File #: 3759    Version: 0 Name: Authorizing a ten-month extension of the Gun Prosecution Grant awarder by the U.S. Department of Justice
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 4/24/2006 In control: (R)Anti-Drug Committee
On agenda: 4/24/2006 Final action: 5/1/2006
Title: AN ORDINANCE transferring $31,393.00 within the 2006 General Fund, appropriating $64,726.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2006 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund, and authorizing a ten-month extension of the Gun Prosecution Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Sponsors: Dan Tarwater III
Indexes: ANTI-DRUG SALES TAX FUND, GENERAL FUND, GUN PROSECUTION, TRANSFER
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

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AN ORDINANCE transferring $31,393.00 within the 2006 General Fund, appropriating $64,726.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2006 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund, and authorizing a ten-month extension of the Gun Prosecution Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice.

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ORDINANCE # 3759, April 24, 2006

INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, 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 U.S. Department of Justice has authorized an extension to the grant from through October 31, 2006; and,

WHEREAS, this grant extension will allow the office to increase the prosecution of violent firearms-related crimes by providing $33,333.00 towards the salary and benefits of one assistant prosecutor for the months of January through October 2006; and,

WHEREAS, a match of $31,393.00 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 from the 2006 General Fund and appropriation from the unappropriated surplus of the 2006 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 $31,393
Operating Transfers Out
001-9100 6105 - Operating Transfers Out $31,393

Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund
Operating Transfers In $31,393
Increase Revenue $33,333
008-2810 Unappropriated Surplus $64,726
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