File #: 21539    Version: 0 Name: HRC funding for homelessness
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 2/15/2024 In control: Budget Committee
On agenda: 2/19/2024 Final action: 2/26/2024
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute cooperative agreements with certain organizations which provide assistance and services to homeless persons, at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $207,000.00.
Sponsors: Jalen Anderson
Indexes: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT, COUNTY EXECUTIVE, HOMELESS ASSISTANCE
Attachments: 1. 21539bu.pdf, 2. 21539adopted, 3. 21539 Amethyst Place Inc, 4. 21539 Community Services League, 5. 21539 Hope Faith Ministries, 6. 21539 Metropolitan Luthern Ministry, 7. 21539 Hope House, 8. 21539 Judah Worship Center, 9. 21539 Legal Aid of Western Missouri, 10. 21539 Reconciliation Services, 11. 21539 Footprints Inc, 12. 21539 Rose Brooks Center
Related files: 20862, 21125

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute cooperative agreements with certain organizations which provide assistance and services to homeless persons, at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $207,000.00.

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 21539, February 19, 2024

 

INTRODUCED BY Jalen Anderson, County Legislator

 

 

Body

 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 are to be used to provide funds for assistance and services to homeless persons; and,

 

WHEREAS, the County actually imposed said fee by Ordinance 1986, dated June 10, 1991; and,

 

WHEREAS, by enacting sections 9054. through 9059., Jackson County Code, 1984, the Legislature created the Housing Resources Commission and designated the Commission as the agency of the County responsible for determining the allocation and distribution of the proceeds of the above user fees to organizations providing assistance and services to homeless persons; and,

 

WHEREAS, the Commission desires to fund these organizations for the provision of services and has recommended the expenditure of funds to the organizations as listed below, all providing assistance to homeless persons exclusively in Jackson County:

 

AGENCY

AMOUNT

Amethyst Place

$12,000.00

Community Services League

$15,000.00

Footprints

$15,000.00

Hope Faith

$15,000.00

Judah Worship Center

$15,000.00

Legal Aid of Western Missouri

$60,000.00

Reconciliation Services

$15,000.00

Metropolitan Lutheran Ministries

$15,000.00

Hope House

$15,000.00

reStart, Inc.

$15,000.00

Rose Brooks Center

$15,000.00

Total

$207,000.00

 

 and,

 

WHEREAS, the execution of Cooperative Agreements with these agencies in the amounts indicated is in the best interests of the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of Jackson County; now therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED that the County Executive be, and hereby is, authorized to execute cooperative agreements with the organizations in the amounts indicated, all for the purpose of providing assistance to homeless persons, in a form to be approved by the County Counselor; and,

 

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Finance and Purchasing 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:

 

 

______________________________                                                                

County Counselor

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 21539 of February 19, 2024, was duly passed on February 26, 2024 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

                     Yeas _______7__________                                          Nays _____0________

 

 

                     Abstaining _____0________                                          Absent ____1________

 

 

                     Excused _____1______

 

 

 

______________________                                           _________________________________

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                     56789

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Homeless Assistance Fund

                                                                                    Housing Resource Commission

                                                                                    Outside Agency Funding

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $207,000.00

 

 

 

________________________                                          ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                              Chief Administrative Officer