File #: 3560    Version: 0 Name: Funds to volunteer organizations assisting Christmas in the Park.
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/1/2004 In control: Land Use Committee
On agenda: 11/1/2004 Final action: 11/8/2004
Title: AN ORDINANCE enabling the County to provide funds to volunteer organizations assisting with the Christmas in the Park program by supplying staff for nightly collections and authorizing the County Executive to execute agreements with certain organizations to provide these services in connection with the 2004 Christmas in the Park event, at a cost to the County not to exceed $38,000.00.
Sponsors: Fred Arbanas
Indexes: CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

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AN ORDINANCE enabling the County to provide funds to volunteer organizations assisting with the Christmas in the Park program by supplying staff for nightly collections and authorizing the County Executive to execute agreements with certain organizations to provide these services in connection with the 2004 Christmas in the Park event, at a cost to the County not to exceed $38,000.00.

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ORDINANCE # 3560, November 1, 2004

INTRODUCED BY Fred Arbanas, County Legislator



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WHEREAS, the Parks and Recreation Department will sponsor its 2004 Christmas in the Park event from November 24 to December 31, 2004; and,

WHEREAS, at this event, held at the Longview Lake Campground, visitors will tour, by automobile, lighted holiday displays erected by parks staff; and,

WHEREAS, the costs of the event are paid out of donations collected from those viewing the displays; and,

WHEREAS, the department has traditionally used workers from various community organizations to assist the department in traffic control and collecting donations at the event; and,

WHEREAS, as compensation for supplying the staff, the department proposes to pay each participating organization a share of the total proceeds collected for the event in an amount not to exceed $1,000.00 per organization; and,

WHEREAS, for 2004, the department proposes to contract with the thirty-eight (38) organizations stated on the attached agreements (Exhibit A) for their services; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute agreements with the thirty-eight (38) organizations as specified in Exhibit A for supplying staff for nightly collections for the 2004 Christmas in the Park program at a cost not to exceed $1,000 per organization for a total cost to the County not to exceed $38,000.00; and,

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


Enacted and Approved
Effective Date: This Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

____________________________ __________________________________
Acting Chief Deputy County Counselor County Counselor

I hereby certify that the attached Ordinance, Ordinance # 3560 introduced on November 1, 2004 was duly passed on ______November 8___________________, 2004 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 her signature.


________________________ ______________________________
Date Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature


I hereby approve the attached Ordinance # 3560.

_______________________ _______________________________
Date Katheryn J. Shields, County Executive


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: 300 1670 6790

ACCOUNT TITLE: Enterprise Fund
Special Events
Other Contractual Services

NOT TO EXCEED: $38,000.00

________________________ _____________________________________
Date Director of the Department of Finance

Ord. #3560
EXHIBIT A

Children's Emergency Fund
Grandview Assistance Program
Community Mediation Center
Grandview Community Shepherd's Center

Citi-Care Social Services
Cholly Fund for Injured Youth
Blue Valley Kiwanis Club
Grandview Lions Club
I-Share
Independence Kiwanis Club
St. Paul's Missionary Baptist Church
Kiwanis Club of Lee's Summit
Senior Companion Program
Grandview Youth Court
Whatsoever Community Center
St. Paul's Presbyterian
Knights of Columbus
VFW Post 5789
reStart Inc.
Special Olympics KC Metro
Spofford House
Hickman Mills PTSA
Lee's Summit Social Services
Redemptorist Center
ReDiscover
North Spring United Methodist Church Youth

National Association of Negro Business Women

Mid America Assistance Coalition
Missouri Search and Rescue
St. Ann's School
Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church

Missouri Rehabilitation Association
Love Fund for Children
Longview Alumni Club
Independence Food Service Managers

Hope House
KCMO Alumnae Chapter of Alpha Phi

Lutheran High School Auxiliary