File #: 5863    Version: 0 Name: Traffic Safety Unit Grant
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/27/2024 In control: Justice and Law Enforcement Committee
On agenda: 7/1/2024 Final action: 7/16/2024
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $3,532.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2024 General Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's DWI/Traffic Safety Unit Salary Grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract for the acceptance and expenditure of grant funds.
Sponsors: Venessa Huskey
Indexes: DWI ENFORCEMENT, GENERAL FUND, SHERIFF'S OFFICE, UNDESIGNATED FUND BALANCE
Attachments: 1. 5863bu.pdf, 2. 5863 Contract.pdf, 3. 5863adopted.pdf, 4. Contract - MODOT Impaired Driving Enforcement
Related files: 5799, 5893
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

Title
AN ORDINANCE appropriating $3,532.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2024 General Fund in acceptance of the Sheriff's Office's DWI/Traffic Safety Unit Salary Grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division, and authorizing the County Executive to execute a contract for the acceptance and expenditure of grant funds.

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ORDINANCE NO. 5863, July 1, 2024

INTRODUCED BY Venessa Huskey, County Legislator


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WHEREAS, by Ordinance 5799 dated October 23, 2023, the Sheriff's Office was awarded a grant in the amount of $302,374.00 by the Missouri Department of Transportation Highway Safety and Traffic Division, for the purpose of funding a six-person DWI/Traffic Safety Unit and the cost of one new vehicle with equipment for its use; and,

WHEREAS, the Sheriff Office has been awarded additional funds by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division for vehicle equipment and automobiles in the amount of $3,532.00; and,

WHEREAS, the Sheriff's Office recommends the acceptance of this award and the execution of a revised contract with the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division; and,

WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place the grant funds in the proper spending accounts; 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- Grants



001G-9999
32810- Undesignated Fund Balance
$3,532

Sheriff's Traffic Unit



001G-4202
58115- Sheriff Vehicle Equipment

$1,400
001G-4202
58120- Automobiles

$2,132

and,

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute the attached grant contract with the Missouri Department of Transportation Highway Safety and Traffic Division.





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