Friday, November 9, 2012
Ne response on a request by Fenton to share lobbying efforts on a potential law to change the way sales tax revenue is distributed in St. Louis County
St. Louis County's sales tax sharing plan was an issue at Monday’s Richmond Height’s city council meeting. City Manager Amy Hamilton said the City of Fenton sent Richmond Heights Mayor James Beck a note voicing concerns about the sharing of tax revenue among the various municipalities in St. Louis County. The issue was discussed during the 2012 Missouri legislative session. Fenton wants those cities that generate large amounts of tax revenue due to a large retail base, like Richmond Heights and Fenton, to hire a lobbyist to represent their interests in Missouri’s General Assembly. Hamilton said Richmond Heights has not responded to the letter. St. Louis County Municipal League Executive Director Tim Fischesser spoke before the council on …
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Mayor Dennis Hancock said he and the city's Board of Aldermen doesn't believe it should support an organization that works against its membership.
The Fenton Board of Alderman unanimously voted against renewing its membership in the St. Louis County Municipal League at its meeting last week. The move comes after previous efforts by Fenton Mayor Dennis Hancock and State Rep. Mike Leara (R-St. Louis County) to eliminate or phase out a sales tax distribution system were opposed by the Municipal League. The league is a non-profit association whose membership includes St. Louis County, St. Louis City and most of the 90 municipalities in the metro area. “The board that feels that in the discussions that have been had over the last few years regarding the sales tax distribution, the municipal league should have taken a neutral position,” Hancock said. Approved by voters in 1993, the …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Wildwood joins five other municipalities to share lobbying expenses to fight against sales tax distribution changes that are heavily favored by Fenton and Chesterfield.
Wildwood city council members voted Monday to hire Jefferson City lobbyists to monitor the current legislative session for potential, new regulations that would change the St. Louis County sales tax distribution formula, otherwise called the pooled sales tax program. What's at stake for Wildwood residents is that 45 percent of the city's general revenues each year, or approximately $2.4 million annually, comes from how county sales tax proceeds are distributed. Under the current system, municipalities are divided into two camps: point-of-sale, or “A” cities; and pool, or “B” cities. The “A” cities are required to share a portion of their 1-cent countywide sales tax revenues with both the “B” cities and St. Louis County on a per-capita …
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
A proposal by Rep. Mike Leara "won't happen this year," he said.
State Rep. Mike Leara (R-St. Louis County) told a group at a Fenton Area Chamber of Commerce legislative update meeting that a bill he sponsored to rework St. Louis County's sales tax distribution system is "stalled in the House" and is not expected to be approved this year. Leara's bill would correct the inequities that some see in the way sales taxes are distributed to St. Louis County and to other municipalities in St. Louis County. Fenton Mayor Dennis Hancock has been a big proponent of changing the current method, which he says costs Fenton about $4 million in revenue each year that is sent to a sales tax pool that is split among St. Louis County and other municipalities. Under the current system, originated in 1993, municipalities …
Don
12:19 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
In the first place, there is no way a city the size of Fenton could support this "large retail base" with less than 6000 residents. A very large portion of the taxes generated by these retailers comes from residents of the surrounding areas. Fenton should not be so GREEDY! This type of thinking has to be put to rest. Just because the leaders of Fenton lost revenues through TIF give-a ways to … more ›