IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $473,774.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2025 General Fund and transferring $364,690.00 from the Sheriff's Office 2025 General Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's DWI/Traffic Safety Unit Salary Grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract for the acceptance and expenditure of grant funds.
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ORDINANCE NO. 6019, September 22, 2025
INTRODUCED BY Venessa Huskey, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Sheriff's Office has been awarded a grant in the amount of $473,774.00 by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division, for the purpose of funding a six-person DWI/Traffic Safety Unit and two new vehicles for use by the DWI Traffic Unit, for the period of October 1, 2025, to September 30, 2026; and,
WHEREAS, the grant is subject to a local match in the amount of $364,690.00; and,
WHEREAS, the Sheriff's Office recommends the acceptance of this award and the execution of a contract with the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division; and,
WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place the grant funds in the proper spending accounts; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfer and appropriation be and hereby are made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION
CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION
FROM
TO
General Fund
Sheriff's Office
001-4201
55010 Regular Salaries
$364,690
Operating Transfers
001-9100
56105 Operating Transfers Out
$364,690
General Funds: Grants
Sheriff's Traffic Unit
001G-4202
47070 Inter Fund Transfers
364,690
45000 Federal Grant
473,774
32810 Undesignated Fund Balance
838,464
32810 Undesignated Fund Balance
838,464
Sheriff's Traffic Unit
001-4202
55010 Regular Salaries
429,413
5503...
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