IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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A RESOLUTION authorizing the Director of Finance and Purchasing to issue a check in the amount of $3,300.00 to the Blue River Watershed Association, for the 2013 T.R.U.E. Blue Program.
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RESOLUTION NO. 18210, July 15, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Bob Spence, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Jackson County Stormwater Commission recommends the participation in the 2013 T.R.U.E. (Teaching Rivers in an Urban Environment) Blue Program, a public education outreach program to teach students in grades 7 - 12 in the Fort Osage School District about the impacts of storm water within the Blue River Watershed district; and,
WHEREAS, the T.R.U.E. Blue Program has been taught throughout the Kansas City metro area for the past 15 years and this public education and outreach program will assist Jackson County in fulfilling two of the six United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Phase I/II regulatory requirements; and,
WHEREAS, education on proper stormwater management techniques will help preserve road and bridge rights-of-way within the County; and,
WHEREAS, participation in the T.R.U.E. Blue Program is in the best interest of the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Jackson County; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the Director of Finance and Purchasing be and hereby is authorized to issue a check to the Blue River Watershed Association in the amount of $3,300.00 for the T.R.U.E. Blue Program.
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 No. 18210 of July 15, 2013 was duly passed on July 15, 2013 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas _______8________ Nays ______0_______
Abstaining ____0_______ Absent ______0______ Excused_______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: 004 1504 58051
ACCOUNT TITLE: Special Road and Bridge Fund
Public Works Development
Storm Water Project
NOT TO EXCEED: $3,300.00
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Date Director of Finance and Purchasing