IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE transferring $97, 877.00 within and appropriating $880,982.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2002 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund to cover a grant received from the Missouri Department of Public Safety for the "Night Lights/Sentenced to the Arts" programs and the transfer of matching funds, and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with Pan Educational Institute, at a cost to the County not to exceed $601,207.66.
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ORDINANCE # 3331, December 17, 2002
INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Public Safety has awarded a grant in the amount of $880,982.00 to the Prosecuting Attorney's Office and the Family Court Division for their Night Lights/Sentenced to the Arts programs; and,
WHEREAS, under the Night Lights program, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office, the Family Court Division, the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, and the Independence, Missouri Police Department will form a collaborative effort to provide evening and late night supervision to youth who are considered high risk for re-offending; and,
WHEREAS, Pan Educational Institute (PEI) will oversee and implement the Sentenced to the Arts program, in cooperation with the Prosecuting Attorney's Office and the City of Kansas City; and,
WHEREAS, PEI will also contract with entrepreneurs and community art organizations, and will be the intermediary between the Prosecuting Attorney's Office, the City of Kansas City and the artists involved in the programs; and,
WHEREAS, the total state share of the grants is $880,892.00 with a local match of
$97,877.00, for which a transfer and appropriation are necessary; and,
WHEREAS, the County Executive recommends said appropriation and transfer; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation and transfer be and hereby a...
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