IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $26,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2026 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff’s Office Hazardous Moving Violation Enforcement grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division, and authorizing the Sheriff to execute a contract for the acceptance and expenditure of such grant funds.
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ORDINANCE NO. 6145, October 5, 2026
INTRODUCED BY Venessa Huskey, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Sheriff Office has been awarded grant funds by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division for hazardous moving violation enforcement in the amount of $26,000.00; and,
WHEREAS, the grant funds will be used to conduct enforcement actions to decrease speed, hazardous driving and related injuries, and fatality crashes; and,
WHEREAS, the Sheriff’s Office recommends the acceptance of this award and the execution of a contract with the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division; and,
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the health and safety of Jackson County residents to accept these grant funds and pursue the related enforcement actions; and,
WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place the grant funds in the proper spending accounts; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfer and appropriation be and hereby are made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION
CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION
FROM
TO
Grant Fund
010-4201
45000 - Federal – Grant
$26,000
Grant Fund
010-9999
32810 - Undesignated Fund Balance
$26,000
32810 - Undesignated Fund Balance
26,000
Sheriff’s Office
010-4201
55030- Overtime Salaries
18,580
55040 - FICA Taxes
1,420
56756 - Training Expenses
6,000
and,
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Sheriff be an...
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