IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the Fort Osage School District for its Drug Prevention/Truancy Neglect Program, to provide a local match to a state grant, at a cost to the County not to exceed $78,570.00.
Intro
RESOLUTION # 16226, March 19, 2007
INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall, County Legislator
Body
WHEREAS, the Fort Osage R-1 School District's "Truancy Prevention" program is designed to improve academic achievement by targeting students in grades K-9 that have mild to severe truancy problems, allowing for early intervention into school attendance problems, and providing an avenue for holding parents responsible for getting their children to school; and,
WHEREAS, the District has received a grant from the Missouri Local Investment Commission for the program in the amount of $258,018; and,
WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office recommends the execution of a Cooperative Agreement with the Fort Osage School District, at a cost to the County not to exceed $78,570.00, which sum may serve as a portion of the required local matching funds for this program; 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 with the Fort Osage R-1 School District, in a form to be approved by the County Counselor; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Finance and Purchasing is hereby 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 # 16226 of March 19, 2007, was duly passed on March 26, 2007, by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas _________8___________ Nays _________0__________
Abstaining _____0_________ Absent ________1_________
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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 6798
ACCOUNT TITLE: Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund
Grant Match
Grant Match
NOT TO EXCEED: $78,570.00
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Date Director of Finance and Purchasing