IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with Connections to Success, Inc., for the Building Futures Project, at a cost to the County not to exceed $75,000.00.
Intro
RESOLUTION #16695 August 18, 2008
INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, County Legislator
Body
WHEREAS, the Building Future Project is a unique public-private partnership designed to provide a structured pathway to allow former drug offenders to enter the construction industry, and at the same time provide permanent housing to those in need; and,
WHEREAS, the project will allow recovering drug offenders to learn the construction trade by rehabilitating an abandoned house that can then be occupied by a homeless family; and,
WHEREAS, Connections to Success, Inc., will serve as the manger for this project; and,
WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney has recommended Anti-Drug Sales Tax funds in the amount of $75,000.00 for this project for deferred prosecution of drug and drug-related offenses; now therefore,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute a Cooperative Agreement, in a form to be approved by the County Counselor, with Connections to Success, Inc., at a cost to the County not to exceed $75,000.00; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Director of Finance and Purchasing be and hereby is authorized to make all payments including final payment on the agreement.
Enacted and Approved
Effective Date: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Chief Deputy County Counselor County Counselor
Certificate of Passage
I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #16695 of August 18, 2008, was duly passed on August 25, 2008 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas ________8________ Nays ______0_______ Excused _____1______
Abstaining ______0______ Absent _____0_______
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Date Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature
Fiscal Note
There is a balance otherwise unencumbered to the credit of the appropriation to which the expenditure is chargeable and there is a cash balance otherwise unencumbered in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made each sufficient to provide for the obligation herein authorized.
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 008-4154-56790
ACCOUNT TITLE: Anti Drug Sales Tax Fund
Pros Atty Deferred Pros.
Other Contractual Services
NOT TO EXCEED: $75,000.00
Date Director of Finance and Purchasing