File #: 4244    Version: 0 Name: Emergency Shelter Grant
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/20/2010 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 9/20/2010 Final action: 9/20/2010
Title: AN ORDINANCE transferring $1,038.00 within the 2010 Homeless Assistance Fund and appropriating $51,877.00 from the fund balance of the 2010 Grant Fund in acceptance of the State of Missouri's 2010 Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG), authorizing the County Executive to execute an agreement with the Missouri Department of Social Services, Family Support Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute cooperative agreements with certain outside agencies funded by the Emergency Shelter Grant.
Sponsors: James D. Tindall
Indexes: EMERGENCY SHELTER, GRANT FUND, HOMELESS ASSISTANCE, TRANSFER
Attachments: 1. 4244adopt.pdf, 2. 4244CON.pdf
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE transferring $1,038.00 within the 2010 Homeless Assistance Fund and appropriating $51,877.00 from the fund balance of the 2010 Grant Fund in acceptance of the State of Missouri's 2010 Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG), authorizing the County Executive to execute an agreement with the Missouri Department of Social Services, Family Support Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute cooperative agreements with certain outside agencies funded by the Emergency Shelter Grant.

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ORDINANCE #4244, September 20, 2010

INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall, County Legislator

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WHEREAS, the County has been awarded a grant in the amount of $51,877.00 for the 2010 Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) program from the State of Missouri for the period of April 1, 2010, through March 31, 2011; and,

WHEREAS, this grant is subject to a local match of which $1,038.00 will be provided by the County and the remaining $50,839.00 to be provided by each outside agency receiving grant funds; and,

WHEREAS, the following agencies have submitted proposals to provide various public services allowed by the Emergency Shelter Grant award, in the amounts indicated below:
AGENCY AMOUNT
Community Service League $6,919.00
Comprehensive Mental Health Services $4,668.00
Hillcrest Ministries $6,917.00
Hope House $6,917.00
Newhouse $6,917.00
Niles Home for Children $4,667.00
ReStart, Inc. $6,917.00
Rose Brooks $6,917.00
and,


WHEREAS, the grant funds shall be used for services to individuals or families who are homeless; and,

WHEREAS, the Housing Resource Commission recommends acceptance of the grant and the use of matching funds; and,

WHEREAS, an appropriation and transfer are necessary to place the grant and matching funds in the proper spending accounts; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson Co...

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