File #: 3584    Version: 0 Name: Sobriety Checkpoint grant.
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/29/2004 In control: (R)Health and Justice Committee
On agenda: 11/29/2004 Final action: 12/6/2004
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $25,000.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2004 Grant Fund to cover the Sobriety Checkpoint grant received from the Missouri Department of Transportation - Office of Highway Safety, and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with the Missouri Department of Transportation - Office of Highway Safety, to implement this grant program in the amount of $25,000.00.
Sponsors: Robert Stringfield, Scott Burnett
Indexes: GRANT FUND, SOBRIETY CHECKPOINT
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $25,000.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2004 Grant Fund to cover the Sobriety Checkpoint grant received from the Missouri Department of Transportation - Office of Highway Safety, and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with the Missouri Department of Transportation - Office of Highway Safety, to implement this grant program in the amount of $25,000.00.

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ORDINANCE #3584 , November 29, 2004

INTRODUCED BY Robert A. Stringfield and Scott Burnett, County Legislators


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WHEREAS, the County has been awarded a grant in the amount of $25,000 by the Missouri Department of Transportation-Office of Highway Safety for its Sobriety Checkpoint program; and,

WHEREAS, Jackson County ranks 1st in the State of Missouri in alcohol related crashes; and,

WHEREAS, this grant will fund reimbursement of overtime used for setting up sobriety checkpoints and other alcohol related activities and allows for the purchase of one sobriety checkpoint equipment trailer; 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 be and hereby is made;
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO

Increase Revenue $25,000

010-2810 Unappropriated Surplus $25,000
010-2810 Unappropriated Surplus $25,000

Sheriff's Office Sobriety Checkpoint 04-05
010-4227 5030-Overtime $15,000
010-4227 8170-Other Equipment $10,000


BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute a contract with the Missouri Department of Transportation-Office of Highway Safety, in the amount of $25,000.00, in a form to be approved by the County Counselor.


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