IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $314,395.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2020 CARES Act Fund to provide for hazard pay for impacted County associates in the Corrections, Public Works, and Parks + Rec Departments, Environmental Health, and Sheriff's and Medical Examiner's Offices in connection with the workplace risks of the ongoing Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, at a cost to the County not to exceed $314,395.00.
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ORDINANCE NO. 5352, June 1, 2020
INTRODUCED BY Theresa Cass Galvin and Dan Tarwater III, County Legislator
WHEREAS, U.S. President Donald J. Trump, Missouri Governor Mike Parson, and County Executive Frank White, Jr., have all declared, in one form or another, the ongoing Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic to be a public health emergency; and,
WHEREAS, the County, through its various efforts, plays a significant role in the public health of its citizens and employees; and,
WHEREAS, an appropriate response by the County to this emergency will require significant expenditures from the County CARES Act Fund, which consists of monies provided by the U.S. Treasury for this purpose; and,
WHEREAS, with the funding provided by this appropriation, Jackson County will provide temporary hazard pay salary adjustments in the amount of $150.00 per pay period, for the pay periods from March 14, 2020, to June 5, 2020, to impacted County associates in the Corrections, Public Works, and Parks + Rec Departments, Environmental Health, and Sheriff's and Medical Examiner's Offices; and,
WHEREAS, the associates who shall receive these adjustments are frontline field personnel and exclude most management, clerical, and administrative personnel in the departments and offices identified; and,
WHEREAS, the pay periods selected coincide with the local onset of COVID-19 in March and the beginning of Phase 2 of the Jackson County reopening plan in early June 2020; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the Cou...
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