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Minutes for SB87 - Committee on Assessment and Taxation
Short Title
Discontinuing apportionment of countywide retailers' sales tax imposed for general purposes between the county and cities located therein.
Minutes Content for Thu, Feb 11, 2021
Chairperson Tyson opened the hearing on SB 87.
Amelia Kovar-Donohue, Office of Revisor of Statutes, provided a briefing on the bill. (Attachment 1)
Edward Penner, Legislative Research Department, provided the document Countywide Sales Tax to Cities and Counties, Tax Year 2020 (Attachment 22)
Proponent oral testimony was presented by:
Jay Armstrong, Kansas Association of Wheat Growers (Attachment 2)
Jay Armstrong, Atchinson County Farm Bureau (Attachment 21)
Opponent oral testimony was presented by:
Trey Cocking, The League of Kansas Municipalities (Attachment 3)
Allen Dinkel, City Manager, Junction City (Attachment 4)
Halley Roberson, City Administrator, Oberlin (Attachment 5)
Jay Hall, Kansas Association of Counties (Attachment 6)
Kathy Sexton, City Manager, Derby (Attachment 7)
Joe Warren, Director of Administrative Services, Atchison (Attachment 8)
Michael Stec, Resident, Atchison County (Attachment 9)
Ron Feher, City Manager, Manhattan (Attachment 10)
Mike Boehm, Mayor, Lenexa (Attachment 11)
Roy Cessna, Mayor, Garden City (Attachment 12)
Michael Koss, Overland Park (Attachment 13)
Mark Manning, City of Wichita (Attachment 14)
Staff representing Fourteen cities (Attachment 15)
Joint Testimony: Nick Hernandez, City of Dodge City; Matt Allen, Garden City; Calvin Burke, Liberal (Attachment 16)
Charles McKinney, Kansas Legislative Policy Group (Attachment 17)
Whitney Damron, City of Topeka (Attachment 18)
Stuart Little, Little Government Relations (Attachment 19)
Sandy Jacobs, City of Hays, (Attachment 20)
There was no neutral testimony.
When all questions from the committee were answered, Chairperson Tyson closed the hearing on SB 87.
