IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $20,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2021 Homeless Assistance Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement with Westside CAN which provides assistance to homeless persons, at a cost to the County in the amount of $20,000.00.
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ORDINANCE NO. 5567, November 16, 2021
INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater III, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, on June 4, 1991, the voters of Jackson County authorized the County Legislature to impose a $3.00 user fee on all instruments recorded with the County's Department of Records, the proceeds of which fee is to be used to provide funds for assistance to homeless persons; and,
WHEREAS, the County actually imposed said fee by Ordinance 1986, dated June 10, 1991; and,
WHEREAS, by enacting sections 9054. through 9059., Jackson County Code, 1984, the Legislature created the Housing Resources Commission (HRC) and designated the HRC as the agency of the County responsible for determining the allocation and distribution of the proceeds of the user fee to organizations providing services to homeless persons; and,
WHEREAS, the HRC at its meeting of November 4, 2021, the HRC recommended a Cooperative Agreement with Westside CAN for emergency cold weather assistance for homeless persons; and,
WHEREAS, the execution of this Cooperative Agreement is in the best interests of the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of Jackson County; and,
WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to fund this Agreement; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation be and hereby is made:
DEPARTMENT/DIVISION
CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION
FROM
TO
Homeless Assistance Fund
043-9999
32810-
Undesignated Fund Balance
$20,000
Housing Resource Commission
043-7001
56789-
Outside Agency Funding
$20,000
and,
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the County Executive be...
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