MoDOT assumes this will result in a cost savings, but cannot estimate the amount. Oversight has not included any savings to the Department in the fiscal impact. Election costs are high, officials note, because the district serves two counties, with portions of some, but not all communities and voting precincts. Oversight notes that it is not possible to know in advance how many elections would be avoided by passage of this proposal. Officials with the Counties of Cass and Jackson, and the Cities of Belton, Raytown, Harrisonville, Blue Springs, and Liberty did not respond to our fiscal note request.
Oversight assumes no fiscal impact.
No direct fiscal impact to small businesses would be expected as a result of this proposal. This act revises various provisions relating to water and sewer systems. This provision is identical to part of SB 256. The act allows Jackson County and Cass County to increase their membership of the common sewer district board of trustees from seven to eight and alters the membership of the board. The approval required for issuing bonds by all common sewer district is changed from four-sevenths to a majority of the voters of the sewer district who vote on the question.