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Finance & Purchasing
Effective March 24, 2020, Jackson County Finance & Purchasing Department offices in the Jackson County Courthouse at 415 E. 12th Street in Kansas City will be closed to the public for at least 30 days in an effort to help mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus. During this closure, any contact or business that you wish to conduct with the County must be done by phone, email, fax, or regular mail.
Finance & Purchasing Department units can be reached as follows:
Accounts Payable by email to: CColter@jacksongov.org
Budget by email to: BudgetMailbox@jacksongov.org
Payroll by email to: MPirch@jacksongov.org or KCrockett@jacksongov.org
Purchasing by phone 816-881-3253 or email to: BCasamento@jacksongov.org
Treasury by email to: JGordon@jacksongov.org
Other general questions: finance@jacksongov.org
Office fax number: 816-881-3877
Responsibilities
The Department maintains general and secondary ledgers to record the financial position of the County's 40 different funds. It also handles the payroll for all County employees and processes more than 18,000 payments annually for other County expenditures.
Furthermore, Finance calculates, prepares and distributes more than $915 million in tax dollars to more than 40 jurisdictions annually and prepares the County's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
Purchasing
The Purchasing Division of the Department procures goods and services for County Departments as outlined in Chapter 10 of the Jackson County Code.