File #: 3716    Version: 0 Name: extension of Gun Prosecution Grant
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/14/2005 In control: (R)Anti-Drug Committee
On agenda: 11/14/2005 Final action: 11/28/2005
Title: AN ORDINANCE transferring $5,327.00 within the 2005 General Fund and appropriating $11,994.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund and authorizing a two-month extension of the Gun Prosecution Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs.
Sponsors: Dennis Waits
Indexes: ANTI-DRUG, GRANT FUND

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

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AN ORDINANCE transferring $5,327.00 within the 2005 General Fund and appropriating $11,994.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund and authorizing a two-month extension of the Gun Prosecution Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs.

 

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ORDINANCE# 3716,    November 14, 2005

 

INTRODUCED BY                      Dennis Waits,  County Legislator

 

 

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WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office has been awarded a Gun Prosecution Grant by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs; and,

 

WHEREAS, this grant recognizes the established nexus between crimes of violence and drug-related crimes; and,

 

WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney has recommended that this grant be extended from November 1, 2005 through December 31, 2006; and,

 

WHEREAS, this grant extension will allow the office to increase the prosecution of violent firearms-related crimes and will provide $6,667.00 towards the salary and benefits of one assistant prosecutor for the months of November and December 2005; and,

 

WHEREAS, a match of $5,327.00 is required for this extension; and,

 

 

WHEREAS, a transfer and  appropriation are necessary in order to place the grant and matching funds in the proper spending accounts; and,

 

WHEREAS, the County Executive recommends said transfer and appropriation; now therefore,

 

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfer within the 2005 General Fund and appropriation  from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund be and are hereby made:

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION                                          CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION                      FROM                        TO  

General Fund

Prosecuting Attorney

001-4101                     6798 - Grant Match                     $5,327

Operating Transfers Out                     

001-9100                     6105 - Operating Transfers Out                                               $5,327

 

Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund                     

                     Operating Transfers In                       5,327

                     Increase Revenue                       6,667

010-2810                     Unappropriated Surplus                                               11,994

010-2810                     Unappropriated Surplus                     11,994

Community Gun Violence

Prosecution Program

008-4113                     5010 - Salary                                              9,890

008-4113                     5040 - FICA                                                    757

008-4113                     5060 - Insurance                                                 1,347

 

and,

 

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the County Executive and Prosecuting Attorney be and hereby are authorized to execute any and all documents necessary to the extension of said grant.

 

 

 

 

Enacted and Approved

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

 

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

___________________________                                          _____________________________

Chief Deputy County Counselor                                                                                     County Counselor

 

                     

                     I hereby certify that the attached Ordinance, Ordinance # 3716 introduced on November 14,  2005  was duly passed on _____November 28_____________, 2005 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 her signature.

 

____________________                                          ________________________________

Date                                                                                                         Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature

 

 

I hereby approve the attached Ordinance # 3716.

 

 

____________________                                          ________________________________

Date                                                                                                         Katheryn J. Shields, County Executive

 

Fiscal Note

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

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     001-4101-6798

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          General Fund

                                                                                    Prosecuting Attorney

                                                                                    Grant Match

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $5,327.00

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     008-2810

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Anti-Drug Sales Tax

                                                                                    Unappropriated Surplus

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $11,994.00

 

 

 

______________________                                          _________________________________

Date                                                               Director of the Department of Finance