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Saint Louis County, MO August 5, 2008 Election
Directory of Saint Louis County, MO Propositions
County Results as of Aug 28 1:37pm

Propositions
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Proposition 1. Gross receipts tax -- City of Wellston (Simple Majority Required)
Fail: 53 / 46.49% Yes votes ...... 61 / 53.51% No votes
Shall the gross receipts tax described in Section 13-72 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Wellston, Missouri for every person engaged in the business of selling, distributing, and supplying natural, artificial or mixed natural and artificial gas for heating, lighting, power, and refrigeration in the city be increased from five (5) percent of the gross receipts to seven (7) percent of the gross receipts?

YES

NO

Proposition 1-Cr. General property tax -- City of Crestwood (Simple Majority Required)
Fail: 854 / 28.34% Yes votes ...... 2,159 / 71.66% No votes
Shall the City of Crestwood, St. Louis County, Missouri, impose a general property tax in the amount of $.35 additional on each $100 of assessed valuation of all taxable residential, commercial and personal property for the purpose of funding the City's operations and providing services to the residents of Crestwood, said tax to be imposed for a period of six (6) years from the year of passage?

Yes

No

Proposition 2. Gross receipts tax -- City of Wellston (Simple Majority Required)
Fail: 49 / 43.36% Yes votes ...... 64 / 56.64% No votes
Shall the gross receipts tax described in Section 13-91 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Wellston, Missouri for every person engaged in the business of selling, distributing, and supplying electricity, electrical power or electrical service for compensation in the city be increased from five (5) percent of the gross receipts to seven (7) percent of the gross receipts?

YES

NO

Proposition 3. Gross receipts tax : water -- City of Wellston (Simple Majority Required)
Fail: 53 / 46.09% Yes votes ...... 62 / 53.91% No votes
Shall the gross receipts tax described in Section 13-111 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Wellston, Missouri for every person engaged in the business of furnishing water service in the city be increased from five (5) percent of the gross receipts to seven (7) percent of the gross receipts?

YES

NO

Proposition 4. gross receipts tax: exchange telephone -- City of Wellston (Simple Majority Required)
Fail: 48 / 42.11% Yes votes ...... 66 / 57.89% No votes
Shall the gross receipts tax described in Section 13-131 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Wellston, Missouri for every person engaged in the business of furnishing exchange telephone service in the city be increased from five (5) percent of the gross receipts to seven (7) percent of the gross receipts?

YES

NO

Proposition 5. gross receipts tax: telegraph service -- City of Wellston (Simple Majority Required)
Fail: 43 / 37.07% Yes votes ...... 73 / 62.93% No votes
Shall the gross receipts tax described in Section 13-151 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Wellston, Missouri for every person engaged in the business of supplying or furnishing telegraph service in the city be increased from five (5) percent of the gross receipts to seven (7) percent of the gross receipts?

YES

NO

Proposition 6. Business and occupational license fee -- City of Wellston (Simple Majority Required)
Fail: 57 / 49.57% Yes votes ...... 58 / 50.43% No votes
Shall the business and occupational license fee of the City of Wellston, Missouri described in Section 13-234 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Wellston, Missouri for merchants businesses be increased from $2.00 on each $1,000.00 or fractional part thereof on all gross sales with the minimum fee of $75.00 regardless of the amount of gross sales as described in Section 12-234 be increased to $3.00 on each $1,000.00 or fractional part thereof on all gross sales, provided, however that in no case shall the merchant's license tax be less than $100.00 regardless of the amount of gross sales?

YES

NO

Proposition A. Lateral sewer service funds -- City of Saint George (Simple Majority Required)
Pass: 109 / 62.64% Yes votes ...... 65 / 37.36% No votes
Shall a maximum charge not to exceed fifty dollars be assessed annually on residential property for each lateral sewer service line serving six or less dwelling units on that property and condominiums that have six or less condominium units per building and any condominium responsible for its own individual lateral sewer line to provide funds to pay the cost of certain repairs of those lateral sewer service lines which may be billed quarterly or annually?

YES

NO

Proposition B. Bond Election -- Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District (Four-Sevenths Majority Required)
Pass: 1,216 / 39.52% Yes votes ...... 1,861 / 60.48% No votes
Shall the Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District of St. Louis County, Missouri, incur an indebtedness of said District in the amount of Ten Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($10,700,000) and issue general obligation bonds of said District in evidence thereof in order to or for the purchase and clearing of land or real estate, the construction, equipment, and maintenance of administration buildings, fire and ambulance stations, garages and houses, and the purchase of ambulances, fire trucks, emergency medical service equipment, paramedical equipment, fire protection equipment and fire-fighting apparatus and auxiliary equipment for said District?

