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To: Honorable Mayor Adams and City Council From: Julie Feier, City Manager Date: November 2, 2006 Subject: Weekly Update Parliamentarian Dorris Carter will provide a session on conducting efficient Parliamentarian procedures meetings and field questions on . All interested Board and Commission Members are welcome, as well as residents who serve on private boards. The session will be from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at Centennial Commons Century Room1 on November 15. The Missouri Supreme Court denied the motion to modify and motion for rehearing that AT&T (formerly SBC) filed in the cities’ lawsuit over AT&T's failure to pay telephone business license taxes on long-distance landline service and local landline gross receipts certain items of . However, on the Court's own motion the August 8, 2006 opinion was modified to state that the cities are seeking to enforce the application of their license tax to long-distance service; the Court deleted previous references to wireless service. The Court did not change the August 8, 2006 opinions in the wireless service cases. The Court simply corrected its mistaken description of the AT&T (formerly SBC) lawsuit as being a wireless lawsuit, the case, which was remanded to St. Louis City Circuit Court for further proceedings. AT&T informed the Missouri Municipal League that they would release gross receipt taxes owed to cities for July, August, & September. Since HB 209 changed the rates July 1 but was then thrown out by the Missouri Supreme Court, the taxes paid will be based on the previous tax rate in effect as of June 2006. The League believes that more and more cell phone companies are adding the gross receipts taxes to phone bills. Sprint has done this. I have received multiple contacts from residents, questioning the fee increase. Because