File #: 4768    Version: 0 Name: Program focused on prevention and prosecution of sexual assaults
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/10/2015 In control: Justice and Law Enforcement Committee
On agenda: 9/14/2015 Final action: 9/28/2015
Title: AN ORDINANCE transferring $92,108.00 within the 2015 General Fund and appropriating $92,108.00 from the fund balance of the 2015 Grant Fund to provide matching funds for the Violence Against Women Act for the Prosecution of Sexual Assault Grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Public Safety, for a program focused on prevention and prosecution of sexual assaults.
Sponsors: Alfred Jordan
Indexes: GENERAL FUND, GRANT FUND, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Attachments: 1. 4768bu, 2. 4768adopt.pdf
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE transferring $92,108.00 within the 2015 General Fund and appropriating $92,108.00 from the fund balance of the 2015 Grant Fund to provide matching funds for the Violence Against Women Act for the Prosecution of Sexual Assault Grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Public Safety, for a program focused on prevention and prosecution of sexual assaults.


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ORDINANCE NO. 4768, September 14, 2015

INTRODUCED BY Alfred Jordan, County Legislator

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WHEREAS, by Ordinance 4611, dated March 18, 2014, the Legislature did authorize the acceptance of a two-year grant in the amount of $85,156.76 awarded by the Missouri Department of Public Safety for a program focused on prevention and prosecution of sexual assaults in the County; and,

WHEREAS, this two-year grant partially funds the salaries of three full-time assistant prosecutors for this program; and,

WHEREAS, the grant is subject to a local match and additional funds are necessary to complete funding for the project; and,

WHEREAS, Ordinance 4611 also transferred $184,004.00 to partially cover these costs for 2014; and,

WHEREAS, a transfer and appropriation are necessary in order to place additional matching funds for this grant in 2015 in the proper spending accounts; and,

WHEREAS, the County Executive recommends said transfer and appropriation; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfer and appropriation be and hereby are made:

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO

General Fund
Prosecuting Attorney

001-4101 56798 - Grant Match $92,108

Operating Transfers Out
001-9100 56105 - Operating Transfers Out $92,108

Grant Fund
VAWA Victim Srvs Program

010-4173 47070 - Operating Transfers In $92,108

010-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $92,108
010-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $92,108
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