YES

NO

Proposition C. business license fee -- City of Brentwood (Simple Majority Required)
Pass: 599 / 65.54% Yes votes ...... 315 / 34.46% No votes
Shall the business license fee for a Credit Union or a Savings & Loan less the seven hundred (700) square feet be changed from the greater of two hundred dollars ($200) or ten cents ($0.10) a square foot annually to a flat fee of five hundred dollars ($500) annually?

YES

NO

Proposition D. business license fee -- City of Brentwood (Simple Majority Required)
Pass: 605 / 66.34% Yes votes ...... 307 / 33.66% No votes
Shall the business license fee for a Bank, Trust Company or Loan Agency less than seven hundred (700) square feet be changed from the greater of five hundred dollars ($500) or ten cents ($0.10) a square foot annually to a flat fee of five hundred dollars ($500) annually?

YES NO

Proposition E. license fee for ATM -- City of Brentwood (Simple Majority Required)
Pass: 501 / 53.93% Yes votes ...... 428 / 46.07% No votes
Shall a license fee in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100) annually be established for each Automated Teller Machine located within Brentwood?

Yes

No

Proposition F. annual license fee -- City of Brentwood (Simple Majority Required)
Pass: 554 / 61.22% Yes votes ...... 351 / 38.78% No votes
Shall the annual license fee for the business specified in Section 12-24(c) of the Brentwood Municipal Code be changed from the lesser of ten cents ($0.10) per square foot or one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) on each one thousand dollars ($1,000) of gross receipts to ten cents ($0.10) per square foot with a minimum fee of fifty dollars ($50) annually?

Yes

No

Proposition S. Bond Election -- Pattonville Fire Protection District (Four-Sevenths Majority Required)
Pass: 1,559 / 71.38% Yes votes ...... 625 / 28.62% No votes
Shall the Pattonville Fire Protection District of St. Louis County, Missouri, incur an indebtedness of said District in the amount of Nineteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($19,500,000) and issue the bonds of said District in evidence thereof for the purpose of purchasing real property, constructing, equipping, and maintaining fire stations and purchasing and equipping ambulances and fire protection and fire-fighting apparatus and auxiliary equipment therefor?

YES

NO

Proposition Y. Bond Election -- Metropolitan Saint Louis Sewer District (Simple Majority Required)
Pass: 108,645 / 75.3% Yes votes ...... 35,569 / 24.7% No votes
   85,255 (75.44%) Yes / 27,752 (24.56%) No in Saint Louis County
   23390 (74.95%) Yes / 7817 (25.05%) No in Saint Louis City
To comply with federal and state clean water requirements, shall The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) issue its sewer system revenue bonds in the amount of Two Hundred Seventy-five Million Dollars ($275,000,000) for the purpose of designing, constructing, improving, renovating, repairing, replacing and equipping new and existing MSD sewer facilities and system, including sewer disposal and treatment plants, sanitary and combined sanitary and storm water sewers, and acquisition of easements and real property related thereto, the cost of operation and maintenance of said sewer system and the principal of and interest on said revenue bonds to be payable solely from the revenues derived by MSD from the operation of its sanitary sewer system, including all future extensions and improvements thereto?

YES

NO

Proposition A-Br. Business license fee -- City of Brentwood (Simple Majority)
Pass: 584 / 61.93% Yes votes ...... 359 / 38.07% No votes
Shall the business license fee for a Credit Union or a Savings & Loan in excess of seven hundred (700) square feet be changed from the greater of two hundred dollars ($200) or ten cents ($0.10) per square foot annually to a flat fee of twenty five hundred dollars ($2,500) annually?

YES

NO

Proposition A-Oa. Business license tax on billboards -- City of Oakland (Simple Majority Required)
Pass: 228 / 89.06% Yes votes ...... 28 / 10.94% No votes
Should the City of Oakland impose a business license tax on billboards within the City of two percent of the gross annual revenue produced by the billboard?

Yes

No

Proposition B-Br. Business license fee -- City of Brentwood (Simple Majority Required)
Pass: 615 / 65.36% Yes votes ...... 326 / 34.64% No votes
Shall the business license fee for a Bank, Trust Company or Loan Agency in excess of seven hundred (700) square feet be changed from the greater of five hundred dollars ($500) or ten cents ($0.10) per square foot annually to a flat fee of three thousand dollars ($3,000) annually?

YES

NO

 
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