RESOLUTION NO. 040250
Honoring the Metropolitan
Community Service Program.
WHEREAS, on March
1, 1994, the Metropolitan Community Service Program, better known as MCSP,
began operations under the supervision of the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime
Commission; and
WHEREAS, the
purpose of MCSP was to provide an alternative sentencing program that would
reduce some of the exorbitant costs related to incarceration and that would
also benefit the community and neighborhoods of Kansas City; and
WHEREAS, in 1996,
MCSP expanded the community service program to include support for public
service activities which focused on assisting City neighborhoods and
communities with their clean up efforts; and
WHEREAS, as a
result of the expansion, a new program called ACCENT or A Concerned Community
Eliminating Neighborhood Trash program was started and operates daily
throughout the metropolitan area by providing a variety of clean up activities
in the community; and
WHEREAS, MCSP has
accomplished many of its goals including, over 151,000 hours of community
service directed to non-profit organizations and public service activities in
the past year, over 45,000 community hours directed to just public service
activities in Kansas City, for the last three years over 263,000 hours of
community service has been worked in the Kansas City area in support of the
city, in the past year ACCENT program has supervised the removal of over
298,000 pounds of trash from city-wide dump sites, streets and neighborhoods,
and over the past three years has supervised the removal of over 851,000 pounds
of trash; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY
THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
That the Mayor
and Council hereby honor the Metropolitan Community Service Program; and
BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED that this Resolution be spread upon the Minutes of the Council in
testimony thereof and that a copy hereof be presented to Rick Cook with the
appreciation of the Mayor, Council and citizens of Kansas City for the many
hours of public service that has been given to the community.
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