File #: 4325    Version: 0 Name: Agreement with the MO Highways and Transportation Dept.
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/18/2011 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 7/18/2011 Final action: 7/18/2011
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $5,000.00 from the fund balance of the 2011 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Missouri Blueprint for Safer Roadways - Aggressive Driving Campaign 2011 grant awarded by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, and authorizing the County Executive to execute an agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the expenditure of grant funds.
Sponsors: James D. Tindall
Indexes: GRANT FUND, HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTATION
Attachments: 1. 4325adopt.pdf, 2. 4325AGMT.pdf
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $5,000.00 from the fund balance of the 2011 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Missouri Blueprint for Safer Roadways - Aggressive Driving Campaign 2011 grant awarded by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, and authorizing the County Executive to execute an agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the expenditure of grant funds.

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ORDINANCE #4325, July 18, 2011

INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall, County Legislator

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WHEREAS, the Sheriff's Office has been awarded a grant in the amount of $5,000.00 by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, to increase efforts to reduce aggressive driving, distracted driving, and alcohol-related crashes; and,

WHEREAS, the grant will enable the Jackson County Sheriff's Traffic Unit to increase enforcement efforts in high volume locations related to various violations, including but not limited to, careless and imprudent driving, following too closely, and speeding; and,

WHEREAS, the grant term is July 24, 2011, through August 7, 2011, and the grant does not require a local match; and,

WHEREAS, the Sheriff recommends the acceptance of this grant and the execution of the attached agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission; 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 appropriation from the fund balance of the 2011 Grant Fund be and hereby is made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO
010-4244 45802 - Increase Revenues $5,000
010-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $5,000
010-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $5,000
010-4244 55030 - Overtime $5,000

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BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the County Executive be and hereby is auth...

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