File #: 14758    Version: 0 Name: CASA
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 10/14/2003 In control: (R)Anti-Drug Committee
On agenda: 10/14/2003 Final action: 10/20/2003
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an agreement with Jackson County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), in the amount of $25,000.00, as a local match to a private grant.
Sponsors: Dan Tarwater III
Indexes: AGREEMENT, CASA

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an agreement with Jackson County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), in the amount of $25,000.00, as a local match to a private grant.

 

Intro

RESOLUTION # 14758,  October 14, 2003

 

INTRODUCED BY  Dan Tarwater, County Legislator

 

Body

WHEREAS, Jackson County CASA has been awarded a grant by the Hall Family Foundation in the amount of $25,000.00, to provide court advocacy for abused and neglected children, newborn to 18 years of age, to ensure a safe and drug-free home environment, through its Court Appointed Special Advocate program; and,

 

WHEREAS, Jackson County CASA has requested local matching funds from the Anti-Drug Sales Tax Grant Match account in the amount of $25,000.00 for this program; and,

 

WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney has reviewed this proposal  and recommends the expenditure of these funds; therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement, a copy of which is attached and incorporated herein by reference, with Jackson County CASA for its Court Appointed Special Advocate program; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of the Department of Finance 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:

 

_____________________________                                          __________________________________

Acting County Counselor

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution # 14758 of October 14, 2003, was duly passed on ___________October 20____________________, 2003 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

                     Yeas          9                                                                          Nays         0                                                                         

 

                     Abstaining          0                                                    Absent         0                                                                          

 

 

__________________________                                          ____________________________________

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

                                                                                    Grant Match

                                                                                    Grant Match

 

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $25,000.00

 

 

____________________                                                               ___________________________________

Date                                                                                                                              Director of the Department of Finance