File #: 16096    Version: 0 Name: Chance for Change Program w/ Whatsoever Community Center
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 11/27/2006 In control: (R)Anti-Drug Committee
On agenda: 11/27/2006 Final action: 12/4/2006
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an agreement with Whatsoever Community Center, for the Chance for Change program, in the amount of $86,667.00.
Sponsors: Dan Tarwater III
Indexes: WHATSOEVER COMMUNITY CENTER
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an agreement with Whatsoever Community Center, for the Chance for Change program, in the amount of $86,667.00.


Intro
RESOLUTION # 16096, November 27, 2006

INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, County Legislator


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WHEREAS, the Chance for Change program is an after school program, targeting youth and young adults ages ten through twenty-five in the Northeast Kansas City community, designed to approach drug, alcohol and violence prevention by addressing academic and life skill issues as well as direct drug prevention activities; and,

WHEREAS, the Whatsoever Community Center has requested a matching grant from the Anti-Drug Sales Tax Grant Match account in the amount of $86,667.00 for this program; and,

WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney has reviewed this proposal and recommends the expenditure of these funds; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement, in a form to be approved by the County Counselor, with the Whatsoever Community Center for the Chance for Change program, at a cost to the County not to exceed $86,667.00; and,


BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Finance and Purchasing be and hereby is authorized to make all payments, including final payment on the Agreement.

Enacted and Approved
Effective Date: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

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Chief Deputy County Counselor County Counselor

Certificate of Passage

I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution # 16097 of November 27, 2006, was duly passed on December 4, 2006 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:

Yeas ...

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