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File #: 6042    Version: Name: Parenting with Love and Limits Grant
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/11/2025 In control: Justice & Law Enforcement Committee
On agenda: 11/17/2025 Final action: 12/8/2025
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $77,340.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2025 Grant Fund, in acceptance of additional grant funds received by the Family Court Division from the State of Missouri Department of Social Services Division of Youth Services.
Sponsors: Venessa Huskey
Indexes: FAMILY COURT DIVISION, GRANT FUND, MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, UNDESIGNATED FUND BALANCE
Attachments: 1. 6042A Adopted, 2. 25-346A Fiscal, 3. RLA, 4. 2025-26 PLL Grant from DYS, 5. 2025-26 DYS PLL Legislative Information Sheet

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

AN ORDINANCE appropriating $77,340.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2025 Grant Fund, in acceptance of additional grant funds received by the Family Court Division from the State of Missouri Department of Social Services Division of Youth Services.

 

Intro

ORDINANCE NO. 6042, November 17, 2025

 

INTRODUCED BY Venessa Huskey, County Legislator

 

Body

 WHEREAS, the Family Court Division has been awarded a grant by State of Missouri,

Department of Social Services, Division of Youth Services (DYS) for the period of July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026; and,

 

WHEREAS, DYS has authorized an additional funds amendment under this grant in the amount of $77,340.00 for the Parenting with Love and Limits (PLL) Project; and,

 

WHEREAS, the PLL Project will combine parent education and group therapy programs with individual coaching sessions for adolescents and their parents; and,

 

WHEREAS, the grant amendment does not require local matching funds; and,

 

WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary in order to place the additional grant funds in the proper spending account; now therefore,

 

 

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation be made from the undesignated fund balance of the 2025 Grant Fund:

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION

CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION

FROM

TO

Grant Fund

 

 

 

Family Court

 

 

 

010-2101

45300 - State - Grant

$73,340 

 

 

32810 - Undesignated Fund Balance

 

 $77,340

 

32810 - Undesignated Fund Balance

$77,340

 

 

56790 - Other Contractual Services

 

$77,340

 

 

and,

 

 

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that all County officials be and hereby are authorized to execute any and all documents necessary to give effect to said grant.

 

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date: This Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

 

______________________________                                          

County Counselor

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached ordinance, Ordinance No. 6042 introduced on November 17, 2025, was duly passed on December 8, 2025 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

                     Yeas ______9_________                                                               Nays ______0_______

 

 

                     Abstaining _____0______                                                               Absent _____0_______

 

 

 

This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for his signature.

 

 

 

____________________                                                                                    ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature

 

 

I hereby approve the attached Ordinance No. 6042.

 

 

 

____________________                                                                                    ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Phil LeVota, County Executive

 

 

Fiscal Note

Funds sufficient for this appropriation are available from the source indicated below.

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     010                     2101                     45300

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Grant Fund

                                                                                    Family Court

                                                                                    State - Grant

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $77,340.00

 

 

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     010                     2101                     32810

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Grant Fund

                                                                                    Family Court

                                                                                    Undesignated Fund Balance

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $77,340.00

 

 

 

______________________                                          _________________________________

Date                                                                                                                              County Administration