File #: 13443    Version: 0 Name: Health Care for the Homeless program.
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 12/4/2000 In control: (R)Anti-Drug Committee
On agenda: 12/4/2000 Final action: 12/11/2000
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an agreement with Swope Parkway Health Center for its "Health Care For The Homeless" program, for the treatment of abusers of illegal drugs, at a cost to the County not to exceed $90,000.00.
Sponsors: Dan Tarwater III
Indexes: DRUGS, HEALTH CENTER, HOMELESS ASSISTANCE, SWOPE PARKWAY

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an agreement with Swope Parkway Health Center for its "Health Care For The Homeless" program, for the treatment of abusers of illegal drugs, at a cost to the County not to exceed $90,000.00.

 

Intro

RESOLUTION #13443, December 4, 2000

 

INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, County Legislator

 

 

Body

WHEREAS, Swope Parkway Health Center's "Health Care For The Homeless"  program is an aggressive, mobile outreach program staffed by physician assistants, substance abuse counselors, outreach workers, case managers, and intake specialists, offered to the County's homeless population; and,

 

WHEREAS, Swope Parkway Health Center's  "Health Care For The Homeless"  program has requested $90,000.00 in anti-drug sales tax funds to secure the continuation of this federally-funded program; and,

 

WHEREAS, these funds will be used as a portion of the local match to a United States Department of Health and Human Services grant in the amount of $1,458,166.00 for this program; and, 

 

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

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement, a copy of which is attached and incorporated herein by reference, with Swope Parkway Health Center for its  "Health Care For The Homeless"  program; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of the Department  of Finance be and hereby is authorized to make all payments including final payment on the contract.

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date:  This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

_________________________                                          _________________________________

                                                                                                                              County Counselor

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #13443 of December 4, 2000 was duly passed on __________December 11_____________, 2000 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

                     Yeas ________9_________                     Nays ________0________

 

                     Abstaining ______0_______                     Absent ______0________

 

 

______________________                     _____________________________________

Date                                                                                                         Mary Jo Brogoto, 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:                     008-4135-6798

 

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund

                                                                                    Grant Match

                                                                                    Grant Match

 

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $90,000.00

 

 

____________________                                                               ___________________________________

Date                                                                                                                              Director of the Department of Finance