File #: 4040    Version: 0 Name: Hazardous Moving Violation grant
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/29/2008 In control: Justice and Law Enforcement Committee
On agenda: 9/29/2008 Final action: 10/20/2008
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $25,000.00 from the fund balance of the 2008 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's "Hazardous Moving Violation" grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract with the Missouri Highway Safety Division for the expenditure of grant funds.
Sponsors: Theresa Garza Ruiz
Indexes: GRANT FUND, HAZARDOUS MOVING VIOLATIONS
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $25,000.00 from the fund balance of the 2008 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's "Hazardous Moving Violation" grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract with the Missouri Highway Safety Division for the expenditure of grant funds.


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ORDINANCE #4040, September 29, 2008

INTRODUCED BY Theresa Garza Ruiz, County Legislator


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WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division has awarded the Sheriff's Office a "Hazardous Moving Violation" grant in the amount of $25,000.00 for the grant period of October 1, 2008, through September 30, 2009; and,

WHEREAS, due to a 12% increase in the number of vehicular accidents from 2006 to 2007, there is a need to increase awareness through targeting speeders, aggressive drivers, and young drivers; and,

WHEREAS, the Sheriff recommends the use of the grant funds for reimbursement of overtime used for conducting hazardous moving violations enforcement at various locations throughout the County, including occupant protection, saturation patrols, and related alcohol enforcement activities; and,

WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place the grant funds in the appropriate spending account; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation from the fund balance of the 2008 Grant Fund be and hereby is made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO

010-4264 45368 - Increase Revenue $25,000
010-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $25,000
010-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $25,000

Grant Fund
Hazardous Moving Violation 08-09
010-4264 55030 - Overtime $25,000

and,


BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute the attached co...

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