File #: 3944    Version: 0 Name: Missouri Highway Safety Division
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/15/2007 In control: (R)Health and Justice Committee
On agenda: 10/15/2007 Final action: 10/22/2007
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $375,000.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2007 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's Traffic Equipment grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract with the Missouri Highway Safety Division for the expenditure of grant funds.
Sponsors: Theresa Garza Ruiz
Indexes: GRANT FUND, MISSOURI HIGHWAYS & TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
 
 
 
Title
AN ORDINANCE appropriating $375,000.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2007 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's Traffic Equipment grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract with the Missouri Highway Safety Division for the expenditure of grant funds.  
 
 
 
Intro
ORDINANCE  #3944, October 15, 2007
 
INTRODUCED BY Theresa A. Garza,  County Legislator
 
Body
WHEREAS, Jackson County ranks first or second in the State of Missouri in most  categories of vehicular accidents; and,
 
WHEREAS, to combat this situation, the Sheriff's Office has been awarded a grant in the amount of $375,000.00 by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, for the purpose of funding a five-person traffic safety team with partial equipment, and costs of additional equipment awarded by a separate grant; and,
 
WHEREAS, the Sheriff recommends the acceptance of this grant and the execution of a contract with the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division; and,
 
WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place the grant funds in the appropriate spending account; now therefore,
 
 
 
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation from the unappropriated surplus of the 2007 Grant Fund be and hereby is made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION            CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION       FROM         TO   
      Increase Revenue      $375,000
010-2810      Unappropriated Surplus             $375,000
010-2810      Unappropriated Surplus      $375,000
 
Sheriff's Office -Traffic Unit
010-4254      55010--Regular Salary             $199,014
010-4254      55040--FICA             $  15,225
010-4254      55050--Pension             $  15,921
010-4254      55060--Health Insurance             $  33,833
010-4254      55070--Unemployment Insurance       $       995
010-4254      55110--Workers' Compensation             $       995
010-4254      56661--Software             $    1,700
010-4254      57170--Medical & Dental Supplies       $       510
010-4254      57190--Clothing             $    6,000
010-4254      57230--Other Operating Supplies       $    4,190
010-4254      57231--Fire Inspection - Extinguishers       $       510
010-4254      57310--Auto Parts      `       $  17,357
010-4254      58160--Radio & Communication Equipt.       $   13,960
010-4254      58170--Other Equipment                       $  39,170
010-4254      58171--PC and Accessories                       $  25,620
 
 
and,
 
 
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute the attached contract with the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division.
 
Enacted and Approved
Effective Date:  This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.
 
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
 
 
______________________________            __________________________________
Chief Deputy County Counselor                   County Counselor
 
I hereby certify that the attached Ordinance, Ordinance #3944, introduced on October 15, 2007, was duly passed on October 22, 2007 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:
 
      Yeas ______7_________            Nays ______0________
 
      Abstaining _____0______            Absent _____2________
 
This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for his signature.
 
 
____________________            ________________________________
Date                              Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature
 
I hereby approve the attached Ordinance #3944.
 
 
____________________            ________________________________
Date                              Michael D. Sanders, County Executive
 
 
Fiscal Note
Funds sufficient for this appropriation are available from the source indicated below.
 
ACCOUNT NUMBER:      010 2810
ACCOUNT TITLE:            Grant Fund
                        Unappropriated Surplus
 
NOT TO EXCEED:            $375,000.00      
 
 
 
________________________            __________________________________
Date                                    Director of Finance and Purchasing