File #: 3728    Version: 0 Name: Pan Educational Institute agreement to implement the My Arts program.
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 12/5/2005 In control: (R)Anti-Drug Committee
On agenda: 12/5/2005 Final action: 12/12/2005
Title: AN ORDINANCE transferring $150,000.00 within and appropriating $250,000.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with Pan Educational Institute to implement the MyARTS program, at an actual cost to the County not to exceed $220,000.00.
Sponsors: Dennis Waits
Indexes: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT, TRANSFER
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

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AN ORDINANCE transferring $150,000.00 within and appropriating $250,000.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with Pan Educational Institute to implement the MyARTS program, at an actual cost to the County not to exceed $220,000.00.


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ORDINANCE # 3728, December 5, 2005

INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits, County Legislator



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WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Public Safety has awarded a grant in the amount of $100,000.00 to the Prosecuting Attorney's Office to partially fund its My Arts program; and,

WHEREAS, this program will provide youth with 72 hours of apprenticeship training followed by a part-time paid entrepreneurial position in which the youth will produce a marketable arts product; and,

WHEREAS, such job opportunities and mentorships have been a proven an acceptable approach to drug abuse prevention; and,

WHEREAS, this grant is subject to a local match in the amount of $200,000.00; and,

WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney recommends that the County provide $150,000.00 to serve as a portion of this required local match; and,
WHEREAS, in order to implement this program the Prosecuting Attorney recommends the execution of a Cooperative Agreement with the Pan Educational Institute, which has already received a grant from the City of Kansas City in the amount of $50,000.00, to serve as the remainder of the local match for this program; and,

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

WHEREAS, the County Executive recommends this transfer and appropriation; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfer and appropriation be and hereby are made:

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