File #: 4342    Version: 0 Name: Drug Abatement Response Team (DART) grant
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/12/2011 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 9/12/2011 Final action: 9/12/2011
Title: AN ORDINANCE transferring $134,560.00 within and appropriating $382,470.00 from the fund balance of the 2011 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund in acceptance of the Drug Abatement Response Team (DART) grant for the Prosecuting Attorney's Office awarded by the Missouri Department of Public Safety, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Kansas City, MO, and the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners relating to the DART program, at a cost to the County not to exceed $91,000.00.
Sponsors: Dan Tarwater III
Indexes: ANTI-DRUG SALES TAX FUND, DART - DRUG ABATEMENT RESPONSE TEAM PROGRAM, MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING, PUBLIC SAFETY
Attachments: 1. 4342adopt.pdf, 2. 4342MOU.pdf
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI



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AN ORDINANCE transferring $134,560.00 within and appropriating $382,470.00 from the fund balance of the 2011 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund in acceptance of the Drug Abatement Response Team (DART) grant for the Prosecuting Attorney's Office awarded by the Missouri Department of Public Safety, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Kansas City, MO, and the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners relating to the DART program, at a cost to the County not to exceed $91,000.00.



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ORDINANCE #4342, September 12, 2011

INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, County Legislator



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WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office has been awarded a grant by the Missouri Department of Public Safety in the amount of $247,910.13 for its Drug Abatement Response Team (DART) program for partial funding of salaries and benefits for the employees of the DART Unit and for contractual services through the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners; and,

WHEREAS, the DART program is a cooperative effort of the Prosecuting Attorney's Office, the City of Kansas City, and Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, to target and close down drug houses within the city; and,

WHEREAS, the grant is subject to a local match in the amount of $134,560.00; and,

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

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

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfer within and appropriation from the fund balance of the 2011 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund be and hereby are made:

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO

Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund
Pros Comm Crim/Drug Prev
008-4156 56798 - Gran...

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