File #: 16552    Version: 0 Name: Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) - Guardian Ad Litem Program
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 2/25/2008 In control: Justice and Law Enforcement Committee
On agenda: 2/25/2008 Final action: 3/3/2008
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with Jackson County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), for its Guardian Ad Litem program, as a local match to a private grant, at a cost to the County not to exceed $45,000.00.
Sponsors: Dan Tarwater III
Indexes: CASA, GUARDIAN AD LITEM

                     IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

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A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with Jackson County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), for its Guardian Ad Litem program, as a local match to a private grant, at a cost to the County not to exceed $45,000.00.

 

 

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RESOLUTION #16552, February 25, 2008

 

INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, County Legislator

 

 

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WHEREAS, Jackson County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) has been awarded a grant from the Paul and Dianne Shumaker Fund in the amount of $50,000.00 to provide for two staff attorneys whose primary role is to serve as guardians ad litem for children involved in drug-related cases; and,

 

WHEREAS, Jackson County CASA has requested $45,000.00 in anti-drug sales tax funds to serve as a local match to this private grant; and,

 

WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney has reviewed this proposal and recommends the expenditure of these funds; now therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute an Agreement with Jackson County CASA, in a form to be approved by the County Counselor, at a cost to the County not to exceed $45,000.00; 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:

 

_____________________________                                          __________________________________

Chief Deputy County Counselor                                                               County Counselor

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #16552 of February 25, 2008, was duly passed on March 3, 2008 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

                     Yeas           7                                                                         Nays          0                                                                          

 

                     Abstaining           0                                                    Absent          2                                                                          

 

 

__________________________                                          ____________________________________

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 4135 56798

 

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Anti-Drug Sales Tax

                                                                                    Grant Match

                                                                                    Grant Match

 

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $45,000.00

 

 

____________________                                                               ___________________________________

Date                                                                                                                              Director of Finance and Purchasing