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An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri accepting the grant award in the amount of $450,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, for a collaboration between the City of Lee’s Summit and Hope House, Inc. on community-defined solutions to violence against women. (F&BC 10-1-18)
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Issue/Request:
An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri accepting the grant award in the amount of $450,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, for a collaboration between the City of Lee’s Summit and Hope House, Inc. on community-defined solutions to violence against women.
Key Issues:
The grant award must be accepted and executed by October 12, 2018.
Proposed City Council Motion:
FIRST MOTION: I move for a second reading of an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri accepting the grant award in the amount of $450,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, for a collaboration between the City of Lee’s Summit and Hope House, Inc. on community-defined solutions to violence against women.
SECOND MOTION: I move for adoption of an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri accepting the grant award in the amount of $450,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, for a collaboration between the City of Lee’s Summit and Hope House, Inc. on community-defined solutions to violence against women.
Background:
The City of Lee's Summit, in collaboration with its non-profit, non-governmental victim services provider Hope House, Inc. will use this award to sustain the City's centralized domestic violence unit. Specifically the project will:
1. support two detectives, one city prosecutor, and one court advocate to investigate and prosecute domestic violence cases and provide victims with court accompaniment services;
2. provide training to th...
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