of the existing city limits of Springfield and generally located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Haseltine Road (Farm Road 115) and US Highway 60 (James River Freeway) and property and right-of ways on the north side of Highway 413 (West Sunshine Street), less and except any part within the city limits of the City of Springfield Missouri and as more particularly described in Special Ordinance No. 24578 of the City of Springfield, Missouri?

Question 3: Shall the city of Springfield annex approximately 17.20 acres of unincorporated territory adjacent to it and generally located at the south east corner of the intersection of US Highway 60 (James River Freeway) and Highway 413 (West Sunshine Street) and part of the right-of-way of Highway 413 (West Sunshine Street) and all of the east outer road of U.S. Highway 60 (James River Freeway), less and except any part within the city limits of the City of Springfield Missouri and as more particularly described in Special Ordinance No. 24578 of the city of Springfield, Missouri?

Question 4: Shall the city of Springfield, Missouri, issue its public utility revenue bonds in an amount not exceeding $515,000,000 for the purpose of acquiring, constructing and equipping an additional electric power plant and related facilities, including land and interest therein, for the city’s electric system; the principal of and interest on said revenue bonds and the cost of operation and maintenance of the city’s electric, gas, and bus transportation systems to be payable solely from the revenues derived by the city from the operation of its electric, gas and bus transportation systems until such time, if ever, that the financial operations of the city’s waterworks system are combined with those of its electric, gas and bus transportation systems and thereafter to be payable solely from the combined revenues derived from the operations of the city’s electric, gas, bus transportation and waterworks systems?

Village of Brookline

Proposition 1: Shall the village of Brookline, Missouri, impose a sales tax of 1 percent for general city purposes on all sellers, for the privilege of engaging in the business of selling tangible personal property or rendering taxable services, at retail?

The approval of the proposition authorized under provisions of Section 94.500 to 94.550 RSMo., will authorize the imposition of an one-percent (1 percent) sales tax to be collected in addition to the other sales taxes provided for by law on all receipts from the sale at retail of all tangible personal property or taxable services at retail within the village of Brookline, Missouri, that are subject to taxation under the provisions of Section 144.010 to 144.510 RSMo., including domestic utilities.

Pleasant Hope

PCR-6 Pleasant Hope School District: Shall the Board of Education of Pleasant Hope R-VI School District of Polk County, Missouri, be authorized to increase the operating tax levy of the District to $3.07 per $100 of assessed valuation for the 2005 calendar year and to $3.22 per $100 of assessed valuation for the 2006 calendar year and thereafter?

If this proposition is approved, the adjusted operating levy of the District is estimated to increase by 32 cents per $100 of assessed valuation in calendar year 2005 and to increase by an additional 15 cents per $100 of assessed valuation in calendar year 2006 and thereafter.