File #: 3716    Version: 0 Name: extension of Gun Prosecution Grant
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/14/2005 In control: (R)Anti-Drug Committee
On agenda: 11/14/2005 Final action: 11/28/2005
Title: AN ORDINANCE transferring $5,327.00 within the 2005 General Fund and appropriating $11,994.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund and authorizing a two-month extension of the Gun Prosecution Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs.
Sponsors: Dennis Waits
Indexes: ANTI-DRUG, GRANT FUND
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

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AN ORDINANCE transferring $5,327.00 within the 2005 General Fund and appropriating $11,994.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund and authorizing a two-month extension of the Gun Prosecution Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs.

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ORDINANCE# 3716, November 14, 2005

INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits, County Legislator


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WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office has been awarded a Gun Prosecution Grant by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs; and,

WHEREAS, this grant recognizes the established nexus between crimes of violence and drug-related crimes; and,

WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney has recommended that this grant be extended from November 1, 2005 through December 31, 2006; and,

WHEREAS, this grant extension will allow the office to increase the prosecution of violent firearms-related crimes and will provide $6,667.00 towards the salary and benefits of one assistant prosecutor for the months of November and December 2005; and,

WHEREAS, a match of $5,327.00 is required for this extension; and,


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

WHEREAS, the County Executive recommends said transfer and appropriation; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfer within the 2005 General Fund and appropriation from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund be and are hereby made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO
General Fund
Prosecuting Attorney
001-4101 6798 - Grant Match $5,327
Operating Transfers Out
001-9100 6105 - Operating Transfers Out $5,327

Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund
Operating Transfers In 5,327
Increase Revenue 6,667
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