File #: 19296    Version: 0 Name: Agreement with Connections to Success, Inc. (Constructing Futures)
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 10/20/2016 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 10/24/2016 Final action: 10/24/2016
Title: A RESOLUTION transferring $81,750.00 within the 2016 General Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with Connections to Success, Inc., of Kansas City, MO, for the 2016 Jackson County Constructing Futures Program, at a cost to the County not to exceed $108,629.00, to further the prevention of homelessness and the prevention of drug and drug-related offenses.
Sponsors: Alfred Jordan
Indexes: AGREEMENT, COUNTY EXECUTIVE, DRUG PREVENTION, GENERAL FUND, HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION
Attachments: 1. 19296bu, 2. 19296c.adopt.pdf, 3. 19296-COOPAGMT-CNNTOSUCC,INC.pdf
Related files: 18995, 18942
Correction
October 26, 2016
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


Title
A RESOLUTION transferring $81,750.00 within the 2016 General Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with Connections to Success, Inc., of Kansas City, MO, for the 2016 Jackson County Constructing Futures Program, at a cost to the County not to exceed $108,629.00, to further the prevention of homelessness and the prevention of drug and drug-related offenses.

Intro
RESOLUTION NO. 19296, October 24, 2016

INTRODUCED BY Alfred Jordan, County Legislator


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WHEREAS, the Jackson County Constructing Futures Program is a unique public-private partnership designed to provide a structured pathway to allow former drug offenders to enter the construction industry, and at the same time provide permanent housing to those in need; and,

WHEREAS, the project will allow drug offenders and unskilled individuals living in poverty to learn the construction trade by rehabilitating houses that can then be occupied by a family struggling with homelessness; and,

WHEREAS, the Administration recommends that Connections to Success, Inc., of Kansas City (Jackson County), MO, serve as the manager for the 2016 Constructing Futures Program, at a cost to the County in the amount of $108,629.00; and,

WHEREAS, a transfer is necessary to place a portion of the funds needed for this program in the appropriate spending account; and,

WHEREAS, the County Executive recommends this transfer; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following transfer within the 2016 General Fund be and hereby is made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO
General Fund
Non-Departmental

001-5101 56080 - Other Professional Srvs. $81,750
001-5101 56789 - Outside Agency Funding $81,750

and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and her...

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