IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $42,000.00 from the fund balance of the 2011 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office "Sobriety Checkpoint/DWI Enforcement" 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 the grant funds.
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ORDINANCE #4349, September 19, 2011
INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall, County Legislators
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WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, has awarded the Sheriff's Office a "Sobriety Checkpoint/DWI Enforcement" grant in the amount of $42,000.00 for the period October 1, 2011, through September 30, 2012; and,
WHEREAS, Jackson County has reduced traffic fatalities with intensive enforcement through DWI and Youth Alcohol Enforcement, sobriety checkpoints, and driver education; and,
WHEREAS, the Sheriff's Office is targeting impaired drivers with these campaigns, but the high visibility enforcement also educates the general public, making County roads safer for families; and,
WHEREAS, the Sheriff recommends the use of the grant funds for reimbursement of overtime used for establishing sobriety checkpoints and other alcohol-enforcement activities; and,
WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place the grant funds in the appropriate spending accounts; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation from the fund balance of the 2011 Grant Fund be and hereby is made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO
Grant Fund
Sobriety Checkpoint/DWI Enforcement
010-4248 45811 - Increase Revenues $42,000
010-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $42,000
010-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $42,000
Grant Fund
DWI Overtime Enforcement...
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