File #: 17840    Version: 0 Name: GED testing for inmates (Detention Center)
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 3/5/2012 In control: Justice and Law Enforcement Committee
On agenda: 3/5/2012 Final action: 3/12/2012
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with the Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri, in the amount of $750.00, for the furnishing of General Equivalency Diploma testing for inmates of the Jackson County Detention Center.
Sponsors: James D. Tindall
Indexes: GED TESTING
Attachments: 1. 17840adopt.pdf, 2. 17840AGMT.pdf
      IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
 
 
Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with the Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri, in the amount of $750.00, for the furnishing of General Equivalency Diploma testing for inmates of the Jackson County Detention Center.
 
Intro
RESOLUTION #17840, March 5, 2012   
 
INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall, County Legislator
 
 
Body
WHEREAS, the Jackson County Detention Center desires to provide General Equivalency Diploma (GED) testing on-site to assist inmates who have prepared to take the General Equivalency Test; and,
 
WHEREAS, the Director of Corrections recommends an agreement with the Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri, to provide these services through June 30, 2012, and recommends funding in the amount of $750.00; and,
 
WHEREAS, this agreement is in the best interests of the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of Jackson County; now therefore,
 
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive is hereby authorized to enter into the attached Agreement with Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri; and,
 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of the Department of Finance be and hereby is 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:
 
 
____________________________               ________________________________
Chief Deputy County Counselor                  County Counselor
 
 
Certificate of Passage
 
I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #17840 of March 5, 2012, was duly passed on March 12, 2012 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:
 
Yeas _______6________                  Nays _______0_______
 
Abstaining _____0____                  Absent _____3_______
 
 
 
________________________                  ______________________________
Date                                          Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature
 
Fiscal Note
There is a balance otherwise unencumbered to the credit of the appropriation to which the expenditure is chargeable and there is a cash balance otherwise unencumbered in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made sufficient to provide for the obligation herein authorized.
 
ACCOUNT NUMBER:        001  2701  56080
ACCOUNT TITLE:         General Fund
Department of Corrections
Other Professional Services
NOT TO EXCEED:         $750.00
 
 
 
 
___________________                  _______________________________
Date                                    Director of Finance and Purchasing