IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission, of Kansas City, Missouri, for its High Crime Camera Pilot Project, to provide a match to local and private grants, at a cost to the County not to exceed $15,000.00.
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RESOLUTION # 16395, September 4, 2007
INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission has requested funding from the County for the High Crime Camera Pilot Project to provide the placement of eight (8) pole-mounted surveillance cameras along 24th Street from Jackson to Hardesty, at a total cost not to exceed $125,000.00; and,
WHEREAS, the primary purpose of the High Crime Camera Pilot Project is to allow the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department and the East 23rd Street PAC neighborhood to monitor illegal open-air drug activity and resultant violent crime; and,
WHEREAS, an objective of the High Crime Camera Pilot Project is to offer improvement of the quality of life for area residents through the use of the surveillance cameras to deter criminal activity; and,
WHEREAS, the primary funders for this Project are the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission in the award amount of $15,000.00, Project Safe Neighborhood in the award amount of $45,000.00 and the City of Kansas City, Missouri, in the award amount of $50,000.00; and,
WHEREAS, the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission has requested $15,000.00 in anti-drug sales tax matching funds to serve as part of the required local match for this program; and,
WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney has recommended the expenditure of anti-drug sales tax matching funds for this program; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute for the County a Cooperative Agreement with the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission, of Kansas City, Missouri, at a cost to the County not to exceed $15,000.00, in a form to be approved by the County Counselor; 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 contact.
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 # 16395 of September 4, 2007, was duly passed on September 10, 2007 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas _______8__________ Nays _____0________
Abstaining ______0_____ Absent ____1________
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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 therein authorized.
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 008 4135 6798
ACCOUNT TITLE: Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund
Grant Match
Grant Match
NOT TO EXCEED: $15,000.00
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Date Director of Finance and Purchasing