File #: 4347    Version: 0 Name: Sheriff's Traffic Unit grant
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/19/2011 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 9/19/2011 Final action: 9/19/2011
Title: AN ORDINANCE transferring $181,564.00 within the 2011 Special Road and Bridge Fund, and appropriating $363,127.00 from the fund balance of the 2011 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office Traffic Unit 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: James D. Tindall
Indexes: GRANT FUND, MO DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION, SPECIAL ROAD & BRIDGE FUND, TRAFFIC UNIT
Attachments: 1. 4347adopt.pdf, 2. 4347CON.pdf
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE transferring $181,564.00 within the 2011 Special Road and Bridge Fund, and appropriating $363,127.00 from the fund balance of the 2011 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office Traffic Unit 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 #4347, September 19, 2011

INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall, County Legislator

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WHEREAS, the Sheriff's Office has been awarded a grant in the amount of $181,563.33 by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, for the purpose of funding a five-person Traffic Unit consisting of one sergeant and four deputies for the period of October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012; and,

WHEREAS, during the first six months of 2011, the Traffic Unit has arrested over 97 persons for DUI, written over 3,665 tickets, and Issued 1,187 warnings; and,

WHEREAS, the grant is subject to a local match in the amount of $181,563.33; and,

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

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

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfer and appropriations be and hereby are made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO
Special Road & Bridge Fund
Sheriff's Dept.
004-4201 56798 - Grant Match $181,564

Special Road & Bridge Fund
Operating Transfers
004-9100 56105 - Operating Transfers Out $181,564

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