File #: 3944    Version: 0 Name: Missouri Highway Safety Division
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/15/2007 In control: (R)Health and Justice Committee
On agenda: 10/15/2007 Final action: 10/22/2007
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $375,000.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2007 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's Traffic Equipment grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract with the Missouri Highway Safety Division for the expenditure of grant funds.
Sponsors: Theresa Garza Ruiz
Indexes: GRANT FUND, MISSOURI HIGHWAYS & TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI



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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $375,000.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2007 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's Traffic Equipment grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract with the Missouri Highway Safety Division for the expenditure of grant funds.



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ORDINANCE #3944, October 15, 2007

INTRODUCED BY Theresa A. Garza, County Legislator

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WHEREAS, Jackson County ranks first or second in the State of Missouri in most categories of vehicular accidents; and,

WHEREAS, to combat this situation, the Sheriff's Office has been awarded a grant in the amount of $375,000.00 by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, for the purpose of funding a five-person traffic safety team with partial equipment, and costs of additional equipment awarded by a separate grant; and,

WHEREAS, the Sheriff recommends the acceptance of this grant and the execution of a contract with the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division; and,

WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place the grant funds in the appropriate spending account; now therefore,



BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation from the unappropriated surplus of the 2007 Grant Fund be and hereby is made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO
Increase Revenue $375,000
010-2810 Unappropriated Surplus $375,000
010-2810 Unappropriated Surplus $375,000

Sheriff's Office -Traffic Unit
010-4254 55010--Regular Salary $199,014
010-4254 55040--FICA $ 15,225
010-4254 55050--Pension $ 15,921
010-4254 55060--Health Insurance $ 33,833
010-4254 55070--Unemployment Insurance $ 995
010-4254 55110--Workers' Compensation $ 995
010-4254 56661--Softw...

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