IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $6,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2023 Grant Fund in acceptance of grant funds awarded to the Family Court Division by the Family Court Committee of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
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ORDINANCE NO. 5771, July 31, 2023
INTRODUCED BY Venessa Huskey, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Family Court Division has been awarded grant funds in the amount of $6,000.00 for the Juvenile Justice Program Assistance (JJPA) Community Outreach and Training for the Shifting Power for Equity and Results (SPER) Initiative by the Family Court Committee of the Supreme Court of Missouri for the period of July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024; and,
WHEREAS, the goal of this program is to address the racial disproportionality in referrals for juvenile delinquency by reducing the use of Family Court as a solution to school-discipline problems, mental-health issues, family and peer conflicts, trauma, adolescent volatile emotions and boundary testing, and other factors; and,
WHEREAS, the grant does not require local matching funds; and,
WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary 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 2023 Grant Fund:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION
CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION
FROM
TO
Grant Fund
JPPA-Community Outreach & Ed
010-2162
45979 - Increase Revenues
6,000
010-9999 - Non-Specific
32810 - Undesignated Fund Balance
6,000
010-9999 - Non-Specific
32810 - Undesignated Fund Balance
6,000
JPPA-Community Outreach & Ed
010-2162
56620 - Rent - Buildings
3,625
010-2162
57230 - Other Operating Supplies
500
010-2162
56790 - Other Contractual Services
1,875
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that all County officials be and hereby are authorized to execute any and all docume...
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