File #: 15743    Version: 0 Name: Provide assistance to homeless persons.
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 1/9/2006 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 1/9/2006 Final action: 1/9/2006
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute Agreements with certain organizations which provide assistance to homeless persons, at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $747,757.25.
Sponsors: Eugene Standifer Jr.
Indexes: HOMELESS ASSISTANCE

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

 

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute Agreements with certain organizations which provide assistance to homeless persons, at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $747,757.25.

 

 

Intro

 

RESOLUTION  #15743 , January 9, 2006

 

INTRODUCED BY Eugene Standifier, Jr.,  County Legislator

 

 

Body

WHEREAS, on June 4, 1991, the voters of Jackson County authorized the County Legislature to impose a $3.00 user fee on all instruments recorded with the County's Department of Records, the proceeds of which fee is to be used to provide funds for assistance to homeless persons; and,

 

WHEREAS, the County actually imposed said fee by Ordinance 1986, dated June 10, 1991; and,

 

WHEREAS, by Ordinance 2030, dated September 3, 1991, the Legislature created the Housing Resources Commission and designated the Commission as the agency of the County responsible for determining the allocation and distribution of the proceeds of the user fee to organizations providing services to homeless persons; and,

 

WHEREAS, the Commission desires to assist these organizations in the provision of services and has recommended the expenditure of County user fee funds to the organizations listed in Exhibit A, attached hereto, for the purpose of the activities specified therein, all providing assistance to homeless persons in Jackson County; therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED that the County Executive be, and hereby is, authorized to execute agreements with the organizations and in the amounts as set forth in Exhibit A, all for the purpose of providing assistance to homeless persons, in a form approved by the County Counselor; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of the Department of Finance and Purchasing be, and hereby is, authorized to make all payments, including final payments on these agreements.

 

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 #15743 of January 9, 2006,  was duly passed on __________January 9___________________, 2006 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:                     043-7001-6789

 

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Homeless Assistance Fund

                                                                                    Housing Resource Commission

                                                                                    Outside Agency Funding

 

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $747,757.25

 

 

________________________                                          ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                              Director of the Department of Finance