File #: BILL NO. 19-123    Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/14/2019 In control: City Council - Regular Session
On agenda: 6/4/2019 Final action: 6/4/2019
Title: An Ordinance approving and authorizing the execution an addendum to a memorandum of understanding between the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri for the use of additional funding from Midwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Award Funds. (F&BC 5-20-19)
Attachments: 1. Ordinance, 2. Addendum to MOU.pdf
Title
An Ordinance approving and authorizing the execution an addendum to a memorandum of understanding between the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri for the use of additional funding from Midwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Award Funds. (F&BC 5-20-19)


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Issue/Request:
An Ordinance approving and authorizing the execution an addendum to a memorandum of understanding between the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri for the use of additional funding from Midwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Award Funds.

Key Issues:
This ordinance will authorize the Mayor of the City of Lee's Summit to authorize an addendum to a MOU with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) for additonal funding for salary and fringe beneits associated to the continued assignment of one Lee's Summit Police Officer to the Kansas City FBI Combined Task Force. As part of the LSPD Officer's participation in the task force, the City of Lee's Summit received an award of $57,700.00 from the 2018 High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) funding that is administered locally through KBI. KBI has identified and wishes to distribute additional funds to the City in the amount of $5,770.00 for the salary and fringe benefits of the LSPD Officer appojnted to the Kansas City FBI Combined Task Force.

Background:
In March 2019, pursuant to Ordinance No. 8588, the City Council approved and authorized the execution of a memorandum of understanding between the City and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (“KBI”) in which the LSPD was awarded $57,700.00 in 2018 High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (“HIDTA”) funding for the purpose of combating the manufacture and importation of methamphetamine and the disruption of poly-drug trafficking organizations. The funds would be used to partially cover the salary of a detective assigned to work on a special task force known as the Kansas City FBI Combined Task Force.

KBI has ...

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