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File #: 6012    Version: 0 Name: p+r Grant fort osage
Type: Ordinance Status: 1st. Perfection
File created: 8/6/2025 In control: Budget Committee
On agenda: 8/25/2025 Final action:
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $108,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2025 Grant Fund, in acceptance of a grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Kansas City Monuments Coalition, for use by the Jackson County Parks + Rec Department for improvements to the Fort Osage National Historic Landmark.
Sponsors: Charlie Franklin
Attachments: 1. 6012 Signed, 2. RLA, 3. 25-342 Fiscal, 4. Subaward Agreement Fort Osage 2027

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

AN ORDINANCE appropriating $108,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2025 Grant Fund, in acceptance of a grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Kansas City Monuments Coalition, for use by the Jackson County Parks + Rec Department for improvements to the Fort Osage National Historic Landmark. 

 

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ORDINANCE NO. 6012, August 25, 2025

 

INTRODUCED BY Charlie Franklin, County Legislator

 

 

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 WHEREAS, the Jackson County Parks + Rec has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Kansas City Monuments Coalition program in the amount of $108,000.00, to provide funding for improvements to make the Fort Osage National Historic Landmark ADA compliant; and,

 

WHEREAS, the grant is awarded for the period of January 1, 2025, through January 15, 2026; and,

 

WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place the grant funds in the appropriate spending accounts; now therefore,

 

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriations from the undesignated fund balance of the 2025 Grant Fund be and hereby are made:

 

 

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION

CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION

FROM

TO

Grant Fund Parks Heritage Programs and Museum  010-1603

   45500 - Local - Grants 

   $108,000

 

Grant Fund 010-9999

32810 - Undesignated Fund Balance

 

 $108,000

 

32810 - Undesignated Fund Balance

 $108,000

 

Grant Fund Parks Heritage Programs and Museum 010-1603

   58020 Buildings & Improvements 

 

   $108,000

 

 

 

and,

 

 

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that all County officials be and hereby are authorized to execute all documents necessary to give effect to this grant.

 

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date: This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

______________________________                                          

County Counselor

 

 

I hereby certify that the attached ordinance, Ordinance No. 6012 introduced on August 25, 2025, was duly passed on __________________________, 2025 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

                                          Yeas _______________                                                               Nays _____________

 

 

                                          Abstaining ___________                                                               Absent ____________

 

 

 

 

This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for his signature.

 

 

____________________                     ____________________________

Date                     Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature

 

 

 

I hereby approve the attached Ordinance No. 6012.

 

 

____________________                     _______________________________

Date                     Frank White, Jr., County Executive

 

 

 

 

Fiscal Note

Funds sufficient for this appropriation are available from the source indicated below.

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     010                     1603                     45500

ACCOUNT TITLE:                      Grant Fund

                                                                                    Parks Heritage Programs and Museum

                                                                                    Local - Grants

NOT TO EXCEED:                      $108,000.00

 

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     010                     9999                     32810

ACCOUNT TITLE:                      Grant Fund

                                                                                    Undesignated Fund Balance  

NOT TO EXCEED:                      $108,000.00

 

 

 

_________________________                     _____________________________

Date                     Chief Administrative Officer