File #: 16627    Version: 0 Name: FO School District - Drug Prevention/Truancy Neglect Program
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 4/28/2008 In control: (R)Anti-Drug Committee
On agenda: 4/28/2008 Final action: 5/12/2008
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the Fort Osage School District for its Drug Prevention/Truancy Neglect Program, to provide a local match to a state grant, at a cost to the County not to exceed $55,187.00.
Sponsors: Dan Tarwater III
Indexes: DRUG PREVENTION, FT. OSAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI



Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the Fort Osage School District for its Drug Prevention/Truancy Neglect Program, to provide a local match to a state grant, at a cost to the County not to exceed $55,187.00.


Intro
RESOLUTION #16627, April 28, 2008

INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, County Legislator


Body
WHEREAS, the Fort Osage R-1 School District's "Truancy Prevention" program is designed to improve academic achievement by targeting students in grades K-9 that have mild to severe truancy problems, allowing for early intervention into school attendance problems, and providing an avenue for holding parents responsible for getting their children to school; and,

WHEREAS, the District has received a grant from the Missouri Local Investment Commission for the program in the amount of $162,805.00; and,

WHEREAS, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office recommends the execution of a Cooperative Agreement with the Fort Osage School District, at a cost to the County not to exceed $55,187.00, which sum may serve as a portion of the required local matching funds for this program; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the Fort Osage R-1 School District, in a form to be approved by the County Counselor; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Finance and Purchasing is hereby authorized to make all payments, including final payment on the agreement.

Enacted and Approved
Effective Date: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:


_______________________________ ___________________________
Deputy County Counselor County Counselor


Certificate of Passage

I hereby certify that the attached resolution...

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