IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $60,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2016 General Fund in acceptance of funds from the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a Memorandum of Agreement with the City for the Teens in Transition Program.
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ORDINANCE NO. 4834, March 28, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Alfred Jordan, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Teens is Transition program is part of the No Violence Alliance (NoVA) Project, a collaborative initiative between key law enforcement leaders in Kansas City, the regional administrator of probation and parole, and the U.S. Attorney's Office, to reduce violent crime in Kansas City's urban core through a mix of law enforcement and social service components; and,
WHEREAS, the Teens in Transition Program is a summer outreach project for forty juveniles identified to be in the social network of violent groups in Kansas City, Missouri; and,
WHEREAS, these juveniles will participate in a ten-week summer program for approximately ten to fifteen hours per week, to provide a safe, stable, and healthy environment where the juveniles will gain the appropriate life skills training to reduce the risk of committing a violent act; and,
WHEREAS, the County is serving as the fiscal agent for this project; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City, Missouri, has committed funds in the amount of $60,000.00, for a portion of this project; and,
WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office is seeking respondents to provide life skills training for this program and will be submitting its recommendations at a later date; and,
WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place these funds in the appropriate spending accounts to be available for this program; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation from the 2016 General Fund be and h...
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