File #: 17904    Version: 0 Name: Agreement for Mid-America Local Emergency Planning Committee and MARC
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 6/4/2012 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 6/4/2012 Final action: 6/4/2012
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement for Services with the Mid-America Local Emergency Planning Committee and the Mid-America Regional Council, at no cost to the County.
Sponsors: Theresa Garza Ruiz
Indexes: EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE, MARC
Attachments: 1. 17904adopt.pdf, 2. 17904AGMT.pdf
Related files: 20423
      IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
 
 
Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement for Services with the Mid-America Local Emergency Planning Committee and the Mid-America Regional Council, at no cost to the County.
 
Intro
 
RESOLUTION #17904, June 4, 2012
 
INTRODUCED BY Theresa Garza Ruiz, County Legislator
 
 
Body
WHEREAS, Jackson County, together with Cass, Clay, Platte, and Ray Counties, have cooperatively formed a local emergency planning committee (LEPC) under the provisions of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986; and,
 
WHEREAS, each county receives grants from the Missouri Emergency Response Commission in accordance with Missouri's Emergency Planning and Community  Right-to-Know Act (RSMo Sections 292.600 to 292.625); and,
 
WHEREAS, these funds are to be used for programs which support the LEPC's hazardous materials planning and training, and related activities; and,
 
WHEREAS, each of the five counties, as a member of the LEPC, has entered into an agreement with the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) approving the scope of work by MARC and the LEPC on its behalf; and,
 
WHEREAS, MARC is a public not-for-profit organization, formed in 1972 by area cities and counties, including the counties that have formed the LEPC, to address issues and problems of mutual concern; and,
 
WHEREAS, MARC can provide administrative and technical assistance to carry out the scope of work developed for the aforementioned grants; and,
 
WHEREAS, the attached Agreement for Services adequately sets out the rights and obligations of LEPC and MARC in this regard; now therefore,
 
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the attached Agreement for Services with the Mid-America Local Emergency Planning Committee and the Mid-America Regional Council be and hereby is approved; and,
 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute the Agreement between Mid-America and Local Emergency Planning Committee and the Mid-America Regional Council to be approved by the County Counselor.
 
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 #17904 of June 4, 2012 was duly passed on June 4, 2012 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