IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with NorthWest Communities Development Corporation for its Englewood/Maywood Weed and Seed Initiative, at a cost to the County not to exceed $25,000.00, to provide a portion of a local match to a federal grant.
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RESOLUTION #16520, January 28, 2008
INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, Northwest Community Development Corporation's Englewood/Maywood Weed and Seed initiative will focus on the Englewood and Maywood neighborhoods in Independence, Missouri; and,
WHEREAS, the initiative is designed as a comprehensive community strategy for addressing and preventing crime and illicit drug usage by coordinating government, nonprofit, and community resources and focusing on specific strategies and target populations; and,
WHEREAS, those target populations will include prisoner reentry, by providing probationers/parolees with job skills and other services youth programming, by offering drug prevention programs and neighborhood organization, by developing block watch and neighborhood organizations in order to rebuild active, effective neighborhoods; and,
WHEREAS, this program is supported by a grant from the United States Department of Justice in the amount of $175,000.00; and,
WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney has recommended Anti-Drug Sales Tax funds in the amount of $25,000.00 to provide a portion of a required local match to this grant; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute a Cooperative Agreement, in a form to be approved by the County Counselor, with NorthWest Communities Development Corporation Englewood/Maywood Weed and Seed Initiative, at a cost to the County not to exceed $25,000.00; 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:
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Chief Deputy County Counselor County Counselor
Certificate of Passage
I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #16520 of January 28, 2008, was duly passed on February 4, 2008 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas ________6________ Nays _______0______
Abstaining ______0______ Absent ______3______
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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: $25,000.00
Date Director of Finance and Purchasing