File #: 12282    Version: 0 Name: conservation program - Fleming Park
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 7/14/1998 In control: Land Use Committee
On agenda: Final action: 7/20/1998
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to apply for a grant from the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program administered by the U. S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service for a five-year conservation program at Fleming Park.
Sponsors: Fred Arbanas
Indexes: FLEMING PARK, Wildlife Habitat
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to apply for a grant from the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program administered by the U. S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service for a five-year conservation program at Fleming Park.
Intro
RESOLUTION 12282, July 14, 1998

INTRODUCED BY Fred Arbanas, County Legislator
Body
WHEREAS, the County Legislature deems it necessary to improve public parks to serve its citizens as well as the traveling public at Fleming Park; and,

WHEREAS, the U. S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service provides grant funding under its Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program for work to be done to improve prairie and savanna ecosystems in park systems; and,

WHEREAS, such work would consist of a five-year plan at Fleming Park which would include the thinning of woody vegetation, burning, and fescue eradication on 95 acres; and,

WHEREAS, in order to be considered for a grant, a project proposal must be prepared and submitted to the U. S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive is hereby authorized to execute the attached grant application, incorporated herein by reference, and any other documents necessary to effect the grant applied for.
Attorney
Effective Date: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

________________________ ______________________________
County Counselor

Certificate of Passage

I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #12282 of July 14, 1998 was duly passed on _________July 20_____________, 1998 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:

Yeas _______9________ Nays _______0_______

Abstaining ____0______...

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