File #: 17797    Version: 0 Name: Constructing Futures Program
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 1/23/2012 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 1/23/2012 Final action: 1/23/2012
Title: A RESOLUTION transferring $20,000.00 within the Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with Connections to Success, Inc., of Kansas City, MO, for the Jackson County Constructing Futures Program, at a cost to the County not to exceed $20,000.00, to further the prevention of homelessness and the prevention of drug and drug-related offenses.
Sponsors: James D. Tindall
Indexes: ANTI-DRUG SALES TAX FUND, COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT, TRANSFER
Attachments: 1. 17797adopt.pdf, 2. 17797AGMT.pdf
Related files: 4622, 18995
      IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
 
Title
A RESOLUTION transferring $20,000.00 within the Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with Connections to Success, Inc., of Kansas City, MO, for the Jackson County Constructing Futures Program, at a cost to the County not to exceed $20,000.00, to further the prevention of homelessness and the prevention of drug and drug-related offenses.
 
 
Intro
RESOLUTION #17797, January 23, 2012
 
INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall, County Legislator
 
 
Body
WHEREAS, the Jackson County Constructing Futures Program is a unique public-private partnership designed to provide a structured pathway to allow former drug offenders to enter the construction industry, and at the same time provide permanent housing to those in need; and,
 
WHEREAS, the project will allow drug offenders and unskilled individuals living in poverty to learn the construction trade by rehabilitating houses that can then be occupied by a family struggling with homelessness; and,
 
WHEREAS, Connections to Success, Inc., of Kansas City (Jackson County), MO, will serve as the manger for this program; and,
 
WHEREAS, a transfer is necessary to place funds in the proper spending account; and,
 
WHEREAS, the County Executive recommends this transfer; now therefore,
 
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfer be made within the 2012 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund:
 
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION            CHARACTER DESCRIPTION         FROM      TO
 
Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund
COMBAT Administration
008-4401                        56080 - Other Professional Srvs         $20,000
008-4401                        56790 - Other Contractual Services             $20,000      
 
and,
 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute a Cooperative Agreement, in a form to be approved by the County Counselor, with Connections to Success, Inc., at a cost to the County not to exceed $20,000.00; and,
 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Director of Finance and Purchasing 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:
 
______________________________                  ______________________________
Chief Deputy County Counselor                  County Counselor
 
Certificate of Passage
 
      I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #17797 of January 23, 2012, was duly passed on January 23, 2012 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:
 
      Yeas ________8________                  Nays _____0________
 
      Abstaining ______0______                  Absent _______1_____
 
 
_____________________________            ________________________________
Date                                           Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature
 
Fiscal Note
Funds sufficient for this transfer are available from the source indicated below.
 
ACCOUNT NUMBER:      008      4401      56080
ACCOUNT TITLE:            Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund
                        COMBAT Administration      
                        Other Professional
NOT TO EXCEED:            $20,000.00
 
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      4401      56790
ACCOUNT TITLE:            Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund
                        COMBAT Administration      
                        Other Contractual
NOT TO EXCEED:            $20,000.00
 
                                                            ________________________________
Date                                          Director of Finance and Purchasing