File #: 4238    Version: 0 Name: "Sobriety Checkpoint" grant
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/13/2010 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 9/13/2010 Final action: 9/13/2010
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $23,000.00 from the fund balance of the 2010 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office "Sobriety Checkpoint" grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract with the Missouri Highway Safety Division for the expenditure of the grant funds.
Sponsors: James D. Tindall
Indexes: GRANT FUND, SAFETY DIVISION, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, SOBRIETY CHECKPOINT, TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. 4238adopt.pdf.pdf, 2. 4238CON.pdf.pdf, 3. 4238CON.pdf
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
 
 
Title
AN ORDINANCE appropriating $23,000.00 from the fund balance of the 2010 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office "Sobriety Checkpoint" grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract with the Missouri Highway Safety Division for the expenditure of the grant funds.
 
 
Intro
ORDINANCE #4238, September 13, 2010
 
INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall, County Legislator
 
Body
WHEREAS, Jackson County remains second in the number of alcohol-related traffic accidents and first for alcohol related fatalities in the state; and,
 
WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, has awarded the Sheriff's Office a "Sobriety Checkpoint" grant in the amount of $23,000.00 for the period October 1, 2010, through September 30, 2011; and,
 
WHEREAS, the Sheriff recommends the use of the grant funds for reimbursement of overtime used for setting up sobriety checkpoints, other alcohol-enforcement related activities, and providing portable heaters and toilets for the checkpoints; 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 appropriation from the fund balance of the 2010 Grant Fund be and hereby is made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION               CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION      FROM         TO
 
Grant Fund
Sobriety Checkpoint
010-4220      45399 - Increase Revenues      $23,000
 
010-2810      Undesignated Fund Balance                $23,000
010-2810      Undesignated Fund Balance      $23,000
 
Grant Fund
Sobriety Checkpoint
010-4220      55030 - Overtime                          $18,579
010-4220      55040 - FICA                             $  1,421
010-4220      58170 - Other Equipment               $  1,200
010-4220      56676 - Rent Outside Sanitation Fac         $  1,800
 
and,
 
 
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute the attached contract with the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division.
 
Enacted and Approved
Effective Date:  This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.
 
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
 
 
______________________________                  ________________________________
Chief Deputy County Counselor                   Acting County Counselor
 
      I hereby certify that the attached Ordinance, Ordinance #4238, introduced on September 13, 2010, was duly passed on September 13, 2010 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:
 
      Yeas _______8________                  Nays ________0______
 
      Abstaining ______0_____                  Absent ______1_______
 
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 #4238.
 
 
____________________                        ________________________________
Date                                          Michael D. Sanders, County Executive
 
 
Fiscal Note
Funds sufficient for this appropriation are available from the source indicated below.
 
ACCOUNT NUMBER:      010  2810
 
ACCOUNT TITLE:            Grant Fund
                        Undesignated Fund Balance
 
NOT TO EXCEED:            $23,000.00
 
 
________________________                  _________________________________
Date                                          Director of Finance and Purchasing