File #: 2793    Version: 0 Name: Homeless Assistance Fund
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/16/1998 In control: Clerk of the County Legislature
On agenda: Final action: 3/16/1998
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $21,365.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 1998 Homeless Assistance Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute Agreements with certain organizations which provide assistance to homeless persons, at a total cost to the County not to exceed $471,365.00.
Sponsors: Carl W. Bussey
Indexes: APPROPRIATION, HOMELESS ASSISTANCE
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

Title
AN ORDINANCE appropriating $21,365.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 1998 Homeless Assistance Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute Agreements with certain organizations which provide assistance to homeless persons, at a total cost to the County not to exceed $471,365.00.

Intro
ORDINANCE #2793, March 16, 1998

INTRODUCED BY Carl W. Bussey, County Legislator

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WHEREAS, on June 4, 1991, the voters of Jackson County authorized the County Legislature to impose a $3.00 user fee on all instruments recorded with the County's Department of Records, the proceeds of which fee is to be used to provide funds for assistance to homeless persons; and,

WHEREAS, the County actually imposed said fee by Ordinance No. 1986, dated June 10, 1991; and,

WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 2030, dated September 3, 1991, the Legislature created the Housing Resources Commission and designated said Commission as the agency of the County responsible for determining the allocation and distribution of the proceeds of the user fee; and,

WHEREAS, the Commission desires to assist these organizations in the provision of services and has recommended the expenditure of County user fee funds for these organizations, in the respective amounts set forth on the attachment, to provide assistance to homeless persons in Jackson County; and,

WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to fully fund the Commission's recommendations in this regard; and,

WHEREAS, the County Executive recommends this appropriation as an amendment to her proposed 1998 Jackson County Budget; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation be and hereby is made from the unappropriated surplus of the 1998 Homeless Assistance Fund:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO

Unappropriated Surplus $21,365
Non-Departmental
Housing Reso...

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