File #: 5893    Version: 0 Name: DWI/Traffic Safety Unity Salary Grant - Sheriff's Office
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/1/2024 In control: Justice and Law Enforcement Committee
On agenda: 10/14/2024 Final action: 10/21/2024
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $283,841.00 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, UNDESIGNATED FUND BALANCE
Attachments: 1. 5893 adopted.pdf, 2. Traffic Unit Contract, 3. RLA, 4. 24-335.pdf
Related files: 5799, 5863
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

Title
AN ORDINANCE appropriating $283,841.00 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. 5893, October 14, 2024

INTRODUCED BY Venessa Huskey, County Legislator


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WHEREAS, by Ordinance 5863 dated July 16, 2024, the Sheriff's Office was awarded a grant in the amount of $3,532.00 by the Missouri Department of Transportation Highway Safety and Traffic Division, for the purpose of funding of vehicle equipment; and,


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 grant funds by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety and Traffic Division for vehicle equipment and automobiles in the amount of $282,342.00; and,

WHEREAS, the Sheriff's Office recommends the acceptance of this award and the execution of a 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



Sheriff's Office



001-4201
55010 Regular Salaries
$282,342

9999
56105 Operating Transfers

$282,342
General Funds: Grants



001G-99...

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