File #: 4558    Version: 0 Name: Sheriff's Office's Sobriety Checkpoint/Saturation Patrol Enforcement grant
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/9/2013 In control: Justice and Law Enforcement Committee
On agenda: 9/9/2013 Final action: 9/16/2013
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $35,780.00 from the fund balance of the 2013 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's Sobriety Checkpoint/Saturation Patrol Enforcement grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Traffic and Highway Safety Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract with the Missouri Highway Safety Division for the expenditure of the grant funds.
Sponsors: James D. Tindall
Indexes: GRANT FUND, HIGHWAY SAFETY, SOBRIETY CHECKPOINT, TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. 4558bu.pdf, 2. 4558adopt.pdf, 3. 4558CON.pdf
Related files: 4678
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $35,780.00 from the fund balance of the 2013 Grant Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's Sobriety Checkpoint/Saturation Patrol Enforcement grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Traffic and Highway Safety Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract with the Missouri Highway Safety Division for the expenditure of the grant funds.


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ORDINANCE NO. 4558, September 9, 2013

INTRODUCED BY James D. Tindall, County Legislator

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WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Transportation, Traffic and Highway Safety Division, has awarded the Sheriff's Office a Sobriety Checkpoint/Saturation Patrol Enforcement grant in the amount of $35,780.00 for the period October 1, 2013, through September 30, 2014; and,

WHEREAS, the Sheriff's Office is targeting impaired drivers through DWI sobriety checkpoints including multijurisdictional projects throughout Jackson County; and,

WHEREAS, the Sheriff recommends the use of the grant funds to cover the cost of attendance at the Law Enforcement Traffic Safety Advisory Council (LETSAC) Conference training and for reimbursement of overtime used for establishing sobriety checkpoints and other alcohol-enforcement activities; and,

WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place the grant funds in the appropriate 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 2013 Grant Fund be and hereby is made:

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO

Grant Fund
Sobriety Checkpoint/Saturation Patrol
010-4253 45447 - Increase Revenues $35,780

010-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $35,780
010-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $35,780

010-4253 55030...

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