File #: 2815    Version: 0 Name: "In School Truancy Prevention Project"
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/23/1998 In control: (R)Anti-Drug Committee
On agenda: Final action: 7/14/1998
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $54,060.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 1998 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the City of Kansas City, Missouri, for its "In School Truancy Prevention Project," at a cost to the County not to exceed $139,437.00.
Sponsors: Dennis Waits
Indexes: ANTI-DRUG, APPROPRIATION, COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT, TRUANCY PREVENTION
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $54,060.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 1998 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the City of Kansas City, Missouri, for its "In School Truancy Prevention Project," at a cost to the County not to exceed $139,437.00.

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ORDINANCE #2815, June 23, 1998

INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City, Missouri, has received a grant from the Missouri Department of Public Safety in the amount of $278,875.00, as well as funding from the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in the amount of $278,875.00, and has pledged its own funds, in the amount of $139,437.00, for the City's "In School Truancy Prevention Project," the goals of which are to reduce chronic absenteeism, truancy, and long-term suspension in six target schools in the Kansas City, MO, School District; and,

WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City has requested County Anti-Drug Sales Tax matching funds in the amount of $139,437.00 to implement this project; and,

WHEREAS, $54,060.00 of this sum will be returned to the County to fund the salary and fringe benefits of an assistant prosecuting attorney to participate in the project; and,

WHEREAS, this is the second year for this grant program; and,

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

WHEREAS, in order to implement this program, an appropriation is necessary; therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation be and hereby is made from the unappropriated surplus of the 1998 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund:

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO
Increase Revenue $54,060
Unappropriated Surplus $54,060
Unappropriated Surplus $54,060
Prosecuting Attorney
Kansas City In-School
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