File #: 16837    Version: 0 Name: MOU - Earth Riders Trails Assoc.
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 3/9/2009 In control: Land Use Committee
On agenda: 3/9/2009 Final action: 3/16/2009
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the Earth Riders Trails Association for the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of single-track, multi-use trails within the Blue River Parkway and Landahl Park, at no cost to the County.
Sponsors: Fred Arbanas
Indexes: BLUE RIVER PARKWAY, LANDAHL PARK, MAINTENANCE & REPAIR, MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
Attachments: 1. 16837 adopted
Related files: 19827

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the Earth Riders Trails Association for the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of single-track, multi-use trails within the Blue River Parkway and Landahl Park, at no cost to the County.

 

 

Intro

RESOLUTION #16837, March 9, 2009

 

INTRODUCED BY Fred Arbanas, County Legislator

 

 

Body

WHEREAS, the Earth Riders Trails Association (ERTA) has actively worked to construct  and maintain mountain bike trails in the Midwest, and has had an informal working relationship with the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department for the past ten years; and,

 

WHEREAS, the ERTA has constructed and maintained over twenty miles of mountain bike trials in both Landahl Park and the Blue River Parkway, and the Parks and Recreation Department would like to continue this effort; and,

 

WHEREAS, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is the appropriate vehicle to allow the continuation of the ERTA's work within the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department; and,

 

WHEREAS, the attached MOU with MARC adequately sets out the rights and obligations of the parties with regard to this arrangement, at no cost to the County; now therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri,  that the County Execute be and hereby is authorized to execute the attached Memorandum of Understanding with the Earth Riders Trails Association.

 

 

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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Deputy County Counselor                                                                                    County Counselor

 

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #16837 of March 9, 2009, was duly passed on March 16, 2009 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

                     Yeas ________9_________                                          Nays ______0_______

 

 

                     Abstaining _____0______                                                               Absent _____0_______

 

 

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Date                                                                                                                             Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature