File #: 16021    Version: 0 Name: salary increases for Prosecutor's staff from Delinquent Tax Collection Fund
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 9/18/2006 In control: Legislature As A Whole
On agenda: 9/18/2006 Final action: 9/25/2006
Title: A RESOLUTION expressing the Legislature's support for the decision of the Prosecuting Attorney to award salary increases to his staff out of his Delinquent Tax Collection Fund.
Sponsors: Henry C. Rizzo, Scott Burnett, Dennis Waits, Eugene Standifer Jr.
Indexes: DELINQUENT TAX COLLECTION FUND, PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, SALARY INCREASES
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

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A RESOLUTION expressing the Legislature's support for the decision of the Prosecuting Attorney to award salary increases to his staff out of his Delinquent Tax Collection Fund.

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RESOLUTION # 16021, September 18, 2006

INTRODUCED BY Henry C. Rizzo, Scott Burnett, Dennis Waits, and
Eugene Standifer, Jr., County Legislators

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WHEREAS, the current Memoranda of Understanding with the International Association of Fire Fighters and the Carpenters District Council require call for salary increases to employees of the Prosecuting Attorney's Office in 2006; and,

WHEREAS, there are insufficient funds appropriated in the 2006 General Fund to provide these increases; and,

WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney and Legislature have been exploring various alternate mechanisms to fund these increases; and,

WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney and Legislature have determined to award the promised salary increases, in part, out of hard salary savings balances currently available in the Prosecuting Attorney's 2006 budgets to members of the professional and support staffs in the office of the Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney; and,

WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney has determined to award the promised salary increases, in part, out of the Delinquent Tax Collection Fund to members of the professional and support staffs in the office of the Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the Legislature fully supports the Prosecuting Attorney's decision to use the Delinquent Tax Collection Fund to fulfill the above referenced salary increases in this regard and commends him for this efforts in reaching a creative solution to a serious funding issue; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature fully supports the Prosecuting Attorney's decision to use as he may decide any hard salary savings balances...

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