IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute Agreements with certain organizations which provide assistance to homeless persons, at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $718,555.00.
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RESOLUTION #15341, January 3, 2005
INTRODUCED BY Ronald E. Finley, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, on June 4, 1991, the voters of Jackson County authorized the County Legislature to impose a $3.00 user fee on all instruments recorded with the County's Department of Records, the proceeds of which fee is to be used to provide funds for assistance to homeless persons; and,
WHEREAS, the County actually imposed said fee by Ordinance 1986, dated June 10, 1991; and,
WHEREAS, by Ordinance 2030, dated September 3, 1991, the Legislature created the Housing Resources Commission and designated said Commission as the agency of the County responsible for determining the allocation and distribution of the proceeds of the user fee to organizations providing services to homeless persons; and,
WHEREAS, the Commission desires to assist these organizations in the provision of services and has recommended the expenditure of County user fee funds to the listed organizations, for the following activities:
Agency Services Provided
Benilde Transitional services-serves veterans
Catholic Charities Emergency Assistance
Community Assistance Council Case Management/emergency assistance
Community Services League Transitional Living/emergency assistance
Comprehensive Mental Health Transitional Living/emergency assistance
Greater K.C. Housing Information
Center Emergency Assistance
Guadalupe Center Transitional Living/Case management
Hillcrest Ministries Transitional Living Expenses (Rent)
Hope House Battered Women Shelter
Legal Aid of Western Missouri Legal services
LINC Transitional Living/support services
Metropolitan Lutheran Ministry Housing Specialist and Case Manager
MAAC Strengths-based case management
Mother's Refuge Teenage Pregnancy program
Newhouse Battered Women Shelter/NE Kansas City
Operation Breakthrough Emergency Assistance
ReDiscover Emergency Assistance/Transitional Living
reStart Emergency Shelter/Transitional Living
Rosebrooks Home Battered Women Shelter
Salvation Army-Crossroads Transitional Living/Independence
Salvation Army-Supp Housing Transitional Living/Kansas City
Seton Center Emergency Assistance/case management
Sheffield Place Emergency Assistance/shelter
TMC Behavioral Health Counseling/supportive services/J.C. Inmates,
all to provide assistance to homeless persons in Jackson County; therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED that the County Executive be, and hereby is, authorized to execute agreements with the following organizations in the amounts as set forth herein:
Agency $ Amount
Benilde 27,000.00
Catholic Charities 15,000.00
Community Assistance Council 18,000.00
Community Services League 47,760.00
Comprehensive Mental Health 23,895.00
Greater Kansas City Housing Information Center 50,000.00
Guadalupe Center 25,000.00
Hillcrest Ministries 10,000.00
Hope House 15,000.00
Legal Aid of Western Missouri 42,800.00
LINC 39,355.00
Metropolitan Lutheran Ministry 18,760.00
MAAC 113,480.00
Mother's Refuge 30,000.00
Newhouse 15,000.00
Operation Breakthrough 14,625.00
ReDiscover 19,800.00
reStart 55,000.00
Rosebrooks Home 15,000.00
Salvation Army-Crossroads 35,000.00
Salvation Army-Supp Housing 12,000.00
Seton Center 20,000.00
Sheffield Place 20,000.00
TMC Behavioral Health 36,080.00
TOTAL 718,555.00
all for the purpose of providing assistance to homeless persons, in a form approved by the County Counselor; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of the Department of Finance be, and hereby is, authorized to make all payments, including final payments on these agreements.
Enacted and Approved
Effective Date: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
______________________________ _________________________________
Acting Chief Deputy County Counselor County Counselor
Certificate of Passage
I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #15341 of January 3, 2005, was duly passed on ________January 3_____________________, 2005 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas _______9__________ Nays ______0_______
Abstaining ______0_______ Absent ____0________
______________________ _____________________________________
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: 043-7001-6789
ACCOUNT TITLE: Homeless Assistance Fund
Housing Resource Commission
Outside Agency Funding
NOT TO EXCEED: $718,555.00
________________________ ________________________________
Date Director of the Department of Finance