IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $76,121.40 from the unappropriated surplus of the 1999 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the City of Kansas City, MO for its "In School Truancy Prevention Project," at a cost to the County not to exceed $146,492.63.
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ORDINANCE #2925, June 14, 1999
INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City, Missouri, has received a grant from the Missouri Department of Public Safety in the amount of $292,985.27, as well as funding from the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in the amount of $292,985.27, and has pledged its own funds, in the amount of $146,492.63, for the City's "In School Truancy Prevention Project," the goals of which are to reduce chronic absenteeism, truancy, and long-term suspension in six target schools in the Kansas City, MO, School District; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City has requested County Anti-Drug Sales Tax matching funds in the amount of $146,492.63 to implement a portion of this program; and,
WHEREAS, this is the second year for this grant program; and,
WHEREAS, thereafter, a total of $76,121.00 will be returned to the County to fund the salaries and fringe benefits of prosecuting attorney's staff to assist in the program; and,
WHEREAS, the attached "Cooperative Agreement for Services" provides a suitable mechanism by which to implement this understanding between the City and the County; and,
WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney has reviewed this proposal and recommends the expenditure of these funds; and,
WHEREAS, in order to implement this program, an appropriation is necessary; therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation be and hereby is made from the unappropriated surplus of the 1999 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund:
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